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Members of MIASU were sad to hear of the death of Professor Roberte Hamayon on 20 March 2025.  She was an inspiration to and long time friend of the Unit creating lasting links through the scholars that trained with her and those who continue her legacy.Roberte Hamayon was a ground-breaking scholar of Mongolia, Buryatia and Siberia.  She introduced…

On 21 March 2025, a delegation including the Speaker of the Parliament of Mongolia (Mr Amarbayasgalan Dashzegve) and eleven Members of Parliament visited MIASU. During their visit, Professor David Sneath and Professor Uradyn Bulag introduced research projects carried out at MIASU. The delegation expressed great interest in our research and asked fo…

The final MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be taking place on Tuesday March 11, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Yulia SavostinaEpics, Memory, and Resistance: Stories of Buddhist Protectors in Times of UncertaintyThe talk will be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to join the MIASU mailing list to receiv…

The next MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be taking place on Tuesday February 25, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Uranchimeg Ujeed:Cultural Heritage for Self-healing: Reshaping of Shamanic Practice in Inner MongoliaThe talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to join the MIASU mailing list t…

The next MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be taking place on Tuesday February 11, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Darig Thokmay:Introduction of Research Materials About the Khoshut MongolsThe talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to join the MIASU mailing list to received details of futur…

The first MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be a special in-person only book event taking place on Tuesday January 28, 4.30–6.00pm, with Hedwig Waters and Thomas White:Open Book DiscussionTo join the MIASU mailing list to received details of future MIASU events and other news, please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.ukFull Seminar Progra…

We are pleased to share the seminar programme for the Lent term. Please click here or follow the links on the right

Applications are invited for the Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia. The studentship is funded by a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Please see the link for further information.Closing date: Wednesday 30 April 2025

This two-day conference seeks to examine the temporality of food production, circulation, and consumption. By highlighting how time and its reckoning shape and are shaped by the pursuit of the edible, our aim is to move beyond simplistic dichotomies between capitalist acceleration and slow food sustainability to elucidate food’s disjunctive rhythms…

Sayana Namsareva and Joseph Bristley of the MIASU 'Resource Frontiers' project will host this conference at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge on 12 December 2024.Entitled “Law and water management:  regulation, non-human personhood, and practices of cooperation from an interdisciplinary perspective.”, you can see the full programme which in…

The final MIASU research seminar of the Michaelmas term will be taking place on Tuesday November 26, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Saranzaya Manalsuren:Gendering Regimes in a Changing Society: A Qualitative Study of Women Managers in Post-Socialist Mongolia The talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or…

The next MIASU research seminar of the Michaelmas term will be taking place on Tuesday October 29, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Sayana Namsaraeva & Joseph Bristley:Forests and rivers: a history of environmental governance in the Selenge basin The talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to join the M…

The first MIASU research seminar of the Michaelmas term will be taking place on Tuesday October 29, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Roman Osharov:A Blueprint for the Empire: Customary Law and the Production of Knowledge in the Caucasus and Transcaspia, 1870-1890The talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space …

As a result of a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Joseph Bristley as Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellow.The post runs for four years and Joseph will take up this post in October 2025.Aside from playing a key role in MIASU's research activities, Josep…

The MIASU is pleased to announce this special Onon Prize Series lecture which will be taking place at 1630-1800 in Room I4, Corpus Christi College, and will be given by Professor Yuki Konagaya:The Beginning of Milking in Human History: A Perspective of Cultural Anthropology in MongoliaThe talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remo…