September 10– October 26, 2012
CULTURAL KALEIDOSCOPE
UKRAINE – MONGOLIA – TIBET – UZBEKISTAN
Exhibit of Photography by Tania D’Avignon
Co-Sponsorship: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
September 18, 2012
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Dr Hildegard Diemberger, University of Cambridge
"The First Samding Dorje Phagmo - the founding figure of Tibet's most famous female reincarnation line"
4:00 pm - 1 Bow Street, 3rd floor
October 3, 2012
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. Pascale Hugon, University of Vienna
"Uncovering the early developments of Tibetan epistemology — rNgog Blo ldan shes rab’s (1059‒1109) concise guide to the Nyāyabinduṭīkā"
I-2 pm - CGIS-S153, 1730 Cambridge Street
October 9, 2012
Fairbank Center Cosponsored with the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay
“Tibet—Prospects of a Dialogue”
4:15 pm - CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
November 7, 2012
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. Justin Jacobs, American University
"Yang Zengxin and the Politics of Difference in Xinjiang, 1912-28"
I-2 pm - CGIS-S153, 1730 Cambridge Street
November 14, 2012
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. Samten Karmay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
The Interrelationship between the "Great Fifth" Dalai Lama and Zur Choying Rangdrol
1-2pm - The Center of the Study of World Religions, Common Room, 42 Francis Ave.
February 6, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. Lkhamsuren Munkh-Erdene, National University of Mongolia
“Mongolia’s Nationality Policy: Making Mongolia Multi-Ethnic”
I-2 pm - CGIS-S153, 1730 Cambridge Street
February 20, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Dr. Ryosuke Kobayashi, Research Fellow JSPS, TOYO Bunko
“The Historical Development of the Boundary Problems between Tibet and China in Eastern Tibet from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century”
I-2 pm - CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
February 27, 2013
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar joint with Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Saule Satayeva, Fulbright Scholar, American University; Deputy Director, Kazakh State Archive of Cinema and Photo Documentation
"Recovering and Preserving the Richness of Central Asian Nomadic Life: The Challenges for Public Memory"
4:15-6:00 pm - CGIS S354, 1730 Cambridge Street
March 6, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Harvard University
"The Discovery of the Central Asian Bronze Age"
I-2 pm - CGIS-S153, 1730 Cambridge Street
March 13, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies
Kaie Mochizuki, Faculty of Buddhism, Minobusan University and Director General, Research Institute of Eastern Culture, Minobusan University
"On the Madhyamika work of Ratnākaraśānti: his commentary on the Sūtrasamuccaya of Nāgārjuna."
I-2 pm - CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
March 26, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series co-sponsored by The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, The Harvard University Asia Center, and The Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies
Dr. Ablet Kamalov, Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
"From Muslim Historiography to National History: Early Uyghur Historiography in Kazakhstan"
4-5pm - CGIS Knafel North Building - K262, 1737 Cambridge Street
March 27, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Weirong Shen, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing
"History through Textual Criticism: The Study of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom (1032 -1227), Mongol Yuan (1206-1368) and Chinese Ming (1368-1644) Dynasties"
I-2 pm - CGIS Knafel North Building -K262, 1737 Cambridge Street
April 3, 2013
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. Michael Witzel, Harvard University
"Comparative Historical Mythology. Tracing early mythologies by a new approach"
I-2 pm - CGIS-S153, 1730 Cambridge Street
May 9, 2013
Frye Lecture 2013
Dr. Mina Marefat, PhD, AIA, Design Research & Georgetown University
"From Pope to Argo: American Visionaries, Visions, and Views of Iran"
4-5 pm - CGIS-Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street