International Conference Papers and Talks (selection)
2013
“Writing Mongolia Ethnologically: From Ethnological to Ethnic”, A paper presented at the Conference entitled “The Visible and the Invisible: Institutions and Identities in Contemporary Central Asia”, CASCA Halle-Zurich Centre for the Anthropological Study of Central Asia, University of Zurich and Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Zurich, Switzerland, December 20-22, 2013
“Making Mongolia Tribal: The Qing Transformation and the Rise of European Ethnological Paradigm” A paper given at the Advanced Seminar on East Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA, March 4, 2013
“Mongolia’s Nationality Policy: Making Mongolia Multi-Ethnic”, An Inner Asian and Altaic Studies lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 6, 2013
2012
“Imperial Incorporation and the Political Order in Pre-Modern Eurasia: The Chinggisid and the Qing incorporations in Comparison”, A paper given at the roundtable on “The Nature of the Manchu Qing Empire and of its Relations with other polities in Asia”, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, December 5-8, 2012
2011
“The Irony of Mongolia’s Independence: Making the Mongols Mongolic and Mongolia Multi-Ethnic”, A paper presented at the Conference on “Mongolian Sovereignty and the Mongols”, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, December 9-12, 2011
“Mongolia’s Post-Socialist Transition: A Great Neoliberal Transformation”, A paper presented at the Conference on “Mongolians After Socialism: Economic Aspiration, Political Development, and Cultural & Spiritual Identity”, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 27-29, 2011
“The Qing Transformation of Mongolia: Structural Ethnicization and Tribalization of Mongolia ”, A paper presented at the international workshop entitled “Administrative and Colonial Practices in Qing Ruled China: Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited”, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, April 7-8, 2011
2010
“Mongolia’s Nationality Policy: The Construction of Multi-Ethnic Mongolia”, A paper presented at Ethnologisches Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 22, 2010
“Where did the Mongol Empire come from: A Tribal World or an Aristocratic Order Or? Medieval Mongol Ideas of People, State and Empire”, A paper presented at the international roundtable entitled “The Nature of the Mongol Empire and its Legacy”, Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, November 4-6, 2010
2009
“Mongols’ Origin Myth during the Qing Dynasty: Statehood and the Chinggisid Lineage,” A paper presented at the panel entitled “Mongolia: On the Eve of Modernity”, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, April 29, 2009
“Ethnic Identities in Mongolia: A Culture of Division”, A paper presented at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, March 12, 2009
“The Enmity of Independency: Ethnic and National Identities in Mongolia”, A paper presented at the Eurasian Studies Working Group, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, October 21, 2008
2006
“Mongolian Identity and Imperial Order”, A paper presented at The Second International Conference of Asian Philosophical Association, Busan National University, Busan, South Korea. October 26-29, 2006
“Ulus and Irgen: Statehood and Mongolian Identity (from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century)”, A paper presented at the Ninth International Congress of the Mongolists, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 8-12, 2006
“Who Governs Mongolia: Semi-Presidentialism or Parliamentarism plus Cartel?”, A paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, April 8, 2006
2003
“Inquiry into Mongolian Nationalism through terms and concepts (from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1920s)”, A paper presented at the annual meeting of The Mongolia Society held in conjunction with The Association for Asian Studies, New York, USA, March 26-30, 2003