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Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Teaching and Learning Tibetan: The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future April 07, 2003 Statements of Panelists: Nicolas TournadreNicolas Tournadre is an Associate Professor of linguistics at the University of Paris 8, a member of the CNRS (Lacito), and co-director of the Tibetan language collection at the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library at the University of Virginia. During the past 15 years, he has spent more than three years on the Tibetan plateau conducting research and collecting data about the Tibetan language and its dialects. He is the founder of the association "Schools on the Roof of the World", which has built four schools in Tibet and supports writers in the Tibet Autonomous Region as well as in Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures outside the TAR. David Germano David Germano is an associate professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, and is director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. He has published a variety of articles and one edited volume on diverse topics in Tibetan Studies. He has been spent a total of seven years conducting research in Tibetan cultural areas on a variety of topics. Over the past four years he has established collaborative contracts with the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences and Tibet University for a long term collaborative exchange and research projects. Losang Rabgey Losang Rabgey is a Commonwealth Scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England, where she specializes in gender anthropology and the transnational Tibetan diaspora. She has presented her work at universities including Middlebury College, Harvard University, University of California at Santa Cruz and New York University. She has lobbied at the UN and co-founded an NGO that is building a rural school focusing on girls education in Tibet. She now broadcasts a Tibetan language radio show on women's issues and is a staff member at the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT). Teaching and Learning Tibetan: The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future Transcript(Text) Teaching and Learning Tibetan: The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future Transcript(PDF)
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