Paper Presenters

SN	Presenter/Affiliation	Abstract
1	Lok Ranjan Parajuli Martin Chautari, Nepal	‘A University for the Nation’s Survival?’: A Story of the Failed Attempt to Establish a University in Nepal
2	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	‘Baakhan Nyane Waa’: Local Heritage Documentation for the Future
3	Pramod Bhatta Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	‘Communityization’ of Public Schools and the Realities of ‘free’ Education in Nepal
4	Dawa Tshering Sherpa & Soni Khanal Independent Researcher	‘Everyday is about surviving’: Street children and the Great Quake
5	Nabin Rawal Lecturer, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University	‘Expert Knowledge and Expertise in the Aftermath of April 2015 Nepal Earthquake’
6	Sujeet K Karn Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull	‘Grief Arising Out of Violent Death is Like Swallowing a Hot Chilli’: A Nepali Case
7	Kristie Drucza PhD Candidate (Social Protection), Deakin University, Australia	‘If I Say Left, the Government will Go Right’: Dalit Perceptions and Experiences of Governance and Social Protection in Three Villages in Sarlahi, Nepal
8	Sanjay Sharma PhD Student, National University of Singapore, Singapore	‘Invisible Counterparts’ of the ‘Warrior Gentlemen’: Tracing out the Mobilities of ‘Gurkha Women’
9	Shreemanjari Tamrakar MPhil Student in Sociology, Tribhuvan University Tracy Ghale Research Associate, Social Science Baha Sanjay Sharma Independent Researcher	‘Maybe it’s just a phase’: Parental Reaction to Non-heterosexuality
10	Prabin Nanicha Shrestha MA in Conflict, Peace and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University	‘Music for Peace’ Discourse and Local Understanding in Post-Conflict Nepal
11	Khem Shreesh Independent Researchers Sanjay Sharma Independent Researchers	‘Numbering of the people’: 100 Years of Census in Nepal and National Discourse
12	Victoria Dalzell Independent Scholar (adjunct teaching faculty at multiple colleges and universities in Southern California, USA)	‘Our God is not a foreign God’: Ritual Music Practice and Tharu Ethnicity within Western Nepal’s Christian Community
13	Rajya Laxmi Gurung MPhil Candidate in Sociology, Tribhuvan University	‘Pothi Bashio’: Security of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) in Nepal
14	Avash Piya Aarhus University, Denmark	‘We are also Gurkhas’: Changes in Gurkha Recruitment Policy and the Inclusion Discourse in Nepal
15	Ram Bahadur Chhetri Professor, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	‘Women and Men Are the Two Wheels of the Chariot’: Rhetoric and Realities of Quotas for Women in Politics and Governance in Nepal
16	Binita Magaiya Researcher, Social Science Baha Stefanie Lotter Senior Research Fellow, SOAS, UK	“Muchuk and Mukundapur: How Two Communities Engage with Mukundasen’s Legacy”
17	Balram Uprety Assistant Professor of English, St. Joseph’s College	“Aren’t we too wheels of this nation-chariot?”: Orature as an Alternative ‘Her-story’ of the Nation
18	Gautam Chandra Roy Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, B. N. College, Dhubri, Assam, India	“Cross-Border Nationalism” and Emerging Transnational Identity: The Rajbanshis of Indo-Nepal-Bangladesh Borderland
19	Thomas B. Robertson Associate Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA	“Guns and Fences” Conservation in Asia?: The Origins and Evolution of Nepal’s Chitwan National Park
20	Sanjay Sharma PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore	“Lahure Nabhai Marne Chhaina”: Locating Lahure Aspirations through Wholesome Memes
21	Seira Tamang Martin Chautari, Nepal	“Sikkimization” and Gendered Anxieties of Nepali Sovereignty
22	Amy Leigh Johnson Yale University	“Tharu-Pahadi Bhaai Bhaai”: Imagining Federalism in Sundar Sudurpaschim
23	Uma Pradhan Lecturer, University College London, UK	(Re)Constructing a ‘Good’ School: Perspectives on Educational Transformation in Post-earthquake Nepal
24	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
25	Shamik Mishra & Deepak Aryal Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya	1934 Earthquake Revisited: A View from the Archives
26	Andrew Haxby MI. PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA	22 Houses Near the River: Reflections on Reputation, Home, and the Trials of Youth during Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Reconstruction
27	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
28	Romain Valadaud PhD Candidate, Geography Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland	A Combined Analytical Narrative to Study the Politicization of Irrigation Management in the Tarai: Critical Realism, Hydrosocial Theory and Sociotechnical Approach
29	Lopita Nath Professor and Chair of the History Department, Coordinator of Asian Studies University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio, Texas	A Decade Later: Challenges and Success Stories of Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement in the United States
30	Ramawatar Yadav Former Vice Chancellor of Purbanchal University (2007-2011)	A Hitherto Undiscovered and Unstudied Hand-Copied Newari Manuscript of a Maithili Bārahamāsā Song Composed by King Jagatprakāśamalla (1643-1673 CE) of Nepal: Preliminary Analysis
31	Thomas Robertson Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute	A Lowland Plague in a Himalayan Country: A Historical Political Ecology of Disease in Nepal Before 1950
32	Samuele Poletti Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC), Université Paris Nanterre	A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the Struggle for Being in Sinja, Nepal
33	Alpa Shah Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK	A Step Back from Ethnic and Indigenous Rights
34	Arjun Kharel Researcher, Social Science Baha, Nepal Ratna Shrestha Programme Implementation Manager, Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) Nepal	A Study on the Prevalence of Physical and Sexual Violence Against Returned Women Migrant Workers in Nepal
35	Bal Bahadur Thapa Lecturer, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	A Trajectory of Nepali Modernity: A Narrative of Ruptures and Repairs
36	Jill Allison Global Health Co-ordinator, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Madhusudan Subedi Professor, Central Department of Sociology Tribhuvan University, Nepal Cathy Ellis Bachelor of Fine Arts, Registered Midwife, MSc., Canada Bhakta Dev Shrestha Medical officer, National Health Education Information and Communication Centre, Nepal Nani Kaway Master in Nursing (Women Health and Development), Institute of Medicine, Nepal Llamo Sherpa Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway	Accounting for Local Culture to Promote Safer Births in Rural and Remote Nepal
37	Anish Kumar Thokar PhD candidate, Central Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur	Activism of Ethnic Social Movements for Constitutional Reform: An Analysis of Tamang’s Movement in Nepal
38	Bhim Narayan Regmi Lecturer, Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Additional Official Language Policy of Nepal: A Review
39	Janak Rai Associate Professor, Anthropology, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Adivasi Body, Malaria, and the State in Nepal: Perspectives from Indigenous Historical Analysis
40	Aidan Seale-Feldman PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles, USA	Adolescent ‘Mass Hysteria’ in Post-Conflict Nepal: Ethnographic Impressions
41	Sauharda Rai Research Associate, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke University Kohrt Brandon Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Global Health, and Anthropology, Duke University	Adolescent Aspiration Models and Mental Health
42	Pramod Bhatta Martin Chautari	Affiliation as Privatization: Trajectories of University Expansion in Nepal
43	Mahendra Lawoti Professor of Political Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA	Affirmative Action and Political Representation across Time, Groups and States: Testing Claims for and against with Cases of India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
44	Kåre Vollan Director, Quality AS and Electoral Expert, Norway	Affirmative Action and Power Sharing Instruments: Possible Electoral Arrangements for Nepal
45	Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya Visiting Professor of Political Science, Central Department of Political Science, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	Affirmative Action and Women in India
46	Khyam Bishwakarma Freelance Development Consultant, Kathmandu	Affirmative Action in Nepal: What Does It Mean for Dalits at the Grassroots Level?
