The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya – Kathmandu, Nepal

Selected Papers

SN Presenter/Affiliation Abstract
1
Rukh Gurung
Assistant Researcher, Martin Chautari

Pratyoush Onta
Research Director, Martin Chautari

Lokranjan Parajuli
Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari

Histories of Education in the Nepali Cultural World
2
Mahesh Paudyal
Lecturer, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu

Komal Phuyal
Lecturer in English, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Shiva Rijal
Lecturer in English, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Of Journeys and Worldviews: Formation of Early Modern Consciousness in Nepal
3
Sampreety Gurung
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Hema Kiruppalini
Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore

Jacob Rinck
Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore

Precarity and Possibility: Transnational Migrant Labour, Life-Making & Legalities in Malaya/Sia
4
Team Sajag-Nepal

Sajag-Nepal: Preparedness and Planning for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain
5
Sanjaya Aryal
University of Essex

Is a Win-Win Possible in International Recruitment and Mobility of Health and Care Workforce?
6
Prakash B K
PhD Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA

Exploring Structural Violence: Understanding Mental Suffering and Healing in a Caste-Based Society
7
Akshay Balan
Field Representative, Worker Rights Consortium

Anisha Maini
Research Associate, StepChange

Avantika Jhunjhunwala
Researcher; MA Sociology, Delhi School of Economics

Avita Singh
Guest Faculty, University of Bhopal

Bibhuti Malla
Consulting Senior Associate, ERM India Pvt. Ltd

Srinjit Venkatesh
Research Analyst, Square Panda Education India

Religiosity and Covid-19: A Study of Religious Practice in Kathmandu and Delhi
8
Lila Bahadur Bishwakarma
Teacher, Kallery Secondary School, Dhading, Nepal

The Life-World of Dalit in Lower-Route of Great Himalayan Trail in Nepal
9
Shak Bahadur Budhathoki
Lifelong Learning Mandala

The State of Policy and Practice on Complaint Response Mechanism and its Implication in Creating a Safe Learning Environment in Nepal’s Community Schools
10
Wu Di
Postdoctoral Researcher, Assistant Researcher, School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, China

Night Life of Miss Budweiser and Mr. Dance: A Study of Nepalese Cross-Border Migrant Workers in Nangma Bar of Kerong, Xizang (Tibet)
11
Rahul Ganguly
PhD Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India

Desiring the State? Political Imaginaries in the Darjeeling Hills after the Gorkhaland Andolan of 2017
12
Dipak Ghising
PhD Scholar, Rural Development, Tribhuvan University

Participation of Executive Members vs General Members in Decision-Making of the Plan Implementation Process at the Local Level
13
Anna Hata
PhD Scholar, University College London, United Kingdom

Disability Is What Society Has Made Us: Cultivating Creative Methods to Centre Knowledge and Lived Experience of Marginalised Children in Nepal
14
Chaaru Jain
Project Manager and Art Educator, Srijanalaya

To Partner and Influence? A Post-Colonial Approach to Dissecting the Historical Narratives about the Gurkhas
15
Phoenix Kenney
PhD Scholar, University of Cambridge

What Makes a Peer? Understanding Peer Dynamics in Kathmandu’s Youth Sector
16
Tek Raj Koirala
PhD Scholar International Relation, South Asian University, New Delhi

A Case Study of Gorkhali: Private Military and Security Companies in Global Security Assemblages
17
Nabraj Lama
Research Scholar, Himalayan Strategic Institute

Beyond Politics and Diplomacy: A Dive into Local Sentiments of Both Nepal and India Surrounding the Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project
18
Niraj Lawoju
PhD Scholar, School of International Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Learning Chinese Culture: Implications of Soft Power among Nepali Students Studying in China
19
Mahendra Lawoti
Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

The Good, Bad and Ugly Nationalism: Minority Nationalism Countering Hegemonic Racist Nationalism in Multi-Ethnic Nepal
20
Xing Li
PhD Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

