Conference on self-immolations in Tibet

Please find below the programme of a two-days international conference on the recent extraordinary sequence (more than thirty occurrences in just over a year) of self-immolations in Tibet. This conference, titled "Tibet is burning. Self-Immolations in Tibet: Ritual or Political Protest?", will be held at the Collège de France, in Paris, on 14-15 May 2012, with speakers from several European and North American universities and research institutions. The conference is organized jointly by the E..