Institutt for Kulturstudier og Orientalske Språk: Research Seminar in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Spring 2012
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Thursday 14:15, May 31, 2012
14:15until18:05
14:15until18:05
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Georg Sverdrups hus, Universitas Regia Fredericiana. 0851 Oslo, Norway
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Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk
In collaboration with: The Institute of Health and Society, Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum and Religion in Pluralist Societies (PluRel) Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk
Research Seminar in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Spring 2012
The guest lectures by prominent anthropologists and tibetologists are open to the general public and
students. Welcome everyone!
Thursday, April 19th: 2.15 - 4 p.m. Seminarrom 219, Georg Morgenstiernes hus
Dr. Ulrike Roesler (Oxford University): The Monastery at the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Landscape and
Monasticism in Reting, Tibet.
Friday, May 11th: All Day Seminar, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Undervisningsrom 3, Georg Sverdrups Hus
Prof. Dr. Toni Huber (Humboldt University): Gods of Life:Documenting a previously unknown form of
Tibetan religion in the eastern Himalayas.
Dr. Mona Schrempf (Humboldt University): Buddhist or Shaman - neither one nor the other? A female ritual
healer from East Bhutan.
Prof. Sarah Jacoby (Northwestern University): Consorts and Revelation in Eastern Tibet:The Biographical
Writings of Sera Khandro (1892-1940).
Thursday, May 31. Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus
Prof. Charles Ramble (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
2 .15- 4 p.m. Lecture 1. Vampire Subjugation Rituals in the Tibet-Himalaya Interface.
4.15-6 p.m. Lecture 2. Buddhism, Blood-sacrifice and Law: the Ingredients of Tibetan Civil Religion in
Mustang (Nepal).
Friday, June 1. Seminar room 152, Georg Morgenstiernes hus
10.15 -12 Lecture 3. Understanding Verticality and Mirror-Imagery in Tibetan Myth and
Royal Etiology:
How Useful is Perspectivist Theory?
Special sessions with PhD students will be arranged after the open guest lectures.
Reading list 2012 (for PhD students)
Mullard, Saul. Opening the Hidden Land: State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History.
Leiden: Brill, 2011
Toni Huber. 2012. "Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh:
Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet", In: Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn (eds.),
Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalaya. Leiden: Brill, pp.83-106.
Postadr.: Postboks 1010 Blindern, 0315 OSLO
Kontoradr.: P.A. Munchs hus, Niels Henrik Ables vei 36, 0371 Oslo
Telefon: 22 85 59 43
Telefaks: 22 85 48 28
henvendelser@hf.uio.no
http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/
Org.nr.: 971 035 854
Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk
In collaboration with: The Institute of Health and Society, Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum and Religion in Pluralist Societies (PluRel) Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk
Research Seminar in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Spring 2012
The guest lectures by prominent anthropologists and tibetologists are open to the general public and
students. Welcome everyone!
Thursday, April 19th: 2.15 - 4 p.m. Seminarrom 219, Georg Morgenstiernes hus
Dr. Ulrike Roesler (Oxford University): The Monastery at the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Landscape and
Monasticism in Reting, Tibet.
Friday, May 11th: All Day Seminar, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Undervisningsrom 3, Georg Sverdrups Hus
Prof. Dr. Toni Huber (Humboldt University): Gods of Life:Documenting a previously unknown form of
Tibetan religion in the eastern Himalayas.
Dr. Mona Schrempf (Humboldt University): Buddhist or Shaman - neither one nor the other? A female ritual
healer from East Bhutan.
Prof. Sarah Jacoby (Northwestern University): Consorts and Revelation in Eastern Tibet:The Biographical
Writings of Sera Khandro (1892-1940).
Thursday, May 31. Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus
Prof. Charles Ramble (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
2 .15- 4 p.m. Lecture 1. Vampire Subjugation Rituals in the Tibet-Himalaya Interface.
4.15-6 p.m. Lecture 2. Buddhism, Blood-sacrifice and Law: the Ingredients of Tibetan Civil Religion in
Mustang (Nepal).
Friday, June 1. Seminar room 152, Georg Morgenstiernes hus
10.15 -12 Lecture 3. Understanding Verticality and Mirror-Imagery in Tibetan Myth and
Royal Etiology:
How Useful is Perspectivist Theory?
Special sessions with PhD students will be arranged after the open guest lectures.
Reading list 2012 (for PhD students)
Mullard, Saul. Opening the Hidden Land: State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History.
Leiden: Brill, 2011
Toni Huber. 2012. "Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh:
Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet", In: Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn (eds.),
Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalaya. Leiden: Brill, pp.83-106.
Postadr.: Postboks 1010 Blindern, 0315 OSLO
Kontoradr.: P.A. Munchs hus, Niels Henrik Ables vei 36, 0371 Oslo
Telefon: 22 85 59 43
Telefaks: 22 85 48 28
henvendelser@hf.uio.no
http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/
Org.nr.: 971 035 854