Session 5: Transnational Tibetan Identities

SESSION 5: TRANSNATIONAL TIBETAN IDENTITIES

FRIDAY 26 JULY

Chairs: Gabriel Lafitte, Lhamo Tso

   
9:00-9:30 Consuming Songtsen Gampo

Gabriel John Lafitte

9:30-10:00 The vagaries of therapeutic globalization: Fame, money and the complication of social relations in Ladakh

Laurent Pordié

10:00-10:30 On the globalisation of Tibetan Buddhism

Thierry Dodin

10:30 – 11.00

Tea and Coffee

11.00-11:30 Given Name XXX, First Name Unknown: Exploring the indigenous renaming systems of Chinese and US Bureaucracy

Lhamo Tso

11:30-12:00 Thinglish, the Triple Heritage of Tibetan English Writer in India

Shelly Bhoil

12:00-12:30 Cultural heritage reinvigorated: Anthropology of tourism mapping safeguard for the Tibetans in India

Nupur Pathak

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:30 Cries of fire: human rights discourse and testimonial practice in the diaspora

Julie Fletcher

2:30-3:00 Gendering national history: Tibetan women’s life writing and the memory of embodied suffering

Isabella Ofner