Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Lauran Hartley, Columbia University

Modern Tibetan Literature in Translation

Core Readings:

• Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change, ed. by L. Hartley and P. Schiaffini-Vedani (Duke University Press, 2008). Introduction, Chaps. 1-3.
• Selections from Song of the Snow Lion, M?noa 12:2 (U of Hawai’i Press, 2000).
  • Dhondup Gyal, “Waterfall of Youth.”
• Ju Kalzang, “Tibet, Mother, Mani”
• Yangtso Kyi, “Journal of the Grassland”
• Selections from Jangbu, The Nine-Eyed Agate: Poems and Stories, trans. by H. Stoddard (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2010).
  • “The Whittling”, “Three Animal Stories”, “My Tibet”
• Tsering Dondrup, "A Show to Delight the Masses," Persimmon, vol. 1, no. 3 (Winter 2001): 61-77.
• Woeser [Weise], Tibet's True Heart: Selected Poems, trans. by A.E. Clark. (Dobb's Ferry: Ragged Banner Press, 2008).
• “Joys and Sorrows of a Boy from Naktsang.” Introduction and translated excerpt.
  • http://www.latse.org/newsletter/2007vol5num1/Latse_Newsletter_no5_web.pdf

Further Readings:

• Alai. Red Poppies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. (Chinese original)
• Bhum, Pema. Six Stars with a Crooked Neck: Tibetan Memoirs of the Cultural Revolution. Dharamsala: Tibet Times, 2001.
• Gendun Chopel [1903-1951]. In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel. Ed. and trans. by D. Lopez, Jr. University of Chicago, 2009.
• Norbu, Jamyang. Sherlock Homes: The Missing Years. NY: Bloomsbury, 1999. (English original)
• Tailing, W. The Secret Tale of Tesur House. Beijing: Tibetology Publishing House, 1998.
• Tsering Wangmo Dhompa. Rules of the House. Berkeley: Apogee Press, 2002. (English original)
• A Blighted Flower and Other Stories. Comp. and trans. by Riika J. Virtanen. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2000.
• Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies. Ed. by S. Venturino. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Manjushree Thapa, Kathmandu

Nepali Literature: Recent Trends in a Time of Political Unrest                  

Core Readings:

• Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight. Delhi: Viking Penguin, 2011
• Manjushree Thapa, trans. The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature. Delhi: Penguin, 2011.

Further Readings:

• Michael Hutt, Himalayan Voices. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991.
• Manjushree Thapa, The Tutor of History. London: Penguin, 2001
• Samrat Upadhyay, Arresting God in Kathmandu. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Dr. Paula Newburg, Georgetown University

Political Developments in the NW Himalayas: Pakistan and Afghanistan                

Core Readings:

• Laila Bokhari, “Pakistan: Dealing with Peace in the Tribal Areas,” Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, No 12, November 2010.
• Talatbek Masadykov, Antonio Giustozzi, JM Page, “Negotiating with the Taliban: Toward a Solution for the Afghan Conflict,” Crisis States Working Papers Series, No 2, January 2010
• Paula Newburg, “Pakistan's Governance Imperative,” MIT Audits of Conventional Wisdom, May 2008
• http://www.jinnah-institute.org/publications/300-second-opinion

Further Readings:

• Paula Newburg, Double Betrayal: Human Rights and Insurgency in Kashmir *

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Maureen Stephens, Brown University

Workshop on CHOICES Curriculum on Afghanistan

Core Readings:

• CHOICES Curriculum Materials
  
  

Evening Program

Location: in Hogan 502

Time: TBA


A Selection of Himalayan Music with Cellist Tien Ning and Others

Feature film: "Himalaya" followed by discussion

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Dr. Anne de Sales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Shamanism in the Himalayas                   

Core Readings:        

• A.W. MacDonald, "The Healer in the Nepalese World"
• Anne de Sales, "The Kham Magar Country, Nepal: Between Ethnic Claims and
  Maoism," European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 19, 41-71 (ERES) 

Further Reading:

• John Hitchcock, John and Jones, Rex eds. Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas (New Delhi: Vikas, 1976).

Thang PowerPoint Slides

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Charles Ramble, Oxford University

Practices of Tibetan Buddhism; Traditions of the Tibetan Frontier People

Core Readings:

• Charles Ramble, “The People of Mustang and their History,” from The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in HighlandNepal. (NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)  (ERES)
• Lawrence Epstein and David Lichter, "Irony in Tibetan Notions of the Good Life,"
  in Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry, ed. Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine
  Daniels. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 223-259.     

Further Reading:

• David Holmberg, Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal’s Tamang  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).

PowerPoint Slides

Morning Program

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Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Keiko Yamanaka, University of California-Berkeley

Nepalis in International Migration

Required Readings:

• Keiko Yamanaka. “Nepalese Labor Migration to Japan: From Global Warriors to Global Workers,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 23, 2000, 62-93.

Further Readings:

• Keiko Yamanaka, “Transnational Community Activities of Nepalese Visa- Overstayers in Japan: Governance and Transnationalism from Below,” in Nelson H. H. Graburn, et al. (ed.), Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Borders Within, Oxford: Berghan Press, 2008, 151-170.
• “Changing Family Structures of Nepali Transmigrants in Japan: Split- Households and Dual-Wage Earners,” Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 5, 2005, 337-358.

Evening Program

Workshop on Making Tibetan Foods

Farewell Dinner

Morning and Afternoon Programs

Presentations of Teacher Implementation Plans

Web Pages and Curricular Materials

Check-out from Campus Apartments