Lectures
“Tibetan Nomads: Environmental and Policy Challenges”
Dan Miller, A rangeland ecologist, photographer, and the author of Drokpa: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya, Tibet’s Last Nomads and Searching for Grass and Water.
Moderated by Robert Barnett, Director, Modern Tibet Studies Program, Columbia University
Thursday, September 4
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, RM 918
No registration required.
“Renewed Trouble in China’s Peripheries: Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan”
Nicholas Bequelin is a Visiting Scholar at the China Center, Yale Law School, and the Senior Researcher for China at Human Rights Watch.
Thursday, October 9
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
International Affairs Building, RM 918
No registration required.
“Processing Mercury in a Chinese Labor Camp: Accounts by Tibetan Doctors in the 1970s”
Barbara Gerke is a medical anthropologist at Humboldt University, Berlin, and leader of a research project on Tibetan pharmacological detoxification practices.
Tuesday, October 14th
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, RM 918
No Registration required.
“A Digital Corpus of Tibetan Texts as a Tool for Tibetologists”
Nathan Hill is a lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focuses on Tibetan literature and Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics.
Thursday, October 30
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Butler, RM 523
No registration required.
Film Screening
“The Epic of Everest (John Noel, 1928)”
Exclusive Premiere
Probably the earliest filmed record of life in Tibet, this famous film includes scenes from Phari Dzong, Shekar Dzong, and Rongbuk monastery.
Introduced by Robert Barnett.
Sunday, November 23
4:00 PM
Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street (7th Avenue)
Students $10, Public $18
Co-hosted with the Rubin Museum of Art www.rubinmuseum.org/everest