47	Luke Wagner Department of Sociology, Yale University, USA	Agents of Other States: Contesting Secularism and Negating Agency in Nepal
48	Shankar Ghimire Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of Social Sciences, Maryville College, USA	Aid, Aid-for-Trade, and Nepal
49	Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Assistant Professor, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India	Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: In the Realm of the Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control among Gorkhas in North-Eastern India
50	Katsuo Nawa Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan	Ambivalence Denied or Unrecognized? A Preliminary Study on Some Governmental Brochures in the Early Panchayat Period
51	Nischal Regmi Martin Chautari Shailesh B. Pandey Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari	An Insight into ICT’s Energy Consumption and its Implications
52	Lopita Nath University of the Incarnate Word, Texas	An Old Monarchy, A New Democracy and Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: A Holistic Approach for Sustainable Development
53	Mona Shrestha Adhikari Fellow, South Asia Watch on Trade Economics and Environment, (SAWTEE), Kathmandu	Analysing the Construction of Gendered Work: A Case of Hotels, Resorts and Casinos in the Kathmandu Valley
54	Anjam Singh Junior Research Fellow, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nepal	Analysis of Women’s Empowerment Discourse in Nepal
55	Sudipta Ghosh Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, India Abigail Bigham Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Michigan Tom Brutsaert Department of Exercise Science, Syracuse University, New York	Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Genotypes in Relation to High Altitude Hypoxia Among the Tawang Monpa from Himalayan Mountains
56	Sumit Kumar Sarma Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, India	Anxiety, Assertion and the Politics of Naming: The Making of ‘Assameli- Gorkha
57	Khem Shreesh Editor, Social Science Baha	Apathetic and Impassive: The Nepali State in Crises
58	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
59	Tara Nath Pande Advisor, Women and Environmental Development Organization (PWEDO)	Application of Appropriate Technology and Practices for Food Security and Livelihood Improvement
60	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
61	Sunil Sapkota BSc. Forestry, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan	Attitude, Behaviour and Knowledge on Snakes and Snakebite Management of Students in Snake Prone Area of Different Himalayan Nation (Nepal and Bhutan)
62	Amar BK PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Autonomy, Gender, and Women’s Suffering in Nepal
63	Ramawatar Yadav Former Vice Chancellor, Purbanchal University	AUX–Forms in Mid–Maithili — With Special Reference to Medieval Archival Literary Texts of Maithili Dramas and Songs Composed by Newar Kings of Nepālamaṇḍala
64	Wayne Johnston Head, Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication, University of Guelph Library, Canada	Back to Nepal: A Canadian Perspective
65	Rajya Laxmi Gurung MPhil (Sociology), Tribhuvan University	Bargaining with Patriarchy – Woman Quest for Power and Security within the Patriarchal Families
66	Uma Pradha Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Education Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark	Becoming ‘eligible’: Documents, Intermediary Actors, and the State in Education Scholarship Programmes
67	Madhu Giri PhD in Anthropology, Tribhuvan University	Becoming a Musahar and Making Space: Storytelling as an Art of Telling History in Eastern Tarai
68	Ajapa Sharma Candidate for MPhil in Modern Indian History, Jawaharlal Nehru University	Becoming Nepali: Projects of Self- Making in the Writings of Laxmiprasad Devkota, Balkrishna Sama and Bisweshwor Prasad Koirala
69	Michael Hutt Professor, SOAS, London	Before the Dust Settled: Nepal’s Seismic Constitution
70	Samuele Poletti PhD candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh	Being in the Shadow of Death: Existential reflections on Mortality as a Modality of Being-in-the-world in the Sinja Valley of Western Nepal
71	Steve Folmar Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, USA	Being, Becoming, Belonging: The Paradox of Identity and Mental Suffering among Nepal’s Dalits
72	Mallika Shakya Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi	Belonging and Border in the Twentieth Century Nepali Novels
73	Andrew Nelson Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas	Between Social Evil and Social Necessity: The Dual Meaning of Kathmandu Dalāls
74	Richard Bownas Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Northern Colorado Ratna Bishokarma Sociology student, Tribhuvan University	Between Synergy and Co-optation: Dalits and Maoists Before, During and After the ‘People’s War’
75	John Whelpton The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Between Two Big Ones: Earthquakes in the Nepali Consciousness, 1934-2015
76	Nivedita Nath PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles, USA	Beyond ‘Hill Cattle’ and the ‘Holy Cow’, Towards a Haptic History of Animals
77	Liana Chase MSc Candidate, Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada Madhu Neupane Vermont Bhutanese Association, USA	Beyond “Psychosocial”: The Social Ecology of Care in Two Bhutanese Refugee Communities
78	Pramod Bhatta Researcher, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, Nepal	Beyond Affirmative Action: Overcoming Social Inequalities in Higher Education
79	Claire Willey-Sthapit Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, USA	Beyond Coping: Survivors’ Strategies in Response to Domestic Violence
80	Sanjaya Aryal PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Essex	Beyond Empowerment and Exploitation: Care Chain of Transnational Migratory Nepali Women
81	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
82	Sarah Rich-Zendel PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Ontario	Beyond the State: Social Institutions and the Transformation of Sexual Norms in Nepal
83	Priyankar Bahadur Chand Sickle Cell Nepal	Biological Statehood: Sickle Cell Disease & Citizenship in Contemporary Nepal
84	Jeevan Raj Sharma Lecturer in South Asia and International Development, University of Edinburgh	Bodies in Search of Freedom: Suffering, Structural Violence and Symbolic Violence Amongst Marginal Nepali Migrants
85	Pritisha Shrestha PhD Student, Syracruse University, New York	Bold, Brahmin and Banned: Recovering History’s Unsung Rhetoric of a Revolutionary Woman of Nepal
86	Mukta Singh Tamang Lecturer, Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	Breaking Hierarchy, Making Identity: Social Classification and Challenges for Affirmative Action in Nepal
87	Madhuri Rana Singh Visiting Faculty, Department of Conflict Peace and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University	Breaking the Silence Shrouding Violence against Women: Socio-Political Accountability towards Women’s Human Rights
88	Dannah Dennis PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Virginia	Buddha was Born in (Secular) Nepal: Claims and Counter-Claims of Nepali National Identity
89	Ravindra Palliyaguruge Lecturer, Political Science, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka	Bullet Vs ‘Bullet’: An Ethnographic Study of the Perceptions of Youths in Transition Nepal
90	Debipriya Chatterjee Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, Department of Africology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	Can Affirmative Action Policies Succeed in the Presence of Social Marginalization?
91	Ivan Deschenaux PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, UK	Can Inter-caste Marriage Change Perceptions of Caste?
