Maison Française

9.00 - 9.30

Welcome Address: Luc Borot, MFO

Introduction:

Yves Goudineau, EFEO-MFO and Charles Ramble, University of Oxford, Oriental Institute

Morning session

Chair: Anne de Sales

9.30 - 10.15

David Gellner, University of Oxford, ISCA

Borders in Northern South Asia: Some Comments with special reference to the Nepalese Tarai.

10.15 - 11.00  

Stéphane Gros, CNRS

The "area of no concern": from border to region

11.00 - 11.15  Coffee

11.15 - 12.00

Fabienne Jagou, EFEO

Why did the 'Tibetan Flag' fly over Khams? Chinese policy at the origin of a new Tibetan nationalism

12.00 - 12.45 

Mandy Sadan, University of London, SOAS

Which Centre Makes Which Periphery? Borders and Orientation in Transnational Jinghpaw Culture

12.45 - 14.00  Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair: Elisabeth Alles

14.00 - 14.45 

Vanina Bouté, University of Amiens

Mirroring the power: ethnogenesis and dynamics of integration among border guards of Northern Laos

14.45 - 15.30 

Chris McDonaugh, Oxford Brookes University

From refuge to battleground : aspects of the recent history of the Tharu in the western Tarai region of Nepal

15.30 - 15.45  Tea

15.45 - 16.30  

François Robinne, CNRS

Dominating minorities and appropriation of the ‘social landscape': when the Burmese central power becomes the Other in a multi-ethnic context

16.30 - 17.15  

Frank Pieke, University of Oxford, Chinese Studies

Immigrant China

Friday 13 November

Wolfson College

Morning session

Chair: Frank Pieke

9.30 - 10.15  

Anne de Sales, CNRS

From the ‘corner of the country' to the ‘model district': vicissitudes of the history of a Nepalese community

10.15 - 11.00 

Guido Sprenger, University of Münster

Models of sociality and intercultural communication in Upland Southeast Asia

11.00 - 11.15  Coffee

11.15 - 12.00 

Yves Goudineau, EFEO-MFO

Katu in Vietnam/ Kantou in Laos: ethnic boundaries and national borders

12.00 - 12.45  

Eileen Walsh, University of Oxford, Chinese Studies

Beyond civilized centres and primitive peripheries: ethnic politics in Northwest Yunnan

12.45 - 14.00  Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair: Chris McDonaugh,

14.00 - 14.45  

Elisabeth Alles, CNRS

The Autonomous Region of Xinjiang: new centrality in China

14.45 - 15.30  

Charles Ramble, University of Oxford, Oriental Institute

From "Centre of this Earth" to "Barbarous Borderlands" and back again: spatial self-representation in Tibetan politico-religious discourse

15.30 - 16.00  Tea

16.00 - 17.00  Concluding discussion