Panel 8: Ethnography and Cartography as Modes of Representation in Tibet

 PANEL 8: ETHNOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY AS MODES OF REPRESENTATION IN TIBET

Convenor: Diana Lange

WEDNESDAY 24 JULY

 

 

 

9:00-9:30 The land for buildings, fields and cemeteries: An illustrated manuscript on geomancy

Petra Maurer

 

9:30-10:00 Acquiring knowledge: The British Library’s Wise Collection Diana Lange

 

10:00-10:30 Geographies of Tibet in the pre-Mongol Period: Literary Mappings in Tibetan Literature

Eveline Yang

 

10:30–11.00

Tea and Coffee

 

11.00-11:30 Where is the Copper-Colored Mountain? Buddhist Cosmology, Tibetan Geography, and Maps of the Imagined World

Benjamin Bogin

 

11:30-12:00 Putting Lhasa on the map: 19th and 20th artistic representations of the city

Brid Arthur

 

12:00-12:30 Impacts and Influences of the Tibet Map made by the Tibetan Government in Exile

Tsering Wangyal

 

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch