Workshop: Animal Sacrifice on Trial
Animal Sacrifice on Trial: Cases from South Asia Monday, June 22, 2015 CEIAS Room 638-640, 6th floor 190 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris This is the first of a set of three workshops...
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Cultural Flows across the Western Himalaya
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...
Xidaotang: a Chinese Muslim community (Gansu)
Hille, Marie-Paule. « Le Xidaotang, une existence collective à l’épreuve du politique. Ethnographie historique et anthropologique d’une communauté musulmane chinoise (Gansu, 1857-2014) » [The Xidaotang, endurance and transformations of a collective existence. Historical and...
A network of researchers for Nepal
Following the terrible earthquake that hit Nepal in April and May of this year, a large number of researchers, academics and students based in French institutions and specializing in the study of Nepalese societies...
Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: the laity
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...
Borders, Ethnicity and Critical Scholarship
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...
Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: gender
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...
Conference: Property in Tibetan Societies
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...
Workshop Report: Minority Languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere
Brief Report on the Workshop on Minority Languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere by Gerald Roche (post-doctoral fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre, and convenor of the workshop) On the 3rd and 4th...
Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: Buddhism and spirit cults
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...
Workshop: minority languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere
Please note the following international workshop, to be held at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala University, on November 3-4, 2014, and organized by Gerald Roche (currently post-doctoral fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre):...
CFP: Religious Revivals and Artistic Renaissance
Religious Revivals and Artistic Renaissance in Central Asia and the Himalayan Region – past and present.
Please note the following call for papers:
New Book: Masquerades in the Himalayas
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...
Gesar Conference, Paris
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
New book: Buddhist Rituals of Power and Violence
Sihlé, Nicolas. 2013. Rituels bouddhiques de pouvoir et de violence : La figure du tantriste tibétain (Buddhist Rituals of Power and Violence: The Figure of the Tibetan Tantrist). Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études – Sciences religieuses 152. Turnhout: Brepols. (405 pp.)
Available from Brepols Publishers, Turnhout (Belgium):
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503544700-1
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