Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "An Evening with Shidé Nyima ཞི་བདེ་ཉི་མ།: The Tibetan Comedian, Poet, Actor, and Filmmaker Talks About his Work" Shidé Nyima, Actor, Writer, and Filmmaker 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. … [Read more...]
“Nature and Culture: The Emergence and Spiritual Roots of Tibetan Environmentalism”
Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "Nature and Culture: The Emergence and Spiritual Roots of Tibetan Environmentalism” Liu Jianqiang, Former Senior Investigative Reporter at Southern Daily Moderated by Wang Bei, Associate Researcher of Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Kent Hall, Room 403 No registration … [Read more...]
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Despite a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unrest not … [Read more...]
“The Colonial Practices of the Postcolonial State: China in Tibet, India in Kashmir”
Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "The Colonial Practices of the Postcolonial State: China in Tibet, India in Kashmir" Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Co-sponsored by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, the India China Institute at the New School, and the Inner Asia Curricular Development Project … [Read more...]
February 18 Event: “Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies at Columbia: Strategies and Possibilities:” Video
Video is now available from the February 18, 2016 event “Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies at Columbia: Strategies and Possibilities.” The workshop featured Tucker Harding, the Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities at Columbia University, and Tenzin Dickyi, Editor at The Treasury of Lives. Their presentation was moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley … [Read more...]
