Emma Martin
@tibetcurator.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Museology and 2026 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism #Provenance
CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age, a collaboration between @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and me (via my @britishacademy.bsky.social grant): 27 November, London: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Travel funds are available (probably only within UK)!! Please share. 🗃️
CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UON
Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond...
northampton.ac.uk
Can't believe we're already into the 6th edition of Tibet Film Festival London 🎬 We have an incredible line up and amazing guests 😍 Full programme here: www.tibetfilmfestival.org/london-progr...
New event! 📆25-27th Sept Tibet Film Festival comes to London for it's 6th iteration! Screenings of: “Encounters: Memories, Museums, Empire & Exile” "100 Sunset" "Far from Home" & short film screenings & competition Programme: www.tibetfilmfestival.org/london-progr...
From September 2026 I’ll be a @britishacademy.bsky.social Mid-Career Fellow! The project ‘Provenance and Empire’ builds on this article, giving me some precious time to think and write about the colonial erasure of Tibetan diplomatic gifts and the consequences of that for the present.
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · last mo.On advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
So happy to see that #AmongTibetanMaterialities made it onto the list 🥳 Thanks for including us @hpeaks.bsky.social Highly recommended, of course!
High Peaks Pure Earth@hpeaks.bsky.social · last mo.If you're wondering what to read we just published our Summer Tibet Reading List - over 30 titles ☀️ Enjoy browsing through it and let us know what you've enjoyed reading lately! #TibetReadingList highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-p...
IATS needs to see this as a wake up call. Determined to remain outside of politics this shows it can no longer hold that position.
Tibet Watch@tibetwatch.org · 2mo agoThe #Nepal govt has cancelled an international #Tibetan studies conference that had been 4 years in the planning, overriding its own security agencies’ assessment that the event posed no threat kathmandupost.com/national/202...
Thoughtful piece from @laurainparis.bsky.social exploring the subtle complications of what ‘decolonising Egyptology’ might mean www.ft.com/content/9712...
Mummies, museums and the fight over ancient Egypt
A spectacular new institution and a project to sequence the genomes of mummies are fuelling debate over the future of Egyptology
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China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming US officials as the Dalai Lama succession nears. Read more: bloom.bg/4oZ06Ii 📷: Uma Bista & Kanishka Sonthalia
"A #Tibetan activist lit himself on fire and outside of the #UnitedNations headquarters in #NewYork on Thursday to protest #China’s control over his homeland, declaring in a video...that #Beijing’s policies were 'destroying the #Tibetan people.' He later died." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...
Tibetan Activist Sets Self on Fire Outside U.N. in Protest Against China
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The death of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen is a tragic reminder of the devastating human cost of China's policies in occupied Tibet. As Beijing intensifies assault on Tibetan identity through the implementation of the new Ethnic Unity Law, the international community cannot remain silent.
A Tibetan activist lit himself on fire and outside of the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday to protest China’s control over his homeland, declaring in a video before his self-immolation that Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.” He later died.
Tibetan Activist Sets Self on Fire Outside U.N. in Protest Against China
Lobga Rangzen, a 52-year-old resident of Queens, died after the self-immolation. He said Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.”
nyti.ms
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A fascinating article for those interested in the Simla Convention and how the British government sold Tibet down the river while ignoring the rich contribution of its culture.
Emma Martin@tibetcurator.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis represents the first account of the Toshakhana or Treasure House, a colonial institution appropriated from earlier Indian and Persian practice. I argue that instead of solidifying regard it produced indifference to the gift & giver. A dream come true to publish in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
🧵: This new law, in keeping with previous ones lines the HK National Security Law, asserts that the PRC can extraterritorialize its jurisdiction over speech and actions related to its national unity. Essentially it’s stating that it can police how people abroad speak about ethnic policy. /1
Eli Friedman@elifriedman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis law is a real nightmare, creates a legal grounding for the state's assimilationist colonial campaigns
(Part 2): China’s Ethnic Unity Law is the latest pillar in Xi’s long game in Tibet: law, ideology, education, #surveillance, & security used to absorb #Tibetan identity into a CCP-defined “Chinese nation.” www.borderlens.com/2026/07/02/t...
The Architecture of Assimilation – Part II: Xi's Long Game in Tibet
Experts say China's new Ethnic Unity Law is part of Xi Jinping's strategy to reshape Tibet through assimilation, security and tighter state control.
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This represents the first account of the Toshakhana or Treasure House, a colonial institution appropriated from earlier Indian and Persian practice. I argue that instead of solidifying regard it produced indifference to the gift & giver. A dream come true to publish in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
A new study by @tibetcurator.bsky.social argues Britain’s colonial handling of diplomatic gifts helped erase the provenance of #Tibetan artefacts. The fate of the 13th Dalai Lama’s lavish 1913 gift sheds light on why so many museum collections lack documented origins academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Tibetan gift-giving, British indifference, and the erasure of provenance in colonial india*
Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a
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A beautiful obituary for Tendzin Choegyal Taklha, who died in February aged 79. #Tibetan monk, soldier, exile, adviser, & for decades one of the Dalai Lama’s closest confidants: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Tendzin Choegyal Taklha obituary
The younger brother of the Dalai Llama who became a trusted confidant for the Tibetan spiritual leader
theguardian.com
Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition. बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/6IbjP #Himalaya #Archives #IndigenousWork #Mountaineering #OtherEverests @tibetcurator.bsky.social
Congratulations to the #Tibetan Community & team @ National Trust Kedleston Hall on "How Did We Get Here", a fantastic exhibition with community involvement and brilliant commissions incl short film "Encounters"! Wonderful touches like books for kids too. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
If you want to hear more about this research I’m speaking @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social this Tuesday! If you are in London it would be great to see some familiar faces, or you can join on-line. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India
history.ac.uk
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 7mo agoon advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
It means everything to publish the first account of the Toshakhana with @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The study shows how Toshakhana bureaucracy created indifference to diplomatic gifts which then led to the erasure of provenance and anonymised objects in museum collections southasiasky
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 7mo agoon advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s. @tibetcurator.bsky.social @ruthgamble.bsky.social
Call for papers closes in 2 weeks time!
Emma Martin@tibetcurator.bsky.social · 11mo ago📣 Call for Papers 📣 Please share widely. I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social Scan the QR code for further details. #Museums #Dissidence #PoliticalDisagreement #Conference #MuseumActivism
New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA*
Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a
doi.org
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Please share widely. I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social Scan the QR code for further details. #Museums #Dissidence #PoliticalDisagreement #Conference #MuseumActivism
