The GRITH Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 Online Lecture Series titled “Tibet in Canada/ Canada on Tibet” features 10 lectures of scholars either from Canada or currently based in Canada doing their research on Tibet.
From October 18 onwards, please join us for lectures every Friday at 12:30 pm EST via Zoom: https://ulaval.zoom.us/j/8892424519?pwd=TFBKS3ZmRFppZmVNWUZJaXBpR1djQT09&omn=63106567514.
Program:
| October 18, 2024 | Philippe Turenne (Khyentse Vision Project) Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo sur la philosophie de Jé Tsongkhapa |
| November 1, 2024 | Jeffrey Cupchik (York University) Sound without Self: Aesthetic Logic in gCod Ritual Practice |
| November 15, 2024 | Christopher Helland (Dalhousie University) Virtual Tibet, A Work in Progress |
| November 29, 2024 | Bendi Tso (Stanford University) That Elsewhere Tibetanness: The Quest for the “Authentic” Tibetan in Contemporary China |
| January 10, 2024 | Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer (Memorial University) On Diasporic Happiness, Sorrow and ‘Other Spaces’: (Re)configuring the Tibetan skyid sdug (kyidu) in Multicultural Canada |
| February 7, 2024 | J.F. Marc des Jardins (Concordia University) Chinese calendrical spirits propitiated Tibetan style: the sadak (sa bdag) and the Bön religion |
| February 21, 2024 | The talk is going to be rescheduled in fall 2025, TBA Sarah Richardson (University of Toronto) Tibetan and Buddhist? Tibetan or Buddhist? Tales from Studying Buddhist Art in Canada |
| March 7, 2024 | Za Thinley (University of Toronto) Sacralizing the Mountains: An Exploration of Tibetan Buddhist Ecocritical Literature |
| March 21, 2024 | Anne-Sophie Bentz (Université Paris Cité/ CESSMA) Refugee Citizenship or How to Be a Tibetan in Canada |
| April 4, 2024 | Karine Gagné (University of Guelph) Domesticating Wildness: Snow Leopard Tourism in the Indian Himalayas |
