Tibetan Studies Student Association Lecture Series Presents

Dr. Roberto Vitali

 Roberto Vitali-flyer

Karma Exhausted:
The Role of Tibetans and Mongols

In High Asia’s Most Traumatic Event of the 13^th Century

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

There is hardly any event in the lands that constitute the Tibetan plateau during the 13^th century and perhaps at any time in the history of the country that was as distressing as the ‘Bri gung gling log, the clash that culminated in the destruction of ‘Bri gung monastery. While the incident has not been forgotten in the relevant literature, owing to the magnitude of the tragedy, the religious and political circumstances that led to it have been swept under the carpet, so to speak, as if any reference to the burning of the monastery could only be mentioned with a sense of shame. By collating sources, I propose here a reconstruction of the main actors, the reasons that led to a dramatic escalation of hostility, the unfolding conflict, its subsequent developments and an historical assessment of the affair.

Dr. Vitali pursues his studies on the historical literature of ancient Tibet, sharing his research with scholars of the diaspora communities in the Himalaya. He works with the Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Center for Advanced Studies; the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (Dharamshala); the Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu); and the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology (Gangtok, Sikkim). He has authored Early Temples of Central Tibet, The Kingdoms of Gu ge Pu hrang, Records of Tho ling, A Short History of Mustang, The dGe lugs pa in Gu ge and the Himalaya, and other books and articles.

Sponsored by: Central Eurasian Studies Department, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Sinor Institute for Inner Asian Studies

We are pleased to announce that Deborah Gewertz (Amherst College) and Frederick Errington (Trinity College), authors of the book Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the South Pacific, will be joining us as Institute for Advanced Study Fellows next week from March 18-22.

 

We invite all of you to a public lecture and reception on Monday, March 18, from 5-7pm, where they will be speaking about their new book on instant noodles. A flyer is attached.

Concordia Language Villages offer language and culture immersion programs in 15 languages for young people (ages 7-18) over the summer and they want undergraduate students who are studying foreign languages to lead these initiatives.

 

They will be on campus on Monday, March 18, hosting an information session at 5:30pm at the Career Development Center.

*Note: This is the Monday directly following Spring Break, so please put it on your calendar now.

 

To view some of the positions they will be discussing during their session, visit this link: https://hr.cord.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1362596328853

 

Please RSVP for the information session through your myIUcareers account.

The IU Department of Labor Studies has just opened additional seats today in the following second 8 weeks 3 credit hr. LSTU-L courses :

L104       23750

L104       25642

L110       21772

L110       23039

L205       24645

 

Students who would like to register for these classes should eAdd them through OneStart.  Enrollments are limited and will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.

Are you interested in working with the IU judicial system?

If so, you may be interested in serving on the Student Body Supreme Court of Indiana University. We are currently accepting applications from all majors for an Associate Justice position for the 2013-2014 school year. You can download the application online at http://www.indiana.edu/~court/justices/applications.shtml . Applications are due Friday, March 22, 2013 by 5:00p.m. via e-mail to court@indiana.edu. Please also feel free to contact the Court at this email address if you have questions.

What is the Student Body Supreme Court?

The Court is the judicial branch of the Indiana University Student Association (IUSA). Court members hear appealed judicial board cases, acting as student representatives on three-person judicial hearing commissions. The Court also adjudicates election disputes, certifies election results, hears challenges to the IUSA Constitution and Bylaws, and confirms the new IUSA executive administration each year. Additionally, each year the Court hosts a conference with campus judicial boards for the purposes of facilitating discussion about the campus judicial system. Court justices also serve as student appointees on advisory boards across campus. The Court is unique in that its decisions have the potential to impact the entire IU-Bloomington community. We encourage you to apply and look forward to receiving your application.

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Tibetan Studies Student Association Lecture Series Presents
Carole McGranahan
Associate Professor of Anthropology and History, University of Colorado

Mao in Tibetan Disguise:
History, Ethnography, and Excess
Walnut Room, IMU

Thursday, February 28, 2013

4–6 p.m.

