PANEL 48 – TRANSREGIONALITY IN TIBETAN BORDERLANDS OF CHINA: DEVELOPMENT, LIVELIHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF ETHNIC IDENTITY

TUESDAY 21 JUNE (Room P)

Convener: Dan Smyer Yü

13.30-13.45: Opening of panel.

13.45-14.15: Dan Smyer Yü: Trans-Himalayan Buddhist secularities: Sino-Indian geopolitics of territoriality in Indo-Tibetan Interface.

14.15-14.45: Hongxing Yangdzom: The sacred space and powerful place of Minya Konka Mountain.

14.45-15.15: Sonam Wangmo (Silangwenmu): Constructing local identity in Lhagang village in Kham Minyag.

15.15-15.45: Tea and coffee break.

15.45-16.15: Ciren Zhuoma: Horse racing gala and its ceremony in Wufeng Mountain, rGyal-thang.

16.15-16.45: Discussant: Gerald Roche.