PANEL 39: WHEN DIFFERENT WORLDS MEET: TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS
TUESDAY 23 JULY
Convenor: Markus Viehbeck
| 9:00-9:30 | Conceptualizing Transcultural Encounters: Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone”
Markus Viehbeck |
| 9:30-10:00 | Charles Bell’s ‘Himalayan Triangle’: Kalimpong, Gangtok and Gyantse, the ‘Power Places’ of a Political Officer
Emma Martin |
| 10:00-10:30 | On the threshold of Tibet: Alexandra David-Néel and the British dream of the “Land Beyond”
Samuel Thévoz |
| 10:30 – 11.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00-11:30 | A dedicated initiator of cultural exchange: Tharchin’s innovative communication of knowledge between the Tibetan and Western worlds
Isrun Engelhardt |
| 11:30-12:00 | The Melong Newspaper: Media Production in a Transcultural Context
Anna Sawerthal |
| 12:00-12:30 | The Tibet Mirror as an Integral Product of Eastern Himalaya Transcultural Exchange and a New Impetus in Tibetan Literary Writing
Natalia Mikhaylova & Pavel Grokhovskiy |
| 12:30–2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00-2:30 | The Yak’s Tail: On Contemporary Changes in Trade in the Himalayas
Tina Harris |
| 2:30-3:00 | Transcultural Practices of Medicine and Social Relationship in Tawang, Northeast India
Kei Nagaoka |
| 3:00-3:30 | Inherited antiquities of the Galo tribe of Arunachal Pradesh with Tibetan influence
Bina Gandhi |