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Read more at: Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

27 April 2022

Easter Term 2022 We would like to warmly welcome the following visitors this term: April 2021 – May 2022: Qi Ruona , a visiting scholar from the Wuhan University, working on her research: 'Between Traditional Culture and Regulatory Tool: Repositioning Environmental Customs in the context of Ecological Civilization Strategy...

Read more at: Easter Term 2022 - Research Seminar Programme

Easter Term 2022 - Research Seminar Programme

25 April 2022

We are very pleased to share the new seminar programme for the Lent term, with the first seminar scheduled for 3 May. Please follow the links on the right or click here

Read more at: New Chinggis Khann Heritage Studies Journal - CALL FOR ARTICLES

New Chinggis Khann Heritage Studies Journal - CALL FOR ARTICLES

22 April 2022

Please see this call for articles. The Chinggis Khaan Institute of Cultural Heritage is working to publish an English-language journal this year titled “Chinggis Khan Heritage Studies” For more information email khatanbaatar.ch@chinggisinstitute.gov.mn Send your article to: info@chinggisinstitute.gov.mn

Read more at: Remembering Shagdaryn Bira

Remembering Shagdaryn Bira

4 March 2022

The Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit is sad to announce the death of the eminent scholar Shagdaryn Bira (September 1927 – 13 February 2022). Prof. Bira was with us in Spring 2004 on a British Academy Visiting Professorship. We remember him a man of immense erudition who was always generous in sharing his knowledge with...

Read more at: Next MIASU Research Seminar - 8 March – Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi and Tom White

Next MIASU Research Seminar - 8 March – Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi and Tom White

23 February 2022

The final MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be taking place at the Mond seminar room on Tuesday March 8, 4.30–6.00pm, and will be given jointly by Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi and Tom White: Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi: Maintaining Relations: Life with and without Roads in Northwest China" Tom White: The Afterlife of the ‘...

Read more at: Forthcoming Book Publication – 'State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia: Between the Cosmos and the Earth'

Forthcoming Book Publication – 'State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia: Between the Cosmos and the Earth'

16 February 2022

We are pleased to announce this forthcoming book entitled 'State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia: Between the Cosmos and the Earth' by MIASU's Dr Baasanjav Terbish . Russia is defined by its past legacies, including Soviet state ideology and the intellectual movements of Russian cosmism and Eurasianism. This...

Read more at: Next MIASU Research Seminar - POSTPONED

Next MIASU Research Seminar - POSTPONED

10 February 2022

Please be informed that the next seminar in the Lent programme will not go ahead on Tuesday 22 February, due to strike action. The seminar - 'Human Sacrifices in Mongolia and Their Rationales ' with Professor Caroline Humphrey, will be rescheduled to the Easter term, the programme for which will be published in due course.

Read more at: New Project – Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river

New Project – Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river

2 February 2022

This ESRC funded project started in January 2022 and runs for 3 years. This interdisciplinary project uses ethnographic methods to explore the politics of managing, and planning the management of, trans-border rivers on water resource frontiers. Such frontiers are critically important in today’s world as they are sites...

Read more at: HimalConnect Project News

HimalConnect Project News

2 February 2022

In January 2022 the HimalConnect Project, a collaboration between the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (Dr Hildegard Diemberger & Dr Riamsara Kuyakanon) and the University of Oslo (Dr Hanna Havnevik & Dr Astrid Hovden, hosted a successful digital conference: ‘CHANGING CLIMATE AND COMMUNITIES IN HIGH PLACES...

Read more at: Next MIASU Research Seminar - 8 February – Hedwig Waters

Next MIASU Research Seminar - 8 February – Hedwig Waters

26 January 2022

The next MIASU research seminar will be taking place online on zoom on Tuesday February 8, 4.30–6.00pm, with Hedwig Waters: A proportional share: the political aesthetics of resource wealth amongst the wildlife procurers of remote post-socialist Mongolia N.B. This talk is online only To book a space or to join the MIASU...

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