Guest post by Yeshi Samdrup, Norbuling Rigter College, Bhutan Between 2024 and 2026, I had the opportunity to work with Barbara Gerke on the Pandemic Narratives Project. We explored how communities in Bhutan understood and responded to COVID-19 through Buddhist beliefs, ritual practices, and more-than-human relationships. Together, we carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Phushar village […]
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By Barbara Gerke As my fieldwork in Bhutan comes to an end, I would like to reflect on a topic that has become central to my work over the past several years: the ethics and practices of collaborating with Himalayan colleagues in anthropological research. At the 2025 ISTB Research Day on Ethics in Research (University […]
Guest post by Mridul Surbhi As a doctoral researcher working on Sowa Rigpa in Spiti, India, I was experiencing a kind of scholarly isolation. In 2022, the Vienna Sowa Rigpa Dialogues forum changed the course of my academic journey, laying the foundation for collaborative research and knowledge production. It was Jan van der Valk (postdoc […]
In the context of our project, I have been tracking the many lively online discussions involving physicians and scholars of Sowa Rigpa that have taken place since the emergence of a “novel coronavirus” in December 2019. Even though SARS-COV-2 can no longer be called “new”, I believe there is still much to learn from the […]
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Welcome to our new project website!
The Pandemic Narratives team would like to welcome you to our new website. As an introduction to our project, feel free to have a look at the following two blogposts which have already been published by us elsewhere. First of all, you can check out our CoronAsur research blog entry hosted by National University of […]