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