Hotel Shanker, Lazimpat 28-31 July, 2020
The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya
28-31 July, 2020
Given the near-certain likelihood of international travel not resuming anytime soon, at least not in the manner it used to take place in the pre-Covid-19 period, and also the advisability against hosting large gatherings of people, the Conference Organising Committee has decided to cancel this year’s conference in its physical form, and decided to host an online conference.
The details of the conference are as follows:
· The conference will be held over four days: 28 to 31 July 2020.
· The conference timing has been fixed for 1700 to 2100 hours, Nepal standard time.
· Two sessions running parallel to each other will be held.
· The platform, Zoom, will be used for the conference.
Individuals interested in taking part in this conference can register online and make the payments as directed.
The structure of registration fees is as follows:
Nepali and other South Asian students: NPR 600
Nepali and other South Asian professionals: NPR 900
Non-South Asian students: USD 12
Professional, including South Asians, living outside South Asia: USD 19
Please write to conference@soscbaha.org for any clarifications required.
About Conference
The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya has been hosted by Social Science Baha since 2012 in collaboration with the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council, the Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS (since 2015) & Nepal Academic Network (Japan) (since 2016). The objective of the conference is to provide a scholarly platform in Kathmandu to scholars working on various aspects of social life in Nepal and the Himalaya from the perspective of social science as well as the arts and the humanities.
Conference 2020
Paper Presenters
| SN | Presenter/Affiliation | Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abha Lal Previously Associate Editor at the Record; Employee at Martin Chautari, Nepal | Loksewa and social mobility |
| 2 | Alfred Pach Program Coordinator, RENEW International, 1232 George St. Plainfield, NJ, USA | Religion and Ritual in Contemporary Nepali Society: Expanding and Transforming Continuities in the Khalikhane Ritual Complex |
| 3 | Ambika Rai PhD Research Scholar, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, India | Looking at ‘Circulation of Labour’ in the Himalayas: Bharias in Darjeeling Hills |
| 4 | Andrea de la Rubia Gómez-Moran Postdoctoral scholar, School of Design, Presidency University (PU), Bangalore, India. | British Colonial Mirages of India and the Himalaya. Photographic Allegories in the XIXth Century. |
| 5 | Anisha Bhattarai Research Associate, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal | The Samdhis in intermarriages: A study of evolving marriage practice between Bahun and Newar |
| 6 | Anukta Gairola PhD Candidate, University of Delhi, India | Nanda Devi: Goddess and Daughter |
| 7 | Badri Aryal, Durga Devkota, Prem Bhandari, Anoj Chhetri, Naba Raj Devkota Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal | Continuity and Change of Farming and Non-Farming Occupations In between Father and the Son |
| 8 | Beth Prosnitz PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, USA | Waiting for Land: The Social Significance of Waiting in the Land Revenue Office |
| 9 | Damodar Tripathi PhD student, Central Department of Anthropology, TU, Kirtipur, Nepal | Farmers and farm regimes: An exploration in the political ecology of commercial vegetable farmers in Kathmandu valley, Nepal |
| 10 | Faisal Hassan Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India | Genderscaping the Jungle: Psychological Insights from Matriarchal Tharu Society from the Terai Region of Nepal |
| 11 | Gaurav Shrestha Education Counselor & Writer at Backbenchers™ Gurgaon, India | Rituals and Mediating Space/s (An Eclectic Approach): An anecdotal (re)search for festivals in Kathmandu Valley (Multiplicity of ethnographic instances) |
| 12 | Hansh Raj Joshi CARE International in Nepal, Lalitpur, Nepal | Between Social Service and Funds: Interrogating Autonomy of NGOs in Nepal |
| 13 | Hema Kiruppalini PhD student (History) at the National University of Singapore, Singapore | Nepali Migrants during the Cold War: Historicizing the Transnational Lives of Gurkha families in the Far East (1940s-1960s) |
