Crisis in Tibet: Is there a way out?

Dr. Lobsang Sangay is a Senior Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. Lobsang Sangay studied at Tibetan refugee school in Darjeeling and did his B.A. (Honors) and LLB (Bachelor in Law) from Delhi University . In 1995, he received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue Master Degree at Harvard Law School . In 2004, he completed his Doctorate in Law and became the first Tibetan among six millions to graduate from Harvard Law School . He was a recipient of 2004 Yong K. Kim' 95 Prize of excellence for his Doctorate dissertation. In 2006, he was selected as one of the twenty-four young leaders of Asia by Asia Society, a global organization based in New York City.

He has given numerous lectures on Sino-Tibet issues in various institutes and venues around the world. He organized major conferences on Tibet between Chinese and Tibetan scholars at Harvard University including an unprecedented meeting between 35 Mainland Chinese scholars and the Dalai Lama in 2003. He is also an editorial consultant for Radio Free Asia and has a weekly radio program.

As an expert on Tibet, international human rights law, democracy and conflict resolution, he has been consulted by the news media, including the Wall Street Journal, BBC, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, Boston Globe, and the Times of London. He coordinates a Tibetan Nutrition Project helping around 2000 Tibetan refugee students in India . He has published articles about Tibet in the Harvard Asia Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Harvard South Asia Journal and chapters in books on Tibet and Human Rights.

Chair: Yiching Wu is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. He grew up in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China. Trained as an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, his main research field is the history and culture of Mao’s China, and in particular the history of the Cultural Revolution. His scholarly interests include anthropology and history, critical theory, history of populism and radicalism, socialism and postsocialism, and politics of historical knowledge. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Revolution at the Margins: Social Protest and Politics of Class in China, 1966-69.

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