Events

05
Dec 2019

Murghab at Ethnokino Bern

Screening and discussion, Reitschule, EthnoKino Festival, Bern.


20
Nov 2019

On Visions and Connections

Conceptual comments presented at the conference “Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces”, Stockholm University


08
Nov 2019

Jumping Scales and Embedded Archives

Panel at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association, Graduate Insitute, Geneva.


25
Oct 2019

Reading Jason De León, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

CARG #28 – twenty-eights session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


18
Oct 2019

Collecting Highland Flotsam

Paper presented at the Workshop “Languages, Cultures and Goods along the Silk Road”, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main


13
Aug 2019

Murghab in Locarno

International premiere of our documentary film at the Locarno Film Festival.


13
Jul 2019

Mapping Tibet

Roundtable for 15th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Paris.


28
Jun 2019

Reading Nitzan Shoshan, The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany

CARG #27 – twenty-seventh session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


24
Jun 2019

Mapping Mountains and Seas

One Day Workshop at LMU


18
Jun 2019

Dry ports, Tibetan trains, and accumulating stuff at the Nepal-China border

Paper presented at the workshop “Development Zones in Asian Borderlands”, Aarhus University, Denmark


28
May 2019

Strandgut am Berg

Exhibition at Köşk, Munich


18
May 2019

Murghab

Second screening at DOK.fest Munich


12
May 2019

Murghab

World Premiere at DOK.fest Munich


03
May 2019

Reading Anya Bernstein, Religious Bodies Politics: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

CARG #26 – twenty-sixth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


02
May 2019

China in Nepal

International Workshop at the South Asia Institute, Kathmandu


11
Apr 2019

Highland Asia Workshop

Final Workshop for ERC Project on Highland Asia


05
Apr 2019

Critically engaging the 'China Model' of Development

Double panel organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.


04
Apr 2019

Combusting Relations

Paper for panel “Material and Territorial Entanglements Across South-South Worlds” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.


04
Apr 2019

Geographies of Nepal and the Himalaya

Double panel organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.


04
Apr 2019

Studies in Nepali History and Society

Roundtable session organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.


23
Mar 2019

Fractal Infrastructures

Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Denver, Colorado.


23
Mar 2019

Business, Biradari, Blood

Paper presentation at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting , Denver, CO, March 21–24, 2019. Panel title: “Inhabiting the “In-Between: Gendered Mediation Practices in South Asia”


23
Mar 2019

Business, Biradari, Blood

Paper presentation at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting , Denver, CO, March 21–24, 2019. Panel title: “Inhabiting the “In-Between: Gendered Mediation Practices in South Asia”


14
Mar 2019

Reading Kathleen Millar, Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump

CARG #25 – twenty-fifth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


24
Jan 2019

Reading Hoon Song, Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America

CARG #24 – twenty-fourth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


17
Jan 2019

Mapping Asia

International Workshop at LMU


07
Dec 2018

In Threads and Knots

Paper presented at the workshop “Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries”, Humboldt University, Berlin


07
Dec 2018

In Threads and Knots

Paper presented at the workshop “Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries”, Humboldt University, Berlin


19
Nov 2018

Trust Amidst “Trust-Deficit”

Lecture at Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley.


19
Nov 2018

Trust Amidst “Trust-Deficit”

Lecture at Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley.


16
Nov 2018

Constructing a New Tibet

Paper presented at the workshop “Tibetan Landscapes” at the Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies, University of Copenhagen.


16
Nov 2018

Place-knots and Pathways

Paper presentation at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) San Jose, CA, November 14–18, 2018. Panel title: “Regions Unbound”.


14
Nov 2018

Hyperstructures

Talk delivered at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen.


09
Nov 2018

Reading Nayanika Mathur, Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India

CARG #23 – twenty-third session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


25
Oct 2018

Illicit Passages (tongdao)

Talk at the Center for Asian Studies, CU Boulder


18
Oct 2018

China and the infrastructure desire-machine

Talk at the first "China Made" workshop, CU Boulder


12
Oct 2018

The Infrastructural Bridge

Roundtable participation at the Madison Conference on South Asia, 15:45–17:30, room D240 - 1


13
Aug 2018

Hyper-Structure

Paper at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek, 13-15 August 2018


13
Aug 2018

Hyperbuilding Highland Asia

Panel at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek, 13-15 August 2018


13
Aug 2018

Trade Artifacts

Paper Presentation at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek, 13-15 August. Panel title: ‘Resurgent Frontiers: mobility, regulation and infrastructure in South Asian borderlands’


13
Aug 2018

Liquid Undercurrents

Panel at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek, 13-15 August 2018


13
Aug 2018

Petty Petrol Politics

Paper at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek, 13-15 August 2018


13
Aug 2018

Fragile Infrastructures, Secure Nation

Panel at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek, 13-15 August 2018


19
Jul 2018

Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics

CARG #21 – twenty-first session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


10
Jul 2018

Science Diplomacy on the Ground

Round Table Session at ESOF, Toulouse; organised by Angela Liberatore, Frank Kuhn, Inge Ruigrok


03
Jul 2018

Transnational marriage in Yiwu

Talk at LMU Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, room 115, 18–20


22
Jun 2018

Mette M. High, Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush

CARG #12 – twentieth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


06
Jun 2018

The business of Wayfaring

Photo exhibition at the Masur Gallery, Lockhart, Texas.