How do Tibetans in exile discuss Mao Zedong? What histories of Mao can Tibetans outside of Tibet tell that those inside cannot? In this talk, Dr. Carole McGranahan presents one such history, a renegade story that disguises Mao in Tibetan dress as part of his journeys on the Long March in the 1930s. Beyond assessing its historical veracity, what matters are the social truths, cultural logics, and political claims embedded in this history. Set in historical dialogue with “ethnographic theory” as proposed by anthropologists Giovanni da Col and David Graeber in the new journal HAU, Dr. McGranahan asks what insights Tibetan exile refigurings of Mao offer into the ways Tibetans have collectively tried to come to terms with histories of loss and violence associated with Mao, the Chinese Communist Party, and the incorporation of Tibet into the People’s Republic of China.

Carole McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Colorado. She conducts research on issues of history and memory, the politics of community, gender, war, and citizenship in Tibetan communities in exile, primarily in India and Nepal, but also increasingly in New York City and Toronto. She is the author of numerous articles and the book Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War (Duke University Press, 2010).

Sponsored by: Central Eurasian Studies Department, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Sinor Institute for Inner Asian Studies

 

LAMP flyer

 

The Information Sessions are:

 

Wednesday, February 27th

Wylie Hall 225

12:30pm-1:30 pm

 

UD- Wednesday, February 27^th

Briscoe C130

6pm- 7pm

 

UD- Monday, March 4^th

Briscoe C130

6pm- 7pm

 

Tuesday, March 5th

Wylie Hall 329

12:30 pm-1:30 pm

 

Thursday, March 7th

Wylie Hall 225

5:30 pm-6:30 pm

 

Health Programs Fair Poster

THE 2013 HEALTH PROGRAMS FAIR INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON Poster

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM INDIANA MEMORIAL UNION

Co-Sponsored by: Applied Health Science, Biology, Chemistry, Human Biology, Kinesiology, Nursing, Physics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Sociology, Speech and Hearing Sciences     Come find out about career choices, educational opportunities, and campus resources related to the healthcare professions.   Meet with representatives from medical schools and health professions programs from across the country.   Find out about volunteer opportunities and student organizations.     For information on the fair, and to view a list of schools and programs that were represented at the fair in 2012, please go to http://www.hpplc.indiana.edu/medicine/med-hpf.shtml.

We are delighted to confirm that the Pan Asia Institute will once again provide travel grants (airfare, insurance, accommodations, and meals) for up to four IU students to participate in the Australian National University’s (ANU) Asia Pacific Week 2012, June 30 through July 5, 2013 in Canberra.  Applications are due no later than 2:00 a.m. on March 4, 2013.

This highly-selective, five day conference will bring together 100 graduate and undergraduate students from across Australia and around the world to participate in seminars, panel discussions, and other forums related to the Asia Pacific region.  It presents a wonderful opportunity for students to network not only with peers, but with leading scholars and professionals focused on Asia and the Pacific.  Participants may submit abstracts of their research if they wish to be considered for panel presentations although such is not required to apply.  A flyer with further information is attached as the PAI travel grant application form.  Relevant links include:

General Information:  http://asiapacificweek.anu.edu.au or www.iub.edu/~panasia/events/apw2013

Delegate application form:  http://asiapacificweek.anu.edu.au/apply-here/asia-pacific-week-2013-application-form

PAI Travel Grant application form:  http://iu.edu/~panasia/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-Travel-Grant-Application-Form.pdf

Any student interested in participating in the program must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and have an academic interest in the region.  Undergraduates must also have at least 75 credits completed at the time of application.

We certainly hope you will join us in forwarding information to likely applicants – please feel free to share broadly.  In the meantime, should you or your students have any questions regarding Asia Pacific Week, please do not hesitate to contact us.

CRRES will be hosting Dr. Rhacel Parreñas (Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California) next Friday, February 22, 2012. Her research presentation, “Neither Trafficked nor Migrants: The Bound Labor of Migrant Contract Workers”, will be held from 2-3:30pm in the Grand Hall of the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center (see attached Flyer).

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work on women’s labor and migration in economic globalization. She has received more than 100 invitations to share her work at universities, government and nongovernmental institutions, and research think-tanks throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, including the United Nations and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Her research has been featured in various news media outlets including NPR’s The World, Bloomberg News, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, de Volkskrant, and American Prospect.  Her latest book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford, 2011) won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. She has received research funding from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and National Science Foundation, and has received fellowship invitations from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ. Her work is translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Korean, and Japanese.