9.00-9.30

Registration

9.30-9.45

Welcome and Introduction

9.45-11.30

From Practice to Text
Chair: Mark Turin

Ritual Drumming and Chanting of the Tamu Shamans of Nepal
Yarjung Kromchai Tamu (Chief Advisor, Tamu Pye Lhu Sangh)

The Parched Grain Chant: Parallel Verse and Simultaneous Action in Magar Rituals
Michael Oppitz (University of Zürich)

Tamu Shamans' Books: The Challenges of Textualising the Pye-ta Lhu-ta
Judith Pettigrew (University of Limerick)

11.30-12.00

Tea/Coffee Break

12.00-13.00 

Keynote Address
Introduction: Alan Macfarlane 

The Rewards and Issues of Studying Oral Literature: Some Personal Reflections
Ruth Finnegan (Open University) 

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.15

Archives and Dissemination
Chair: Charles Chadwyck-Healey 

DSpace@Cambridge - Ensuring Access to Cultural Heritage Resources
Elin Stangeland (University of Cambridge) 

A New Look at Archiving for Sensitive Community Based Materials: A "web 2.0" Approach to Distribution and Updates
David Nathan (Endangered Languages Archive, SOAS)  

15.15-15.45

Tea/Coffee Break 

15.45-17.00 

Community Cooperation and Collaboration
Chair: Peter Austin 

Collecting Change in Vanuatu: Oral Traditions and Cultural Change
Lissant Bolton (British Museum) 

Participatory Cultural Preservation on the Sino-Tibetan Fringe
Gerald Roche (Griffith University/Qinghai Normal University) 

17.00-17.30         

Summation and General Discussion
Chair: Stephen Hugh-Jones

17.30-19.00 

Reception at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Open to all)
Host: Nicholas Thomas 

9.30-10.45            

Orality and Textuality: Himalayan Examples
Chair: Michael Oppitz 

Documenting Ceremonial Dialogues in East Nepal: An In Vitro Performance and the Problem of  Textualisation
Martin Gaenszle (University of  Vienna)

'Producing' Thangmi Ritual Texts: Practice, Performance and Collaborative Documentation
Sara Shneiderman (University of Cambridge) 

10.45-11.15

Tea/Coffee Break

11.15-13.00

Audiovisual Engagements: Songs and Narratives
Chair: Martin Gaenszle 

Collecting Shamanic Songs in Nepal
Anne de Sales (CNRS)

Reciting Landscape: Documenting Ritual Journeys and Landscape among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal
Alban von Stockhausen (University of Zürich)

Who's Singing Now?: Exploring the Effects of Reframing Lo Monthang's Musical Dialogue
Katey Blumenthal (University of Virginia)

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00-15.15

Classifications of Language Endangerment
Chair: Bert Vaux

Languages and Species: Threats and Global Patterns
William Sutherland (University of Cambridge) 

Reading the Lontars: Endangered Literary Practices of Lombok, Eastern Indonesia
Peter Austin (SOAS)

15.15-15.45

Tea/Coffee Break

15.45-17.30

Re-presenting the Orality of Inner Asia
Chair: Piers Vitebsky 

Data, Basically: Computers, Documents and the Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Christopher Kaplonski (University of Cambridge)

Re-sounding the Spirits of Altai-Sayan Oral Epic Performance
Carole Pegg (University of Cambridge)

17.00-17.45

Summation
Chair: Mark Turin 

17.45-19.00 

Reception at CRASSH (Open to all) 

19.00 

Dinner at St Catharine's College