On behalf of the Executive Members of the Tibetan Cultural Society of BC, we would like to invite you to the annual TibetFest event on Saturday, August 18th, 10:00am to 5:00pm at VanDusen Botanical Garden. We hope to see you there!
Join us at the BC Buddhist Festival on June 10, 9:30-5:30 at Queen Elizabeth Park! Click here for more details.
Dr. Sara Shneiderman, a cultural anthropologist at UBC, has worked in Nepal for 20 years. In the wake of Nepal’s April and May 2015 earthquakes, she was engaged in relief efforts focused on rural areas – it was through Dr. Shneiderman that TRAS was able to help rebuild toilets in Dolakha, one of the areas worst-hit by the earthquakes. Her current research projects include a multi-disciplinary research partnership on Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction.
Dr. Shneiderman has kindly agreed to give a talk on Nepal’s recovery from the 2015 earthquakes. We’re looking forward to hearing about the challenges facing Nepal – political as well as physical – and what TRAS can do to help.
Date and time: Thursday May 31, 7:30 pm
Location: Tsengdok Monastery, 1502 Angus Drive (at Granville), Vancouver
Admission by donation
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/tras/events/talk-by-sara-shneiderman-may-31-2018/
To Register contact the office at info@tras.ca or 604-224-5133
Bio
Dr. Sara Shneiderman is a socio-cultural anthropologist working in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, India, and China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region, and serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology as well as in UBC’s new School of Public Policy and Global Affairs/Institute of Asian Research. Her research explores the relationships between political discourse, ritual action, and cross-border mobility in producing ethnic identities and shaping social transformation.
Current research projects include a new transdisciplinary partnership focused on Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction; an ethnography of “post-conflict” state restructuring in Nepal that focuses on lived experiences of citizenship, territory and religiosity since 2006; an exploration of trans-Himalayan citizenship across the historical and contemporary borders of India, China, and Nepal; participation in a University of Toronto-based project on infrastructure and development in Nepal’s agrarian districts; and collaboration in a Yale University-based project on urbanization and land use change in the Himalayas.
Join us for a conversation with two acclaimed Himalayan authors: Manjushree Thapa and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa! They will be discussing their recently published novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, considering what it means to represent Nepal and Tibet in the English-language literary scene.
This Event will be Live-streamed at https://goo.gl/iHKoNn
Time: 5:00-7:00PM
Location: Liu Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Please RSVP for this event here.
Please download the event poster here.
About the Speakers:
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of three collections of poetry: My rice tastes like the lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley). My rice tastes like the lake was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s first non-fiction book, Coming Home to Tibet was published by Shambhala Publications in 2016. She teaches creative writing and is a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Manjushree Thapa is the author of three novels, a short story collection and three nonfiction books about her homeland, Nepal. She is also a literary translator, and her translation of Darjeeling author Indra Bahadur Rai’s novel There’s a Carnival Today was released in South Asia in October 2017. The Canadian edition of her latest novel, All of Us in Our Own Lives, will be out in 2018. She lives in Toronto.
This event is co-sponsored by the Himalaya Program, the Institute of Asian Research, the Centre for India and South Asia Research, the Department of Asian Studies, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, the Faculty of Arts, and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You are cordially invited to the 55th Annual General Meeting of the Trans-Himalayan Aid Society. We’ll have a short business meeting, including a presentation on the new Societies Act and a draft of our new bylaws, as well as a review of TRAS activities for the past year. And of course it’s always a good opportunity to catch up with people!
