Presenting Tibet: 
Celebrating the Contributions of E. Gene Smith to Tibetan Studies

Date: 1 July 2011
Venue: Gravensteen (room 111), Pieterskerkhof 6, Leiden

A half-day of presentations and discussion, followed by the formal ceremony of bestowal of the (posthumous) Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) on E. Gene Smith 

Short presentations followed by discussion:

13.00 - 13.05
Welcome by Prof. Jonathan A. Silk (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies)

13.05 - 13.50 
Dr. Henk Blezer (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies) 
Where to Look for the Origins of Zhang zhung-related Scripts

13.50 - 14.35
Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University, USA)
A Tibetan-Buddhist - Protestant-Christian Encounter near Xining, Qinghai Province, in 1890

14.35 - 15.00
Coffee/Tea break

15.00 - 15.45
Prof. Charles Ramble (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France)
The Origins of Tibetan Autobiography

15.45 - 16.30
Prof. Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (University of Lausanne and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France)
Places and writings (waiting) to be discovered: Tibet in the epoch of Paul Pelliot (1878-1945)

16.30 - 17.15
Dr. Peter Verhagen (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies)
Encyclopedic Knowledge in Tibet's Traditions: Si-tu Chos-kyi-'byung-gnas (1699?-1774) and 
E. Gene Smith

Awarding of the Degree

17.30
Formal bestowal of the doctoral degree 
(Senaatskamer of the Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, Leiden)

Information and Registration:        
For questions or registration, contact Ms Martina van den Haak at M.C.van.den.Haak@iias.nl

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral research centre based in the Netherlands. The Institute encourages the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and promotes national and international cooperation. The Institute focuses on the human and social sciences and on their interaction with other sciences.

IIAS Main Office Leiden | P.O. box 9500 | 2300 RA | Leiden | www.iias.nl
IIAS Branch Office Amsterdam | Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 | 1012 DK | Amsterdam 

Unsubscribe from IIAS mailing list 

 

 

---