‘You Must Speak Yourself’: Resolving Complicated Cases of Civil Registration in Nepal’s Local Government
21
Chhatra Bahadur Limbu
Researcher, Social Science Baha

Factors Associated with Smartphone Addiction Among High School Students in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City, Sunsari
22
HAI Lu
Lecturer & Research Associate, Institute of International Relations, JINAN University, Guangdong, China

Yu Yao
Lecturer, School of International Studies/Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies, JINAN University, Guangzhou, China

Diversity, Multi-Level and Mobility:An Ethnographic Study on Social Networks of the Tibetan in Nepal
23
Sujit Maharjan
Researcher, Social Science Baha

Challenges Faced by Partially Visually Impaired English Language Learners and How they Overcame them
24
Lopita Nath
Professor and Chair of History, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas

Where is my Shangri-la? Conceptualizing the Idea of a Homeland in the Bhutanese Refugee Experience
25
Josef Neubauer
PhD Scholar, Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria

The Power of Policy: How Immigration Policy Changes in Southern and Eastern Europe Reshape Migration Strategies and Inequalities in Nepal
26
Rajib Neupane
Research Associate, Social Science Baha

China and India in Nepal: What Does it Entail?
27
Rajan Binayek Pasa
Assistant Professor, Central Department of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University

Livelihood and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Applying in Lower-Great Himalayan Trail, Nepal
28
Prem Phyak
Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA

Students as Policed Subjects: Language Policing and the Violation of Right to Speak in Schools
29
Bade Qunzhu
Lecturer, Qinghai Minzu University, China; Ph.D. Scholar, Ethnography, Qinghai Minzu University, China

Residents’ Perception towards Trans-Himalayan Mobility and Tourism Development: a case from Kyirong Valley of Sino-Nepal Border
30
Amir Raja
Research Associate, Social Science Baha; Lecturer, Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu

Exploring the Socialization Process and Gender Construction among the Muslim Community of Kalaiya, Bara
31
Chitra Rawat
Research and Operations Manager, India Migration Now

At the Crossroads of Ritual and Commercial: Representation of ‘Dotiyal’ in Goril Devta Jagar from Uttarakhand
32
Rajendra Sharma
Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha

Navigating Social Leadership and Community Governance: Transitioning Community Leadership in Tharu Community
33
Sanjay Sharma
Independent Scholar

Decolonising Fieldwork: A Methodological Turn in Social Research
34
Ranu Sherpa
Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

Literary Interventions of Cultural Identity: An Analysis of the Eastern Himalayas
35
Sudhir Shrestha
Knowledge Management Officer, South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication; Visiting Faculty, Kathmandu University School of Management (KUSOM)

Tea Production in Nepal: Smallholders’ Challenges and Their Experimentation with Farmer-Based Organisations
36
Smriti Shreya
PhD Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Development and Dilemma of Cultural Preservation in the Himalayas: Navigating Cultural Transformations
37
Michael D. Smith
Researcher, Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute (RYI)

Spiritual Songs (mgur) in 17-18 th Century Dolpa, Nepal: Sub-Genres of Song Found in the Writings of Tadru Orgyan Tenzin (1657–1737)
38
Paulina Stanik
PhD Scholar, University of Warsaw, Poland

Unbalanced Power: The Role of the British in the Polish-South Asian World War Two Relations
39
Anna Stirr
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii Manoa

Notating Sorati: Subi Shah’s Nepali Dance Notation, Ideas of Nationalism, and the Classical
40
Rajendra Raj Timilsina
Neo-Sanskritization Explorer

Nepali Gurukuls Under Zoom Monitoring from Abroad: Lived Experiences
41
Lalita Waldia
Field Researcher

Changing Life Pattern of Tribal Women: Kumaoni Bhotia of Uttarakhand
42
Sabin Bahadur Zoowa
Lecturer, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences

The Social Construction of Boksi (Witch) in Tamang Community In Kavrepalachowk District