Symposium: Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes

Add to Calendar 2024-11-15 09:00:00 2024-11-15 16:00:00 Symposium: Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes Program Details 9.00am Keynote Address Assistant Professor Takahiro Tomita, Kobe University, Japan Severe winter disasters (dzud) between the socialist era and the present: what can we learn from past disasters? Dr William Taylor, University of Colorado, Boulder Melting mountain ice, cultural heritage, and pastoral lifeways in Mongolia, past and present Discussant: Associate Professor Natasha Fijn (ANU) 10.30am Morning tea 11.00am Panel 1 Associate Professor Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo, National University of Mongolia Zud and Khorshoo: herder's perspective and political dimensions Dr Uchralt Otede, Australian National University Challenges of citizen participation in addressing local environmental issues in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia Saren Tuoya, Inner Mongolia University The relationship between herdsmen and water in drought: A case study of G Soum in Eastern Inner Mongolia Discussant: Professor Li Narangoa (ANU) 12.30pm Lunch 1.30pm Panel 2 Dr Rebekah Plueckhahn and NGO colleagues in Mongolia, University of Melbourne Effects of climate change in the rapidly changing urban landscape of Ulaanbaatar Byambagerel Suren, National University of Mongolia What can history of Mongolian forest fires teach us? Associate Professor Natasha Fijn, Australian National University A multispecies anthropological approach to influenza in Mongolia Discussant: Undargaa Sandagsuren (ANU) 3.30pm Afternoon tea 4.00pm END OF SYMPOSIUM Please register and select the appropriate ticket type (in-person or online). The Update is organised by the ANU Mongolia Institute, the only dedicated hub for Mongolian studies in the Southern Hemisphere. The Mongolia Update is hosted by the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, supported by the Embassy of Mongolia and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra. IN-PERSON: Lecture Theatre 2 (HB2), Hedley Bull Building, 130 Garran Rd, ANU; ONLINE: Zoom ANU COLLEGE OF ASIA & THE PACIFIC cap.web@anu.edu.au Australia/Sydney public

Symposium: Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes

In the middle of the Eurasian continent, the Mongolian Plateau is subject to climatic fluctuations, including the phenomenon of extreme weather events in winter (dzud), or heat and drought in summer (gan), with heightened levels of extremity in recent years due to the impacts of a changing climate.

On this second day of the Mongolia Update, we feature a symposium with scholars focusing on Mongolia and Inner Asia more broadly, with an emphasis on aspects relating to the environment and climate change.

Program Details

9.00am Keynote Address

Assistant Professor Takahiro Tomita, Kobe University, Japan

Severe winter disasters (dzud) between the socialist era and the present: what can we learn from past disasters?

Dr William Taylor, University of Colorado, Boulder

Melting mountain ice, cultural heritage, and pastoral lifeways in Mongolia, past and present

Discussant: Associate Professor Natasha Fijn (ANU)

10.30am Morning tea

11.00am Panel 1

Associate Professor Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo, National University of Mongolia

Zud and Khorshoo: herder's perspective and political dimensions

Dr Uchralt Otede, Australian National University

Challenges of citizen participation in addressing local environmental issues in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

Saren Tuoya, Inner Mongolia University

The relationship between herdsmen and water in drought: A case study of G Soum in Eastern Inner Mongolia

Discussant: Professor Li Narangoa (ANU)

12.30pm Lunch

1.30pm Panel 2

Dr Rebekah Plueckhahn and NGO colleagues in Mongolia, University of Melbourne

Effects of climate change in the rapidly changing urban landscape of Ulaanbaatar

Byambagerel Suren, National University of Mongolia

What can history of Mongolian forest fires teach us?

Associate Professor Natasha Fijn, Australian National University

A multispecies anthropological approach to influenza in Mongolia

Discussant: Undargaa Sandagsuren (ANU)

3.30pm Afternoon tea

4.00pm END OF SYMPOSIUM

Please register and select the appropriate ticket type (in-person or online).

The Update is organised by the ANU Mongolia Institute, the only dedicated hub for Mongolian studies in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Mongolia Update is hosted by the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, supported by the Embassy of Mongolia and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.