Tibetan Studies Student Association lecture event

Tibet in Print:
A History of Minority Magazines and Journals
in the People's Republic of China, the Tibetan Case

Indiana Memorial Union

Redbud Room

Friday, February 17, 2012

5:30 – 7 p.m.

Pema Bhum, Director of Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library in New York City, is a highly respected figure in the world of Tibetan literature. He holds an M.A. in Tibetan Literature and Language from Northwest Nationalities University in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, P.R. China, where he also taught as an associate professor of Tibetan literature. He was a visiting assistant professor of Tibetan language at Indiana University from 1994 to 1997. He co-founded the Amnye Machen Institute, the newspaperDmangs gtso (Democracy), and the literary magazine Ljang gzhon (Jangshon). His memoirs of the Cultural Revolution have been translated under the title Six Stars with a Crooked Neck in 2001, with a sequel Dran tho rdo ring ma (Stone Pillar Memoirs) in 2007.

Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by:IU Student Board

Central Eurasian Studies Department
History Department