Tuesday, 8 December
Arrival of Participants at Hotel Bristol Günnewig, Prinz-Albert-Str. 2, 53113 Bonn
Wednesday, 9 December
9:30 Welcome and Introduction
Session 1
Chair: Elliot Sperling
10:00 Charles Ramble: The Meaning of Labour in Tibetan Societies
10:40 Peter Schwieger: Rule and Labour in Tibet
11:20 Coffee Break
Session 2
Chair: Saul Mullard
11:50 Fernanda Pirie: The Value of Labour: Concepts of Work in Traditional Tibet
12:30 Jeannine Bischoff: Tracing the Re-location of the Labour Force in Pre-1959 Tibet
13:10 Lunch
Session 3
Chair: John Bray
14:30 Alice Travers: The Remuneration of the Ganden Phodrang Government’s Service: Forms, Evolution and Questions During the First Half of the 20th Century
15:10 Hanna Schneider: The Organisation of Labour in Fulfilment of Tax Obligation in Ding-ri and Shel-dkar in the First Half of the 20th Century
15:50 Coffee Break
16:30 Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy: Performance as Tax: A-lce lha-mo Actors in the Estate Economy of Tibet in the First Half of 20th Century
19:00 Dinner for Conference Participants
Thursday, 10 December
Session 4
Chair: Peter Schwieger
9:30 Elliot Sperling: Military Service in 17th and 18th-Century Tibet
10:10 Saul Mullard: The Dodgy Dealings of Zhal ngo Amar and Karma Wangyal: A Case of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Sikkimese Himalayas
10:50 Coffee Break
Session 5
Chair: Fernanda Pirie
11:30 Petra Maurer: Running horses: The Function of Horses in Labour Practices
12:10 Heidi Fjeld: Performing the Dirty Work: The Organisation of Labour among the “Lower Ranked” (smad rigs) in Rural Tsang and Lhasa
12:50 Lunch
Session 6
Chair: Charles Ramble
14:30 Patrick Booz: Tibetan Labour and the Tea Trade
15:10 Saadet Arslan: Lam yig – An Official Document Granting Travel Privileges in Tibet
15:50 Coffee Break
Session 7
Chair: John Ardussi
16:30 Diana Lange: Visualising Labour in Late 19th Century Tibet: The Use of Images as Historical Evidence
17:10 John Bray: ‘Work and Pray’: Moravian Missionaries, Labour and Social Order in the Western Himalaya
19:00 Dinner for Conference Participants
Friday, 11 December
Session 8
Chair: Heidi Fjeld
9:30 Berthe Jansen: The Monk’s Work Ethic: Attitudes toward Labour According to the Monastic Guidelines (bca’ yig)
10:10 Kalsang Norbu Gurung: The Impact of Religious Perspectives on Construction Labour in Tibet
10:50 Pause
Session 9
Chair: Diana Lange
11:30 Christian Jahoda: Organisation and Social Division of Labour in Spiti Valley in Historical Perspective
12:10 John Ardussi: Peasants, Monks, Farmers, Kings and Citizens. Some Observations on the Evolution of Social Organisation and Labour in Bhutan
12:50 Lunch
14:30 Business Meeting
16:00 Coffee
19:00 Dinner for Conference Participants