Asia brown bag lecture: Trine Brox and Miriam K. Zeitzen

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture by Trine Brox and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, who will present the project:

Prince Peter and The Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia - 7 years in Kalimpong

H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908–1980) was an old-world ethnographer and explorer who in the 1950s came to Kalimpong, first as member and later as leader of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia and the Haslund-Christensen Memorial Expedition to Central Asia. The expedition aim was to explore and document ‘empty spots’ on the map as well as rescue remains of local cultures in Upper Asia. With the developing crisis in Tibet, however, Prince Peter stranded in the north-east Indian Himalayan town of Kalimpong—“the little frontier town at the very gate of central Tibet”, where he waited in vain for permission to enter Tibet. Yet inopportune political circumstances turned into great opportunities for the expedition as the PLA invasion of Tibet triggered a “stream of refugees” into Kalimpong: “We had been denied entry into Tibet, but Tibet had come to us.” In this Asia brown bag lecture, we explore Prince Peter's seven years in Kalimpong and how he navigated in this particularly intense contact zone, negotiating difficult political, personal and professional circumstances.

Time: 14 January 2016, 12:00-13:00
Place: NIAS, CSS, room 18.1.08

Feel free to bring your own lunch. There will be coffee/tea.

Coming brown bag lecture:

10 February 2016: 'My wife carries a knife!’: Right-wing female militancy and castration/wounding/masculine anxieties in a Mumbai slum by Atreyee Sen, Department of Anthropology