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Conference 2020

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  • Day 1
    28 Jul, 2020
  • Day 2
    29 Jul, 2020
  • Day 3
    30 Jul, 2020
  • Day 4
    31 Jul, 2020
  • Session A
  • Session B

Panel A1 17:00-18:20

Caring for the Young and the Elderly
https://zoom.us/j/92618712216
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Opening Remarks and Chair

Nirmal Man Tuladhar, Chair, Social Science Baha
Discussant: Shak Bahadur Budhathoki, Education Coordinator, Mercy Corps, Lalitpur

Political Conflict, Natural Disaster and Displacement of Children and Evolution of Institutional Care of Children in Nepal
Sanjeev Dahal
PhD Scholar in Social Work at Boston College, MA, USA
Population Aging and Family Change: Effects on the Living Conditions of Older People in Rural Nepal
Sarah Speck, Ulrike Müller-Böker
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Break 18:20–18:50

Panel A2 18:50–21:00

From Conflict to Federalism
https://zoom.us/j/95287159667
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair

Sara B. Shneiderman, Associate Professor, Dept of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Discussant

Sudeshna Thapa, Research Officer, Social Science Baha

Nepali Federalism: Quasi, Pseudo or Real?
Mahendra Lawoti
Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA
Towards Federal Democracy: Participatory Planning in Post – War Federal setting of Nepal
Vishnu Tandon
PhD Candidate in Political Science, École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
Impacts of Contradictions Among Dalits for Peace-Building in Post-Conflict Nepal
Kirpa Ram Bishwakarma
Lecturer, Aathabis Education Campus, Aathabis Municipality-8 Dailekh, Nepal

Panel B1 17:00–18:20

Continuity and Change in Marriage Rituals
https://zoom.us/j/96260265497
Host: Shalini Gupta

Opening Remarks and Chair

Katsuo Nawa, Nepal Academic Network (Japan)
Discussant: Seika Sato, Teikyo University, Japan

The Samdhis in Intermarriages: A Study of Evolving Marriage Practice Between Bahun and Newar
Anisha Bhattarai
Research Associate, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ratyaulī- Musical Sexual Socialization at Ghyachok
Pushpa Palanchoke
MA. Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Kathmandu University, Nepal

Break 18:20–18:50

Panel B2 18:50–21:00

Traditional Local knowledge
https://zoom.us/j/99242571877
Host: Shalini Gupta

Chair

Magnus Hatlebakk, Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

Discussant

Sangita Thebe Limbu, University of Oxford

Transdisciplinary Approach for Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of Gandaki River Basin
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
Man-Made Jungles: How the Tharu Made the Chitwan and Bardiya Grasslands
Tom Robertson
Former executive Director, U.S. Educational Foundation (Fulbright Nepal), 2017-2019.
Applicability of Par in Nepalese Context: Nepali Youth Experiences in Studying Youth Community Engagement
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
  • Session A
  • Session B

Panel A3 17:00–18:20

Moving on after Disasters
https://zoom.us/j/97041638706
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair

Nabin Rawal, Lecturer, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University

Discussant

Austin Lord, PhD Candidate, Cornell University

Nepali Youth’s Community Engagement in the Post-Disaster Context: Myth or Reality?
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
Memories and Mourning of the Gorkha Earthquake in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Sanae ITO
National Institute for the Humanities, Tokyo, Japan / Visiting associate professor, Graduate school of Asian and African Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

Break 18:20–18:50

Panel A4 18:50–21:00

Religion: Explorations and Experiences
https://zoom.us/j/95783896654
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair

Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha, Lecturer, Museology and Buddhist Collection, Lumbini Buddhist University

Discussant

Alfred Pach, Senior Social Scientist, International Vaccine Institute

Rituals and Mediating Space/S (An Eclectic Approach): An Anecdotal (Re)Search for Festivals in Kathmandu Valley (Multiplicity of Ethnographic Instances)
Gaurav Shrestha
Education Counselor & Writer at Backbenchers™ Gurgaon, India
Containing, Confining, and Categorizing Indra: A Vedic Deity in Tantric Nepal
Michael Baltutis
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA
Motivations for Christian Conversion Among Rural to Urban Migrants in the Kathmandu Valley
Richard Bownas
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, USA

Panel B3 17:00–18:20

Culture as Identity: Fixity and Flexibility
https://zoom.us/j/95162187396
Host: Shalini Gupta

Chair

Heather Hindman, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

Sara Bertotti, SOAS, University of London

Museums Fulfilling a Socio-Political Cause
Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha
Lecturer, MA Museology and Buddhist Collection, Lumbini Buddhist University, Nepal
Transforming and Dispersing Sarangi; From Avatar of the Gandharba to Opportunity to Change Society
Izumi Morimoto
Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan

