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
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Thursday 11 December 2025 |
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From 9.15 |
Signing up and coffee Herta Mohr Building |
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Heinsius, University Library, second floor |
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9:45-10:00 |
Welcome Berthe Jansen |
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10:00-11:00 |
Library selection |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break (Herta Mohr Café) |
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11:30-12:10 |
Peter Verhagen Thob yig as Diachronic Network |
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12:10-12:50 |
Parjanya Sen Native Agents, Knowledge-networks and a Brokered Himalayas: Some Methodological Reflections |
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Lunch |
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14:30-15:10 |
Berthe Jansen Sokpo Lama Sherab Gyatso: Informant, Teacher of Spies, and Revered Guru |
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15:30-16:10 |
Fabienne Jagou A Transnational Network for Repatriating Chinese Soldiers from Tibet through the Himalayas (1912–1913) |
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Coffee break |
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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 |
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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 |
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19.00 |
Conference Dinner |
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Friday 12 December 2025, Worldmuseum, Steenstraat 1, Leiden, Nooterzaal, Boerhaave-building,
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9:30-10:10 |
Emma Martin Objects, Inventories, and Archived Networks in the Himalayan Borderlands of Colonial India |
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10:10-10:50 |
Nils Martin Johan Van Manen, his Network, and his Collection
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10:50-11:20 |
Coffee break |
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11:20-11:50 |
Anna Huggenberg (student contribution) Angey Wangdi and the Himalayan Networks of Knowledge and Faith |
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11:50-12:30 |
Tenzin Tsepak Transnational Life: A Story of a Chinese Clerk (1893-1943) |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:00 |
Visit to the Wereldmuseum |
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15:00-15:40 |
Peter Richardus Kachen Yeshe Dondrup (1897-1980) and his Multi-faceted Networks |
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15.40-17.00 |
Roundtable and Business meeting |
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