SESSION 16 – CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

THURSDAY 23 JUNE (Room P)

Chairs: Tenzin Lhadon, Anne Kukuczka

9.15-9.45: Brigitte Steinmann: Struggles with religion and secularism in post-Maoist Nepal: an anthropological analysis of the ancient and new forms of social mobilizations of the Tibeto-Burman and Buddhist minorities in Nepal.

9.45-10.15:  Takako Yamada (Irimoto): Japanese mass media’s role in disseminating information on Tibetan issues and culture.

10.15-10.45:  Anne Kukuczka: International experts creating beautiful high plateau women – doing and consuming beauty in contemporary Lhasa, TAR.

10.45-11.15: Tea and coffee break.

11.15-11.45: He Nengkun: Research on educational efficiency of Tibetan classes (schools) in inland areas: based on the perspective of the first graduates.

11.45-12.15: NEW PAPER: Lobsang Zopa: བོད་བྱང་འབྲོག་ནག་ཆུ་ཁུལ་གྱི་རྒྱུན་གོས་ལྷམ་གྱི་འཕེལ་རིམ་སྐོར་རགས་ཙམ་གླེང་བ།

12.15-12.45: Tenzin Lhadon: A normative Tibet issue in China’s foreign relations.

12.45-13.15: Maret Kark: Vidyadhara Dandaron – holder of historic knowledge.