Panels and Workshops

Overview of panels in alphabetical order (c = closed and o = open panel)

	Panel/workshop Title	Organiser
1-o	Amdo and the Mongols	Paul Nietupski (John Carroll University)
2-o	Architecture and conservation in the Himalayas in a historical context	Hubert Feiglstorfer
3-o	Bhutan-Sikkim (Drukyul-Denjong): Past and Present	Anna Balikci-Denjongpa (Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok)
4	Bhutanese Buddhism and Its Culture	Seiji Kumagai (Kyoto University)
5-o	Changing climate on the Tibetan plateau: Environmental Histories and Contemporary Challenges	Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced)with Hildegard Diemberger (University of Cambridge) and Emily Yeh (University of Colorado)
6-o	Copper coloured mountain: pilgrimage, resource extraction, metal working and large scale mining in the historical heartland of Tibetan dynasties	Gabriel Lafitte
7-c	Early Dzokchen	David Germano (University of Virginia)
8-o	Ethnography and Cartography as Modes of Representation of Tibet	Diana Lange (Universität Leipzig)
9-o	Exploring the Uncharted: New Research in Tibetan Folk Literature and Popular Poetic Language	Per K. Sørensen with Xaver Erhard
10-o	Gesar’s therapeutic geographies	Frances Garrett (University of Toronto) with Matthew King (University of Toronto)
11-o	Greater Tibet Panel: An examination of borders, ethnic boundaries, and cultural areas	P. Christiaan Klieger (California Academy of Sciences) with Dibyesh Anand (University of Westminster)
12-c	Hermes in Tibet: Tantra’s Exegetical Imperative	Yael Bentor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13-o	Kingship and Religion in Tibet	Brandon Dotson (Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München)
14-o	Livelihoods on the Tibetan Plateau: Aspects of Vulnerability and Sustainability	Andreas Gruschke (Sichuan University)
15-o	Living in Amdo: tranformations in domestic space	Jane Caple (University of Manchester)
16-c	Medicine and Astrology between Tibet, Mongolia and China, late 17th – early 20th centuries	Stacey Van Vleet (Columbia University)
17-o	Monasteries and ngakpas in Amdo	Nicolas Sihlé (CNRS, Paris)
18-c	Mongolian Buddhist Art: Cross-Cultural Discourses, Facts, and Interpretations	Vesna Wallace (University of California, Santa Barbara)with Patricia Berger and Uranchimeg Tsultem (University of California, Berkeley)
19-c	New perspectives on Tibetan social history (17th–20th centuries)	Saul Mullard (EPHE, Paris)with Jeannine Bischoff (University of Bonn)
20-o	Nomads’ religious lives	Nicola Schneider (University of Poitiers) with Gillian Tan (Deakin University)
21-o	Novelty, Lineage and Tradition: Contemporary and Historical Relations between Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism	Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko (University of Western Australia) with Lhagvademchig Jadamba (National University of Mongolia)
22-c	Nyingma studies- What’s in a Name? The Nature of Nyingma Identity	Nathaniel Rich (University of California, Santa Barbara)
23-o	Old Tibetan Studies IV	Tsuguhito Takeuchi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)with Kazushi Iwao (Kobe City University) and Sam van Schaik (British Library)
24-o	Post-Revolutionary Narratives: Or How to Retell Early Tibetan Encounters with the Chinese Communists	Robbie Barnett (Columbia University) with Benno Weiner (Appalachian State), Françoise Robin (INALCO), Uradyn Bulag (University of Cambridge)
25-o	a) Preservation and Development of Tibetan Medicine in the modern era (Tibetan version)བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་རིག་དེང་དུས་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་དུ་རྒྱུད་འཛིན་དང་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་གཏོང་ཕྱོགས། བོད་སྨན་ཞིབ་འཇུག་དང་ཞིབ་འཇུག་བྱ་ཐབས་སྐོར་གྱི་བགྲོ་གླེང་།b) Preservation and development of Tibetan medicine in the modern era (English version)	Mingji Cuomu (University of Oxford)
26-o	Teaching and Learning Tibetan as a Second/Foreign Language in Higher Education	Tsering D Gonkatsang (University of Oxford)
27-o	The Bön differences: distinctive features of Bön in the greater world of Tibetan religions	Marc des Jardins (Concordia University)
28	The New Urbanization in Mongolia and Tibet and its impact on Family and Society	Nancy Levine (UCLA)
29-o	The secular in Tibet and Mongolia	Nicole Willock (University of Denver)with Holly Gayley (University of Colorado)
30-c	Territories, communities, exchanges in Khams	Stéphane Gros (CNRS, Paris)
31-o	Tibet in a changing world: responses to the collapse of the Qing empire and the rise of the nation-state	Michael Van Walt Van Praag (Institute for Advanced Study) with Sergius L. Kuzmin (Russian Academy of Sciences)
32-o	Tibetan and Mongolian Ritual Dance	Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University/University of Sydney) with Ann David (University of Roehampton)
33	Tibetan Information Technology	Paul Hackett (Columbia University) with Tashi Tsering (China Tibetology Research Center)
34-o	Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism Transformed: transnational networks and local communities	Abraham Zablocki (Agnes Scott College) with Nadine Plachta (University of Bern) and Tsedendamba Samdan (National University of Mongolia)
35	Tibetan developments in Buddhist philosophy in the early centuries of the Later Diffusion	Pascal Hugon (Austrian Academy of Sciences) with Kevin Vose (College of William & Mary)
36-o	Tibetan Manuscript Studies: Towards a Manual of Tibetan Codicology	Matthew Kapstein (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes/University of Chicago)
37-o	Tibetology in rGyalthang	Eric Mortensen (Guilford College)
38	Toward a History of Tibetan Mahāmudrā Traditions	Klaus-Dieter Mathes (University of Vienna) with Tina Drasczyk and David Higgins (University of Vienna)
39-c	Transcultural encounters in the Eastern Himalayas	Markus Viehbeck (University of Heidelberg)
40-o	Tibetan sources produced in Mongolia	Ragchaa Byambaa (University of Warsaw)
41-o	Buddhist astronomy and astrology in Mongolia and Tibet	Lhasran Terbish (National University of Mongolia)
42-o	The Bodhicaryavatara: Mongolian and Tibetan commentarial traditions	Bulgan Tumeekhuu (National University of Mongolia)
43-o	Tibetan textual studies from the Mongolian perspective: terminology and translation	Dorjsuren Burnee (National University of Mongolia)