queering heritage – Xploring interventions
You are cordially invited to participate in the first edition of queering heritage – Xploring interventions
Ritual space/time, the Newar experience
In a dialogue between academia and performance, this series of events inquires into possibilities beyond the norms. The first edition of this experimental format consults ritual traditions of the Newar in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. How is gender approached in their embodied Tantric Buddhist practices? Bungadyah exhibition visit (CATS library) followed by a performance of Charya Nritya (SAI room 010.00.01).
24.11.2025, 18:00, meeting point CATS library
Field notes from an anthropologist I Dr. Marion Wettstein
Interventions by an expert I Dr. Manik Bajrachary
Performance by a dancer I Ritu Shrestha Bajracharya
Hosting through the evening I Madhubanti Chanda
Audiovisual Documentation I Yash Gurbani
This event series is part of the research project "Queer Heritage-Making in Times of Political Turmoil: a Transcultural Approach" funded by the Flagship Initiative Transforming Cultural Heritage (FITCH) at Heidelberg University. Watch out for announcements of further editions.