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Day 1: Friday, October 14th

There are breakout sessions on each day of the Lotsawa Translation Workshop with thematic tracks running across the three days:

Theme A: The Politics of Translation
Theme B: Gender and Genre
Theme C: New Directions

You are welcome to stay with one theme or select across themes.

Schedule of Events

8:30-9:00am Bagels and coffee 

9:00-10:30am Panel #1:  བོད་ཀྱི་ནང་བསྟན་རྩོམ་རིག་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེས་ཆེན་མའི་རྣམ་ཐར་དང་གསུང་ཆོས་ཡིག་སྒྱུར་གྱི་ཐད་ལ་བསམ་གཞིགས་བྱེད་པ། “Reflections on Translating Women’s Lives and Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition”

10:30-11:00am Tea break

11:00-12:30pm Breakout groups, Day 1

A1: Women’s Voices in Tibetan Texts   

  • Sarah Harding
  • Kelsang Lhamo
  • Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo

B1: Power Dynamics in Fe/male Literary Dialogues

  •    Holly Gayley
  •    Jue Liang 
  •    Sherab Wangmo 

C1: Translating Voices from the Margins

  •   Rekjong
  •   Dominique Townsend 
  •   Laura Brueck

12:30-2:00pm Lunch (at Norris food court)

2:00-3:30pm Workshops session #1

3:30-4:00pm Tea break

4:00-5:30pm Workshops session #2

7:00pm Evening event: Dinner & Readings with Tibetan Authors (Please RSVP for this event at the Tibetan Alliance of Chicago, Evanston)