MIASU Event

MIASU Seminar - Hosung Shim (Visiting Scholar) Title TBC Please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to book a space.

MIASU Seminar - Emily Yeh (University of Colorado Boulder) New Tibetan Entrepreneurship in the contemporary PRC: Valorization and the question of neoliberalism Please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to book a space.

MIASU Seminar - James Meador (University of Michigan) Orthodox Christianity in Chinese-Russian Contact For more than three centuries, Orthodox Christianity has mediated connections between China and Russia. From language school to emigre enclave, colonial mission to cultural diplomacy, Orthodoxy has served in many guises...

MIASU Seminar - Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge) & Rosa Laptander (University of Hamburg) Trust Versus Paranoia: Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app? Please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to book a space.

MIASU Seminar - Yana Bezirganova (Birmingham City University & University of Kent) Writing Buryatia: the Future of Mongolian Script This paper is part of a wider ethnographic project concerned with the revival of Buryad-Mongolian culture in the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, Ulan-Ude. It is based on a year-long...

MIASU Seminar - Kenneth Linden (Indiana University) Veterinary Science, Zud, and Wolves: Environmental and Animal History of Collectivization in Mongolia The Mongolian People’s Republic, the second socialist country in the world, embarked on its second and ultimately successful collectivization campaign from 1956 to 1960...

MIASU Seminar - Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania) Why the Mongol Conquests? Sources and Explanations of the 1211 Campaigns against North China The Mongol conquest of North China was the beginning of the Mongol Empire. Its success laid the foundation of the empire; its failure would have made Chinggis (“...

MIASU Seminar - Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey) Towards a Climate History of the Mongol Empire: Assumptions, Methods and Perspectives Is there a role for climate in the history of the Mongol empire? The talk will survey recent paleoclimatic studies and examine the relationship...

MIASU Seminar - Mari Valdur (University of Helsinki) Please visit https://www.miasu.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/current-research-seminar-programme for further details and registration.

MIASU Seminar - Liz Fox (University College London) Flesh and Blood: Rotting and Relating in the Age of the Market Please visit https://www.miasu.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/current-research-seminar-programme for further details and registration.