Gender in Tibetan Buddhist Societies 17th–20th centuries

Conference of the Franco-German Project “Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th to 20th Centuries” in collaboration with the NWO project “Buddhism and Social Justice”

9h45–10h00
Welcome and Introduction

10h00–10h15
Report on Project Publications and Website

Chair: Fernanda Pirie

10h15–10h45 Yael Bentor: Women on the way to Enlightenment

10h45–11h15 Tea/Coffee

11h15–11h45 Peter Schwieger: Buddhist Tantric Practices: A Place Destined for Love?

11h45–12h15 Hanna Havnevik: Tantric Consorts and Single Mothers in 19th- and 20th-Century Tibet

12h15–12h45 Berthe Jansen: A Threat to Gods and Monks? Women in and around the Monastery in Pre-modern Tibet

12h45–14h30 Lunch

Chair: Peter Schwieger

14h30–15h00 Alice Travers:Witnesses and Actresses of their Time: Tibetan Noblewomen’s Role between Discourse and Practice (1895–1951)

15h00–15h30 Nicola Schneider: Tibet’s First Feminist Movement. The Patriotic Women’s Association in Lhasa, 1952–1959

15h30–16h00 Tea/Coffee

16h00–16h30 Jeannine Bischoff: A Bond for Life? Marriage Contracts in Pre-1959 Tibet

16h30–17h00 Fernanda Pirie:“Men can do anything”: Tibetan Gender Myths and the Interpretation of History

Chair: Yael Bentor

9h45–10h15 Charles Ramble: Does Gender Matter? How Women Fare in Tibetan Documents from Nineteenth-century Nepal

10h15–10h45 Petra Maurer: Married Women as Adulteresses: Do they Live in the Wrong Place?

10h45–11h15 Tea/Coffee

11h15–11h45 Heidi Fjeld: Gender Models and Gender Practices: Representation of Women in the Early 20th Century Tibetan Medical History and Some Implications for Gender Analyses

11h45–12h15 Hildegard Diemberger:Women as Leaders and Patrons: the Exception or the Rule?

12h15–12h45 Lunch

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