Himalayan journeys conference 2022
The Centre for Himalayan Studies is pleased to launch a Call for Papers for the conference “Himalayan Journeys: Circulations and Transformations” which is to be held on 22-24 June 2022. At this time, we...
The Centre for Himalayan Studies is pleased to launch a Call for Papers for the conference “Himalayan Journeys: Circulations and Transformations” which is to be held on 22-24 June 2022. At this time, we...
Mobilité, territoire et pouvoirs en Himalaya : pour Philippe Sagant sous la direction de Gisèle Krauskopff À la fin des années 1950, la recherche sur les régions himalayennes connaît un tournant majeur : les enquêtes...
The spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has deeply affected our lives and given rise to numerous uncertainties and anxieties. This new crisis, along with others such as the ecological crisis and climate change,...
In a previous post I introduced some considerations about the use of topology as a method in anthropology, and briefly presented a first case study about conceptions of the body in the tattooing process...
The members of CEH sadly announce the death of Corneille Jest, founding member of our research unit. Corneille Jest passed away on 23 January 2019 in the Paris area at the age of 88....
A pioneering figure in Himalayan Studies passed away on 4th February 2018. Born in Scotland in 1923, Alexander William Macdonald enlisted in the army at the age of 17 and discovered Asia during the...
The fifth Himalayan Studies Conference, organized by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), will be held on September 1-4, 2017, in Boulder, Colorado and hosted by the Tibet Himalaya Intiative at CU...
Taking Nature to Court in India Monday, March 7, 2016 CEIAS Room 640, 6th floor 190 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris [From the programme:] This is the second of a set of three...
A look at Western Himalayan cultural flows from the perspective of several disciplines: This collection of essays is the outcome of a symposium hosted by the International Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (15th–18th April...
For some ten years, my work has focused on border politics and identity, ethnicity and state-society relations in China, giving rise to intensive fieldwork in the Gyalrong region of Sichuan province. These issues are...
Property in Tibetan Societies: Ownership, Transfer, Confiscation 15 and 16 December 2014 Paris The French-German (ANR/DFG) research programme “Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th to 20th Centuries” announces a 2-day conference at...
Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS, a series of day-long thematic workshops in the comparative anthropology of Buddhism is held...
Religious Revivals and Artistic Renaissance in Central Asia and the Himalayan Region – past and present.
Please note the following call for papers:
Masquerades in the Himalayas : the virtues of laughter An original and beautifully illustrated book by Pascale Dollfus and Gisèle Krauskopff is out: With its lively skeletons and walking dead, ancient bawdy characters and...
International conference: The Many Faces of Ling Gesar / Destins divers de l’épopée de Gesar de Ling. Homage to Rolf A. Stein. Collège de France, Paris, 27-28 Oct. 2014
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