Latest Past Events

Himalayan New York: Stories of Migration, Language, Belonging, and Social Change

Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Nawang Tsering Gurung, Independent Researcher and Community Activist Dan Kaufman, Founder and Co-Director, Endangered Language Alliance; Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Queens College - CUNY Kesang Tseten, Filmmaker, Shunyata Fillms Moderated by: Sienna Craig, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Dartmouth College   Over the past two decades, the presence of people […]

Trembling Mountain (2016) Film Screening

Modern Tibetan Studies Event Please join us for a film screening of Trembling Mountain and discussion with: Kesang Tseten, filmmaker   Among the worst hit in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake was paradise-like Langtang, a prime trekking destination. A glacial collapse caused an avalanche of rock, ice and mud, resulting in an airblast, equal to half the […]