92	Ajay Gudavarthy Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India	Can We De-Stigmatise Reservations in India?
93	Subhash Nepali Economist and Policy Adviser, United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office, Kathmandu, Nepal	Caste and Ethnicity Based Earning and Access: Discrimination in Nepal’s Labour Market
94	Ashwini Deshpande Professor of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India	Caste Discrimination and Exclusion: Assessment of Affirmative Action as a Remedy
95	Gérard Toffin Senior Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris	Caste in Contemporary Nepal: Hierarchy and Equality
96	Prakash BK PhD candidate, University of Notre Dame, USA	Caste in Mental Health Service and Policy in Nepal
97	Uddhab Pyakurel Lecturer, Kathmandu University, Nepal	Caste-based Discrimination and Discourse of Affirmative Action: Perspectives of Successful Dalits in Surkhet
98	SeSe Ma Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan	Centering Himalayan Stray Dogs: Reframing the Narrative of Non-Human Being Subjectivity and Agency
99	Dan V. Hirslund Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Chains of Exploitation: Skills, Solidarity and Survival in Kathmandu’s Urban Construction Industry
100	Sujit Maharjan Researcher, Social Science Baha	Challenges Faced by Partially Visually Impaired English Language Learners and How they Overcame them
101	Apolline Dupuis MA student Bimla Gurung Lecturer, Morgan International College, Nepal Claire Martinus Lecturer, University of Lille, France; Lecturer, University of Mons, Belgium	Challenges of Nepali Women in Production Sector in Kathmandu
102	Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, Nirmal Rijal Equal Access International, Kathmandu, Nepal	Changing Dynamics of Radio Audience Interactivity in Nepal. ‘Audience Want Change! Radio Needs the Change!’
103	Thomas Robertson Executive Director, Fulbright Nepal	Changing Kathmandu: Land, Water, and Public Space Through the Decades
104	Lalita Waldia Field Researcher	Changing Life Pattern of Tribal Women: Kumaoni Bhotia of Uttarakhand
105	Asaf Sharabi Peres Academic Center Hagar Shalev PhD candidate, Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel	Charismatic Mediumship and Traditional Priesthood: Possession in Himalayan Hinduism
106	Rajib Neupane Research Associate, Social Science Baha	China and India in Nepal: What Does it Entail?
107	Austin Lord Master of Environmental Science, Yale University, USA	Citizens of a Hydropower Nation: Territory and Agency at the Frontier of Hydropower Development in Nepal
108	Pitambar Bhandari Lecturer, Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Civil Society Approach to Rise of Unionism in Nepal
109	Rishikesh Pandey School of Development and Social Engineering, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pokhara University	Climate change and Society: Their Interactions in the Trans-Himalaya (Upper-Mustang) Nepal
110	Man Khattri PhD Scholar at Tribhuvan University	Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, Crops, Livestock Production Among the Lobas of Nepal
111	Stefanie Lotter Senior Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow, SOAS, London	Collecting Loss and Displaying Absence: Curating the Earthquake
112	Nar Bahadur Saud Masters in Conflict Peace and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University	Community Reconciliation through Playback Theatre-facilitated Dialogue in Nepal
113	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA	Competing Nationhood and Constitutional Instability: Representation, Regime, and Resistance in Nepal
114	Lokranjan Parajuli Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari	Concocting the Parliament: A Tale of a Momentary Institution
115	Shuva Raj Ranabhat PhD Candidate, Department of English, The University of Texas at El Paso	Construction of Whiteness in Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
116	Michael Baltutis Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA	Containing, Confining, and Categorizing Indra: A Vedic Deity in Tantric Nepal
117	Andrea de la Rubia Gomez-Moran History of Art, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	Contemporary Art of Nepal, Picturing a Nation, Performing an Identity
118	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
119	Guillaume Boucher PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal	Continuity and Rupture: A Catholic Perspective on Christian Conversion in Nepal
120	Toya Nath Bhattarai PhD Candidate, Kathmandu University	Controversy Over Medium of Education in Nepal: Some Milestones
121	Katharine Rankin Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Canada Pushpa Hamal Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Elsie Lewison PhD Candidate, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Tulasi Sharan Sigdel Director of Studies, Nepal Administrative Staff College, Nepal	Corruption, road building and the politics of social science research in post-conflict Nepal
122	Ram Gurung Lecturer, Saraswati Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	COVID-19 Pandemic and Challenges of Students for Alternative Learning at University Education in Nepal
123	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	COVID-19, Nepal’s Political Economy and Rural Agricultural Households: Examining the Impacts and the Inter-Linkages
124	Shushma Bhatta Researcher, Dignity without Danger Babu Kaji Shrestha Director, Global Action Nepal Helena Aryal Curator, Kaalo 101 Sara Parker Reader in Development Studies, Liverpool John Moores University	Creative Visual Outputs Matter: Visualising Menstruation in Nepal
125	Kanako Nakagawa Research Assistant, Institution for Advanced Social Research, Kwansei Gakuin University	Cultural Politics in the Markets: A Case from Inter-Caste Negotiations at Meat Business in Kathmandu
126	Tek Bahadur Dong OneSeed Expeditions, Regional Director for Nepal and Bhutan	Cultural Tourism: An Ethnographic Study of Home-Stay in Briddim, Rasuwa, Nepal
127	Niraj Lawoju MA, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Culture Loss and Changes after Earthquake-Related Residence Shift
128	Rachel Amtzis Research Coordinator, FASS Research Clusters, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Cyber-Urban Environmental and Heritage Revitalization Communities and Movements in the Kathmandu Valley
129	Sambriddhi Kharel Senior Research Fellow, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nepal	Dalit Social Movement in Nepal: A Gendered Perspective
130	Krishna Adhikari Britain–Nepal Academic Council (BNAC), UK Gopal Nepali Samata Foundation, Lalitpur David N. Gellner Professor, University of Oxford	Dalits in the School Curriculum in Nepal
131	Tek Bahadur Dong M. Phil. Candidate Anthropology, Tribhuvan University	Dashain Celebration among the Tamang Community and Producing Doxa: An Indigenous Perspective
132	Thomas B. Robertson Executive Director, Fulbright Nepal	DDT, Dang, and Land Reform: ‘Backwards’ Development in Nepal’s Western Inner Tarai in the 1960s
133	Yasuko Fujikura Research Fellow Institute of Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan	Dealing with Marginality: Gender and Caste in Western Nepal
134	Sujeet Karn Researcher, Social Science Baha	Death – A Concept of ‘Martyrology’: References from Maoists People’s War in Nepal
135	Thakur Prasad Bhatta PhD Candidate, Kathmandu University, School of Education	Decentralised Planning in Nepal: Stakeholders’ Perspectives on District Development Plan
136	Soma Kumari Rana Programme Officer (GESI), SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal Shiva Kumar Shrestha Senior Programme Officer, SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal	Decentralising the Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Approach to the Local Level: Challenges and Opportunities
137	Bimla Kumari Gurung Lecturer at Morgan International College, Basundhara, Kathmandu	Decisions-Making and Child Care among Intermarried Couples
138	Kumud Rana Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK	Decoloniality, Queerness, Indigeneity: Thinking through the indigenous queer and the queerly indigenous in Nepal
139	Sanjay Sharma Independent Scholar	Decolonising Fieldwork: A Methodological Turn in Social Research
140	Floriane Clement Researcher, Institutional and Policy Analysis, International Water Management Institute (IWMI-Nepal), Kathmandu	Deliberative Governance on Vulnerability to Climate Change: Voices from Madhesi Farmers
