MIASU Event

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.

MIASU Seminar - Ayur Zhanaev (University of Warsaw) Born in the Body of Beasts: Animals and the Social Order in the Didactic Buddhist Literature of Buryat-Mongols (19 th - beg. 20 th century) Please visit https://www.miasu.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/current-research-seminar-programme for further details and registration.

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (University of Zurich) and Thomas White (University of Cambridge) - Cancelled New roads, old stories: An anthropology of infrastructure and travel at China’s ‘Great Northwest’ & Seeing like a State, from a Road

Natalia Ryzhova (Palacky University, Olomouc) Land and Infrastructure: On the Accelerating Economic Degradation of the Russian Far East

Yong Zhou (University of Oslo) Institutionalizing Indigenous Peoples' Rights in China: From a Paternalistic Evolutionist Paradigm to Self-determined Development

Sayana Namsaraeva (University of Cambridge) Dystopian Mongolia: Reconceptualization of the Home Country by Mongolian Asylum Seekers in the UK Based on anonymized background papers of the Mongolian asylum seekers in the UK, this presentation critically analyses these ‘affectively loaded’ documents (to use expression by...

Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi & Thomas White (Univerisity of Zurich & MIASU, University of Cambridge) New Roads, Old Stories:
 An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Travel at China’s ‘Great Northwest’ &
 Seeing like a State, from a Road