Break 18:20–18:50

Panel B4 18:50–21:00

Piecing Together the Past
https://zoom.us/j/97269589099
Host: Shalini Gupta

Chair

Tom Robertson, Former Executive Director, Fulbright Nepal

Discussant

Sanjay Sharma, PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore

Mapping the Chorten’s of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh
Srujay Reddy, Cheering Palkit, Aniket Alam
Associate professor & students, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
In Search of the Missing Images: Analysing a Feminist Shift in Visual Culture in Nepal
Yutsha Dahal
Researcher,Nepal Picture Library, Kathmandu, Nepal
Some Aspects of Agrarian Challenges of Gorkahli Government: From Later Half of the 18th Century to the First Half of 19th Century
Shrey Shahi
Doctoral candidate in History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • Session A
  • Session B

Panel A5 17:00–19:00

Spaces and Resources
https://zoom.us/j/94879610488
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair and Discussant

Arjun Kharel, Research Coordinator, Social Science Baha

Role of Migration in Driving Water Induced Disaster
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
(Un)Making of Tundikhel: Ruptured Space and Spatial Estrangement
Urmi Sengupta
Senior Lecturer and Director of Education, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Neither ‘Pet’ Nor ‘Pest’: Exploring Individual Decision-Makings on Creative Usage of Space Among Himalayan Feral Dogs in Langtang, Nepal
Sese Ma
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Kyoto University, Japan

Break 19:00–19:30

Panel A6 19:30–21:00

Nationalism by Any Other Name
https://zoom.us/j/91222654001
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair

Jeevan Baniya, Assistant Director, Social Science Baha

Discussant

Amit Gautam, Research Associate, Social Science Baha

Foreign Policy of Nepal: Shifts and Opportunities
Subodh Chandra Bharti
PhD. South Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi, India
Nation Building at Altitude: How the Indian Military Sustains War on the Siachen Glacier
Suraj Kushwaha
Undergraduate Student, Princeton University, USA

Panel B5 17:00–19:00

Governance and Accountability: Stakeholder Engagement
https://zoom.us/j/95425565404
Host: Shalini Gupta

Chair

Hari Sharma, Social Science Baha

Discussant

Nabin Rawal, Lecturer, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University

The Dynamics of Financial Accountability in Nepal’s Community Schools
Shak Bahadur Budhathoki
Education Coordinator, Mercy Corps, Lalitpur, Nepal
Changing Dynamics of Radio Audience Interactivity in Nepal. ‘Audience Want Change! Radio Needs the Change!’
Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, Nirmal Rijal
Equal Access International, Kathmandu, Nepal
From ‘Failed Development’ to ‘Inclusive Development’?: Views of Janajati and Dalit Women
Seika Sato
Teikyo University, Japan

Break 19:00–19:30

Panel B6 19:30–21:00

Family Occupation and Social Mobility
https://zoom.us/j/97517133723
Host: Shalini Gupta

Chair

Lopita Nath, Professor, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas

Discussant

Ritika Singh, Research Associate, Social Science Baha

Continuity and Change of Farming and Non-Farming Occupations in Between Father and the Son
Badri Aryal, Durga Devkota, Prem Bhandari, Anoj Chhetri, Naba Raj Devkota
Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal
Social Connectivity: ‘New’ Sherpas and the Recent Evolution of Himalayan Mountaineering
Young Hoon Oh
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, USA
  • Session A
  • Session B

Panel A7 17:00–18:20

Heritage and Expertise in Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Reconstruction
https://zoom.us/j/96243323463
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair and Discussant

Deepak Thapa, Director, Social Science Baha

Discourse of Post-Earthquake Heritage Reconstruction: A Case Study of Bhaktapur Municipality
Manoj Suji
Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha
‘Expert Knowledge and Expertise in the Aftermath of April 2015 Nepal Earthquake’
Nabin Rawal
Lecturer, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University

Break 18:20-18:50

Panel A8 18:50–20:10

Survival Strategies of the Bhutanese Refugees in the United States
https://zoom.us/j/95392167889
Host: Nyima Dorjee

Chair and Discussant

Mahendra Lawoti, Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA

A Decade Later: Challenges and Success Stories of Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Lopita Nath
Professor and Chair of the History Department, Coordinator of Asian Studies University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio, Texas
Immigrant Communities, Sustainable Living and the Cielo (Community) Gardens: Bhutanese Refugees in San Antonio
Jennifer Yanez-Alaniz
A poet and community activist, USA
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