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The International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS)
The International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS) is the premier academic association in the world for Tibetan Studies. IATS organizes the world’s major conference for Tibetan Studies every three to four years (see below), the proceedings of which are published in the series Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (PIATS; see below). IATS also authorizes and supervises the 
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS), an online journal which has published one to two issues a year since 2005.
This address of this site is www.iatseminar.org.
IATS Statutes: view the statutes of IATS (PDF), or right-click to download.
The Twelfth Seminar of the IATS was held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 15 to 22 August 2010. The Seminar was convened by Professor Tsering Shakya. Any queries you may have should be addressed to Tsering Shakya at iats2010ubc@gmail.com.
IATS Director & Board of Advisers
As of 2010, the president of IATS is Charles Ramble (Oxford University), and the IATS Board of Advisers consists of the following 13 scholars:
- Hildegard Diemberger (Cambridge University)
- David Germano (University of Virginia)
- Hannah Havnevik (University of Oslo)
- Matthew Kapstein (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
- Françoise Pommaret (Institute of Language and Culture Studies-Royal University of Bhutan)
- Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University)
- Peter Schwieger (University of Bonn)
- Tsering Shakya (University of British Columbia)
- Lobsang Shastri (Library of Tibetan Works and Archives)
- Per K. Sørensen (University of Leipzig)
- Elliot Sperling (Indiana University)
- Tsuguhito Takeuchi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
- Tsering Thar (Minzu University of China)
IATS Seminars and PIATS Publications
IATS organizes the world’s major conference for Tibetan Studies, referred to as the Seminar of the IATS and held at a different academic venue every two to four years. The convener of each seminar also publishes the proceedings in a multi-volume series, Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. The full list of IATS seminars held to date is as follows, with each hyperlinked to a bibliographical entry for its Proceedings:
The full list of IATS seminars held to date is as follows, with each hyperlinked to a bibliographical entry for its Proceedings:
- The First Seminar of the IATS at Zurich (1977): see PIATS 1 with 16 articles in 1 volume.
- The Second Seminar of the IATS at Oxford (1979): see PIATS 2 with 49 articles in 1 volume.
- The Third Seminar of the IATS at Columbia (1982): see PIATS 3 with 35 articles in 1 volume.
- The Fourth Seminar of the IATS at Munich (1985): see PIATS 4 with 59 articles in 1 volume.
- The Fifth Seminar of the IATS at Narita (1989): see PIATS 5 with 83 articles in 2 volumes.
- The Sixth Seminar of the IATS at Fagernes (1992): see PIATS 6 with 84 articles in 2 volumes.
- The Seventh Seminar of the IATS at Graz (1995): see PIATS 7 with 146 articles in 7 volumes.
- The Eighth Seminar of the IATS at Bloomington (1998): not yet published.
- The Ninth Seminar of the IATS at Leiden (2000): see PIATS 9 with 155 articles in 10 volumes.
- The Tenth Seminar of the IATS at Oxford (2003): see PIATS 10.
- The Eleventh Seminar of the IATS at Bonn (2006): publishing in process.
- The Twelfth Seminar of the IATS at Vancouver (2010): publishing plans currently under discussion.