MIASU Event

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

Culture: The Politics of Bounded Passion with Michael Long

Between Iron and Coal: Enacting Kinship, Bureaucracy and Infrastructure in the Ger Districts of Ulaanbaatar with Dr Elizabeth Fox All welcome Presenting an urban-focused account of life in contemporary Mongolia, this thesis moves from the intractability of structure-agency debates to engage with the tensions between...

Rules of Hunting; Rules of Gaming: Eveny Responses to an Inupiaq Video Game with Implications for Learning Strategies with Dr Barbara Bodenhorn and Dr Olga Ulturgasheva The production of Never Alone (a recent video game incorporating Iñupiaq narrative traditions and aesthetics) is one example of how Arctic peoples use...

The Rhythm of Hospitality: Organizing Interaction in the Tea Room with Kristin Surak

MIASU seminar with Charles Ramble

Shaping Mongolian Urbanism – Dynamic Ownership and Emerging Politico-Economic Subjectivities in Ulaanbaatar with Prof Caroline Humphrey & David Sneath

Shaping Mongolian Urbanism – Dynamic Ownership and Emerging Politico-Economic Subjectivities in Ulaanbaatar with Rebekah Plueckhahn This paper explores the interrelationships between the dynamics of owning and the shaping of Mongolian urbanism following a period of intense increase in foreign direct investment and its...

Saranzaya Manalsuren (South Bank University) Interdisciplinary Interpretation of ‘Heritage-Locality’ among Business Practitioners in Contemporary Mongolia The ‘heritage-locality’, or the concept of ‘nutag’ has been theorised as a focal point to understand the identities of Mongols in the literature of cultural anthropology...

Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes (University of California) Trucking with Time: The Emergence of New Mongolian Mobilities in America How do time, space, and movement weave together shaping the lives of Mongolian migrants to Los Angeles? And what does this reveal about life and labour in late modernity? The forms of mobility...