04
Jun 2018

The Other Image

Project presentation in the workshop ”Writing with Light”, 4–8 June 2018, at the University of Texas, Austin.


16
May 2018

Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz, The Mountain

CARG #19 – nineteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


03
May 2018

Place-Knots

Talk at the Book Launch of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, Tallinn University


03
May 2018

Illicit Passages (tongdao)

Talk at the Book Launch of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, Tallinn University


02
May 2018

Asian Borderlands

A Workshop and Book Launch, Tallinn University


02
May 2018

Provisions for Remoteness

Inimkond (Humankind) Lecture, Tallinn University


18
Apr 2018

Illicit passages (tongdao)

Talk at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex


13
Apr 2018

OBORed out of business

Talk at the workshop "From Bactrian Camels to the Belt Road—Historical and Contemporary Ruminations on China’s Westward Pivot," University of Arkansas


12
Apr 2018

Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil.

CARG #18 – eighteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


11
Apr 2018

OBORed out of business

Talk at the AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans


25
Mar 2018

Frontier Explorations

Paper Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC. Panel title: ‘Spatiality and Power in South Asia’


25
Mar 2018

Frontier Explorations

Paper Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC. Panel title: ‘Spatiality and Power in South Asia’


25
Mar 2018

Frontier Explorations

Paper Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC. Panel title: ‘Spatiality and Power in South Asia’


08
Mar 2018

Reading Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Two Lenins. A Brief Anthropology of Time

CARG #17 – seventeenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


06
Feb 2018

Predation and Care

Talk at LMU Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, room 131, 18–20


01
Feb 2018

Reading Lisa Björkman, Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

CARG #16 – sixteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


30
Jan 2018

Frontier’s Signature

Colloquium, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University Delhi, India


21
Dec 2017

Reading Yael Navaro-Yashin, The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity

CARG #15 – fifteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


18
Dec 2017

Artefacts of trade

Talk at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU, Oettingenstr. 67, Munich, room L-155, 18:00-20:00


14
Dec 2017

Stranger-density and the construction of hospitality in Tibetan borderlands

Talk at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU, Oettingenstr. 67, Munich, room L-155, 18:00-20:00


03
Dec 2017

Itinerants in the archives

Paper Presentation at “Anthropology Matters!” – 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. Panel title: “Travel, transformation, and transmission of knowledge I: Tristes Tropiques and the magic of ‘anti-ethnography’”


10
Nov 2017

Reading Emma Tarlo, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair

CARG #14 – fourteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


27
Oct 2017

Financial Superstitions

Paper presentation at the 46th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, USA. Panel Title “Regulating Frontiers: Law Finance and Infrastructure in the South Asian Borderlands”


12
Oct 2017

Illicit passages (tongdao)

Presentation at “On Edge: China’s Frontiers in a Time of Change” workshop, 12-14 October 2017, Kandersteg, Switzerland


02
Oct 2017

Curation at Large

Research Seminar at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 13:00–14:30, room B600


28
Sep 2017

Reading Gaston Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction

CARG #13 – thirteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


13
Sep 2017

Remoteness & Connectivity

Talk at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 12:00-13:00


20
Jul 2017

Reading Elizabeth A. Povinelli: Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

CARG #12 – twelfth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


11
Jul 2017

Himalayan Disruptions

Talk at LMU Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, room 133, 18–20


22
Jun 2017

Reading Asher Ghertner: Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi

CARG #11 – eleventh session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


20
Jun 2017

Pathways, Borders, and the Labour of Distribution

Talk in the seminar series “Space and Place”, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology


09
Jun 2017

Frontiers of China

A photo exhibition in Rovereto (Italy)


06
Jun 2017

Ways of the Afghan Pamir

Talk at LMU Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, room 133, 18–20


18
May 2017

Reading Michael Hathaway: Environmental Winds. Making the Global in Southwest China

CARG #10 – tenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


09
May 2017

After the new villages

Follow-up workshop at LMU Munich, 9-10 May 2017


28
Apr 2017

Place-knots

Talk at CIRDIS, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2.7, Seminar room 1, 15:00


24
Apr 2017

Blick über den Kleinen Pamir

Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall, Dominikanerbastei 6/6, Wien, Klubsaal 18:30


06
Apr 2017

Reading Arjun Appadurai: Banking on Words. The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

CARG #09 – ninth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


21
Mar 2017

The Little Pamir’s Social Network

Presentation at the Exeter-Newcastle Postgraduate Workshop on Central Asia, University of Exeter, UK


16
Mar 2017

Zomia 2.0: Casino towns and the ‘China effect’ in Myanmar and Laos

Talk at the Université du Québec à Montréal


08
Mar 2017

The Trust Deficit

Paper presented at the workshop “Market Languages: Modes of Persuasion and Exchange”, Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University (India)


07
Mar 2017

Curating the Borderlands: State, Market and Heritage Making in China

Talk at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.


