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Workshop: Understanding the Tibetan Cultural Renaissance Inside the People’s Republic of China

Schedule

Friday, April 12, 2019: Paper Presentations

Location: UTSC, IC 318, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough

9:30–9:45am     Participants arrive coffee and set up

9:45–10:00am     Introductions, by Anup Grewal and Chris Berry

10:00–11:45am      Panel 1 (Moderator, Robbie Barnett)

• Scott Reylea (Appalachian State University), “Before Renaissance: The Reception of Tibetan cultural Production in Sichuan during the 20^th”
• Timothy Thurston (University of Leeds), “Heritage with and without the State—Observations on the Gesar Epic in Yushu.”
• Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy (Université Laval), “Tibetan Culture Festivals in the Era of Xi Jinping: On the Display and Dispossession of Tibetan Culture.”
• Chris Berry (King’s College London): “Tibet in China’s New ‘Minority Nationalities’ Cinema.”

11:45am–12:30pm     Lunch, catered by Gourmet Malaysia (plus coffee)

12:30–2:15pm     Panel 2 (Moderator, Timothy Thurston)

• Tracy Zhang (Concordia University), “Celebrating Privatization: A story of Tibetan Cultural Renaissance in a Lhasa Carpet Factory.”
• Maria Turek (University of Toronto), “Hybridity, Asceticism and Chinese Modernities in the Life of a Contemporary Han-Tibetan Monk.”
• Lara Maconi (INALCO, Paris), “Located in Translation: Exploring the Defining Features of the Tibetan Literary ‘Renaissance’.”
• Tsering Shakya (University of British Columbia), “Patronage, Mass Printing, and Consuming books in Contemporary Tibet.”

2:15–2:25pm     Break

2:25–3:50pm      Panel 3 (Moderator, Anup Grewal)

• Kwai-Cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Contending Politics of Authenticity in Emerging Tibetan Filmmaking.”
• Vanessa Frangville (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “Challenging Modernisation Discourses in Tibetan cinema: Sonthar Gyal’s The Sun Beaten Path and Pema Tseden’s The Search.”
• Robbie Barnett (Cambridge University), “Tibetan Film within Tibet and the Difficulty of Unthinking the National.”

3:50–4:00pm      Break (coffee)

4:00–5:25pm      Panel 4 (Moderator Tsering Shakya)

• Françoise Robin (INALCO, Paris), “To Speak or not Speak Tibetan… and what Tibetan? Languages and Dialects in Tibetan Cinema.”
• Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani (Texas State University), “The Frog Outsmarts the Crow: Preserving Tibetan Language and Culture Through Children Literature and Film.”
• Susan Su (University of Chicago), “Archives all the way down: Using the Internet Archive to Study the Tibetan literature Website Chodme.”

5:25–5:30pm     Closing Remarks

Saturday, April 13, 2019: Discussions and Public Screenings

Location: Room 208N North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs)

9:45am     Participants arrive and settle (coffee, fruit, pastries by Innis Café)

10:00–10:15am    Introduction to the day, Anup Grewal, Chris Berry, Tenzin Tsundue

10:15am–12:00pm     Roundtable on Concepts, Frameworks and Methodologies for Understanding the Tibetan Cultural Renaissance Inside the PRC, moderators Anup Grewal and Chris Berry

12:00–1:00pm     Lunch, catered by TBD, plus coffee by Innis Café

1:15–2:45pm    “Tibetan Culture and its Scenes”

• Film: Making Movies on the Plateau (2018, 27 min), dir. Jigme Trinley
• Followed by a forum, “Contemporary Tibetan Culture and its Scenes,”with Jigme Trinley, Lhapal Gyal, Professor Françoise Robin (INALCO, Paris), and Shelly Kraicer (Writer, Film Curator, Toronto)

2:45–4:00pm     Break plus TBD. Coffee by Innis Café beginning at 3:45pm

4:00–6:15pm     Screening of Wangdrak’s Rain Boots (2018, 91 min), dir. Lhapal Gyal

• Followed by a Q &A with the director, moderated by Jigme Trinley and Chris Berry

6:15–6:25pm     Closing Remarks

 

For information on locations, participants, schedules and public events related the workshop, please go to: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/hcs/tibetan-cultural-renaissance
or contact: anup.grewal@utoronto.ca