November 8, 2024上午6:30 - 上午8:00（北京时间：2024年11月9日 06:30 上午）Event time is displayed in your time zone.School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 1501, New York, NY 10027Speaker: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, University of British ColumbiaModerator: Lauran Hartley, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia UniversityDr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa begins this talk with a discussion of ‘Ecologies of Care,’ an international initiative that invites scholars in the social sciences, arts, and humanities to address livability as a desired condition for all. This initiative is a direct response to the unbreathable air, unbearable temperature, and unimaginable disparities witnessed in the Himalayas. Situating the talk within the efforts of the initiative to center care work in our scholarship, she then invites the audience to consider what living with accelerated warming in the Himalayas means for the peoples who call the region their home.Speaker's Bio: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is a Sharwa from Pharak, northeastern Nepal (popularly known as the Mount Everest region). She is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the University of British Columbia. She co-founded the Knowledge Justice Collective in 2022 to foster meaningful engagement across knowledge systems, recognizing the epistemological value of Indigenous Knowledges in solving world problems. She is a contributing author to the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report. More details at www.pasangysherpa.com.This event is part of the event series on “Cultural Production in the Tibetan Diaspora" and is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by Modern Tibetan Studies Program.ZOOM注册地址：https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZuJxVDfmQiyRGHgfpdz23Q#/registration
