Film Screening: Kesang Tseten’s Trembling Mountain
Speakers: Dr. Drona Rasali and Mr. Moti Lal Nepali The Himalaya Program hosted a special film screening of filmmaker Kesang Tseten’s new documentary on Nepal’s Langtang Valley following the devastating 2015 earthquakes. Packing out the Lasserree Auditorium, this screening of Trembling Mountain was the first in North America, and was well-attended by students, faculty and staff […]
Learn Tibetan
Summer 2018 Nepali/Tibetan classes will be held 30 April-11 May 2018. Registration details will be posted in early 2018.
Learn Nepali
The UBC Himalaya Program offered an Intensive Nepali Language Course & Community Engaged Learning program in May 2017.
The Flow and Ebb of Canadian Development Efforts in Nepal
Speaker: Ivan Somlai, Director of ETHNOBUREAUCRATICA and an Associate at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria Ivan Somlai discussed his extensive research on Canadian development efforts in Nepal on February 27th, 2017 as part of the Himalayan Program’s Winter 2017 Event Series. Somlai has spent a considerable amount of time in the […]
At Home in the Green Mountains – Bhutanese Resettlement in Vermont
Speakers: Pablo Bose, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Director of the Global and Regional Studies Program at the University of Vermont On February 6th, 2017, the Himalaya Program was joined by Pablo Bose of the University of Vermont for a talk about his research on Bhutanese refugee resettlement in Vermont and […]
Graduate Student Roundtable Discussion: Himalayan Research at UBC
Speakers: Omer Aijazi, Kia Dullemond, Armaan Malhotra, Monica McKeown, Dhondup Tashi Rekjong, Bendi Tso/Yujie Ji The student research roundtable discussion was the Himalaya Program’s first event of 2017. UBC students from various disciplines, including Medicine, Anthropology, Educational Studies, and Asian Studies, were invited to share their research with members of the UBC and Himalaya Program […]