Norbuling Rigter College organised its Second Rigter Conference on 15th September 2023. This platform aims to bring together scholars and academicians from different institutes to contribute and share ideas to enrich our academic world.
The highlight of the one day Rigter Conference was the presence of the Keynote Speaker, Dasho Sonam Kinga (PhD), former Chairperson of National Council. There were ten presenters from different institutions. The sessions were divided thematically into four.
The First session was on the theme Leveraging culture for development. The papers presented in this session are Bjagoed Menchu: Legacy of Vulture with a Broken Wing, ལམ་སྲོལ་ལས་བརྟེན་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ། Local healing: a case study of traditional healing practices in Trongsa, and Anthropology in Practice – The Thuenlam Approach to Homestay tourism in Bhutan. The second session was on the theme Culture, development and sustainability. The papers are titled: Food Culture and Development in Western Bhutan, Narratives on the transformation of Lo gsar (New Year) day celebration in Bhutan, ༄། ། དེང་སང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་བོང་ཀོ་རྐྱབ་ཐངས་ལུ་འགྱུར་བ།།. The third session was on the theme Beyond conventional understanding of development and with the papers are titled Culture and Development: Challenges and Prospects through Memey Haley Haley’s Looking Glass. The fourth and the final session was on the theme Culture, Development and Health: The Nexus. The papers presented are Culture, Values, Sexuality, and Development: An Interwoven Narrative and Using ethnography to study the role of culture in health systems development.
The Rigter Conference envisions to give a distinct academic character to Norbuling Rigter College.
ISBN 978-99980-796-0-1 Table of Contents
Preface
Keynote Address
1. Bjagoed Menchu: Legacy of Vulture with a Broken Wing. Jigme Nidup, Asst. Professor, Yeshi Samdrup, Lecturer & Sangay Zam, Lecturer, NRC
2. ལམ་སྲོལ་ལས་བརྟེན་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ།. Lopen Pema Tshering, Sr. Lecturer, NRC
3. Local healing: a case study of traditional healing practices in Trongsa. Chencho Tshering, Lecturer, CLCS
4. Anthropology in Practice – The Thuenlam Approach to Homestay tourism in Bhutan Dr. Ulrike Čokl, Associate Researcher, University College London
5. Food Culture and Development in Western Bhutan, Narratives on the transformation of Lo gsar (New Year) day celebration in Bhutan Purna P. Chapagai, Lecturer, CNR
6. Narratives on the transformation of Lo gsar (New Year) day celebration in Bhutan. Kuenzang Dorji, Associate Lecturer, NRC
7. ༄། ། དེང་སང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་བོང་ཀོ་རྐྱབ་ཐངས་ལུ་འགྱུར་བ།། Lopen Kinly, Sr. Lecturer, NRC
8. Culture and Development: Challenges and Prospects through Memey Haley Haley’s Looking Glass. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk, Assistant Professor, PCE
9. Culture, Values, Sexuality, and Development: An Interwoven Narrative. Ugyen Tshomo, Assistant Professor, PCE
10. Using ethnography to study the role of culture in health systems development. Dr. Joseph Calabrese, Reader of Medical Anthropology at University College London