Kluge Fellow Uranchimeg Tsultem discusses U.S. diplomacy and Western explorers in early 20th century Mongolia. Speaker Biography: Uranchimeg Tsultem is a specialist in the art of Mongolia and Tibet. She worked extensively on the modern art of Mongolia prior to her present Ph.D. studies at the University of California, Berkeley. As an assistant professor at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture (1995-2002), she curated Mongolian art exhibitions in Tsukuba, Japan (1997), New York (2000), and Bonn, Germany (2001), among others, and published on Mongolian modern art. For captions, transcript, and more information visitwww.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6025