La SFEMT a le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue, dans le cadre du Cycle de Conférences SFEMT 2025/2026, de la conférence suivante :
The Politics of Sorrow.
Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile
présentation d’ouvrage par
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Villanova University)
le jeudi 16 octobre 2025 à 18h00 via Zoom (https://shorturl.at/OHyOZ)
Résumé:
The Politics of Sorrow examines a lesser-known chapter in Tibetan exile history through the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of Tibetan chieftains and religious leaders from the regions of Kham and Amdo who established settlements in India in the mid-1960s with a hope to protect their diverse regional and religious traditions. This decision set them apart from the majority Tibetan refugees who joined the settlements established by the Tibetan government under the Dalai Lama. These events take place in a critical time when the Tibetan exile government faced a dual challenge: gaining international recognition for its independence movement while establishing internal cohesion among a recently dispossessed community. It is in this context that the book examines the concept of “unity” and how it gained the preeminent values of fulfilling the wishes of the exile government, protesting against the Chinese colonization of Tibet, and marking a crossing to modernity, or refugee citizenship.
A propos de la conférencière:
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of The Politics of Sorrow, published by Columbia University Press (2025). She has several collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley). Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s first non-fiction book, A Home to Tibet, was published by Penguin, India, in 2014.