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THE HIMALAYAS: GEOPOLITICS & ECOLOGY OF MELTING MOUNTAINS
29 - 30 October 2020
SPEAKERS
Kunda Dixit
Nepali Times/ NYUAD
Sophia Kalantzakos
NYU/ NYU Abu Dhabi
Dipak Gyawali
Former Minister,Water Resources, Nepal
Yifei Li
NYU Shanghai
Judith Shapiro
American University
Dan Lewis
Huntington Library
Ruth Gamble
La Trobe University
Shailee Basnet
Mountaineer
Alex Davis
The University of Western Australia
Shen Hou
Renmin University
Brian Eyler
STIMSON Center
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
Professor (Retired ) IIM Calcutta
Bryan Tilt
Oregon State
University
Selina Ho
National University of Singapore
Charles Siebert
NYU Abu Dhabi
Alton Byers
INSTAAR
CONFERENCE RECORDINGS
The Himalayas: Hotspot of Geopolitics?
Panelists: Alex Davis, Dipak Gyawali, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Ruth Gamble
Moderator: Sophia Kalantzakos
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Melting Glaciers, Lake Formation and
Implications on the Himalayas
Keynote Speaker: Alton Byers
Moderator: Kunda Dixit
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The Non-Human Himalayas
Panelists: Charles Siebert, Dan Lewis, Shailee Basnet
Moderator: Shen Hou
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Contested Waters: China-India Environmental Politics on the Roof of the World
Panelists: Brian Eyler, Bryan Tilt, Judith Shapiro, Selina Ho
Moderator: Yifei Li
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