Call for papers closes in 2 weeks time!

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Please share widely. I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social Scan the QR code for further details. #Museums #Dissidence #PoliticalDisagreement #Conference #MuseumActivism

The latest OPEN ACCESS volume of Museum Worlds has been published! View the TOC for Vol. 13 here: bit.ly/47Gl3zG Featuring research by: @jordankistler.bsky.social @tattersdill.bsky.social @clairewintle.bsky.social @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social @mnystudio.bsky.social @tibetcurator.bsky.social

It highlights novel ways that Tibetan & Himalayan worlds can be made relevant beyond their local contexts. Edited by @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social and @wiselange.bsky.social Available in #openaccess at doi.org/10.11588/has...

The result of a wonderful cooperation is online now. @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social We are happy to share the good news, please enjoy our publication AMONG TIBETAN MATERIALITIES @hasp-hd.bsky.social hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST) www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...

Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US

This is the text of the presidential order affecting the Smithsonian. It targets its ‘anti-American ideology’. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There is still time to submit your abstract! Deadline 3 March, details: www.mghg.info/forthcoming-...

PBS FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, the documentary examines how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

🚨 Buddhist Studies Job Opening🚨 Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French." www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...

BDG news: Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy Read here: tinyurl.com/4ptv4e52 #buddhism #tibetanbuddhism #vajrayana #tibet #china #sichuan #larunggar #buddhistmonks #buddhistnuns #buddhisteducation

If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...

New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.

Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS Come and speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall - University of Derby 19-20 June Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and organised by Oliver Godsmark, @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social & myself Please share widely!

Well, that's definitely going in my colonialism in Asia lecture next week! #SouthAsiaSky #India www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/b...

She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.” @jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...

Dept for Media, Culture and Sport is looking for new Board members. Would be great to get someone from a civil society background, and someone from culture/heritage/museums/libraries. Please pass on in your networks apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8538

Bicentenary Post-doc Fellowships in the Humanities at University of Manchester. I am interested in supporting applicants focused on #Tibet #SouthAsia #Museums #Materiality Get in touch if you need the criteria. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

✨Event announcement: Women, Heritage and Social Justice panel discussion Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with MACFEST Muslim Arts and Culture Festival at The Whitworth 🗓️ Wednesday 5th March ⏰ 12.15-2.30pm 🎟️ FREE Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Some great coverage of the absolute act of vandalism the University of Sheffield is planning to inflict on its internationally renowned School of East Asian Studies. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/uni...

#Tibet #DavidLynch

Honoured to be giving a keynote at the inaugural Museums and Memory WG conference “Museums, Memory, Politics” for the Memory Studies Association. It focuses on my forthcoming book #TheDissidentMuseum i.e. the Tibet Museum in Dharamshala www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...

Sharing again since it's been a while and the community is growing, here is a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies (mainly academics & academic institutions). Let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S

NYTimes met en lumière le rôle des pensionnats coloniaux dans la transformation des enfants tibétains, au cœur d’une stratégie chinoise visant à assimiler les tibétains Selon Tibet Action Institute, autour 800000 enfants, soit près de 3/4 âgés de 6 à 18 ans, sont dans ces pensionnats tiny.cc/edm5001

Great reporting on an important topic that the Chinese government is doing their best to hide from the world www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thank you, @sophiebeach.bsky.social, for all you do to bring attention and deeper understanding to the suffering and courageous resistance in Tibet, China and all lands occupied and controlled by the Chinese govt. 🙏🏽

Must-read: chilling @nytimes.com reporting corroborating and expanding on @tibetaction.bsky.social documentation of widespread, systematic abuses of #Tibetan children. The damage is intentional—and generational. Indep into investigation crucial - #UN #OHCHR #HRC! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Totem pole in Kowloon park, Hong Kong. Probably by an artist from the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Nation (northern Vancouver Island). Before I970, Kowloon Park was a British army barracks. Canadian lumber companies sent totem poles throughout the commonwealth as trade gifts throughout the 1950s/60s/70s.

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

Wonderful to join colleagues at the online launch today for Other Everests-thanks to MUP and editors @jonwestaway.bsky.social Paul Gilchrist and Peter Hansen!

This podcast gives a great introduction to the many different themes and perspectives that can be found in the ‘Other Everests’ book and its aims, as discussed by Jonathan Westaway, Peter Hansen and Sarah Pickman. 🗃️

To mark #InternationalMountainDay on 11th December, we have assembled a number of the contributors to the new volume, 'Other Everests: One mountain, many worlds', to discuss the past, present and future of the world’s highest peak. Register here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/other...

I am happy to share that today, I successfully defended my PhD Thesis titled "Visual Narratives of Resistance and Liminality in Tibetan Exile Cinema" and was awarded a doctorate in International Relations at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Thank you everyone ❤️🙏🏾

In shock that the #museum I have dedicated most of my working life to is threatened with closure. I urge #Leeds people to respond to the upcoming public consultation and fight to preserve such a loved and important site. Local government funding needs fixing urgently.

The Hong Kong History Museum is interesting, unless you want to learn about HK history. There were two exhibits open. One is about national security. The first room includes a giant Chinese flag, a picture of Xi and a copy of this painting of Mao. The other exhibit celebrates 75 years of the CCP.

Something for #Skyhistorians in London to attend.

As I was getting my ideas together for last night’s talk on #Tibetan #materialculture of #dissent I asked #ChatGPT to create an image. I was curious to see what that would look like. Well, it looked like this. ChatGPT’s description is in the ALT text.

I am thrilled to share the news that our article "When Gods Drown in Plastic," co-authored by Nhung Lu Rots and me, has won the 2024 Best Article Prize of the journal Environmental Humanities @dukepress.bsky.social. I feel deeply honoured and grateful. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

NEW #funded AHRC studentship opportunity from @royalholloway.bsky.social & @rbgkew.bsky.social : ECONOMIC BOTANY & the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS SERVICE Info: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her... Deadline 17-Jan-25 @TECHNEDTP @ahrc-ukri.bsky.social @RHGeoHumanities @Kew_LAA @janehamlett.bsky.social

📖 To celebrate the migration to Bluesky I will put everyone who reposts this before Dec 2nd into a random drawing & send the winner a free paperback copy of my 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship anywhere they happen to be in the world. 📖

Sharing my new article, co-authored with Dr Sonika Gupta, published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video! We analyse two Tibetan docs – A Mother’s Son & Rituals of Resistance – to contextualise the affective & political dimensions of self-immolation protests. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes” at The Hepworth Wakefield is stunning. Incredible individual works, but the curation and design was yet again 👌

1. Thread: Nottingham university slavery report. Times article below demonstrates why we have impoverished debates about UK slavery history. Like the coverage of the @nationaltrust report, this article actively discourages serious engagement with research findings.