Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "Skirmish Season: Border Practices in the Sino-Indian Himalayas" Tina Harris, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Co-sponsored by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and the Inner Asia Curricular Development Project … [Read more...]
Gray Tuttle Discusses Tibetan Studies on the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast
Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, recently spoke on the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast about The Tibetan History Reader (Columbia University Press, 2013), which he co-edited with Kurtis Schaeffer, and Sources of Tibetan Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2013), which he co-edited with Schaeffer … [Read more...]
May 1 Event: “Collecting and Presenting Tibetan Material Culture in the West:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the May 1, 2015 event “Collecting and Presenting Tibetan Material Culture in the West.” The final event of WEAI’s 2014-2015 “Museums and Material Culture: East Asia” series, the presentation featured lectures by Melissa Kerin of Washington and Lee University and Dominique Townsend of the Rubin Museum of Art. Their talk was … [Read more...]
March 24 Event: “Subsidizing Tibet: Fiscal Estimates and Socio-Economic Consequences” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the March 24, 2015 event “Subsidizing Tibet: Fiscal Estimates and Socio-Economic Consequences.” The event featured a lecture by Andrew Fischer, Associate Professor of Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and was moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate … [Read more...]
Meet the WEAI Authors Event: Emily T. Yeh and “Taming Tibet”
A Report on the Meet the WEAI Authors event featuring Emily T. Yeh, author of the Study of the WEAI Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, on March 25, 2014: Emily T. Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and moderator Robert Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program … [Read more...]
