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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 en Wereldmuseum

Room
start: Herta Mohr. See locations on schedule

Workshop Programme

Scholar, Trader, Collector, Spy

 Alternative Networks in The Himalayas

(1850-1950)

 

A workshop organized in the context of the VAN MANEN project

 

Thursday, 11 December 2025

 

9.15 onwards

Herta Mohr Building, Witte Singel 27a

Coffee and registration

 

 

 

Heinsius Room (University Library, second floor)

9:45-10:00

Welcome by Berthe Jansen

10:00-10.40

Berthe Jansen

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

10.40-11.20

Peter Verhagen

Thob yig as Diachronic Network

11.20 - 11.50

 

Coffee break

 

Grotius Room (University Library, second floor)

11:50-12:50

Library Collection Pop-up

12.50-14.30

Lunch break

 

 

Plexus, Kaiserstraat 25, Spectrumzaal

14:30-15:10

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

15:10-15:50

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

15.50 - 16.20

Coffee  break

16:20-17.00

Fabienne Jagou

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

17.00 -17.30

Peter Richardus

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

 

 

 

 

Friday, 12 December 2025

 

9:00 onwards

Nooterzaal, Boerhaave-building, Wereldmuseum, Steenstraat 1

 

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

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 break

 

14:00-15:00

Visit to the Wereldmuseum

 

15:00-16.30

Roundtable and Business meeting

 

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