| 14 | Ina Zharkevich Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK | On Maoists, Christian Converts, and Irregular Migrants: hopelessness, temporality, and ‘existential mobility’ in rural Nepal. |
| 15 | Izumi Morimoto Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan | Transforming and dispersing sarangi; From avatar of the Gandharba to opportunity to change society |
| 16 | Kirpa Ram Bishwakarma Lecturer, Aathabis Education Campus, Aathabis Municipality-8 Dailekh, Nepal | Impacts of Contradictions among Dalits for Peace-building in Post-conflict Nepal |
| 17 | Komal Prasad Phuyal Lecturer, Central Department of English, T.U, Nepal | Contemporary Spirit and Social Change in Nepali Fictions |
| 18 | Liana E. Chase Postdoctoral Research Associate in Global Health Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK | The Double-Edged Sword of ‘Community’ in Community Mental Health: Reflections from Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills |
| 19 | Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA | Nepali Federalism: Quasi, Pseudo or Real? |
| 20 | Michael Baltutis Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA | Containing, confining, and categorizing Indra: a Vedic deity in Tantric Nepal |
| 21 | Nabin Maharjan Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Canada Nirdesh Shrestha Trainer, Crystal Counseling Center Palistha Sikhraka Trainer/Counsellor, Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA), Lalitpur, Nepal Pratap Adhikari Consultant, YouMe Nepal Roji Maharjan Former coordinator, Counseling Psychology and Social Studies College (CPSSC), Kathmandu Sarada Rana Magar Social Mobilizer, Association for Rural Welfare Nepal (ARSOW Nepal), Banepa, Nepal Saurav Rajbhandari Independent Filmmaker Sujan Oli Social Entrepreneur | Nepali Youth’s Community Engagement in the Post-disaster Context: Myth or reality? |
| 22 | Nabin Maharjan Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Canada Nirdesh Shrestha Trainer, Crystal Counseling Center Palistha Sikhraka Trainer/Counsellor, Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA), Lalitpur, Nepal Pratap Adhikari Consultant, YouMe Nepal Roji Maharjan Former coordinator, Counseling Psychology and Social Studies College (CPSSC), Kathmandu Sarada Rana Magar Social Mobilizer, Association for Rural Welfare Nepal (ARSOW Nepal), Banepa, Nepal Saurav Rajbhandari Independent Filmmaker Sujan Oli Social Entrepreneur | Applicability of PAR in Nepalese Context: Nepali Youth experiences in Studying Youth Community Engagement |
| 23 | Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, Nirmal Rijal Equal Access International, Kathmandu, Nepal | ‘Audience want change! Radio need the change!’ -A study on changing dynamics of audience interactivity with the ‘Saathi Sanga Maanka Kura’ and ‘Sajha Boli’ radio programs, and its socio-political manifestations |
| 24 | Pushpa Palanchoke MA. Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Kathmandu University, Nepal | Ratyaulī- Musical Sexual Socialization at Ghyachok |
| 25 | Rajiv Ghimire PhD Student, Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA | Transdisciplinary approach for Climate Change Adaptation: A study of Gandaki River Basin |
| 26 | Ratna Saha Research Scholar, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India | Sustainability of Smallholder Women Tea growers in Ilam District of Eastern Nepal |
| 27 | Richard Bownas Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, USA | Motivations for Christian Conversion Among Rural to Urban Migrants in the Kathmandu Valley |
| 28 | Ritu Mangar, Palmo Tamang Junior Research Fellows, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, India | Evolution of Darjeeling Town through the lens of Women in the Service Sector: Their influence, adaptation and contribution in the Urban growth |
| 29 | Sanae ITO National Institute for the Humanities, Tokyo, Japan / Visiting associate professor, Graduate school of Asian and African Studies, Kyoto University, Japan | Memories and Mourning of the Gorkha Earthquake in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal |
| 30 | Sanjeev Dahal PhD Scholar in Social Work at Boston College, MA, USA | Political Conflict, Natural Disaster and Displacement of Children and Evolution of Institutional Care of Children in Nepal |
