MIASU Event

Anna Sehnalova (University of Oxford) Mountain Deities and Their Treasures: Tibetan Non-Buddhist Cosmologies and Possible Indigenous Origins of the Tibetan gTer ma tradition

Valeriya Gazizova (MIASU, University of Cambridge) Buddhist, Soviet and Kalmyk: ‘Secret’ Lamas of Late Socialism, Their Loci of Worship and Patterns of Transmission The talk explores the construction of public memories and proliferating cults of dissident Buddhist lamas who secretly conducted ritual services and healed by...

Edward Holland & Elvira Churyumova (University of Arkansas, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge & MIASU, University of Cambridge) Kalmyk Refugees and the Narration of Displacement in Post-World War II Europe The October Revolution and Second World War led to the displacement of Kalmyks from Russia to Europe...

Riamsara Knapp (MIASU, University of Cambridge) Himalayan Connections:
 Melting Glaciers, Sacred Landscapes and Mobile Technologies in a Changing Climate

Séagh Kehoe (University of Leicester) Losing the "Spirit of the Grasslands":
 Economic Development, Cultural Commercialisation, and the Online Politics of Representation of Tibetan Modernity in Contemporary China

Ildikó Beller Hann (University of Copenhagen) Uyghur Muslim Identity: Local Historical Narratives from Eastern Xinjiang

A Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Modernism: Religious Marketplace, Constellative Networking and Urbanism with Dan Smyer-Yü As an increasing number of Tibetan lamas reach out to non-Tibetan populations in contemporary China, Tibetan Buddhism is undergoing various transformations especially in urban settings. As its engagement with...

Relocating the Masses: Exploring the Linkages Between Environmental Protection, Poverty Relief and Mass Re-Settlement in Tibet with Robert Barnett China's modernization policies in Tibet are constantly evolving and taking on new forms, and as they do so, the rhetoric of justification shifts too. I'm interested in exploring...

The Conflict in Exemplars: Mythic-Histories, ‘Ethnicities’ and Affines in Khovd Aimag, Mongolia with Joe Ellis

Himalaya: Care for the Future with Hildegard Diemberger In a confluence of events, climate change-related floods are occurring in the Himalaya just as motorable roads and telephone connections as well as new governance modes are arriving in places such as Limi, in Nepal's impoverished Humla district. The advent of non-...