BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:60@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181205T170000 DTSTAMP:20181203T180042Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/concreting-worlds-highest-r iver-developing-yarlung-tsangpo/ SUMMARY:Concreting the World's Highest River: Developing the Yarlung Tsangp o DESCRIPTION:The transboundary Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River flows acr oss the Tibetan Plateau at an average altitude of more than 4000 meters\, before entering northeast India through the world's deepest gorge. The riv er feeds two biodiversity hotspots in the Himalaya and over 200 million pe ople in South Asia. It has played a central role in Tibetan religious\, cu ltural and political history for millennia\, and recent clashes between Ch ina and India over its waters look set to intensify as both nations seek t o develop its basin. China\, in particular\, is engaged in a profound tran sformation of the river through multiple large-scale development projects: hydro-electrical dams\, a high-speed rail line\, a freeway\, relocated ho using\, tourism infrastructure\, and large agricultural projects. Many of the resources to build this infrastructure\, including sand and water\, ar e taken straight from the river and processed in concrete factories along the river's edge. Using photographs and videos from a recent field trip\, Ruth Gamble will discuss the diverse implications of this profound transfo rmation.\n\nDr. Ruth Gamble has research expertise in the history\, cultur es\, religions\, literature\, and languages of Tibet and the Himalaya. She is particularly interested in the rapidly changing environment in this re gion and the effects it has on its inhabitants. Dr. Gamble was a researche r at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich\, Germany and taught Tibetan language studies and Asian Religions at the Australian National University . She was the inaugural fellow of Yale University’s Himalaya Initiative and is now a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She is re searching and writing a history of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River \, and working as an environmental historian and cultural advisor in a mul ti-disciplinary project focused on rehabilitating the eastern Tibetan Plat eau’s peatlands.\n\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Himalayan Borderlan ds project (see https://khangchendzonga.github.io/) . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2018/05/s200_ruth.gamble.jpg CATEGORIES:Himalayan Borderlands project LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 318\, 170 St. George St\, Toronto \, ON\, M5R2M8\, Canada GEO:43.6677316;-79.4002638 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=170 St. George St\, Toronto \, ON\, M5R2M8\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Jackman Humanities Buil ding\, Rm 318:geo:43.6677316,-79.4002638 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR