Discussant: Sébastien Chauvin, University of Amsterdam
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : étude comparative, interdisciplinarité, approche scientifique

La série "Rencontres" donne la parole aux chercheurs. 8 chercheurs du LEM inaugurent cette nouvelle collection. Avec : Olivier Boulnois, Laboratoires d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM)
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, image, Olivier Boulnois, Penser l'image au Moyen-Age, Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes, Philosophie médiévale, LEM

La série "Rencontres" donne la parole aux chercheurs. 8 chercheurs du LEM inaugurent cette nouvelle collection. Avec : Mohammad Amir-Moezzi, Laboratoires d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM)
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, laboratoire d'Etudes des Monothéismes, Qu'est-ce que le shî'isme ?, Mohammad Amir-Moezzi, LEM, pensée islamique médiévale

La série "Rencontres" donne la parole aux chercheurs. 8 chercheurs du LEM inaugurent cette nouvelle collection. Avec : Constantin Macris, Laboratoires d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM)
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, antiquité grecque, Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes, Constantin Macris, Homme divin du paganisme ancien, LEM

Le Tutorat de Simulation Médicale, une première en France.Les étudiants de la Faculté de Médecine de l’Université Nice Sophia Antipolis se sont installés aux commandes du Centre de Simulation Médicale pour développer un tout nouveau concept de tutorat. Le principe : s'entraîner aux situations d'urgence sur des mannequins électroniques haute fidélité. L'objectif : être efficace dès le premier contact avec les vrais patients. Une innovation pédagogique unique en France ! - Production : Faculté de Médecine de Nice Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - Directeur de la publication Pr Patrick BAQUÉ - Directrice de la production Isabelle CALLEA - Scénario : Emmanuelle DUCHEZ Jean-Christophe VIALLE - Réalisation: Jean-Christophe VIALLE 2014/2015 medecine.unice.fr Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UNSSante
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : études médecine, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, centre simulation médicale, tutorat

This paper discuses rivalry for the throne of Dergé between 1890 and 1940. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, internecine feuds created a power vacuum serious enough to invite intervention from Qing and Lhasa authorities. To bolster the royal family’s position, the nobility not only sought alliances with the Qing and later with the nationalist regime in China, they also established close ties with Lhasa. But outside powers eventually undermined the royal family’s authority and lead to its downfall. Feuding created an opportunity for subordinate headmen to vie for power. This phenomenon is well illustrated by the ascendancy of Jagö Topden, who emerged as the charismatic strongman in Dergé in the first half of the twentieth century. He displayed masculine qualities of a leader while Queen Jamyang Pemo was feminized as weak. Jagö Topden proved to be an adept player of politics and was able to gain popular support from the local population, who were tired of the instability. My paper explores the reasons for the crisis in royal succession, the culture of machismo, and the local network of alliances based on kinship and trade that enabled Jagö Topden to emerge as the paramount political figure in Dergé. The ascendancy of Jagö Topden exposes the precarious state of the King’s rule. Jagö Topden may have been aware of the ideological and social changes in China. He effectively adopted the populists’ cause of social reform and thus was able to wrest power away from the Dergé royal family and position himself as the paramount authority in Dergé. Had it not been for the victory of Communists and the establishment of PRC, Jagö Topden might well have become the new ruler of Dergé. International conference “Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Kham Borderlands,” Februray 18-20, 2016. This conference is an outcome of a collaborative ERC-funded research project (Starting grant no. 283870). For more information, please visit the project's Website: http://kham.cnrs.fr
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, CEH, Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes, Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century: A Story of Jagö Topden, Yudru Tsomu, Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Kham Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, Sichuan University

Two weddings in 2009 and 2015 respectively have received wide publicity among Tibetans and others within and out of China. The first was that of Lobsang Dundrup, a renowned singer from Gyalrong, and his new bride. While his friend posted their wedding photos on her blog, it received sharp critiques from Tibetan netizens for their “un-Tibetan” or “un-Buddhist” behavior since the couple were wearing clothes made of wild animal pelts. The singer was made to apologize in public for his “bad” conduct. The second is that of a young Gyalrong couple working in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan. The images posed as both modern Chinese city and “traditional” Tibetan couples, which had been posted on blogs, wechat and other social media, attracted even much wider attention both home and abroad. While the Chinese newspapers and thousands of netizens were amazed at the refreshing images of “modern” Tibetan youth who were seen to have left their home region physically but manage not to leave their Tibetan spirits behind, many Tibetans and others, notably Tsering Woeser, a highly-profiled Tibetan writer, were deplored at their pseudery or “staged” pretentiousness as heavily Sinicized Tibetans. The accusations of the “un-Tibetan” behaviors of the two different couples shed new light on intense anxiety among Tibetan intellectuals and others that the Gyalrong case foreshadows the diminishing of Tibetan culture and identity at the Sino-Tibetan borderlands and in Tibetan regions in general. This kind of anxiety simultaneously reflects an urge and earnest call for the re-Tibetanizing or re-civilizing of borderland Tibetans by reinforcing Buddhist teachings and Tibetan values. Therefore, this article will look into the symbolic meaning embedded in these two Gyalrong weddings as well as the ongoing conflicts and convergences of the “Sinicization” and “Tibetanization” discourses. International conference “Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Kham Borderlands,” Februray 18-20, 2016. This conference is an outcome of a collaborative ERC-funded research project (Starting grant no. 283870). For more information, please visit the project's Website: http://kham.cnrs.fr  
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, CEH, Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes, Two Gyalrong Weddings Under Fire: Rethinking of the Ongoing “Sinicization” and “Tibetanization” on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, Tenzin Jinba, Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Kham Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, ERC (European Research Council), National University of Singapore

