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Relations). A great example of trans-disciplinary scholarship synthesising several<br />
disciplines was British Academy Newton Fellow Dr Karuna’s conference on ‘India<br />
at Seventy’, where both acclaimed and early career researchers from Europe and<br />
South Asia examined, not the schisms in 1947, but rather a wide range of state–<br />
society relations during the decades around Independence.<br />
SARC is co-ordinated rather than directed and, over and above the Wolfson scholars<br />
already mentioned, has also involved the energies of Leverhulme Fellow Ina<br />
Zarkevich (in her workshop on Migration and Debt). SARC is grateful to the <strong>College</strong><br />
for its support for a year of exciting experiments in the meeting and integration of<br />
disciplines. We are grateful to our President for bringing SARC into being in 2011.<br />
Barbara Harriss-White (Co-ordinator)<br />
Tibetan and Himalayan Studies<br />
The Cluster has had a busy and productive year. It has grown and diversified, with<br />
events including conferences, the annual Aris Lecture, various guest lectures, a film<br />
screening, and the annual Tibetan New Year party to which the whole <strong>College</strong> is<br />
always invited.<br />
The Cluster hosted a workshop on Law and Legalism in Tibet, organized by Professor<br />
Nanda Pirie (January <strong>2017</strong>), and a conference in collaboration with OCLW on Global<br />
Lives and Local Perspectives: New Approaches to Tibetan Life-Writing, organized<br />
by Lucia Galli (DPhil) and Xaver Erhard (JRF, Wolfson).<br />
In 2015 we were able to create an endowment for the annual Aris Lecture in Tibetan<br />
and Himalayan Studies, and the second lecture was on 1 December 2016. Professor<br />
Charles Ramble (EPHE, Paris) spoke about Vampires and Social History: The Dark<br />
Continents of Tibetan Studies to a good turnout including colleagues and students,<br />
members of the <strong>College</strong>, and friends and members of the Aris family.<br />
We also hosted guest lectures on a wide range of topics, including Rupture and<br />
Revelation: Indian Themes in Early Tibetan Writings on Empire by Dr Lewis<br />
Doney (British Museum); Tibet, Politics, and Pop Music: subversion, co-option,<br />
and commonality by Professor Anna Morcom (Royal Holloway); Guoshang Trading<br />
Houses and Tibetan Middlemen in Dartsedo, the ‘Shanghai of Tibet’ by Professor<br />
Yudru Tsomo (Sichuan University); Transcendence of the Senses? Examples from<br />
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