141	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University	Democracy in Trouble? Political Elite’s Attitude and Behaviour and Regime Instability in Nepal
142	Meena Acharya General Secretary, Tanka Prasad Acharya Memorial Foundation, Kathmandu	Design and Delivery of Affirmative Action for Gender and Inter-caste Equality in Nepal
143	Marc Galanter John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and LSE Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science	Designing Affirmative Action for Nepal: A Tour of the Choices and Problems
144	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
145	Dhruba Bahadur Khatri M. Phil. Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography and Population Studies, PN Campus, Pokhara	Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Pokhara, Nepal
146	Nirvan Pradhan PhD Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University	Detritus: On the Decay and Afterlives of Abandoned Tea Plantations in Darjeeling, West Bengal
147	Pearly Wong PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Development (In)Convenience: Agrarian Change and the Experience of Development in Dakshinkali, Nepal
148	Smriti Shreya PhD Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi	Development and Preservation Dilemma in the Himalayas: Navigating Cultural Transformations
149	Chiara Letizia Professor, South Asian Religions, Department of Religious Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Blandine Ripert CNRS Researcher, Ethno-Geography, Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, New Delhi, Centre for South Asian Studies, EHESS-CNRS, Paris	Deviation or Devotion? A Supreme Court Verdict on Animal Sacrifice in Nepal
150	Rachana Bista MPhil Candidate, Sociology, Sikkim University	Dewali through Sociological Lens: A Study of Ancestor Worship amongst the Khadkas of Nepal
151	Avash Bhandari Graduate Student in History, University of Illinois, Chicago	Dibya Upadesh and the Making of a Nationalist Gospel
152	Richard Bownas Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Northern Colorado, USA Ratna Bishokarma MPhil in Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Did the Earthquake and Earthquake Relief have a Differential Impact on Lower Caste Groups? A Case Study of Sindhupalchok District, Nepal
153	Rita Baramu Programme Manager, Body & Data, Nepal Neha Gauchan Programme Coordinator, Body & Data, Nepal	Digitization of Identities in Nepal: Interests & Implications
154	Madhusudan Subedi Professor, Central Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University Sara Parker Reader, Department of Sociology, Liverpool John Moores University BK Shrestha Director, Global Action Nepal	Dignity Without Danger: Opportunities and Challenges of Engaging Partners in Collaborative Action Research
155	Leah James Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Courtney Welton-Mitchell Director, Humanitarian Assistance Applied Research Group Josef Korbel School of International Studies University of Denver Shree Niwas Khanal Program Coordinator, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Nepal Alexander James The State University of New York at Binghamton	Disaster Mental Health Intervention Research with Earthquake-affected Communities in Nepal: Enhancing well-being and Increasing Engagement in Disaster Preparedness
156	Nimesh Dhungana Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK Sanjay Sharma National University of Singapore Kripa Basnyat National Project Coordinator, International Labour Organization Narayan Adhikari CEO & Director, Accountability Lab Nepal Prekkshya Bimali Flora Cornish	Disaster as a Catalyst for Injustice: Experiences of Nepali Foreign Labour Migrants during Covid-19
157	Mark Liechty Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Disasters and ‘Conditions of Possibility’: Rethinking Causation through an Analysis of Nepal Earthquakes
158	Manoj Suji Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Discourse of Post-Earthquake Heritage Reconstruction: A Case Study of Bhaktapur Municipality
159	Jeevan Baniya Assistant Director, Social Science Baha Anisha Bhattarai Research Associate, Social Science Baha Sita Nepali Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Discourses in Nepali Newspaper Op-eds about Rescue, Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction in the post-Gorkha Earthquake
160	Sara Shneiderman Assistant Professor of Anthropology & South Asian Studies, Yale University, Connecticut, USA	Disentangling ‘Ethnic Federalism’ and Affirmative Action
161	Susan Hangen Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA	Diversifying and Decentralizing the State: Affirmative Action as a Potential Tool for Empowering Local Communities
162	HAI Lu Lecturer & Research Associate, Institute of International Relations, JI-NAN University, Guangdong, China	Diversity, Multi-Level and Mobility：An Ethnographic Study on Social Networks of the Tibetan in Nepal
163	Ramesh Prasad Adhikari Research Manager, Hellen Keller International, Nepal Subash Yogi M&E and Knowledge Management Specialist, Suaahara II/USAID, Nepal Ajay Acharya Nutrition and FP Specialist, Suaahara II/USAID, Nepal Kenda Cunningham Senior Technical Advisor, Suaahara II/USAID	Domestic Violence and Maternal Nutritional Status in Nepal: Findings from NDHS, 2016
164	Claire Willey Sthapit PhD Candidate, University of Washington	Domestic Violence in Nepal: A Discourse Analysis of the Research Publications of International Development Institutions
165		Dukha At Home and Abroad: Nepali Transnational Labor Migration
166	Laura Kunreuther Director of Anthropology, Bard College, USA	Ear-witnesses and Conduits of Voices: On the Labor of UN Field Interpreters
167	Philippe Le Billon Professor, Department of Geography University of British Columbia, Canada Manoj Suji Research Associate, Social Science Baha Dinesh Paudel Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University North Carolina, USA	Earthquakes and Cashflows: Households and Disaster Financialization in Post- earthquake Nepal
168	Lokranjan Parajuli Program Coordinator, Democracy and Governance Research Unit, and Editor, Publication Program, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	Educating Women for Men’s Sake: Discourses of Female Education in Late Rana Nepal
169	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University	Effective or Illusion of Participation? Interrogating the Constitution writing process in Nepal
170	Prakash Bhattarai PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand	Effectiveness of Third-Party Coordination in Conflict Resolution: Evidence from Nepal
171	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University	Elections and under-representation in democratizing Nepal: Electoral laws, party system and patronage, and weak mobilization of marginalized groups
172	Anna Stirr Director, Centre for South Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii Manoa Mason Brown Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder and Kathmandu University Lochan Rijal Head, Department of Music, Kathmandu University	Embodied Theories of Melody in Nepali Music: A Case Study from Central Dhading
173	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Western Michigan University, USA	Emergence and Consolidation of Multiparty System in Nepal: Causes and Consequences
174	Dechen Dolkar Bhutia Research Scholar, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, SRM University, Sikkim	Empire on High: The Absent People on the Mountains
175	Seira Tamang Independent researcher	Enabling ‘business as usual’: Donors and Peacebuilding in Nepal Post 2006
176	Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Political Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India	Enduring Islam and ‘Muslimness’ in Trans- Himalayas: Some Reflections from the Case of the Gorkha Muslims and Tibetan Muslims in the Eastern Himalayan Town of Darjeeling, India
177		Engaging with Higher Education Reforms in Nepal
178	N R Madhava Menon Dr S Radhakrishnan Chair on Parliamentary Studies, Upper House of Indian Parliament, New Delhi, India	Equalizing Opportunities: Case for an Equal Opportunity Commission
179	Obindra B. Chand Research Associate, Social Science Baha, Nepal Radha Adhikari Visiting Research Fellow, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, UK	Ethnographic Exploration of Maternal and Child Health Projects in Nepal: A Critical Analysis of the Data Collection Processes
