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Subject: H-ASIA: Tibet Society at AAS/ICAS
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> March 13, 2011
>
> Tibet Society at AAS/ICAS
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> From: Nicole Willock <nwillock@umail.iu.edu>
>
> Tibet Society will be holding a Meeting-in-Conjunction with the AAS/ICAS
> joint conference in Hawaii.
>
> *Focus: Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Pedagogy*
>
> Fri. April 1, 7:15pm Room 308A
> followed by a Business Meeting (approx. start 8:45pm)
>
> http://www.aasianst.org/Conference/Program/Special-Events-MIC.pdf
>
> Below is further information on:
> 1) Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Pedagogy Session
> 2) Panels with Tibet-related content at the AAS/ICAS
>
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> 1) Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Pedagogy Session Information:
>
> The AAS Tibet Society and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation would like
> to invite scholars attending the AAS meeting in Honolulu to discuss the
> current state of pedagogy in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies.
>
> Background:
> Five years ago the Rubin Foundation initiated a series of grants to
> promote undergraduate education in Himalayan Studies in North American
> Universities. The Rubin Foundation believed that small, targeted grants to
> select colleges and universities might have the effect of capitalizing on
> a growing interest in Tibet and the Himalaya to further increase course
> offerings, special events, and the creation and distribution of course
> materials.
>
> In 2007 three initial grants were made to Columbia, Yale, and the
> University of California, Santa Barbara. The following year three were
> added: Dartmouth, Emory, and Eugene Lang, New School University. Among
> these six schools there has been a wide range of programs, from courses
> and course development to social science workshops and undergraduate trips
> to local temples.
>
> At this meeting-in-conjunction, several of the Foundation grantees will
> reflect briefly on what they have done with grants, and what they see and
> the impact, and then have an open conversation. Grantees will be asked to
> consider whether the grants have had their desired effect of further
> expanding a growing field; whether there is there evidence of the
> hoped-for institutional buy-in to the work our grants promoted, and what
> they see for the future of Himalayan Studies at their school.
>
> Current on-line resources include:
> Engaging Digital Tibet: http://digitaltibet.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/
> Treasury of Lives: http://www.tibetanlineages.org/
>
> *********************************************
> 2) Panels w/ Tibet-related content at the AAS include:
>
> Thurs. March 31
>
> Session 2, Rm 315
> 8:00-10:00am
> Technologies of Travel in Defining Colonial Modernity: Buddhist Agents of
> International and Inter-traditional Change in the 19th and 20th Centuries
>
> Session 111, Rm 315,
> 12:30-2:30pm
> Tradition and Evolution in Bhutanese Intangible Culture
>
> Session 134, Rm 313a
> 2:45-4:45pm
> Roundtable "Buddhist Warfare": Commentators from South, Southeast and East
> Asia
>
> Friday April 1:
> Session 219, Rm 307B
> 8:00-10:00am
> Travelogues I
>
> Session 294, Rm 323c
> 12:30-2:30pm
> Crossing Boundaries: Esoteric Buddhism and Practice in Medieval Asia
>
>
> Session 302, Rm 306A
> 12:30-2:30pm
> Transcription and Transformation: Buddhist Scribal and Manuscript Cultures
> in Japan, Tibet and Thailand
>
> Session 332, Rm 325B
> 12:30-2:30
> Place, Heritage, and Construction of the Local
>
> Sat April 2:
>
> Session 396, Rm 307B
> 7:30-9:30am
> Transformative Literature
>
> Session 435, Rm 304A
> 9:45-11:45am
> Buddhism Transformed: Globalization and Modernity
>
> Session 503, Rm 321B
> 1:45-3:45pm
> Imperial Strategies in Transition: The QInghai/Amdo Frontier between
> Empire and Nation
>
> _Sunday, April 3_
>
> Session 662, Rm 322B
> 10:15-12:15pm
> Western Musical Instruments in China and Cultural Tibet
>
> Session 713, Rm 325A
> 12:30-2:30pm
> Local Knowledge and Central Power in the Making of Chinese Inner Asia
>
> --
> Nicole Willock
> Dual Ph.D. Candidate
> Departments of Central Eurasian Studies and Religious Studies
> Indiana University
>
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