The practice of a non-contractual, nonobligatory, and nonexclusive visiting sexual system among a matrilineal group in Southwest China has generated as much interest in anthropology as in the mass media. The Na (or Moso) who live on the border between Yunnan and Sichuan (near Lake Lugu) have come to be regarded internationally as an unusual case in the ethnography of the region. The Na case, though a striking example of a matrilineal system in an overall regional patrilineal environment, is not unique. These cases have to be considered from a cross-regional perspective and across contemporary ethnic boundaries. In Drapa (Zhaba), a valley south of Ta'u (Daofu) in Kardze Prefecture, a significant number of local Tibetan inhabitants still practice a form of visiting system. The visiting system which is associated with the uxorilocal residence for offspring from a non-contractual sexual relationship has so far been described as a form of union based on a matrilineal rule of descent. Using data that was collected during fieldwork conducted mainly in five different villages in the Drapa valley, this paper demonstrates that, while matrilineality prevails, the visiting system is not necessarily dependent on the respect of the matrilineal descent rule. The prime factor to be taken into consideration here is the importance of maintaining some continuity in the household. It can be said Drapa society is a matrifocal, household-oriented society in which most people play no social roles other than their kinship ones, and where the household is their only basic social affiliation. The matrifocal principle, when understood in combination with the household-centric orientation, should also be considered as a more general set of ideas with regards the house as a more complex set of relations that linked together the building, the household members, and forces associated with them, such as fortune, luck, prosperity, etc. International conference “Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Kham Borderlands,” Februray 18-20, 2016. This conference is an outcome of a collaborative ERC-funded research project (Starting grant no. 283870). For more information, please visit the project's Website: http://kham.cnrs.fr  
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, CEH, Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes, Communities, Stéphane Gros, Matrifocality and the House in Drapa (Zhaba), Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Kham Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, ERC (European Research Council)

La série "Rencontres" donne la parole aux chercheurs. 8 chercheurs du LEM inaugurent cette nouvelle collection.   Avec : Simon Icard, Laboratoires d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM)
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : religion, UPS2259, Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes, Des controverses sur la grâce, Simon Icard, Jansénisme, LEM

From 1907 to 1911, some 4,000 commoners from the Sichuan Basin ventured west. Enticed by promises of large tracts of uncultivated land and three years of free rent, seeds, animals, and farm implements, they ascended the Tibetan Plateau seeking new lives for their families – and new benefits for a changing China. At the start of the twentieth century, Kham was a borderland on the cusp of political and societal transformation. Situated between Sichuan Province and central Tibet, its polities and population stood at the center of a local struggle for authority between Chengdu and Lhasa, a struggle with regional and imperial implications. The plan to settle the lush river valleys and high plains of Kham, to convert its purported wastelands into fertile farms, was one component of a comprehensive endeavor to end this struggle, to transform internal governance and exert control over the borderland sufficient to substantiate external assertions of sovereignty. Notices posted on yamen walls across the province appealed to the nascent nationalism of Sichuan’s poor farmers, urging them to emulate Euro-American pioneers who ventured into dangerous and distant lands in service to their nation. Beyond turning rocks into crops, once in Kham, they were to be ambassadors of “civilization,” modelling both ‘proper' farming and loyal society, supporting a parallel effort to acculturate the Khampas, to sever their affinity with Lhasa, transforming them into imperial subjects and citizens of the burgeoning Chinese state. This paper explores the reorientation of imperial frontier settlement policies wrought by newly globalizing norms such as sovereignty, the role of Sichuan settlers in establishing exclusive Chinese authority in the borderland, and projecting it to the global community. International conference “Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Kham Borderlands,” Februray 18-20, 2016. This conference is an outcome of a collaborative ERC-funded research project (Starting grant no. 283870). For more information, please visit the project's Website: http://kham.cnrs.fr
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : UPS2259, CEH, Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes, Settling Authority: Sichuanese Farmers in Early Twentieth Century Eastern Tibet, Scott Relyea, Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Kham Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, ERC (European Research Council), Hamline University