180	Sanjaya Aryal Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, UK Aaron Wyllie Lecturer, University of Essex, UK Kathryn Chard Liliane Silva Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, UK	Evidence on the Relationship between Breastfeeding and Long-Term Outcomes
181	Shristi Sijapati MSc. International Development, University of Manchester, UK Damodar Khanal Campaigner for Save the Children UK	Examining INGOs’ Support for the Education of Marginalised Girls in Nepal
182	Catherine Warner PhD, South Asian History, University of Washington, Seattle	Exile, Sovereignty, and the Place of Palpa in the Making of The India-Nepal Borderland (c. 1790 to 1816)
183	Sara Shneiderman Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada	Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-conflict, Post-disaster Reconstruction
184	Nishesh Chalise Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Augsburg College, USA	Exploring Social and Economic Disparities in Nepal
185	Stefanie Lotter Senior Teaching Fellow SOAS, London Rajya Gurung, Lina Baniya Senior Researchers, Dignity Without Danger, Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University	Exploring The Diversity of Stigmas and Taboos Surrounding Menstruation – Preliminary Insights from The Field–Western and Eastern Nepal
186		Exploring The Diversity of Stigmas and Taboos Surrounding Menstruation – Preliminary Insights from The Field–Western and Eastern Nepal and Taboos Surrounding Menstruation – Preliminary Insights from The Field–Western and Eastern Nepal
187	Amir Raja Lecturer, Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu	Exploring the Socialization Process and Gender Construction among the Muslim Community of Kalaiya, Bara
188	Chhatra Bahadur Limbu Researcher, Social Science Baha	Factors Associated with Smartphone Addiction Among High School Students in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City, Sunsari
189	Mitra Pariyar Leverhulme Research Fellow, Kingston University, London	Fighting Caste through Religious Conversion: Early Experiences of Nepali Dalit Christians
190	Michael Hutt Professor, Nepali and Himalayan Studies; and Chair, Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS	Five Nepali Novels
191	Anukta Gairola PhD Scholar, Department of History, University of Delhi	Forays of the English East India Company into the Kumaon-Garhwal Belt of the Central Himalayas
192	Radha Adhikari Research Fellow, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh Obindra Bahadur Chand Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Foreign Aid and Institutional Arrangements in Implementing a Maternal and Child Health Project in Nepal
193	Subodh Chandra Bharti PhD. South Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi, India	Foreign Policy of Nepal: Shifts and Opportunities
194	Nayna Jhaveri Independent researcher	Forest Futures: Tenure Mosaics of Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape
195	Amit Gautam Research Officer, Social Science Baha Jeevan Baniya Assistant Director, Social Science Baha	Forging Paths: Understanding Rohingya Refugees’ Livelihood Challenges in Nepal
196	Seika Sato Teikyo University, Japan	From ‘Failed Development’ to ‘Inclusive Development’?: Views of Janajati and Dalit Women
197	Pragya Paneru Lecturer, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Prativa Paneru Lecturer, Trinity College, Nepal	From an Elderly Middle-Aged Man to ‘A Scientist May Be Anyone’: DAST in Nepalese Context
198	Lok Ranjan Parajuli Visiting Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago	From Controlling Access to Crafting Minds: Experiments in Basic Education in Late Rana Nepal
199	Bryony Whitmarsh Associate Dean, Faculties of Creative and Cultural Industries and Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Portsmouth	From Darbar to Sañgrahalaya: Creating New History in the Narayanhiti Palace, Nepal
200	Chinmaya Shah Secretary and Programme Coordinator, Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education, India Chitra Rawat Research and Operations Manager, India Migration Now	From Far West to Neglected North: Intra-Himalayan Migration from Sudurpaschim Province to Uttarakhand
201	Rajya Laxmi Gurung Senior Researcher, Dignity Without Danger, Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University Stefanie Lotter Senior Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK	From Fear to Shame: Socio-Political Influences on Menstruation Practice in Dailekh, Jumla and Achham
202	Amit Gautam Research Officer, Social Science Baha Samiksha Neupane Senior Research Associate, CESLAM, Social Science Baha	From Frontier to Finances: Unravelling the Impact of Border Securitisation on Income Opportunities for Local Residents in Susta
203	Harsha Man Maharjan Researcher, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	From Media Accountability to Violence: Audience Participation and Opposition in the Proposed LED Bulb Procurement Episode on Social Media
204	Bryony Ruth Whitmarsh PhD Candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	Gantantra Smarak (Republic Memorial): The Politics of Memory
205	Heather Hindman Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin	Gari Khana Deu – Let us Live! How Transnational Youth Navigate a Provisional Nepal
206	Kumar Chhetri Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of North Bengal	Gender Dimension of the Gorkhaland Movement
207	Sanjay Sharma Master’s in Political Science, Central European University, Hungary Neha Choudhary Independent Researcher	Gendered Citizenship: National Security versus Equality
208	Nawaraj Upadhaya PhD Candidate, Utretch University, Netherlands Ria Reis	Geographies of Adolescent Distress in Nepal
209	Steve Folmar Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, USA	Groupism in Dalit Lived Experience
210	Kshitij Sharma PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Panjab University	Growing Urban Waste in Himalayan Cities: Trends and Impact in Urban Local Bodies of Himachal Pradesh
211	Shobhit Shakya Junior Research Fellow and PhD Student Ragnar Nurkse, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia	Guthis Abroad: Catering to the Social Needs Amongst the Newar Diaspora
212	Rajendra Pradhan Dean, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities	Hegemonic Gender (In)egalitarianism, Multiple Patriarchies, and Exclusion: Gender Relations among Indigenous-nationalities in Nepal
213	Shobhit Shakya Junior Research Fellow, PhD Student Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia	Heritage Restoration and Traditional Community Governance in Kathmandu Valley
214	Rajen Upadhyay Assistant Professor, Department of History, Namchi Government College	Hidden transcripts in Nepali Folksongs during Sikkimese Feudalism’
215	Tashi Tsering Ghale Independent Researcher	Himalayan Yak Herders: The Case of Dolpo Kchung-jhee
216	Richard Bownas Professor, University of Northern Colorado, USA	Hindutva in Nepal: A Political Sociology Analysis of its Prospects
217		Historically Situating Knowledge Activities in the Interstices of Change in Nepal
218	Pauline Limbu Junior Research Fellow, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities	History and Political Movements: Kipat in Today’s Limbuwan Movement
219	Sudeepa Khanal Senior Research Officer-Health System Development, Health Research and Social Development Forum (HERD), Nepal	HIV and Stigma
220	Harsha Man Maharjan Researcher, Media Research Unit, Martin Chautari, Nepal	Holding Stake or Power: Stakeholder Participation in Nepal and Making of Media Policy Drafts (2012-2013)
221	Jeevan R. Sharma Lecturer, South Asia and International Development, University of Edinburgh	How does a case become a ‘Case’? Understanding Torture and Ill Treatment Documentation in Nepal
222	Devendra Uprety, Pratyoush Onta & Lokranjan Parajuli Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	How Not to Make a New University: The Case of Mid-Western University Thus Far
223	Shyam Krishna Shrestha Consultant Country Coordinator, Terre des hommes Germany Southasia Program; Anita Shrestha PhD Scholar, Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur	Identity issue of Dhaugoda Newar after unification of the Bhaktapur Kingdom in Nepal
224	Jennifer Yanez-Alaniz A poet and community activist, USA	Immigrant Communities, Sustainable Living and the Cielo (Community) Gardens: Bhutanese Refugees in San Antonio
225	Shiva Raj Adhikari Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University	Impact of Architecture of Health Care Financing In Nepal
