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Conference 2013
The conference, spanning over two and half days, consist of eight themed panels on various social science disciplines. For the conference, proposals were initially invited either as stand-alone papers or as panels. These papers/panels were then selected by an international committee representing the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), the Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) and the Social Science Baha.
The conference also included two keynote addresses delivered during the evenings (5–6:30 pm) of 24 and 25 July as well as a panel discussion on 26 July (2:30 – 4:30 pm). The first keynote entitled ‘Five Nepali Novels’ was delivered by Prof Michael Hutt on 24 July and the second keynote ‘Democracy in Trouble? Political Elite’s Attitude and Behaviour and Regime Stability in Nepal’ was delivered by Prof Mahendra Lawoti on the evening of 25 July. The panel discussion on ‘Strategic Plan for the Proposed Social Science Research Council in Nepal’ featured presentation by Prof Pitamber Sharma and comments from Prof Kathryn S March and Pratyoush Onta.
These were public sessions in which admission was free and open to all on a first-come-first-served basis.
All panels and keynote sessions were held at Hotel Shanker, Lazimpat.
Panel 1 9 – 11 am
Opening Remarks
Nirmal Man Tuladhar, Chair, Social Science Baha
Chair
David Holmberg, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Discussant
Sambriddhi Kharel, Senior Research Scholar, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Sudhindra Sharma
Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts
Sujan Ghimire
Research Officer, Interdisciplinary Analysts
Bandana Gyawali Gautam
PhD Candidate, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki
Lok Ranjan Parajuli
Visiting Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thomas Robertson
Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Break 11 am – 11:30 am
Panel 2 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Chair
Gérard Toffin, Senior Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research
Discussant
Bandita Sijapati, Research Director, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility
Andrea Kölbel
PhD Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Shrochis Karki
PhD Candidate, International Development, University of Oxford
Amanda Snellinger
Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Lunch 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Panel 3 2:30 – 4 pm
Chair
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Professor of Social Anthropology, Bielefeld University
Discussant
Thomas Robertson, Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Christie Lai Ming Lam
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
Sanjay Sharma
Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility
Break 4 – 5 pm
Keynote 5 – 6:30 pm
Moderator
Abhi Subedi, Professor, Department of English, Tribhuvan University
Michael Hutt
Professor, Nepali and Himalayan Studies; and Chair, Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS
Panel 4 9 – 11 am
Chair
Sudhindra Sharma, Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts
Discussant
Christie Lai Ming Lam, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
Sudeep Jana Thing
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Western Australia
Soma Kumari Rana
Programme Officer (GESI), SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal
Shiva Kumar Shrestha
Senior Programme Officer, SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal
Christopher Butler
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Break 11 am – 11:30 am
Panel 5 11:30 am – 1 pm
Chair
David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
Discussant
Sujeet K Karn, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull
Gérard Toffin
Senior Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris
Cultural Politics in the Markets: A Case from Inter-Caste Negotiations at Meat Business in Kathmandu
Kanako Nakagawa
Research Assistant, Institution for Advanced Social Research, Kwansei Gakuin University
Ajaya N Mali
Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Lunch 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Panel 6 2:30 – 4 pm
Chair
Mahendra Lawoti, Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University
Discussant
Mara Malagodi, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Khem Raj Shreesh
Sudhindra Sharma
Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts
Sujeet K Karn
Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull
Break 4 – 5 pm
Keynote 5 – 6:30 pm
Moderator
Hira Vishwakarma, Executive President, Dalit Studies and Development Centre
Mahendra Lawoti
Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University
Panel 7 9 – 10:30 am
Chair
Steven Folmar, Assistant Professor Cultural/Applied Anthropology, Wake Forest University
Discussant
Ajaya N Mali, Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Pauline Limbu
Junior Research Fellow, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Gregory Pierce
PhD Candidate, Human Ecology, LUCID Research Centre, Lund University, Sweden
Break 10:30 – 11 am
Panel 8 11 am – 1 pm
Chair
Kathryn March, Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, Cornell University
Discussant
Amanda Snellinger, Postdoctoral Research Associate,
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Joanna Morrison
Senior Research Associate, University College London Institute for Global Health, University College London
Vikas Paudel, Dharma S Manandhar, Bhim P Shrestha
Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Kathmandu, Nepal
Naomi Saville, Joanna Morrison, Kristen Ormston
UCL Institute for Global Health, London, UK
Dhruba Bahadur Khatri
M. Phil. Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography and Population Studies, PN Campus, Pokhara
Closing Remarks
Michael Hutt, Chair, Britain-Nepal Academic Council
Panel Discussion 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Moderator
David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
Comments by
Kathryn S March, Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, Cornell University & Pratyoush Onta, Chairperson, Martin Chautari and Member, Social Science Baha
Pitamber Sharma
Former Vice-Chair, National Planning Commission and former Professor of Geography, Tribhuvan University