Committe on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Luncheon Lecture Series 2001-2002
October 3, 2001
Gray Tuttle, Ph.D. Candidate, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University
"Tibetan Buddhist Culture in the Politics of Modern China"
November 7, 2001
Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies; Chair, IAAS,
Harvard University
"The 1240 Mongol Conquest of the Tibetan Cultural Area"
November 15, 2001 (Thursday)
Peter Zieme, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
"Recent Discoveries of Uighur Texts from the Northern Mogao Grottos"
12:30 p.m. Luncheon, 1:00 p.m. Lecture
Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 1
Please also note that Peter Zieme will
be giving another talk, sponsored by the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, later
in the day.
"Maitreya in Uighur Buddhism"
4:15 p.m. Lecture
Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 1
December 5, 2001
Ruohong Li, Ph.D. Candidate, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University
"Amban Cebake's Bribery Scandal in the Early
Jiaqing Reign: A Case Study of Qing-Tibetan Conact"
February 6, 2002
Dr. Radha Banerjee, Visiting Professor, National Museum Institute of the History
of Art, New Delhi
"Central Asian Buddhist and Manichean Monuments (UNESCO)"
April 3, 2002
Helene Perrin Wagner, Ph.D. Candidate, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University
"Turkic Communities in Euro-Asia in the 19th-21thc.: The Interplay between Cultural and Social Structures in Highly Institutionalized, Segmentary Societies set in Poly-Civilizational Milieux."
April 11, 2002
Tseveen Tsetsenbileg, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Law, Mongolian Academy of Sciences
"Traditional Values of the Mongols"
May 1, 2002
Michal Biran, Institute for Asian and African Studies, the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and School of Historical Studies, IAS
"China, Nomads and Islam: Nomad-Sedentary Relations Under the Qara Khitai (Western Liao) 1124-1218"