Virtual Speaker Series
As our live events have been cancelled due to COVID-19, we have begun offering our Speaker Series virtually.
“1945 оны БНМАУ-ын тусгаар тогтнолын санал хураалт ба Их гүрнүүдийн нөлөө” 10/20 21:00 цаг (УБ); 09 цаг (EDT)
Please note that our VSS programming is alternating between Mongolian and English every month as part of our larger plan to support more Mongolian scholars. Our October Virtual Speaker Series lecture is planned to be organized in Mongolian, titled “The 1945 Independence Referendum of MPR and The Influences of Great Powers” and the post-event recording…
Using GIS to study historical and modern issues in Mongolia – Sept 30, 2:00pm EDT; 11:00am PDT; 7:00pm GMT+1
Title: Using GIS to study historical and modern issues in Mongolia (Register here) Date: Sept 30, 2:00pm EDT; 11:00am PDT; 7:00pm GMT+1 The September Virtual Panel Series, which will be held in English, will focus on using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to study historical and modern issues in Mongolia. The panel will have two speakers…
ACMS Virtual Speaker Series with Griffin Creech – Migration as Resistance: Buriat Migration to Mongolia and Manchuria during the Russian Civil Wars
When: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 2:00 p.m. (ET) [Viewers from Mongolia, please note the time. The video recording will be available with Mongolian subtitles later] Where: via Zoom Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85374070852?pwd=L1pEaVdUZXdtREphQ2x1VXJYaXRkdz09 Meeting ID:853 7407 0852 Passcode: 211034 Abstract: This talk will examine the transnational milieu of the approximately forty thousand Buriats who migrated from the…
“Монголын эдийн засаг ба КОВИД-19” илтгэл-хэлэлцүүлэг 8/26 21:00 УБ, 13:00 GMT, 09:00 EDT
Please note that our VSS programming is alternating between Mongolian and English every month as part of our larger plan to support more Mongolian scholars. Our August VSS Panel session is planned to be organized in Mongolian, titled “The Mongolian Economy and COVID-19” and the post-event recording will be uploaded with English subtitles. Нэр: “Монголын…
“Монголын газар тариалангийн түүх” 8/20 21:00 цаг (УБ); 09 цаг (EDT)
Please note that our VSS programming is alternating between Mongolian and English every month as part of our larger plan to support more Mongolian scholars. Our August Virtual Speaker Series lecture is planned to be organized in Mongolian, titled “The History of Agriculture in Mongolia” and the post-event recording will be uploaded with English subtitles. …
ACMS Virtual Speaker Series with Pawel Szczap – The Namescape of Ulaanbaatar
When: Thursday, July 22, 2021, 9pm (ULAT) | 1pm (GMT) | 9am EDT | 6am EDT Where: via Zoom. Please join us at the scheduled date and time. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81639422849?pwd=c0ZHdEdGRVo1QmdpVlczdFJjYS9sQT09 Meeting ID: 816 3942 2849 Passcode: 007612 Abstract: Ulaanbaatar is Mongolia’s biggest urban center. Here, traditional place naming and spatial orientation practices collide with…
ACMS Virtual Panel Series: “Francis Woodman Cleaves” July 14, 9am EDT; 1pm GMT; 9pm ULAT
Title: Francis Woodman Cleaves (Premieres on ACMS YouTube and Facebook channels) Date: July 14, 6am PDT; 9am EDT; 1pm GMT; 9pm ULAT Our July Virtual Panel is a special episode in celebration of the 110th birth anniversary of the late Mongolist Francis Woodman Cleaves. The presentations of the three speakers were pre-recorded and subtitled in both…
“Сансар судлал” илтгэл-хэлэлцүүлэг 6/29 21:00 УБ, 12:00 GMT, 08:00 EDT
Please note that our VSS programming is alternating between Mongolian and English every month as part of our larger plan to support more Mongolian scholars. Our June VSS Panel session is planned to be organized in Mongolian, titled “Space science” and the post-event recording will be uploaded with English subtitles. Нэр: “Сансар судлал” хэлэлцүүлэг (Энд дарж…
“Монголын газар тариалангийн салбарыг дижиталжуулахуй” 6/24 21:00 цаг (УБ); 09 цаг (EDT)
Please note that our VSS programming is alternating between Mongolian and English every month as part of our larger plan to support more Mongolian scholars. Our June Virtual Speaker Series lecture is planned to be organized in Mongolian, titled “Digitizing the agricultural farming in Mongolia” and the post-event recording will be uploaded with English subtitles. …
ACMS Virtual Speaker Series with Tim Brookes – The Endangered Alphabets Project: Using Games for Cultural and Linguistic Preservation
When: Thursday, May 20, 2021 9:00 p.m. (ULAT) Thursday, May 20, 2021 9:00 a.m. (EDT) Where: via Zoom Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82184917241?pwd=T2dSalQ1ZlJBUGcrN3p6R1p5c1U3dz09 Meeting ID: 821 8491 7241 Passcode: 126312 Abstract: The Endangered Alphabets Project, a non-profit based in Vermont, USA, is the only organization in the world dedicated to supporting indigenous and minority cultures worldwide whose writing…
Mongolian Buddhism in the Modern World
Betsy Quammen, Manlai Chonos, and Marissa Smith
On Attempts to Algorithmize Pastoral Production in Mongolia
Dr. Marissa Smith
30 years after Mongolia's democratic revolution
Dolgion Aldar
Deciphering Dinosaur Growth
Dr. Badamkhatan Zorigt
What is The Future of Mongolia’s Rangelands and Herders?
