A PDF version of the programme with all abstracts can be downloaded here.
Property in Tibetan Societies
Ownership, Transfer, Confiscation
15–16December 2014
Conference of the Franco-German (ANR-DFG) Project SHTS
“Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th to 20th Centuries”
Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine 75005 Paris,
Salle Claude Lévi-Strauss
MONDAY 15 DECEMBER
09h30–09h45
Welcome and Introduction
09h45–10h00
Report on Project Publications and Website
10h00–10h15
Tea/Coffee
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Monday Morning Session
Chair: Peter Schwieger
10h15–11h00
Christian Jahoda (Austrian Academy of Science): Systems of Landownership in Spiti and Upper Kinnaur (19th to 20th Centuries)
11h00–11h45
Charles Ramble (EPHE-CRCAO): “…My House, from its Foundations Down Below to the Prayer Flag on Top…”: What We Can Learn from Tibetan Wills and Testaments
11h45–12h30
Hanna Schneider (Bonn University): Property Rights in South-western Tibet in
the 19th and 20th Centuries
12h30–14h00
Lunch
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Monday Afternoon Session
Chair: Charles Ramble
14h00–14h30
Alice Travers (CNRS-CRCAO): State Power and the Limits of Property Rights: a Discussion of Estate Confiscation under the Dga’ ldan pho brang in the 19th-20th Centuries
14h30–15h15
Kalsang Norbu Gurung (Bonn University): The Size of the Tibetan Estates and their
Shift among Estate-Holders
15h15–15h45
Peter Schwieger (Bonn University): Who Owned Land and Houses? Property Ownership in Traditional Tibetan Societies
15h45–16h00
Tea / Coffee
16h00–16h45
Jeannine Bischoff (Bonn University):Wherever They may be – Two Examples of
Administering Mi bogs
TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER
Chair: Hanna Schneider
9h30–10h15
Fabienne Jagou (EFEO):Who were the Owners of the Manchu Amban Yamen in Lhasa?
10h15–10h45
Liu Yuxuan (Bonn University): Afterlife Trusteeship: A Land Transaction between a Tibetan Woman and the chuanzhu shenghui (‘Holy Association of the Sichuan Host’)
10h45–11h00
Tea/Coffee
11h00–11h45
Berthe Jansen (University of Leiden): On the Monastic Payroll? Tibetan Monks and their Income
11h45–12h30
John Bray: Land, Slavery and Territory: French Missionary Strategies in Eastern Kham
12h30–14h00
Lunch
14h00–15h00
Business Meeting for Speakers