226	Rajeev Rai PhD Candidate, Department of International Relations, Sikkim University, India	Impact of British Colonial Rule in the Modernisation of Sikkim
227	Kirpa Ram Bishwakarma Lecturer, Aathabis Education Campus, Aathabis Municipality-8 Dailekh, Nepal	Impacts of Contradictions Among Dalits for Peace-Building in Post-Conflict Nepal
228	Om Gurung Head of Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	Implication of Rescheduling Indigenous Peoples for Affirmative Policy in Nepal
229	Pragya Paneru Permanent Lecturer, Nepal Commerce Campus, Kathmandu	Implied Gender and Cultural Nuances in Young Children’s Responses to Textbook Images
230	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Education Coordinator, Mercy Corps Nepal	Improving Learning Outcome through School Improvement Plan (SIP)
231	Yutsha Dahal Researcher,Nepal Picture Library, Kathmandu, Nepal	In Search of the Missing Images: Analysing a Feminist Shift in Visual Culture in Nepal
232	Yoko Ishikura Independent researcher	In the Name of Children’s Rights: Rethinking The Rhetoric of Schools as Zones of Peace and Prohibitions on Student Involvement in Party-Based Activities in Nepal
233	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Project Coordinator, Voluntary Services Overseas	Inclusion and Governance in Education Committees of Local Governments
234		Indigeneity, Territoriality and the State in Nepal: New Perspectives, Emerging Practices
235	Sapana Basnet Bista PhD Researcher, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Shaurabh Sharma HI International Rose Khatri Liverpool John Moores University, UK Padam Simkhada Liverpool John Moores University, UK	Indiscriminating Earthquake Discriminatory Aid: Effectiveness of Blanket Approach to Aid Distribution to People with Disabilities
236	Sanjay Sharma PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore	Industry under the Open Sky: An Exploration of the Political Economy of Brick-making in Nepal
237	Krishna B. Bhattachan Senior Lecturer, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Dilli Ram Dahal Professor, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	Inequality and Affirmative Action in Nepal: Issues and Challenges
238	Kumar Prasad Aryal Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Inequality in Earthquake Reconstruction: An Ethnographic Account of Peri-Urban Locality in the Northern Part of Kathmandu
239	Dipak Bahadur Adhikari Lecturer of Economics, Patan Multiple Campus	Informal Economy and Poverty in Nepal
240	Omer Aijazi Sessional Instructor, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia	Infrastructures of Social Repair: Insights from Northern Pakistan and Kashmir
241	Thomas Robert Zeller MA student, Medical Anthropology, University of Hawaii	Ingesting Instability: Opiate Addiction and Care in Urban Nepal
242	Sanjaya Mahato Faculty, Kathmandu University, Nepal	Institutional and Procedural Bias for Women Access to Electoral Candidate: A Case of Nepali Congress Party in Nepal
243	Claire Martinus Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Lille 3, France	Intermarriage and Matrimonial Practices in Kathmandu
244	Bimla Kumari Gurung PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Gurunanak Dev University, India	Intermarriages and Generational Relations: A Sociological Study in Kathmandu City
245	Kalyan Bhandari Lecturer in Events, Hospitality and Tourism at the University of West of Scotland	International Development Discourse and Two Tourism Policies of Nepal
246	Krishna P. Adhikari Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford, UK David Gellner Professor, Social Anthropology and Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK	International Labour Migration from Nepal and Changing Caste-based Institutions and Inter-caste Relations
247	Ramesh Sunam Adjunct Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo	Interrogating Youth Entrepreneurship in Agriculture in Nepal
248	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'	Intersectional Perspective on Menstrual Practises in Nepal: Lessons from ‘Dignity Without Danger’ Research Project
249		Investigating Technology-Society Links in Nepal: An Eclectic Proposition
250	Gaurav Lamichhane PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany	Involuntary Childlessness in Nepal: Instances of Competition, Contestations, and Conflicts, among the Plural Healing Practices and Healing Journeys
251	Sanjaya Aryal University of Essex	Is a Win-Win Possible in International Recruitment and Mobility of Health and Care Workforce?
252	Asaf Sharabi School of Behavioral Sciences, Peres Academic Center, Israel	Is it God Speaking? The Identity and Agency of Deities in the Western Himalayas
253	Prapanna Maskey Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur	Issues and Impact of Social Security and Citizenship on Nepali Society
254	Ravindra Nyaupane PhD Candidate, Swansea University, UK Mike Pretious Senior Lecturer in Management, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Suvash Khadka University of South Wales, UK	Issues in the Development of Community-Led Tourism in Nepal–the Example of Dhorpatan
255	John Whelpton Honorary Research Associate, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University	Juddha Shamsher and the 1934 Earthquake
256	Nokmedemla Lemtur PhD Student, Center for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany	Labour in the High Himalayas: Recruitment and Agency of Mountaineering Expedition Labour on Nanga Parbat and Everest (1922–1939)
257	Sandeep Basnyat PhD student, Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand	Labour movements and the tourism industry: Do they have historical nexus in Post-conflict Nepal?
258		Land and Politics in Nepal: Anthropological Investigations
259	Jacob Rinck Yale University	Land reform, social change and political cultures in Nepal’s Tarai
260	Phoenix Kenney PhD candidate, University of Cambridge, UK	Language of ~~Instruction~~ Communication: A ‘Soft Skills’ Approach to Understanding English Language Abilities among College Students in Kathmandu
261	Prem Phyak The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Language, Identity, and Nepali Youth in Hong Kong
262	Mara Malagodi Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK	Legal Equality between Recognition and Redistribution: Constitutional Drafting and Adjudication in India and Nepal
263	Ojaswi KC & Roshani Regmi BA in Law, Kathmandu School of Law, Bhaktapur, Nepal	Legislation and Legitimization of Gender Discriminatory Practices
264	Sanjaya Mahato Independent Researcher Rupesh Kumar Sah Under Secretary, Federal Parliament Secretariat Nepal Pooja Chaudhary Advocate affiliated with the Nepal Bar Association	Legislators’ Engagement in Policy Making and Post-Legislative Scrutiny in Nepalese Parliament Since 1991
265	Swatahasiddha Sarkar Assistant Professor, Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of North Bengal	Linguistic Situation in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas: Interstices between Identity, Difference and Belongingness
266	Ranu Sherpa Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India	Literary Interventions of Cultural Identity: An Analysis of the Eastern Himalayas
267	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
268	Anchala Chaudhary Lecturer in Sociology, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Livelihood Practices in Transnational Space (A Case Study of Family Left Behind in Nepal)
269	Li Zhinong Professor/Vice President, School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, China Wu Di PhD candidate & Research Assistant, Yunnan University, China	Living by the Border: A Study of Nepal’s Limi People and Their Trade: Life on the Sino-Nepal Border
270	Agastaya Thapa PhD candidate, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India	Local Faces and Places: Tourist Art and Representational Practices of Culture and Identity in Darjeeling Hills
271	Susan Boser Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA	Local Government Officers’ Perspectives on Their Role during the Transition to Democracy in Nepal
272	Neera Chandhoke Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India	Locating Affirmative Action in the Concept of Equality
273	Swatahsiddha Sarkar & Babika Khawas Department of Sociology, University of North Bengal	Locating Nepal in Indian Sociology and Social anthropology: Mapping the Research Highways from India to Nepal
274	Ambika Rai PhD Research Scholar, University of North Bengal	Looking at ‘Circulation of Labour’ in the Himalayas: A Study of Bharias (Head Porters) In Darjeeling Hills
