Last fall, together with colleagues Emily Yeh, Carole McGranahan, and Ariana Maki, I founded the Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) at CU Boulder. Our launch colloquium on “The Art of Translation” took place with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on November 11, 2015.

In our inaugural year, we hosted more than a dozen guest speakers, visiting artists, and film screenings, including Tibetan Arts Week (April 4-10, 2016) with acclaimed contemporary Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso and the filmmaker and poet Jangbu (Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang).

In the coming year, we are co-sponsoring the Tsadra Translation and Transmission Conference, May 31 – June 3, 2017 and organizing Himalayan Studies Conference V, the biannual conference of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, September 1-4, 2017. Both conferences will be held on the CU Boulder campus.