Daniel Miller
Presenter: Dr. Tsendpurev Tsegmid, Vanjil Art Institute
Title of Presentation: Early Contemporary Art in Post-Soviet Mongolia” Where is Green Horse Galloping now?
Date: November 19, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Gantulga Bayasgalan, Mongolian University of Science and Technology
Title of Presentation: Collaborations between MUST School of Geology and U.S. Universities
Date: December 27, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Batsaikhan Ookhnoi, Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Title of Presentation: Rethinking Mongolian History: Mongolian National Revolution of 1911 and The Last Emperor of Mongolia, VIII Bogdo Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu
Date: October 15, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Ryan Allen, Simon Fraser University
Title of Presentation: Air Pollution, Fetal Growth, and Early Childhood Development | An Update from the UGAAR Study
Date: November 5, 2019
Presenters: Ms. Oyungerel Tsedevdamba and Mr. Jeffrey H. Falt
Title of Presentation: Novel “The Green-Eyed Lama”: English Edition
Date: August 16, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Saruul-Erdene Myagmar
Title of Presentation: What Happened in 1973? Attempts to Open Diplomatic Relations Between Mongolia and the US through Private Memoirs
Date: Sep 12, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Cynthia Horne, Western Washington University
Title of Presentation: Globalization and Women’s Empowerment in Mongolia
Date: June 18, 2019
Presenter: Brian Goldbeck, U.S. State Department (ret.)
Title of Presentation: President Bush’s 2005 Visit: A Bilateral Relations Milestone
Date: July 24, 2019
Presenter: Bjorn Reichhardt, PhD Student at the Central Asian Seminar of Humboldt University of Berlin
Title of Presentation: Down the Road: Contested Infrastructures of Development, Tourism, and Pastoral Dairying
Date: May 7, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Lander, Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University of Leicester (UK)
Title of Presentation: “The State has forgotten its reason for being”? A socio-legal analysis of extractive development and state transformation in Mongolia
Date: June 12, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Enkh-Amgalan A, Center for Policy Research
Title of Presentation: Building Sustainable Livelihoods for Herders
Date: April 2, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Timothy May, University of North Georgia
Speaker: Christian Sorace, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College
Title of Presentation: Desiring the City: Cinema and Ideology in Socialist Mongolia
Date: March 5, 2019
Title of Presentation: Military Integration in Mongol Warfare: The development of Combined Arms Warfare in the Mongol Empire
Date: April 10, 2019
Presenter: Kristen Pearson | Fulbright Fellow at the Mongolian National Museum
Title of Presentation: Objects in an Ecosystem: The Ethnoarchaeology of Mongolian Hide and Fiber Crafts
Date: December 18, 2018
Presenter: Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav, PhD, head of the Research Center at the National Museum of Mongolia
Title of Presentation: First Migration East to West: Conflict Between Two Major Cultures of the Mongolian Late Bronze Age
Date: November 20, 2018
Speakers: Dr. Ariell Ahearn, Mr. Stephen Lezak, and Mr. Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo
Title of Presentation: Introducing the Gobi Framework Project: Mediation Model for Sustainable Infrastructure Development’
Date: December 18, 2018
Presenter: Thalea Stokes | University of Chicago
Title of Presentation: Hip Hop Scene Among Mongols in Mongolia and China: Witnessing the Development of a New Tradition throughout the Mongolian Diaspora
Date: October 22, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Agnes Birtalan | Eötvös Loránd University
Title of Presentation: Black and Yellow Shamans in Mongolia in the 1990’s (On the Basis of Field Research Among the Darkhats and Oirats)
Date: November 6, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Bryan Miller | University of Oxford
Title of Presentation: In Search of “Commoners” in the Xiongnu Empire
Date: September 19, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Chantsallkham Jamsranjav
Title of Presentation: Herders’ indicators and ratings predict rangeland conditions in three Mongolian ecological zones
Date: October 2, 2018
Presenter: Dr. William Taylor | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany
Title of Presentation: Recovering Mongolia’s Frozen Past: Understanding Taiga and Alpine Prehistory
Date: August 21, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Joseph Bristley | Affiliate researcher, UCL Anthropology’s ‘Emerging Subjects’ project
Title of Presentation: The ‘festival of forty thousand horses’: number and value in the Mongolian countryside
Date: September 4, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Julia Clark | The founder of NOMAD Science, an Associate Director for Bioregions
Title of Presentation: Looting and Climate Change Threats to Mongolian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Date: June 5, 2018
Presenter: Sanchir Jargalsaikhan | Political scientist, activist, and development policy specialist
Title of Presentation: Environmental Governance in Mongolia: Challenges and Prospects
Date: June 19, 2018
Presenter: Kim Dupont-Madinier | Fulbright Research Fellowship
Title of Presentation: Energy Efficient Gers for the Ger Districts
Date: May 8, 2018
Presenter: Jonathan Addleton| Executive Director of the American Center for Mongolian Studies | Former U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia
Title of Presentation: Mongolia and the United States: First 150 years
Date: May 22, 2018
Presenter: Petya Andreeva | PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department
Title of Presentation: Fantastic Beasts on the Eurasian Steppes: The Politics of Burial Regalia in Iron Age Funerary Art along the Mongolian steppes and further west
Date: March 6, 2018
Presenter: Sam Bass | PhD candidate in History and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University
Title of Presentation: The Bound Steppe: Notes on Enslavement in Qing Mongolia
Date: April 17, 2018