Conference 2022

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Panel A1 | Earthquake and the Pandemic: Multiplicity of Impacts 9:00 -11:00

Chair
Komal Prasad Phuyal, Lecturer in English, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University

Discussant
Sangita Thebe Limbu, PhD Candidate, University College London

The Multiplicity of Widowhood in Post-Earthquake Nepal: An Intersectional Analysis of Lived Experiences

Tracy Fehr

PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder

COVID-19, Nepal’s Political Economy and Rural Agricultural Households: Examining the Impacts and the Inter-Linkages

Pankaj Pokhrel

Research Associate, Inter-Disciplinary Analysts, Kathmandu

Shreezal G.C

Research Associate, Inter-Disciplinary Analysts, Kathmandu

Sudhindra Sharma

Executive Director, Inter-Disciplinary Analysts, Kathmandu

Inequality in Earthquake Reconstruction: An Ethnographic Account of Peri-Urban Locality in the Northern Part of Kathmandu

Kumar Prasad Aryal

Research Associate, Social Science Baha

Break 11–11:30 am

Poster Presentation

The poster presentation will be on display on each day of the conference during tea/coffee and lunch breaks.

Trance-Dance & Actor-Gods: From Himalayan Storytelling to Contemporary Nepali Theate

Rose Schwietz

Fulbright US Student Research Nepal; affiliated with One World Theatre and Actor’s Studio Nepal

Panel A2 | Labouring in the Himalaya 11:30 am–1:30 pm

Chair

Jigme Yeshe Lama, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta
Discussant

Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

Urban Married Women in Service Sectors of Darjeeling Hills: Gender Dynamics in Their Everyday Family Lives

Ritu Mangar

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal

Detritus: On the Decay and Afterlives of Abandoned Tea Plantations in Darjeeling, West Bengal

Nirvan Pradhan

PhD Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Looking at ‘Circulation of Labour’ in the Himalayas: A Study of Bharias (Head Porters) In Darjeeling Hills

Ambika Rai

PhD Research Scholar, University of North Bengal

Break 1:30–2:30 pm

Panel A3 | Heritage as Placemaking: Politics of Erasure and Solidarity 2:30–4:30 pm

Chair
Tom Robertson, Kathmandu University

Discussant
Prem Phyak, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

‘Baakhan Nyane Waa’: Local Heritage Documentation for the Future

Binita Magaiya

Conservation Architect, Kasthamandap Reconstruction Committee

Alina Tamrakar

Co-founder, Baakhan Nyane Waa

Rija Joshi

Urban Planner

Shristina Shrestha

Conservation Architect

Stefanie Lotter

Principal Investigator, ‘Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia’, SOAS

When Are Water Sprouts (Hiti) Part of Basic Needs Provision and When Do They Become Cultural Heritage?

Monalisa Maharjan

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Social Science Baha

Sabin Ninglekhu

Principal Investigator, ‘Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia’, Social Science Baha

Placemaking and Placelessness in Janakpur: ‘Saffron City’ and the Subversive Politics of Mithila Heritage

Sabin Ninglekhu

Principal Investigator, ‘Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia’, Social Science Baha

Monica Mottin

Research Fellow, Heidelberg University

Panel B1 | Scales of Governance 11:30 am–1:30 pm

Chair

Bimla Kumari Gurung, Lecturer, Morgan International College, Basundhara, Kathmandu

Discussant

Pranab Kharel, Member, Martin Chautari

Problems of Nation-Building and Identity Politics in Nepal

Subodh Chandra Bharti

PhD Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Growing Urban Waste in Himalayan Cities: Trends and Impact in Urban Local Bodies of Himachal Pradesh

Kshitij Sharma

PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Panjab University

Nepal’s National Security Council and National Security Policy: Internal and Geopolitical Sensitivities

Rajendra Sharma

Research Associate, Social Science Baha

Break 1:30–2:30 pm

Panel B2 | Youth Deliberation on Post-federalism and Political Culture Nepal 2:30–4:30 pm

Chair
Bijaya Raj Poudel, Director, Hands-On Institute
Discussant
Dan Hirslund, External Researcher, University of Copenhagen

Youth Deliberation on Post-federalism and Political Culture Nepal

Thomas O’Neill

Professor, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Canada

Brabim Kumar KC

Ex-Communications Advisor, UNDP–UNESP

Kalawati Rai

Economic Inclusion Coordinator, Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project

Kanchan Jha

Founder, Sano Paila, Birgunj

Pradip Pariyar

Executive Chairperson, Samata Foundation, Kathmandu

Bijaya Raj Poudel

Director, Hands-On Institute

Samrat Katwal

Co-Founder, Hands-On Institute

Panel A4 | Understanding the Colonial Past 9–11 am

Chair
Lokranjan Parajuli, Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu
Discussant
Sanjay Sharma, PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore

Empire on High: The Absent People on the Mountains

Dechen Dolkar Bhutia

Research Scholar, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, SRM University, Sikkim

Forays of the English East India Company into the Kumaon-Garhwal Belt of the Central Himalayas

Anukta Gairola

PhD Scholar, Department of History, University of Delhi

The Beginning of the Making of Darjeeling: ‘Threatened Frontier’, Settlement and Labour

Mingma Lhamu Pakhrin

PhD student, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Break 11–11:30 am

Panel A5 | Intersectionality of Women’s Experiences 11:30 am–1:30 pm

Chair
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

Discussant
Tracy Fehr, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder

Decisions-Making and Child Care among Intermarried Couples

Bimla Kumari Gurung

Lecturer at Morgan International College, Basundhara, Kathmandu

Bargaining with Patriarchy – Woman Quest for Power and Security within the Patriarchal Families

Rajya Laxmi Gurung

MPhil (Sociology), Tribhuvan University

Intersectional Perspective on Menstrual Practises in Nepal: Lessons from ‘Dignity Without Danger’ Research Project

Rajya Laxmi Gurung

MPhil (Sociology), Tribhuvan University

Lina Baniya

Lecturer (Social Work), Presidential College

Madhusudan Subedi

Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, and Coordinator of School of Public Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences/Central Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University

Stefanie Lotter

Senior Research Fellow, SOAS University of London; Co-Investigator, 'Dignity without Danger'

Break 1:30–2:30 pm

Panel A6 | Education, Inclusion, and Society 2:30–4:30 pm

Chair
Madhusudan Subedi, Professor and Chair of Department of Community Health Sciences, and Coordinator of School of Public Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences/Central Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University

Discussant
Anna Hata, University College London

Moving Out from Nepal

Ojaswee Bhattarai

Research Fellow, The Open Institute for Social Science, Lalitpur

Inclusion and Governance in Education Committees of Local Governments

Shak Bahadur Budhathoki

Project Coordinator, Voluntary Services Overseas

Implied Gender and Cultural Nuances in Young Children’s Responses to Textbook Images

Pragya Paneru

Permanent Lecturer, Nepal Commerce Campus, Kathmandu