Thanks @ashisvki for such a thoughtful and considered piece in the Nepali Times कोमिन्ताल थामी (आक्याङ्मी) Suren Thami Tekraj Thami @tijlal_thami

Our piece highlighting the critical need for integrated disaster governance to address multi-hazard risks on different timescales. It's been a pleasure to learn from and write with Jonathan Eaton UBC Anthropology UBC SPPGA theconversation.com/as-we-fight-th… via The Conversation Canada

Delighted to be able to support this great journal over the next year as Interim Editor! Thanks for the opportunity, and looking forward to working with the whole Pacific Affairs team.

“I look forward to facilitating connections between students, faculty, organizations, and ideas to create new pathways for engaged learning.” We are pleased to announce Sara Shneiderman has been appointed MPPGA Graduate Program Director. Read more: sppga.ubc.ca/news/dr-sara-s… #UBC

📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Folktales of #Mayotte, an #African Island' by Lee Haring, foreword by Mark Turin. Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647… 👇🧵 (1/9)

📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Shépa: The #Tibetan #OralTradition in #Choné', by Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering & Mark Turin acting as Trustees for the Members of the Choné Tibetan Community. Access for free & get your paperback/hardback copy at openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647… (1/9)👇🧵

Just out: Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné. Co-authored with scholars from the Choné Tibetan community, this is fully open access book is a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs from the eastern Tibetan Plateau: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

ANHS is hosting special launch of the special issue on Gaddi on 12 Oct at 12noon Eastern Summer Time. Please see in this thread for details. Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD Jeevan R. Sharma Michael Heneise Stefan Lueder

Pleased to share our #OpenAccess article in Chicago Journals Current Anthropology, House, Household, and Home: Revisiting Anthropological and Policy Frameworks through Postearthquake Reconstruction Experiences in #Nepal journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Social Science Baha UBC SPPGA UBC Anthropology

Very pleased to be part of this effort!

“Collaboration and discussion rather than standardization are central to the vitality of oral traditions like Shépa.” Mark Turin (Co-lead of Himalaya Program, SPPGA) discusses his new co-authored publication. Read more at the link below: sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/news/new-publi…

I am delighted to share that the proposal that we Typotheque and the Haíɫzaqvḷv (Heiltsuk) Nation prepared together in collaboration to add 3 new lambda characters to the Unicode Standard has been approved for inclusion in version 16.0! unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline…

Typotheque Big thanks to Mark Turin for unwavering support, and to 梁海 Liang Hai, Debbie Anderson, Roozbeh Pournader, Ken Whistler, and the Script Ad Hoc committee for your guidance and support towards this proposal effort.

Just out: a Special Issue of Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America with a focus on Indigenous Lexicography, #oa #openaccess, guest edited together with @C_Schreyer with thanks to Lynne Murphy muse.jhu.edu/issue/51406

Dr. Christine Schreyer and Dr. Mark Turin talk about the latest special issue of #Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America which they edited. Read here: shorturl.at/zPRX1 Mark Turin @C_Schreyer #indigenouslanguages #UBC

This is Sam Cowan at his absolute best: blending rich, historical detail with penetrating political insight. The result is an exhilarating book. Hardcover copies available in all major book stores in Kathmandu. Elsewhere, available on Amazon in both paperback and ebook formats.

Come listen to the amazing @dchungyalpa deliver the 3rd Annual Himalaya Program lecture this Wednesday 13 March at 5:30pm 'Earth as Refuge: Embracing Our Ecological Selves in the Anthropocene' at the Liu Institute himalaya.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/e…

After 42 years of work at UBC, my mom, Linda Williams, is retiring! Today past & present NITEP faculty & staff gathered to celebrate her 4+ decades of service, including Dr. Verna Kirkness, who hired her in 1982, and Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald, her second boss. Happy retirement, mom!❤️

We are excited to announce that Digital Himalaya has joined the Archive Nepal family!! Mark Turin Digital Himalaya link: digitalhimalaya.com Archive Nepal link: archivenepal.org/digitalhimalaya

Searching for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in Indigenous Language and Literacy Education LLED University of British ColumbiaEducation @UBC more info about the position here: lled.educ.ubc.ca/assistant-prof…