Events - Modern Tibetan Studies Program
Columbia hosts a series of special presentations and events as part of its Modern Tibetan Studies Program. These have included:
Professor Phuntsok Wanggyal, from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, on dialectics, philosophy, and its applications
Carole MacGranahan from the University of Colarado on Ra bga Pangdatshang, his diaries, and the movements for political reform in the 1940s
Hu Xiaojiang, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, on her research into small businesses in Lhasa
Briefing on the state of Tibet-China negotiations by Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, Special Envoy of HH the Dalai Lama
Visit to Snug Harbor Cultural Center for exhibition of work and discussion with Gade, Tsering Dorje, Beiqiong, and Tserang Dondup, leading modern artists from Lhasa
Film-maker and writer Kesang Tseten from Kathmandu on his documentary and film-scripts (with the Columbia Film Department)
J. Kenneth Knaus from Harvard on the role of the CIA in Tibet in the 1950s and 1960s
Clare Harris from Oxford University on Modern Tibetan art, jointly with the Art Department
Tenzin Tsutlrim Chadotsang on the "Four Rivers, Six Ranges" movement in 1950s Tibet
Season of Documentaries on Nationalities in China, jointly with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute culture program
Panel Discussion with representatives of the Chinese Consulate in New York, the Students for Free Tibet, and others on photographic representations of Tibet