Committe on Inner Asian and
Altaic Studies
Luncheon Lecture Series 2003-2004
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Oktor Skjaervo, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Harvard University
"From the Caves of Afghanistan: New Material for 500 Years of Social and Political History in Bactria"
Thursday, November 6, 2003
Peter B. Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University
"Ethnogenesis in the Tribal Zone: The Shaping of the Turkic Peoples"
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Marina Illich, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
"The Cakravarti Ideal in Manchu Inner Asia: A Study of the Fifth Dalai Lama's Influence on a Nascent Manchu State"
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Dr. Jacob P. Dalton, International Dunhuang Project, The British Library
"The Early Development of the Padmasambhava Cult"
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History, MIT
"Trade, Transformation, and Terror on the Chinese Frontier"
Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Robert Barnett, Lecturer in Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University
"The Golden Vase and the Panchen Lama's Reincarnation: Politics, Secrecy, and the Uses of Media in Tibet, 1995"
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Vesna Wallace, Professor, Religious Studies Department, UC-Santa Barbara
"Mongols' Resistance to Cultural Hybridity: Re-imagining Mongolian Buddhist Identity"
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Jerry Norman, University of Washington
"Tungusic and Turkic: A New Look at the Altaic Theory"
Wednesday, March 21, 2004
Agata Bareja-Starzynska, Department of Inner Asia, Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw University
"Buddhist Revival in Present-Day Mongolia"
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