“The Train Now Stops at the Roof of the World”
Tibet in the 21st Century

TIBETAN PEOPLES AND LANDSCAPES
with Professor Barbara Brower


The photographs are contributions to the files of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) and its journal, HIMALAYA, published at Portland State University (PSU). Many will appear in the third edition of ANHS/PSU collaborative calendar series,” Journey to High Asia.”

An introduction and overview of the worlds of Tibet—the Tibetan Plateau and its cultural extensions into surrounding territories including Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Los Angeles—through images by photographers from all over the world, presented by Professor Barbara Brower.

Barbara Brower is a professor of geography at Portland State University. Her research interests include biogeography; cultural ecology; High Asia; Nepal; Western United States; mountains; wildland resource conservation and policy, and the environmental movement.

Professor Brower is editor of Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) and co-editor of the soon to be published Disappearing Peoples? Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia (Left Coast Press, May 2007)

WHEN	Tuesday, May 8, 7-8:30PM
WHERE	Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, Oregon
COST	$5 -- Tickets are required and available in advance at Museum box offices, online at portlandartmuseum.org, and at 503 226-0973.

Sponsored by the Northwest China Council, the Asian Art Council of the Portland Art Museum, the Institute for Asian Studies at PSU
and Linfield College, with support from the Oregon Council for the Humanities.