275	Aniket Alam Associate Professor, Human Sciences Research Group, IIIT-Hyderabad, Telangana, India Aman Kant Panta Research Assistant, ICSSR Project: 'Change and Continuity in a Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Community: A Study of Monasteries in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India' Kesang Thakur Research Assistant, ICSSR Project: 'Change and Continuity in a Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Community: A Study of Monasteries in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India' Neekee Chaturvedi Associate Professor, Department of History and Indian Culture, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India	Losing a Home, Finding a Nation: The Curious History of Hurling Village in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh
276	Sujit Shrestha Emory University	Making and Un-making ‘Sukumbasi’: Contestations over Naming in Kathmandu’s Urban Politics
277	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
278	Sonam Lama Returning expert, Nepal Transportation and Development Research Centre, Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Kathmandu	MANI, The Hidden Valley of Happiness at a Crossroads (documentary, 40 mins)
279	Prakash B K PhD Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA	Mapping the Biocultural Dimensions of Caste and its Effects on the Mental Health Wellbeing of Dalits in Nepal
280	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
281	Lokranjan Parajuli Senior Researcher and Head, Publications, Martin Chautari	Marx Supplants Manu: ‘Manifesto’ of an Activist in the Late Rana Nepal
282	Richard Bownas Associate Professor, Political Science and International Affairs, University of Northern Colorado	Measuring Caste Discrimination in Urban and Rural Nepal: Some Empirical Approaches
283	Anna Stirr Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii-Manoa	Mediating the Migrant Experience: Dukha, Viraha, and Nostalgia in Nepali Lok Dohori Songs
284	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
285	Gita Neupane PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii	Men’s Perspectives on Sexual Harassment against Women in Public Space in Kathmandu
286	Ruja Pokhrel Research Officer, Emerald Project, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Nepal Nawaraj Upadhaya, Mark J.D. Jordans, Dristy Gurung, Ramesh P. Adhikari, Inge Peterson & Ivan H. Komproe	Mental Health System Governance in Nepal: Current Situations and Future Directions
287	Manoj Suji Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Micro-hydro as Common Property: An Analysis of Local Institution and Development
288	Ram Narayan Shrestha PhD Candidate, South Asian University, New Delhi, India	Migrant Husbands and Left-behind Wives: Effect of Spousal Separation on Subjective Well-being of Young Nepali Women
289	Ram Narayan Shrestha PhD Candidate, South Asian University, New Delhi, India Krishna Sharma Consultant, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi	Migration and Agrarian Change in Nepal Plains
290	Bandita Sijapati Research Director, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM), Social Science Baha Jeevan Baniya Researcher, Social Science Baha Neha Choudhary Independent Researcher	Migration of Health Workers from Nepal
291	Stefanie Lotter Teaching Fellow, South Asia Department, University of London	Missing Rani Pokhari: Conditions for Alternative Futures in a Monument Destroyed
292	Amanda Snellinger Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford	Mobilising for What: A Discursive History of Nepal’s Youth Policy
293	Ajapa Sharma M.A Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University	Modernity Multiplied: B.P Koirala’s Women Between Literature and Politics
294	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	Modernity Prior to the Era of Development: Forestry Management, Domestic Water Supply, and ‘Pragati’ during the Rana Period
295	Prakriti Thami, Sanjay Sharma and Neha Choudhary Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility, Nepal	Money Speaks: The Effects of Remittances on Caste-Based Discrimination
296	Pramod R. Regmi Academic-International Health and Global Engagement Lead (Department of Nursing), Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Shovita Dhakal Adhikari Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Nirmal Aryal Post-doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Edwin van Teijlingen Professor, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Sharada Prasad Wasti Senior Research Fellow, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Shreeman Sharma Department of Conflict, Peace & Development Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Moral Panic and Othering Practices during Nepal’s COVID-19 Pandemic
297	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
298	Mayank Shah Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Kumaun University, Nainital, India	Mountains of Risk: The Many Faces of Vulnerability in the Central Himalayas
299	Ojaswee Bhattarai Research Fellow, The Open Institute for Social Science, Lalitpur	Moving Out from Nepal
300	Sangay Tamang PhD candidate, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology, India	MULIKI AIN: An Invisible Burden for Nepalis in India
301	Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha Lecturer, MA Museology and Buddhist Collection, Lumbini Buddhist University, Nepal	Museums Fulfilling a Socio-Political Cause
302	Sanjay Sharma Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility, Nepal Manoj Paudel, Shreemanjari Tamrakar Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Muted and Fragmented: Dalit Social Movement in Nepal
303	Prasansa Subba & Nagendra Prasad Luitel Transcultural Psychosocial Organization(TPO), Nepal Mark Jordans Director, War Child Holland, Department of Research and Development Kohrt Brandon Professor of Psychiatry, Global Health, and Anthropology, Duke University	Narrative Approaches for Community Detection of Mental Health Problems in Chitwan, Nepal
304	Suraj Kushwaha Undergraduate Student, Princeton University, USA	Nation Building at Altitude: How the Indian Military Sustains War on the Siachen Glacier
305	Kalyan Bhandari Lecturer in Events, Hospitality and Tourism, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK	National Symbols and the Political Agency of Tourism
306	Rajendra Sharma Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Navigating Social Leadership and Community Governance: Transitioning Community Leadership in Tharu Community
307	Kamal Devkota, Hemant Ojha & Kaustuv Raj Neupane Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Nepal Bhaskar Vira & Eszter Kovacs University of Cambridge	Negotiating Water Security: Dynamics of Up and Down Stream Water Management in Two Small Towns in Nepal’s Himalaya
308	Sese Ma 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
309	Shangrila Joshi The Evergreen State College, Olympia, USA	Neoliberalization, Climate Change, and Community Forestry in Nepal
310	Pratyoush Onta Martin Chautari, Nepal	Nepal Sanskritik Parisad and the Circulation of Research in Immediate Post-Rana Nepal
311	Andrea Kölbel PhD Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford	Nepal’s Change Agents: Educated Youth and their Involvements in the Local Labour Market
312	Dhana Hamal Political Science Department, Alumna, University of Toronto, Canada	Nepal’s Federal Structure and Its Effects on Democratic Politics
313	Rajendra Sharma Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Nepal’s National Security Council and National Security Policy: Internal and Geopolitical Sensitivities
314	Tracy Fehr PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Development Surge: The Unintended Local Impacts of Reconstruction
315	Pawan Kumar Sen Interdisciplinary Analysts, Patandhoka, Lalitpur	Nepal’s Transformation from Monarchism to Republicanism: In Views of General Public
316	Nabin Maharjan PhD Candidate, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Canada Thomas O’Neill Professor, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Canada	Nepalese Canadian Youth Civic Engagement: Young Nepalese Canadians Experiences In High School
317	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA	Nepali Federalism: Quasi, Pseudo or Real?
318	Rajendra Raj Timilsina Chief, Nepal Television Itahari Channel (NTV Itahari)	Nepali Gurukuls under CCTV Surveillance from Abroad: Lived Experiences
319	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?
