Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

18-20 February, 2016

We are delighted to share the program of the conference that will bring together twenty scholars during a 3-day event to be held at the Maison Internationale (Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris). You can visit the dedicated website (http://kham.sciencesconf.org) for more information about the conference.

Conference Program:

Jeudi 18 / Thursday 18

9:00-9:15 Introduction, Stéphane Gros

9:15-10:45 Territories

Chair: Kunsang Namgyal Lama

Fabienne Jagou	Manchu Officials’ Khams Travel Accounts: Mapping a Course Through a Qing Territory
Rémi Chaix	Territorial Division of the Kingdom of Dergé During the Eighteenth Century

Discussant: Françoise Wang-Toutain

10:45-11:00: Pause/Break

11:00-12:30 Trade

Chair: Nicolas Sihlé

Elizabeth Reynolds	Monasteries, Merchants, and Long Distance Trade: The Economic Power of Tibetan Monasteries in Northern Kham (1900-1959)
Lucia Galli	The Price of Enlightenment: The Travel Account of Kha stag ʼDzam yag, a Pilgrim and a Tshong dpon (1944-1956)

Discussant: Rémi Chaix

12:30-14:00: Déjeuner/Lunch

14:00-16:00 Ingression

Chair: Stéphane Gros

C. Pat Giersch	Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion Along Twentieth-Century China’s Southwestern and Tibetan Borderlands
John Bray	French Catholic Missions and Sino-Tibetan Trade: Local Networks and International Enterprise
Lara Maconi	Schooling and Education in Kham during the ROC: Chinese Civilizing Mission and Tibetan Resistance to It

Discussant: Alice Travers

16:00-16:15: Pause/Break

16:15-17:45 Farwest

Chair: Fabienne Jagou

Scott Relyea	Settling Authority: Sichuanese Farmers in Early Twentieth Century Eastern Tibet
Mark Frank	Chinese Physiocracy: Kham as Laboratory for the Agrarian Theory of China

Discussant: Yudru Tsomu

18:30: Welcome Cocktail

Vendredi 19 / Friday 19

9:00-10:30 Leaders

Chair: Rémi Chaix

Yudru Tsomu	Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century: A Story of Jagö Topden
Dáša Mortensen	Wangchuk Tempa and the Control of Gyalthang in the Early-Twentieth Century

Discussant: Fabienne Jagou

10:30-10:45: Pause/Break

10:45-12:45 Kinship

Chair: Yudru Tsomu

Chen Bo	“House Society” Revisited
Stéphane Gros	Matrifocality and the House in Drapa (Zhaba)
Giovanni da Col	Naven in Tibet: Hospitality and the House in a Male Cross-Dressing Ritual Among Yunnan Tibetans

Discussant: Tenzin Jinba

12:45-14:15: Déjeuner/Lunch

14:15-16:15 Arts and Crafts

Chair: Katia Buffetrille

Kunsang Namgyal Lama	Khampa Metalwork Today and Its Specificities
Dawa Drolma	The Renaissance of Traditional Dzongsar Craft-making in the Meshö Valley: An Insider’s Perspective on New Economic Processes and Identity Transformations in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Isabelle Henrion Dourcy	Making Movies in the Gesar Heartland: The Burgeoning of a Kham Film Production in rDzogs-chen

Discussant: Françoise Robin

16:15-16:30: Pause/Break

16:30-18:00

Round-table

The Ethics of Working in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

With Isabelle de Lamberterie, Tenzin Jinba, Alice Travers, Katia Buffetrille

Samedi 20 / Saturday 20

9:00-10:30 In-Betweenness

Chair: Françoise Robin

Yasmin Cho	Thinking Through Kham: Buddhist Revivalism, the State, and Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Yachen
Tenzin Jinba	Two Gyalrong Weddings Under Fire: Rethinking of the Ongoing “Sinicization” and “Tibetanization” on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

Discussant: Nicolas Sihlé

10:30-10:45: Pause/Break

10:45-12:15 Borderlessness

Chair: Lara Maconi

Eric Mortensen	Boundaries of the Borderlands: Mapping Gyalthang
Katia Buffetrille	The Increasing visibility of the Borderlands

Discussant: Stéphane Gros

12:15-12:45: Conclusion and general discussion