23
Feb 2017

Reading David Graeber: The Utopia of Rules. On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

CARG #08 – eighth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


09
Feb 2017

Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities

International Symposium at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich


11
Jan 2017

Community Resilience and Commodification of Nature

Presentation at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, Room 131, 18:00-20:00


12
Dec 2016

Roads to Development: Socialist New Villages and petty cross-border trade in the Dulong valley

Dynamic Borderlands – Livelihoods, Communities and Flows: 5th International Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN), Kathmandu, Hotel Annapurna, 12–14 December


12
Dec 2016

Private Roads: Local road construction initiatives in the Himalayas

Dynamic Borderlands – Livelihoods, Communities and Flows: 5th International Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN), Kathmandu, Hotel Annapurna, 12–14 December


09
Nov 2016

The Little Pamir Extended: from the Tip of Afghanistan to a More Interconnected World

CASI Research Seminar, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, 16:00, Room 220


26
Aug 2016

Nodes of Development and China’s One Belt One Road initiative, a view from Tengchong

‘Silk Road and Urban Development in Western China Workshop, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an’


29
Jul 2016

Materials, Environments, and Curatorial Interventions

Second workshop of the research initiative “Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities”


28
Jul 2016

Reading James Ferguson: Give a Man a Fish. Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution

CARG #07 – seventh session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


20
Jul 2016

The Return of Remoteness

Panel at EASA 2016, Milano


24
Jun 2016

Socialist New Villages in China

Panel at AAS-in-Asia Conference 2016, Kyoto


10
Jun 2016

Reading Erik Mueggler: The Paper Road. Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet

CARG #06 – sixth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


07
May 2016

Book presentation

Alessandro Rippa presents his book “Cuore dell'Eurasia: Il Xinjiang dalla Preistoria al 1949” at the Hellisbook Bookstore (Via Losanna 6, Milan)


07
May 2016

Book presentation

Alessandro Rippa presents his book “Cuore dell'Eurasia: Il Xinjiang dalla Preistoria al 1949” at the Hellisbook Bookstore (Via Losanna 6, Milan)


28
Apr 2016

07
Apr 2016

Reading Magnus Marsden: Trading Worlds. Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers

CARG #04 – fourth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


29
Mar 2016

A Spectacle of Maps

Paper presented at AAG San Francisco in the panel “Cartographic Anxieties”, organised by Franck Billé


29
Mar 2016

Old Routes, New Roads

Paper presented at AAG San Francisco in the panel “Changing Landscapes in China’s Border Regions”, organised by Xiaobo Su, Galen Murton and You-tien Hsing


21
Mar 2016

Presence with Rare Encounters

Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 18:00.


18
Feb 2016

Presence without Encounters

Paper for the international workshop “Encounters after the Soviet Collapse: Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone”, Leiden, The Netherlands


12
Feb 2016

Reading Madeleine Reeves: Border Work. Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia

CARG #03 – third session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


18
Jan 2016

Die Kreation einer Industrie

Vortrag im Kolloquium zur Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Iheringstr. 6, 18:15-19:45


14
Jan 2016

Reading Ruben Andersson: Illegality, Inc. Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe

CARG #02 – second session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


14
Dec 2015

Cross-border trade and “the market” between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan

Paper for the workshop “Cross-Border Exchanges and the Shadow Economy”, 14–15 December, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands.


28
Nov 2015

Material, Experience, and the Mobile

First workshop of the research initiative “Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities”


27
Nov 2015

Reading Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox: Roads – An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise

CARG #01 – first session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group


02
Nov 2015

Remoteness & Connectivity – Highland Asia in the World

Oberseminar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich


21
Oct 2015

Neighbouring China

Paper presented at the Asia Center, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex


15
Oct 2015

Reading Tim Ingold

Reading Course at LMU Munich, Winter semester 2015/2016


22
Sep 2015

Tibetan medicine at the juncture of modernism, neoliberalism, and heritage making

Paper presented at the Workshop Governance & Circulation of Asian Medicines, 22-23 September, Asia Research Institute, National Univesity of Singapore


29
Jan 2015

Remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas

International Guest Lecture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.


Contact:
Highland Asia Research Group
LMU, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich, Germany
martin.saxer@lmu.de | +49 89 2180 9639

Privacy Policy

ERC and LMU logos