“Landlocked Cosmopolitan Locks-Down: Mongolia’s COVID-19 Response“
Livestream via WebEX
Event Description
Speaker
Marissa Smith
Anthropologist, Central Asia Working Group, UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies
Moderator
Benjamin Hopkins
Co-Director, East Asia National Resource Center
Date & Time
Thursday, September 10, 2020
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT | 2:00 – 3:15 PM EDT
Note: Registration closes at 5:00pm EDT on September 9. This event is on the record, open to the public, and will be recorded. Advance questions can be sent to gweanrc@gwu.edu with subject “Mongolia Q&A” or directly entered into Webex during the event.
Media inquiries must be sent to Jason Shevrin, jshevrin@gwu.edu. If you need specific accommodations, please contact gweanrc@gwu.edu with at least 3 business days’ notice.
Speaker
Marissa Smith is an anthropologist and Mongolia expert. She currently collaborates with the Central Asia Working Group at UC-Berkeley and is writing about regional and local governance, “raw material” economies, and Mongolia-Russia relations. Her latest publication is “Power of the People’s Parties and a post-Soviet Parliament: Regional infrastructural, economic, and ethnic networks of power in contemporary Mongolia,” in the Journal of Eurasian Studies.
