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Therapeutic Politics of Care: New Ethnographies of Asia

Please join us for a panel discussion with:

Felicity Aulino, UMass Amherst
Nicholas Bartlett, Barnard College, Columbia University
Lyle Fearnley, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Ting Hui Lau, Cornell University
Emily Ng, University of Amsterdam
Saiba Varma, UC San Diego

Care has become a crucial concern of anthropological inquiry, and current global conditions have renewed its poignancy. To paraphrase Lisa Stevenson, care involves an ethics of attending, corresponding to particular ways that someone (or something) comes to matter. The drive to care, as she and others have noted, is far from innocent, and may be filled with ambivalence whether in intimate or institutional forms. Connecting fieldwork from three provinces in China, Thailand, and contested Kashmir territory, this series brings together the authors of five new books and a dissertation to explore the therapeutic politics of care across multiple logics and scales.

Featuring five scholars who books are coming out in 2020 and one who recently finished a dissertation, our event reflects on care in both its presence and absence. We aim to interrogate not only the different therapeutic forms and relationships (human and nonhuman) through which care can be performed, but also examine the historical, cultural, and social possibilities that structure its forms and possibilities.

The event will proceed through a circular reading of one another’s work. We will take up a critical focus on scale and temporality by tracing the protracted geopolitical encounters that infuse clinical settings, ritual engagements, and the very possibility of healing. Each book author will provide a reading of one of the other authors’ text, then revisit and describe their own work in light of the resonances and dissonances that arise. The result, as we envision it, would be a novel discussion mixing book review and experimental auto-introduction, reading oneself through the other, featuring both comments and on-the-spot conversation with time for audience questions.
Online. This event will be streamed live on WEAI’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/WeatherheadEastAsianInstitute/live

This event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

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13th Korean Literature Association Workshop

13th Korean Literature Association Workshop
Friday, November 20, 2020

Venue: Columbia University
Time: TBA

Co-sponsored by: LTI Korea; Academy of Korean Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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Development of Modern Art in Tibet

Please join us for a lecture with:

Tsewang Tashi, Professor, Tibet University, Lhasa, PRC

This talk is mainly drawn from Tsewang Tashi’s recently published book A History of Art in Twentieth Century Tibet, for which he has done over ten years of fieldwork in different art sites and institutions home and abroad, including museums, monasteries, workshops and so on. We will start with a review of existing scholarship on modern art of Tibet and discuss the development of modern art in Tibet. Through an introduction of Gedun Choepel, a scholar and non-traditional artist in Tibet and his student Amdo Jampa, whose works are considered landmarks of early Tibetan modern art, we trace the emergence of modern art in Tibet and its development after the 1950s. In the 1960s, local Tibetan artists were actively creating works and engaging with artists from inland China who came to Tibet for artistic inspirations. We will also touch on art during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. After the Cultural Revolution when propaganda paintings proliferated, traditional art of Tibet has been revived and flourishing since the implementation of Reform and Open Policy, subsequently giving birth to the innovation of traditional art and diversified development of Tibetan art today.

This event will be conducted via Zoom. Registration required.

Organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Co-sponsored by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program.

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