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Speaker: Benno Weiner, Associate Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Moderator: Gray Tuttle, Chair and Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, EALAC, Columbia University
Focusing on efforts by both the late-Republican and early-PRC state to mediate a decades-long armed conflict between two Amdo Tibetan chiefdoms which lie on either side of the Gansu-Qinghai border, Benno Weiner shows dispute mediation to have been a central component in processes designed to territorialize the Sino-Tibetan frontier and minoritize its inhabitants according to the demands of increasingly interventionist state formations. He also suggests that the state’s inability to eliminate these types of disputes is an avenue through which to measure the incomplete nature of these transformations.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Registration:
- To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.
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