Panel 33: The representation of knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas in material and visual culture

PANEL 33 – THE REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS IN MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE

WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE (Auditorium A)

Conveners: Brid Arthur, Natasha Kimmet and Diana Lange


9.00-9.15: Opening of panel.


9.15-9.45: Diana Lange: An unrecognized pioneer of Tibetan studies: the man who engaged a lama to draw and describe Tibet in the late 1850s.


9:45-10.15: Deborah Klimburg-Salter: The Tucci Tibetan expeditions (1926-1948): shaping the image of Tibet in the early 20th century.


10.15-10.45: Natasha Kimmet: Representing iconic architecture in Tibet: ‘Monumental Lhasa’ at the Rubin Museum of Art.


10.45-11.15: Tea and coffee break.


11.15-11.45: Verena Widorn and Jan Seifert: From Nebesky-Wojkowitz to the Himalaya Archive of Vienna – presenting the Himalayan culture in Viennese academic world.


11.45-12.15: Gerald Kozicz: From text to space: the iconographic programme of the Nyingmapa stupa of Hunder as a case study for visual methods of presentation.


12.15-12.45: Mareike Wulff: “A mask tells us more than a face” – observations on contemporary Bhutanese mask dances facing the outer world.


12.15-13.45: LUNCH


13.45-14.15: Tina Harris: Neon signs and imitation toothbrushes: commodities, representation, and place in the Lhasa-Kalimpong trade.


14.15-14.45: Monia Chies: Engraving Mani-stones. Preliminary notes on raw materials and production technologies in Eastern Tibet.


14.45-15.15: Emma Martin: Objects of diplomacy: a short history of Anglo-Tibetan gift exchange (1905–1914).


15.15-15.45: Tea Coffee break.


15.45-16.15: Jing Wang: Defining the “modern” Tibetan: the life and internet afterlife of a Tibetan wedding photo shoot.


16.15-16.45: Brid Arthur: Outside Lhasa looking in: painted images of the city from the 18th–20th centuries.


16.45-17.15: John Clarke: The Lhasa Government workshop ‘Dod zhol dpal ‘khyil 1642–2010 and the bzo khang system.