This roundtable brings together social science researchers working with Tibetan and Himalayan pastoralist communities and climate scientists who have worked in the Himalayas and Asia to discuss how interdisciplinary approaches might enrich understandings of climate change in the Tibetan and Himalayan regions and contribute to knowledge of global climate change and community resilience.
Organized by the CU-IU Climate Research Initiative on the Tibetan Plateau, this event is sponsored by the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Speakers:
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor, Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia
Hung T. T. Nguyen, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Phurwa Gurung, Ph.D. candidate, University of Colorado at Boulder
Moderators:
Eveline Washul, Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Lauran Hartley, Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University
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