Dear Colleagues,
As part of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia & Europe in a Global Context", University of Heidelberg, the project "Kalimpong as a 'Contact Zone:' Encounters between Tibet and Western Modernity", directed by Prof. Birgit Kellner and Dr. Markus Viehbeck organizes a conference, which gathers various international scholars in Kalimpong to discuss the cultural entanglements that shaped the Eastern Himalayas in the first half of the 20th century.
Venue: Himalayan Hotel, Kalimpong, March 06-08, 2015
For full details, please visit the conference website:
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/d-historicities-heritage/d19-kalimpon...
Program:
Friday, March 06, 2015
09:15-10:45: Keynote Lecture
- Markus Viehbeck: Welcome & Introduction
- Tanka B. Subba: Processes of Cultural Identity Negotiations in the Himalayan Region
- Chair: Jayeeta Sharma
11:15-12:30: Session 01
- Clare Harris: Photography in the 'Contact Zones' of the Himalayas
- Anna Sawerthal: A Newspaper for Tibet: The Self through the Form of the Other
- Chair: Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
14:00-15:45: Session 02
- Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa: Recovering the New Himalayan Woman: Gender, Mobility and Alternative Modernities in the Construction of Kalimpong as a Contact Zone
- Carole McGranahan: Earth and Sky: The Pangdatsang Family, Social Death, and Tibetan Politics in Kalimpong, 1945-1965
- Jayeeta Sharma: Circulation, Intimacies, and Writing ‘Connected’ Himalayan Histories
- Chair: Davide Torri
16:15-17:45: Session 03
- Isrun Engelhardt: A Dedicated Initiator of Cultural Exchange: Tharchin's Innovative Communication of Knowledge between the Tibetan and Western Worlds
- Trine Brox & Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen: The Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia - 7 Years in Kalimpong
- Chair: Clare Harris
Saturday, March 07, 2015
09:30-10:45: Session 04
- Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: Beyond the Native Informant: Kalimpong and Darjeeling in the Making of Modern Sikkimese Intellectual Cultures
- Markus Viehbeck: Scholarly Networks in Kalimpong and beyond: Knowledge Production and Powers of Representation
- Chair: Carole McGranahan
11:15-13:00: Session 05
- Vibha Arora: The Rise of the Lepcha Subaltern and the Kalimpong Stimulus
- Charisma Lepcha: Scottish Mission in Kalimpong and the Changing Dynamics of Lepcha Society
- Chair: Jayeeta Sharma
14:00-16:00: Graduate Student Roundtable
- Kishan Harijan: The Role of Trade and Commerce in the Socio-Economic Conditions of the Darjeeling Hills (1861-1962)
- Mingma Lhamu: The Politics of Mobilization of the Gorkhas: The Role of the Nepalese King (1914-1918)
- Garima Rai: Interrogating Migrant Subjectivity in Indian Nepali Writings from Darjeeling Hills (1950-1980)
- Shradhanjali Tamang: Indigenous History and the Tamba Tradition
- Binayak Sundas: Understanding the History of the Gorkhas/Gurkhas as a Socio-Political Process, 14th-20th Centuries
- Reep Pandi Lepcha: Myths and Folktales of Lepchas: A Critical Assessment
- Chair: Anna Sawerthal
16:30-17:45: Session 06
- Mona Chettri: Cultural Revivalism and Contact Zones in the Eastern Himalaya
- Rajendra P. Dhakal: Changing Orientations: A Study of the Hill Communities
- Chair: Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
Sunday, March 08, 2015
09:30-10:45: Concluding Roundtable: From Local Histories to Global Knowledge
- Sandip Jain & Markus Viehbeck
- Daniel Tharchin & Anna Sawerthal
- Udaymani Pradhan, Bharatmani Pradhan & Jayeeta Sharma
11:15: Farewell
- Markus Viehbeck: Acknowledgments & Farewell
The conference is open to the public, attendence is free.
With kind regards,
Markus Viehbeck
Contact details:
Dr. Markus Viehbeck
Assistant Professor | Buddhist Studies
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
Heidelberg University
viehbeck@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
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