Emma Martin

My students were bitterly disappointed when after a brief moment of thinking the new trustee was lip-sync Tom Holland they realised it wasn’t.

Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal

Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is the text of the presidential order affecting the Smithsonian. It targets its ‘anti-American ideology’.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There is still time to submit your abstract! Deadline 3 March, details: www.mghg.info/forthcoming-...

Why is the purple segment is so small? My personal pie chart must be closer to 50-55%

Battle for Tibet FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet.

PBS FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, the documentary examines how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs 2025 | École Pratique des Hautes Études Liste des postes ouverts au concours à l'EPHE - PSL. Campagne 2025.

🚨 Buddhist Studies Job Opening🚨

Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French."

www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...

Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy - Buddhistdoor Global Recent media reports indicate that more than a thousand male and female Tibetan monastic have been expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.

BDG news: Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Read here: tinyurl.com/4ptv4e52

#buddhism #tibetanbuddhism #vajrayana #tibet #china #sichuan #larunggar #buddhistmonks #buddhistnuns #buddhisteducation

‘Woke’ National Trust SLAMMED for 'Head of Inclusivity' job - 40k a year for THREE days a week, huge pension, 32 days off and more The ultra-progressive institution saw membership drop last year as it pursued various woke policies including mandatory vegan food quotas in cafes and slavery reports

If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...

Call for papers for the 14 March 2025 IHR British History in the Long 18th Century seminar. Short (5 minute) presentations by new and and new-ish PhDs students on their doctoral research. Contact brendan.tam@warwick.ac.uk for details and to submit an abstract. Hybrid format, so you don't need to be in London.

New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.

Call for Papers “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World” Call for Papers: “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”Rich with past histories of abundance and scarcity, composed of cycles of death and regeneration…

Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS

Come and speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall - University of Derby 19-20 June
Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and organised by Oliver Godsmark, @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social & myself

Please share widely!

Britain told to give India back artefacts in lieu of £52trn in reparations Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’

Well, that's definitely going in my colonialism in Asia lecture next week!

#SouthAsiaSky
#India

www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/b...

How Tourism Trapped Tibet The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.

She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.”

@jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...

Dept for Media, Culture and Sport is looking for new Board members. Would be great to get someone from a civil society background, and someone from culture/heritage/museums/libraries. Please pass on in your networks
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8538

*meet the criteria!

Bicentenary Post-doc Fellowships in the Humanities at University of Manchester. I am interested in supporting applicants focused on #Tibet #SouthAsia #Museums #Materiality

Get in touch if you need the criteria.

www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

✨Event announcement: Women, Heritage and Social Justice panel discussion

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with MACFEST Muslim Arts and Culture Festival at The Whitworth

🗓️ Wednesday 5th March
⏰ 12.15-2.30pm
🎟️ FREE

Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

The University of Sheffield are targeting another world-leading department for “significant” cuts – but staff are fighting back An all-white panel was initially chosen to decide the future of one of the university’s leading departments, despite 95% of its language staff being of East Asian heritage.

Some great coverage of the absolute act of vandalism the University of Sheffield is planning to inflict on its internationally renowned School of East Asian Studies.

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/uni...

Agent Cooper a character in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks stood in front of a map holding a pointer directed at Tibet. The map is titled “Tibet”.

#Tibet #DavidLynch

Congratulations!

View down a stone staircase that classical pillars on each side with a partial view through a doorway into a room of exhibitions. The top half of the image is partially covered with information about the conference, which can be found in the link.

Honoured to be giving a keynote at the inaugural Museums and Memory WG conference “Museums, Memory, Politics” for the Memory Studies Association. It focuses on my forthcoming book #TheDissidentMuseum i.e. the Tibet Museum in Dharamshala

www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...

Sharing again since it's been a while and the community is growing, here is a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies (mainly academics & academic institutions).

Let me know if you'd like to be added.

go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S

How China is Erasing Tibetan Culture, One Child at a Time Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.

NYTimes met en lumière le rôle des pensionnats coloniaux dans la transformation des enfants tibétains, au cœur d’une stratégie chinoise visant à assimiler les tibétains
Selon Tibet Action Institute, autour 800000 enfants, soit près de 3/4 âgés de 6 à 18 ans, sont dans ces pensionnats
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In Tibet, Chinese Boarding Schools Reshape the ‘Souls of Children’ Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.

Great reporting on an important topic that the Chinese government is doing their best to hide from the world www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thank you, @sophiebeach.bsky.social, for all you do to bring attention and deeper understanding to the suffering and courageous resistance in Tibet, China and all lands occupied and controlled by the Chinese govt. 🙏🏽

In Tibet, Chinese Boarding Schools Reshape the ‘Souls of Children’ Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.

Must-read: chilling @nytimes.com reporting corroborating and expanding on @tibetaction.bsky.social documentation of widespread, systematic abuses of #Tibetan children. The damage is intentional—and generational. Indep into investigation crucial - #UN #OHCHR #HRC! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A totem pole amongst the sub-tropical vegetation of Kowloon Park, Hong Kong. It was probably made by a member of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Nation of northern Vancouver Island, Canada, in the 1970s.

Totem pole in Kowloon park, Hong Kong. Probably by an artist from the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Nation (northern Vancouver Island). Before I970, Kowloon Park was a British army barracks. Canadian lumber companies sent totem poles throughout the commonwealth as trade gifts throughout the 1950s/60s/70s.