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Conference

Scholar, Trader, Collector, Spy: Alternative Networks in the Himalayas (1850-1950).

Date
Thursday 11 December 2025 - Friday 12 December 2025
Location
Herta Mohr

Room
Different locations

Workshop Programme

Thursday 11 December 2025 

From 9.15 

Signing up and coffee Herta Mohr Building 

 

Heinsius, University Library, second floor 

9:45-10:00 

Welcome Berthe Jansen 

10:00-11:00 

Library selection 

11:00-11:30 

Coffee break (Herta Mohr Café) 

11:30-12:10 

Peter Verhagen 

Thob yig as Diachronic Network 

12:10-12:50 

Parjanya Sen 

Native Agents, Knowledge-networks and a Brokered Himalayas: Some Methodological Reflections 

 

Lunch 

14:30-15:10 

Berthe Jansen 

Sokpo Lama Sherab Gyatso: Informant, Teacher of Spies, and Revered Guru  

15:30-16:10 

Fabienne Jagou 

A Transnational Network for Repatriating Chinese Soldiers from Tibet through the Himalayas (1912–1913) 

 

Coffee break 

16:30-17.10 

Samuel Thévoz   

Authority, Archives, and Networks in the French Tibetan Knowledge Production (1911–1933 and Beyond): Unseen Agents and Nodes in the Shadow of Alexandra David-Neel and Jacques Bacot’s Travels and Works 

17.10 -17.50 

Pascale Dollfus 

« Mon passeport, c’est mon pinceau » (‘My passport is my brush’): Discover the Himalayas through Léa Lafugie (1890-1972), a French explorer, artist and writer 

19.00 

Conference Dinner 

 

 

Friday 12 December 2025, Worldmuseum, Steenstraat 1, Leiden, Nooterzaal, Boerhaave-building,  

 

9:30-10:10 

Emma Martin  

Objects, Inventories, and Archived Networks in the Himalayan Borderlands of Colonial India 

10:10-10:50 

Nils Martin 

Johan Van Manen, his Network, and his Collection 

 

10:50-11:20 

Coffee break 

11:20-11:50 

Anna Huggenberg (student contribution) 

Angey Wangdi and the Himalayan Networks of Knowledge and Faith 

11:50-12:30 

Tenzin Tsepak 

Transnational Life: A Story of a Chinese Clerk (1893-1943) 

12:30-14:00 

Lunch 

14:00-15:00 

Visit to the Wereldmuseum 

15:00-15:40 

Peter Richardus 

Kachen Yeshe Dondrup (1897-1980) and his Multi-faceted Networks 

15.40-17.00 

Roundtable and Business meeting 

 

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