Past Events

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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

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Nicola Di Cosmo 

Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey

Towards a Climate History of the Mongol Empire: Assumptions, Methods and Perspectives

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Tuesday 1 December

4.30–6.00 ZOOM

Mari Valdur

University of Helsinki

Dying of Informality, Dying without Sociality? Abortion Biznes in Ulaanbaatar

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Tuesday 17 November

4.30–6.00 ZOOM

Elizabeth Fox

University College London, Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge

Flesh and Blood: Rotting and Relating in the Age of the Market

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Tuesday 3 November

4.30–6.00 ZOOM

Ayur Zhanaev

University of Warsaw

Born in the Body of Beasts: Animals and the Social Order in the Didactic Buddhist Literature of Buryat-Mongols (19th - beg. 20th century)

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Tuesday 20 October

4.30–6.00 ZOOM

Benno Weiner

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Unforgivable Crimes and Open Wounds: 

Rebellion, Repression and Remembrance on a Tibetan Borderland of Early-Maoist China

There will be NO MIASU SEMINAR on Tuesday March 10 as it has been cancelled due to strike action. Apologies for the inconvenience.