Panel 1: OVOO DIVERSITY
Introduction
Aurore DUMONT (Academia Sinica) « Community, Faith, and Politics: The Ovoo Cairns and Rituals of the Shinehen Buryats Throughout the 20th Century »
Kip Grosvenor Hutchins (University of Wisconsin-Madison) « With Each Pass, Another Stone: Ovoo at the Heart of Heritage, Environment, and Conflict »
Bernard CHARLIER (Université Catholique de Louvain)
« From Attachment to Detachment: Praying at the Ovoo and Finding One’s Place Far from the Homeland »
Bolor Crystal LKHAAJAV (University of San Francisco)
« Dilemma of the Sacred Lands: The Ovoo and Its Environment »
Sam BASS (Indiana University) « “They call out to their dead devils!” The Erküd and the Rejection of Communal Rituals in a Mongolian Banner »
Panel 2: OVOO HISTORIES
Introduction
Isabelle CHARLEUX (National Centre for Scientific Research) « Ovoos on Qing Dynasty Mongol Banner Maps (Late 19th‐Early 20th century)
Anne-Sophie PRATTE (Harvard University) « Mapping Ovoos and Making Boundaries in 19th-Century Khalkha Mongolia »
Sangseraima Ujeed (UC Santa Barbara) « Buddhist Origins of Ovoo Phenomena »
Brian BAUMANN (UC Berkeley) « Rock-Pile Genius) »
Devon Margaret Dear (Harvard University) « Ovoos on the Border Between the Qing and Russian Empires »
Panel 3: OVOO PROCESSES
Introduction
Marissa SMITH (De Anza College) « Ovoos and Ovoo Practices of Erdenet Miners: Ethics of Belonging and Generation »
Gaëlle LACAZE (Sorbonne Université) « Ovoo Worship in Mine-golia »
Jessica MADISON (PÍSKATÁ, UC Santa Cruz) « “You Dream of the Mountain and the Mountain Dreams of You”: Mongolian Geo-Ethics and the Poetic Life of Altan Ovoo The Center May Not Hold: Sacrifice, Love, and Uncertainty at Altan Ovoo’s National Takhilga »
Gregory DELAPLACE (Université Paris-Nanterre)
« Being Skilled: The Virtue of Accurately Composing with the Heterogeneity of the Cosmos in Mongolia »
Laurent LEGRAIN (Université de Toulouse)
Rebecca WATTERS (The Wolverine Foundation) « Ovoo and Human-Nature Interaction »