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We invite you to read this event report from MIASU's Elizabeth Turk. This event was part of the AHRC-funded 'Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: tracing divergent healing practices across the Mongolian-Chinese border' project, on which Dr Turk is a Research Associate.

Please join us for this lunchtime talk on Thursday 8 June at 13:00-14:00 in the Mond Building seminar room, with Gan-Ochir Buyanaa (Mongolia National University School of Law & MIASU Visiting Scholar)The Mongolian "Father of Reforms"

The next MIASU research seminar of the term will be taking place on Tuesday May 16, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Inna Leykin:'Caring like a state': the politics of Russia's population problemsThe 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 future MIA…

Please join us for this lunchtime talk on Wednesday 24 May at 13:00-14:00 in the Mond Building seminar room, with Iris Pakulla (University of Cambridge)Labouring (in)visibilities in the underground mine of Oyu Tolgoi

We are pleased to announce the publication of Baasanjav Terbish's book entitled 'Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conquereor to Today', which is now available from Amazon and all major book storesMore information here

The Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit would like to share this piece written by Unit founder Professor Caroline Humphrey in warm remembrance of Lev Budaevich Radnaev:LEV BUDAEVICH RADNAEV (1933-2021): AN OBITUARY AND APPRECIATIONCAROLINE HUMPHREYAnthropologists always have occasion to be grateful to the people who help them in the field – indeed…

The next MIASU research seminar of the term will be taking place on Tuesday May 16, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Hildegard Diemberger:The Unexpected in the ‘Land In-between’ (Limi, Western Nepal): Anticipation and Contingency in a Changing ClimateThe talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to join t…

The first MIASU research seminar of the Easter term will be taking place on Tuesday May 2, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given by Ariell Ahearn:Rights to the ‘Commons’: Herders caught between privatisation and expropriation of public land in an extractivist stateThe talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to …

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

Please join us for this in-person lunchtime talk on Thursday 30 March at 13:00-14:00 in the Mond Building seminar room, with Sait Ocakli (Üsküdar University & MIASU visiting scholar)The Nogays and the World Around Them: Shifting Alliances and Allegiances in Northern Black Sea Steppes (1550-1700)

This event, which is part of the Cambridge Festival, is facilitated by the research team from the MIASU project ‘Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: tracing divergent healing practices across the Mongolian–Chinese border’, Elizabeth Turk and Uranchimeg Ujeed, plus two Curatorial Fellows from Mongolia and Inner Mongolia.Healing Heritage and Cultural …

Please join us for this in-person lunchtime talk on Friday 10 March at 13:00-14:00 in the Mond Building seminar room, with Uranchimeg Ujeed (University of Cambridge) & Daruhan Peng (Inner Mongolia University):A mysterious Khitan Tomb: Possible evidence of Proto-Mongolic shaman 

The final in-person MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be taking place on Tuesday March 7, 4.30–6.00pm, in the Mond Building Seminar Room, and will be given by Orhon Myadar:Nomadic Imaginaries and Performative RealitiesThe 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…

Please join us for this in-person lunchtime talk at 13:00-14:00 in the Mond Building seminar room, with Theo Hughes-Morgan (University of Cambridge):Notes on the ownership of water in a Himalayan village

A new joint policy paper is now out, co-authored by Dr Elizabeth Fox (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge) and Professor Kerry Brown (Kings College London).The report outlines: Mongolia's key strategic position, between China and Russia, and the issues it faces as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic – the urgent need to …