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Notes from the Field: Some Recent Geologic and Climate Change Impacts on Nepal’s Glaciers

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:47:19 +0000

Notes from the Field: Some Recent Geologic and Climate Change Impacts on Nepal’s Glaciers Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/13/2020 - 15:47

with Alton C. Byers

Link to the talk: https://www.facebook.com/Nepalglacier/videos/3820720474604884/

For those, who missed our seventh webinar, here is a record of the webinar. We hope you all, who joined the webinar enjoyed the talk by Dr. Alton C. Byers on "Notes from the Field: Some Recent Geologic and Climate Change Impacts on Nepal’s Glaciers". He is a Senior Research Associate and Faculty at Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. We would like to thanks Dr. Alton Byers for accepting our request and his great insightful presentation on glacial hazards in the high mountain of Nepal Himalaya. Also, we are thankful to all participants of the webinar. We express our gratitude to all members of the Glaciological Society of Nepal (GSN for making the webinar successful. We had participants from different countries including professors, researchers, representative from UN agencies, governmental agencies and others. Thank you all for joing us.

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Campus Visit of Contemporary Tibetan Artist Gonkar Gyatso, April 5, 2016

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Campus Visit of Contemporary Tibetan Artist Gonkar Gyatso, April 5, 2016 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/05/2016 - 00:00

Campus Visit of Contemporary Tibetan Artist Gonkar Gyatso

April 5
CAS Speaker Series

Widely considered the father of cotemporary Tibetan art, Gonkar Gyatso was one of a number of young Tibetans seeking new vehicles for creative expression and co-founded the Sweet Tea House artists’ collective in Lhasa in in 1984. Later he left Tibet first for the exile community in Dharamsala and then to pursue further studies in the UK.

Throughout his career, Gonkar has produced mixed media works that disrupt traditional Tibetan art, referencing conceptual frameworks ranging from Kandinsky to Cubism as well as drawing on Buddhist symbols. Controversial to some, Gonkar’s works emphasize questions of identity performance, displacement and exile, and the commodification of Tibetan Buddhism. Gyatso’s public lecture, “Buddha in the Bathroom: Appropriation and Pop Culture in Contemporary Tibetan Art” begins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5 in Hale 270. There will be a reception before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by Tibet Himalaya Initiative and the Center for Asian Studies. This is part of Tibetan Arts Week, which is April 4-10, coinciding with the Conference on World Affairs. The Tibet Himalaya Initiative is honored to host Gonkar Gyatso, a key figure in contemporary Tibetan art, and Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang, also known as Jangbu, a Tibetan poet and filmmaker. Public events include an advance screening of Jangbu's forthcoming film, Voices from the Stone, poetry readings and an art installation by Gonkar Gyatso. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.colorado.edu/tibethimalayainitiative/.

Reception: 6:00 p.m.
Lecture: 6:30 p.m.
Hale 270, CU-Boulder.

[video:https://youtu.be/N5cJiZa0mBI]

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"Genghis Khan and the Mongols," Dr. Morris Rossabi, March 11, 2015

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:00:00 +0000

"Genghis Khan and the Mongols," Dr. Morris Rossabi, March 11, 2015 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/11/2015 - 17:00

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqc6VMzVhTo]

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Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art: Tsherin Sherpa, February 24, 2015

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:00:00 +0000

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art: Tsherin Sherpa, February 24, 2015 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/24/2015 - 00:00

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art: Tsherin Sherpa
February 24
CAS Speaker Series
Tsherin Sherpa, whose artwork will be on view at the CU Art Museum Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan
Art exhibition, will visit CU on Tuesday, February 24 to give a public lecture. Born in 1968 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tsherin Sherpa studied traditional Tibetan painting methods from the age of 12 under his father, Master Urgen Dorje, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam, Tibet. Sherpa moved to Taiwan in 1988 to study Mandarin and Computer Science. Three years later, he returned to Nepal working along with his father in numerous painting projects. In 1998 he moved to the USA working as a thangka artist and as instructor at several Tibetan Buddhist Centers in California. Tsherin Sherpa has, in recent years, shifted away from traditional subjects to depict more contemporary concerns. His precise and immaculate paintings of Tibetan spirits and deities are explorations of the detachment experienced by the Tibetan Diaspora in relation to their homeland. Sherpa has been included in numerous groundbreaking exhibitions around the world including The Scorching Sun of Tibet (2010) in Beijing, Tradition Transformed–Tibetan Artists Respond (2010) at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art (2013-2015) at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY, New Paltz, the Queens Museum of Art in New York, and the CU Art Museum in Boulder, Colorado. In 2012 Sherpa had his first solo show, Tibetan Spirit, at Rossi & Rossi, London. He has also completed residencies at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Dharamsala International Artists Workshop (in collaboration with Khoj), and in 2010 was awarded the Himalayan Fellowship by the Rubin Museum of Art and completed at the Vermont Studio Center, USA. Tsherin Sherpa's artist statement: "My works have always been an attempt to merge the gap between sacred and secular, icon and ordinary and past history and contemporary. As nomadic people, we Tibetans seem to possess the ability to adapt into many different environments. As our culture merges with others, I'm curious how we will maintain and celebrate our unique essence at the same time it is evolving. These personal experiences are explored through the use of my Protector series. I take the classical images of Tibetan deity and manipulate their form to create an abstract form that carry over this sense of groundlessness. In traditional Tibetan painting a formal grid system is used for the placement of a deity’s body in the correct posture. Without that grid tradition, the protectors almost appear to be lost in a swirling vortex, trying to find their new form. Through this process the chaos begins to subside to be transformed into somewhat abstract or an unfamiliar form." To find out more about Anonymous, please

visit http://www.contemporarytibetanart.org/.
6:30 p.m., Visual Arts Center (VAC) 1B20, CU-Boulder.

[video:https://youtu.be/k_KuvbbmjJQ]

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