Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
18-20 February, 2016
We are delighted to share the program of the conference that will bring together twenty scholars during a 3-day event to be held at the Maison Internationale (Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris).
You can visit the dedicated website (http://kham.sciencesconf.org) for more information about the conference.
Please join us for this international conference, which will be the closing event of the ERC-funded project “Territories, Communities, an Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands”, hosted by the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CNRS).
Conf_Kham_Programme
Jeudi 18 / Thursday 18
9:00-9:15 Introduction, Stéphane Gros
9:15-10:45 Territories
Chair: Kunsang Namgyal Lama
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Fabienne Jagou |
Manchu Officials’ Khams Travel Accounts: Mapping a Course Through a Qing Territory |
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Rémi Chaix |
Territorial Division of the Kingdom of Dergé During the Eighteenth Century |
Discussant: Françoise Wang-Toutain
10:45-11:00: Pause/Break
11:00-12:30 Trade
Chair: Nicolas Sihlé
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Elizabeth Reynolds |
Monasteries, Merchants, and Long Distance Trade: The Economic Power of Tibetan Monasteries in Northern Kham (1900-1959) |
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Lucia Galli |
The Price of Enlightenment: The Travel Account of Kha stag ʼDzam yag, a Pilgrim and a Tshong dpon (1944-1956) |
Discussant: Rémi Chaix
12:30-14:00: Déjeuner/Lunch
14:00-16:00 Ingression
Chair: Stéphane Gros
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C. Pat Giersch |
Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion Along Twentieth-Century China’s Southwestern and Tibetan Borderlands |
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John Bray |
French Catholic Missions and Sino-Tibetan Trade: Local Networks and International Enterprise |
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Lara Maconi |
Schooling and Education in Kham during the ROC: Chinese Civilizing Mission and Tibetan Resistance to It |
Discussant: Alice Travers
16:00-16:15: Pause/Break
16:15-17:45 Farwest
Chair: Fabienne Jagou
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Scott Relyea |
Settling Authority: Sichuanese Farmers in Early Twentieth Century Eastern Tibet |
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Mark Frank |
Chinese Physiocracy: Kham as Laboratory for the Agrarian Theory of China |
Discussant: Yudru Tsomu
18:30: Welcome Cocktail
Vendredi 19 / Friday 19
9:00-10:30 Leaders
Chair: Rémi Chaix
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Yudru Tsomu |
Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century: A Story of Jagö Topden |
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Dáša Mortensen |
Wangchuk Tempa and the Control of Gyalthang in the Early-Twentieth Century |
Discussant: Fabienne Jagou
10:30-10:45: Pause/Break
10:45-12:45 Kinship
Chair: Yudru Tsomu
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Chen Bo |
“House Society” Revisited |
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Stéphane Gros |
Matrifocality and the House in Drapa (Zhaba) |
Giovanni da Col |
Naven in Tibet: Hospitality and the House in a Male Cross-Dressing Ritual Among Yunnan Tibetans
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Discussant: Tenzin Jinba
12:45-14:15: Déjeuner/Lunch
14:15-16:15 Arts and Crafts
Chair: Katia Buffetrille
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Kunsang Namgyal Lama |
Khampa Metalwork Today and Its Specificities |
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Dawa Drolma |
The Renaissance of Traditional Dzongsar Craft-making in the Meshö Valley: An Insider’s Perspective on New Economic Processes and Identity Transformations in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands |
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Isabelle Henrion Dourcy |
Making Movies in the Gesar Heartland: The Burgeoning of a Kham Film Production in rDzogs-chen |
Discussant: Françoise Robin
16:15-16:30: Pause/Break
16:30-18:00
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Round-table |
The Ethics of Working in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands With Isabelle de Lamberterie, Tenzin Jinba, Alice Travers, Katia Buffetrille |
Samedi 20 / Saturday 20
9:00-10:30 In-Betweenness
Chair: Françoise Robin
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Yasmin Cho |
Thinking Through Kham: Buddhist Revivalism, the State, and Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Yachen |
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Tenzin Jinba |
Two Gyalrong Weddings Under Fire: Rethinking of the Ongoing “Sinicization” and “Tibetanization” on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands |
Discussant: Nicolas Sihlé
10:30-10:45: Pause/Break
10:45-12:15 Borderlessness
Chair: Lara Maconi
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Eric Mortensen |
Boundaries of the Borderlands: Mapping Gyalthang |
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Katia Buffetrille |
The Increasing visibility of the Borderlands |
Discussant: Stéphane Gros
12:15-12:45: Conclusion and general discussion