College Record 2014

present. ‘Juxtapose’, its graduate student workshop in 2012¬–13 which compared
China and India, has had over 3,000 visits to its website and has now generated a
second workshop on the same theme, to be held this September at Jawarhalal Nehru
University, New Delhi. Matthew McCartney has secured funding for an Annual
Pakistan Lecture in College, and further Pakistan-based activity is envisaged.
Barbara Harriss-White
The Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Cluster has also been very active.
In Michaelmas Term we celebrated the launch of the new JRF in Tibetan and
Himalayan Studies, created with generous support from the Tise Foundation
and the Dalai Lama Trust. In May we held a book launch and workshop on ‘The
Fifth Dalai Lama and his Circle’, to celebrate the publication of Samten Karmay’s
translation of the autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama. This event continued
the collaboration between the Cluster and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and
was opened by the President, with speakers coming from the UK, France, Nepal
and the USA. The audience numbered more than seventy, and there was very good
feedback.
In Trinity Term, Jeff Watt is giving a further series of lectures on Himalayan
art. In May Mingji Cuomo, a member of the Cluster, organised a workshop to
commemorate the life and work of Akong Tulku. In June the Cluster will organize
a workshop on Tibetan Protective Deities, to be held in Wolfson.
Ulrike Roseler
The Mind and Brain Cluster has organised a series of brainstorming (‘speed
dating’) meetings to encourage new interactions between students, research fellows
and tenured faculty on developing new interventions for psychological health and
well-being. They have been followed by a summer lecture from Professor Anke
Ehlers. There will also be an international workshop bringing together researchers
in experimental psychology, psychiatry and public policy.
Glyn Humphreys
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