Friday, January 12, 2024
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street NW Washington, D.C. 20052
Dr. Geshe Lobsang Monlam is a pioneer in Tibetan information technology. In this seminar, he will introduce the recently-launched and groundbreaking Monlam Artificial Intelligence. This will be set in the context of the broader work of the Monlam Information Technology Research Centre. Geshe Monlam will discuss recent changes in Tibetan language and education preservation, while providing insight into the future of Tibetan-language artificial intelligence.
About the Speaker:
About the Moderator:
Tashi Rabgey is Research Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School where she directs the Research Initiative on Multination States (RIMS) and the Tibet Governance Lab. Her primary research focuses on territorial politics, asymmetric governance and problems of contemporary statehood in the People’s Republic of China. Before joining the Elliott School, Professor Rabgey was a faculty member of the University of Virginia East Asia Center where she was co-director of the University of Virginia Tibet Center. She held a lectureship in contemporary Tibetan studies and taught in comparative politics and global development studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, as well as law degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. Following her LL.M. in public international law, she pursued advanced studies in comparative Chinese law at the Center for Asian Legal Studies at Faculty of Law of University of British Columbia. She is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and was Visiting Professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr in Iraqi Kurdistan.