| 31 | Sanju Koirala Senior Program Officer (Water, Energy and Gender), Policy Entrepreneurs Incorporated, Bakundole, Lalitpur, Nepal Shristi Shakya Research Associate, Policy Entrepreneurs Incorporated (PEI), Bakundole, Lalitpur, Nepal | Role of Migration in Driving Water Induced Disaster |
| 32 | Sarah Speck, Ulrike Müller-Böker Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland | Population Aging and Family Change: Effects on the Living Conditions of Older People in Rural Nepal |
| 33 | Seika Sato Teikyo University, Japan | From ‘Failed Development’ to ‘Inclusive Development’?: Views of Janajati and Dalit Women |
| 34 | Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Education Coordinator, Mercy Corps, Lalitpur, Nepal | The Dynamics of Financial Accountability in Nepal’s Community Schools |
| 35 | Shrey Shahi Doctoral candidate in History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India | Some aspects of agrarian challenges of Gorkahli government: from later half of the 18th century to the first half of 19th century |
| 36 | Srujay Reddy, Cheering Palkit, Aniket Alam Associate professor & students, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India | Mapping the Chorten’s of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh |
| 37 | Subodh Chandra Bharti PhD. South Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi, India | Foreign Policy of Nepal: Shifts and Opportunities |
| 38 | Suraj Kushwaha Undergraduate Student, Princeton University, USA | Nation Building at Altitude: How the Indian Military Sustains War on the Siachen Glacier |
| 39 | Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha Lecturer, MA Museology and Buddhist Collection, Lumbini Buddhist University, Nepal | Museums fulfilling a Socio-Political Cause |
| 40 | Taranath Sapkota, Inge Houkes, Hans Bosma Department of Social Medicine, Research School CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Netherlands | Vicious circle of chronic disease and poverty: a qualitative study of present-day Nepal |
| 41 | Tashi Gurung PhD Student, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA | Is Tourism: Boon or Bane? An Institutional Analysis of Tourism System as the Commons in the Himalayan Region of Upper Mustang, Nepal |
| 42 | Tashi Tewa Ghale Graduate Student, Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Amrita Baramu Independent Researcher, Nepal | Paradoxes of Indigenous Movement: Constitutional Openings and Baramu’s struggle |
| 43 | Todd John Wallenius PhD Fellow, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark Stefan Lueder Researcher, U.S. Fulbright Commission to Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal | New Perspectives on Education in the Himalaya: The Vision of Jaya Prithvi Bahadur Singh in the Early 20th Century Gorkha State |
| 44 | Tom Robertson Former executive Director, U.S. Educational Foundation (Fulbright Nepal), 2017-2019. | Man-Made Jungles: How the Tharu Made the Chitwan and Bardiya Grasslands |
| 45 | Tracy Fehr Sardone PhD Student (Sociology), University of Colorado Boulder, USA | The Patriarchy of Reconstruction: An Intersectional Analysis of Widowhood in Post-Earthquake Nepal |
| 46 | Tsewang Sangmo Former Co-Student, School for International Training: Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal | Diagnostic Dilemmas: Navigating between traditional and modern interpretations of illness and injury in Nubri, Nepal |
| 47 | Urmi Sengupta Senior Lecturer and Director of Education, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, UK | (Un)making of Tundikhel: Ruptured space and spatial estrangement |
| 48 | Vishnu Tandon PhD Candidate in Political Science, École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France | Towards Federal Democracy: Participatory Planning in Post – War Federal setting of Nepal |
| 49 | Weijie Zhao Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Kyoto University, Japan | Neither ‘Pet’ Nor ‘Pest’: Exploring Individual Decision-Makings on Creative Usage of Space Among Himalayan Feral Dogs in Langtang, Nepal |
| 50 | Young Hoon Oh Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, USA | Social Connectivity: ‘New’ Sherpas and the Recent Evolution of Himalayan Mountaineering |
| 51 | Yutsha Dahal Researcher,Nepal Picture Library, Kathmandu, Nepal | In Search of the Missing Images: Analysing a Feminist Shift in Visual Culture in Nepal |
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