Past Events

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Ed Pulford

University of Manchester

Caught between Spectacles: Migration, Friendship and State Performances on the China-Russia Border

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Christian Sorace

Colorado College

National Extinction, Planetary Survival: Mongolian Avant-Garde Poetry on a Dying Planet 

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Teo Benussi

Universities of California, Berkeley and Ca' Foscari, Venice. Visiting Researcher, MIASU

Memory and Subjectivity in Russia’s Islamic Pompeii

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Sayana Namsaraeva

MIASU, University of Cambridge

Siberian Tea for Vladimir Putin and Moral Economies of the Russia-China Borderlands

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Hosung Shim

Visiting Scholar, MIASU, University of Cambridge 

The Dörböd Aristocracy, Four Oirad Confederation, and Zunghar Empire in the Early Modern Central Asian Steppe

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Emily Yeh

University of Colorado Boulder

The cultural politics of new Tibetan Entrepreneurship in contemporary China: Valorization and the question of neoliberalism

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James Meador

University of Michigan

Orthodox Christianity in Chinese-Russian Contact

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Piers Vitebsky & Roza Laptander

University of Cambridge & University of Hamburg

Trust Versus Paranoia:  Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app?

(NB abstract updated 29.04.2021):

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Yana Bezirganova

Birmingham City University & University of Kent

Writing Buryatia: the Future of Mongolian Script

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Kenneth Linden

Indiana University

Veterinary science, Zud, and Wolves: Environmental and Animal History of Collectivization in Mongolia