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Emma Martin
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Senior Lecturer Museology & Associate Director for Research (Impact) at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching things related to Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism
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📣 Call for Papers 📣

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I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international
conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social

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#Museums
#Dissidence
#PoliticalDisagreement
#Conference
#MuseumActivism
tibetcurator.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers 📣

Please share widely.

I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international
conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social

Scan the QR code for further details.

#Museums
#Dissidence
#PoliticalDisagreement
#Conference
#MuseumActivism
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
The latest OPEN ACCESS volume of Museum Worlds has been published! View the TOC for Vol. 13 here: bit.ly/47Gl3zG

Featuring research by:
@jordankistler.bsky.social
@tattersdill.bsky.social
@clairewintle.bsky.social
@fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social
@mnystudio.bsky.social
@tibetcurator.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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hasp-hd.bsky.social
It highlights novel ways that Tibetan & Himalayan worlds can be made relevant beyond their local contexts. Edited by @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social and @wiselange.bsky.social
Available in #openaccess at doi.org/10.11588/has...
Book cover showing pots with paint in various colours.
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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wiselange.bsky.social
The result of a wonderful cooperation is online now. @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social We are happy to share the good news, please enjoy our publication AMONG TIBETAN MATERIALITIES @hasp-hd.bsky.social
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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turquoiseroof.org
Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province.

She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST)
www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...
September 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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theguardian.com
Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US
Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US
Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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giovannav.bsky.social
This is the text of the presidential order affecting the Smithsonian. It targets its ‘anti-American ideology’.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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mghg.bsky.social
There is still time to submit your abstract! Deadline 3 March, details: www.mghg.info/forthcoming-...
February 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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jamyang.net
PBS FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, the documentary examines how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Battle for Tibet
FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet.
www.pbs.org
February 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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andrewquintman.bsky.social
🚨 Buddhist Studies Job Opening🚨

Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French."

www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...
Recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs 2025 | École Pratique des Hautes Études
Liste des postes ouverts au concours à l'EPHE - PSL. Campagne 2025.
www.ephe.psl.eu
February 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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buddhistdoor.bsky.social
BDG news: Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Read here: tinyurl.com/4ptv4e52

#buddhism #tibetanbuddhism #vajrayana #tibet #china #sichuan #larunggar #buddhistmonks #buddhistnuns #buddhisteducation
Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy - Buddhistdoor Global
Recent media reports indicate that more than a thousand male and female Tibetan monastic have been expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.
tinyurl.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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celiarichardson.bsky.social
If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...
‘Woke’ National Trust SLAMMED for 'Head of Inclusivity' job - 40k a year for THREE days a week, huge pension, 32 days off and more
The ultra-progressive institution saw membership drop last year as it pursued various woke policies including mandatory vegan food quotas in cafes and slavery reports
www.gbnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.
Call for papers for the 14 March 2025 IHR British History in the Long 18th Century seminar. Short (5 minute) presentations by new and and new-ish PhDs students on their doctoral research. Contact brendan.tam@warwick.ac.uk for details and to submit an abstract. Hybrid format, so you don't need to be in London.
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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zeniakish.bsky.social
Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social
Call for Papers “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”
Call for Papers: “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”Rich with past histories of abundance and scarcity, composed of cycles of death and regeneration…
jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS

Come and speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall - University of Derby 19-20 June
Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and organised by Oliver Godsmark, @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social & myself

Please share widely!
January 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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katadeney.bsky.social
Well, that's definitely going in my colonialism in Asia lecture next week!

#SouthAsiaSky
#India

www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/b...
Britain told to give India back artefacts in lieu of £52trn in reparations
Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’
www.independent.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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hpeaks.bsky.social
She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.”

@jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
How Tourism Trapped Tibet
The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.
foreignpolicy.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Dept for Media, Culture and Sport is looking for new Board members. Would be great to get someone from a civil society background, and someone from culture/heritage/museums/libraries. Please pass on in your networks
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8538
Appointment details – Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Non-Executive Board Members x3 – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK GOV.UK
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk
January 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
tibetcurator.bsky.social
Bicentenary Post-doc Fellowships in the Humanities at University of Manchester. I am interested in supporting applicants focused on #Tibet #SouthAsia #Museums #Materiality

Get in touch if you need the criteria.

www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
✨Event announcement: Women, Heritage and Social Justice panel discussion

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with MACFEST Muslim Arts and Culture Festival at The Whitworth

🗓️ Wednesday 5th March
⏰ 12.15-2.30pm
🎟️ FREE

Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
January 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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matildaf.bsky.social
Some great coverage of the absolute act of vandalism the University of Sheffield is planning to inflict on its internationally renowned School of East Asian Studies.

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/uni...
The University of Sheffield are targeting another world-leading department for “significant” cuts – but staff are fighting back
An all-white panel was initially chosen to decide the future of one of the university’s leading departments, despite 95% of its language staff being of East Asian heritage.
nowthenmagazine.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
tibetcurator.bsky.social
#Tibet #DavidLynch
Agent Cooper a character in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks stood in front of a map holding a pointer directed at Tibet. The map is titled “Tibet”.
January 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
tibetcurator.bsky.social
Honoured to be giving a keynote at the inaugural Museums and Memory WG conference “Museums, Memory, Politics” for the Memory Studies Association. It focuses on my forthcoming book #TheDissidentMuseum i.e. the Tibet Museum in Dharamshala

www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...
View down a stone staircase that classical pillars on each side with a partial view through a doorway into a room of exhibitions. The top half of the image is partially covered with information about the conference, which can be found in the link.
January 16, 2025 at 5:09 AM