August 27th - 31st, 2016, Prof. Fernand Meyer, former Director of the Center for Himalayan Studies (CHS) under Le Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (CNRS) paid a visit to Sichuan University. Vice Chairman of SCU University Council Prof. Luo Zhongshu met with him and accompanied him to visit the Pan-Himalayan Center for Cultural & Religious Research in our new campus.

Along with Prof. Mark Turin, member of “Cambridge Rivers Project” team of the University of Cambridge, professor of the Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, who visited SCU almost at the same time, Prof. Fernand Meyer had extensive and in-depth discussions with SCU’s Himalayan Multimedia Database construction team, covering the construction of the database, the founding of journal Himalayan Studies, and the expanding of cooperation with relevant overseas research institutes, and came up with some farsighted opinions.  

On the morning of August 29th, 2016, in Room 111 of the Center for Tibetan Studies, Prof. Fernand Meyer gave SCU faculties and students an academic lecture titled “The History of Himalayan Studies in France and Their Importance Today”. Prof. Xu Jun of the Center chaired the lecture, specially-appointed associate researcher Dr. Wang Lijuan and Dr. Li Jingwei, from the Collaborative Innovation Center for Security and Development of Western Frontier China (CWF), acted as interpreter. The teachers and students from the CWF, the Center for Tibetan Studies and the College of Foreign Languages attended this lecture.