Dear IASTAM members,

I would like to announce an upcoming conference panel focusing on "New
Research on Tibetan Medicine" which also has been fortunate to receive
funding by The Wellcome Trust. There will be 26 participants giving papers
on Tibetan medicine from a variety of disciplines ranging from
anthropological to historical and literary studies. The panel takes place as
part of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan
Studies hosted this year by the Aris Trust Centre
(http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/iats). It extends over four days in the
mornings (9.00 - 12.45 am) from Tuesday 9th to Friday 12th September 2003.
The venue is St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

The panel New Research on Tibetan Medicine is the first panel on Tibetan
medicine held at an IATS conference, and reflects the increasing scholarly
interest for this subject in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. The aim of the
panel is to open up our common interests in this field for mutual inquiry
and discussion. By “Tibetan medicine” I suggest we include all aspects of
Tibetan professional and popular systems of medical knowledge and practice,
as well as their representations, and their encompassing social, cultural,
political and economic milieux. Hopefully this panel will generate
discussion of some fundamental questions and problems about our research,
both theoretical and methodological: the various medical epistemologies
involved (“traditional” and biomedical, professional and folk or popular,
gender and age related etc.), changing Tibetan concepts of health and
illness throughout history and diverse national contexts, as well as
transnational aspects of Tibetan medicine.

For your further information, please see enclosed attachments for schedule
and abstracts.

With best wishes,

Mona Schrempf
(panel organizer)


Dr. Mona Schrempf
c/o Zentralasien-Seminar
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
e-mail: arura_1@...

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