Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?

Please join the Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University for the keynote address of the 27th Annual ACES Conference, "Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?" given by Dr. Manduhai Buyandelger, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Buyandelger's research focuses on how people rebuild their lives, selves, and social worlds in the wake of dramatic political transformation. Her first book, Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Gender, and Memory in Contemporary Mongolia, tells the story of the collapse of the socialist state and the responses of marginalized rural nomads to devastating changes through the revival of their previously suppressed shamanic practices. Dr. Buyandelger is currently working on a second book, A Thousand Steps to the Parliament: Women Running for Election in Postsocialist Neoliberalizing Mongolia, which focuses on the ways in which democratic elections and neoliberal policies influence the co-constitution of gender and politics.

Attendees are also welcome to participate in the 2021 ACES Conference, which will take place online Saturday, February 27 and Sunday, February 28. More information about the conference, including the conference schedule and program, may be found at www.indiana.edu/~aces.

Please feel free to contact us at aces@indiana.edu with any questions about the event.