320	Tanka Subba Vice-Chancellor, Sikkim University	Nepalis without Nepal: Migration, Livelihood and Identity
321	Krishna P. Adhikari Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford David Gellner Chair, Britain-Nepal Academic Council	New Identity Politics and the 2012 Collapse of Nepal’s Constituent Assembly: When the Dominant becomes “Other”’
322	Amanda Taylor, Claire Blaser Postgraduate (MA) Student, SOAS, London Martin Brooks Postgraduate Associate, SOAS, London	New Insights into Colonial Encounters in the Himalaya
323		New Norms and Forms of Development: Following Financial and Technical Assistance in The Health Sector in Nepal
324	Roji Maharjan Student, Tribhuvan University	Newar Women of Kirtipur: Analyzing Their Collective Identity
325	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, Tibet
326	Ramji Prasad Adhikari Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Engineering, Pokhara University Rishikesh Pandey School of Development and Social Engineering, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pokhara University	Not the Women but their Remittance Contribution is Acknowledged: Women Labour Migration and their Exclusion in Nepal
327	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
328	Swati Condrolli PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India	Notes on a Himalayan Town: A Tibetan Community’s Perspective
329	Michael Hutt Emeritus Professor, SOAS, UK; Research Affiliate, University of Oxford, UK	Of Ploughmen and Drummers: Dalit Consciousness in Nepali-Language Literature
330	Katsuo Nawa Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo	On ‘Thumcharu’: The Concept of ‘Tradition’ in Byans, Far Western Nepal
331	Katsuo Nawa Professor (Cultural Anthropology), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, Japan	On Three Basic ‘Ritual’ Gestures in Byans, Far Western Nepal
332	Xing Li PhD Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong	Ongoing Legal and Bureaucratic Interventions in the Land Market in Nepal: An Ethnographic Study of Land Use Act (2076) and Land Use Regulations (2079)
333	Nirmal Kumar Raut Assistant Professor, Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Ryuichi Tanaka Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan	Other Side of the Civil Conflict in Nepal: An Empirical Exploration into Health and Well-Being
334	Rukh Gurung Assistant Researcher, Martin Chautari Pratyoush Onta Research Director, Martin Chautari Lokranjan Parajuli Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari	Panel 1: Histories of Education in the Nepali Cultural World
335	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	Panel 2: Of Journeys and Worldviews: Formation of Early Modern Consciousness in Nepal
336	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	Panel 3: Precarity and Possibility: Transnational Migrant Labour, Life-Making & Legalities in Malaya/Sia
337	Rosy Chamling Head, Department of English, Sikkim University, India Prayash Gupta Assistant Professor, Sikkim Manipal University, India Bhaskar Chettri PhD candidate, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India	Panel: Nepali Diasporic Identity in the Context of Multiculturalism
338	Team Sajag-Nepal	Panels 4–6: Sajag-Nepal: Preparedness and Planning for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain
339	Christie Lai Ming Lam Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University	Park, Hill Migration, and the Changes of Gender Relations of Rana Tharus in Far-western Nepal
340	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
341	Binda Pandey Deputy Member, ILO	Participatory Democracy and Federalization of The Country – What does it mean for Feminist Political Agenda
342	Vishnu Tandon PhD Candidate in Political Science, École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales (EHESS) , Paris, France	Participatory Planning in a Federal Setting of Nepal: New Trends of Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
343	Suman Gyawali MEAL Officer, The Leprosy Mission Nepal	Participatory School Self-evaluation as a Tool for Transformative School Performance
344	Khem Raj Shreesh Sudhindra Sharma Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts	Paul Collier and Nepal’s Prospects for Coming Out of the Conflict Trap
345	Nar Bahadur Saud PhD Student, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, United Kingdom	Performance Art as a Peace Promotion and Advocacy Tool in Nepal: An Arts-Based Research Perspective
346	Kathryn Ruth Stam Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, New York	Perspectives on Religious Identity, Caste, and Culture for Bhutanese-Nepali Refugee Families in the United States
347	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	Placemaking and Placelessness in Janakpur: ‘Saffron City’ and the Subversive Politics of Mithila Heritage
348		Plantation Patriarchy and Women Workers in the Himalayas: Experiences from Darjeeling Sikkim Himalayas
349	Birat Ghimire Universal Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. Sambeg Panthi Pokhara University	Policy of Repair: MHP Development in Nepal
350	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
351	Sujeet Karn Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari	Political Mobilisation and Borderland Brokers in Nepal’s Tarai
352	Sudeep Jana Thing PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Western Australia	Politics of Conservation and Space: National Park and Sonaha Ethnic Minorities
353	Gérard Toffin Emeritus Research Professor, CNRS (France)	Politics of culture and ethnic museums in Nepal
354	Dambar Chemjong PhD Candidate (Anthropology), Cornell University, USA	Politics of Naming and Identity in Nepal
355	Kritika Chettri Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of North Bengal, India	Popular Articulations from Post War Nepal
356	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
357	Shrochis Karki PhD Candidate, International Development, University of Oxford	Positive Deviance: ‘Success’ in Unexpected Places
358	Sangita Thebe Limbu Research Fellow, Martin Chautari	Post War Reconstruction, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Everyday Life: Case Study of Bardiya
359	Jessica DiCarlo Master of Development Practice, University of California, Berkeley (expected) Katie Epstein Masters of Arts in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley (expected) Bikash Adhikari Forest Action Nepal	Post-disaster Agroecological Transition: How the 2015 Nepali Earthquakes Impact Agricultural Adoption in Mid-montane Communities
360	Sanjaya Aryal Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, UK Aaron Wyllie Lecturer, University of Essex, UK Kathryn Chard Lecturer Liliane Silva Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, UK	Poster Presentation: Evidence on the Relationship between Breastfeeding and Long-Term Outcomes
361	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA	Poverty, Diversity and Democracy: Breakdown, Erosion and Endurance in South Asia
362	Lok Ranjan Parajuli Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari, Nepal	Power Play: An Intricate Story of the Founding of Nepal’s First University
363	Assistant Professor in English, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling Balram Uprety	Presenting The Absence: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Maita in Nepali Teej Songs
364	Shubha Kayastha Executive Director, Body & Data, Nepal Shambhawi Paudel Programme Officer, Body & Data, Nepal	Privacy in the Digital Age and as Understood by Marginalized Groups in Nepal
365	Subodh Chandra Bharti PhD Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University	Problems of Nation-Building and Identity Politics in Nepal
366	Rajendra Pradhan Managing Director, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nepal Ruth Meinzen-Dick Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Sophie Theis Research Analyst, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA	Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment: Examining the Meanings of Property for Women with Different Social Locations in Nepal
367		Public Finance Dynamics in School Education in Nepal
368	Chandra Upadhyay Assistant Professor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Pull and Push Factors of Nepali Students’ International Migration
369	Anand Teltumbde Professor of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India	Pursuing Equality in the Land of Hierarchy: Positive Discrimination Policies in India
370	Mangesh Angdembe Project Coordinator, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal Kohrt Brandon Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Global Health, and Anthropology, Duke University Mark Jordans Director, War Child Holland, Department of Research and Development Damodar Rimal & Nagendra Prasad Luitel Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Nepal	Qualitatively Exploring the Adaptation of Community Mental Health Services in Pyuthan, Nepal
371	Kumud Rana PhD Candidate, College of Social Sciences PhD Studentship, University of Glasgow, UK	Queer Dissidence in Times of Revolution
372	Lokranjan Parajuli Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari, Nepal	Radio as a Propaganda Tool: The History of Broadcasting in Nepal/i
373	Pushpa Palanchoke MA. Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Kathmandu University, Nepal	Ratyaulī- Musical Sexual Socialization at Ghyachok
374	Rajendra Raj Timilsina PhD Candidate, School of Education, Kathmandu University, Nepal	Re-emergence of Gurukul in Nepal: Deconstructing Vedic Tradition for Girls
375	Wai-Man Tang Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Realities and Aspirations: Kabaddi Players in Far-West Nepal
376	Briana Mawby & Anna Applebaum Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellows, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, USA	Rebuilding Nepal: Women’s Roles in Political Transition and Post-Disaster Recovery
377	Vanicka Arora PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University	Reconstructing Pasts and Curating Futures in Bhaktapur, Nepal
378	Bina Limbu Independent Researcher	Reconstruction and the Rise of One-roomed Houses in Rural Nepal
379	Sauharda Rai PhD Student, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Bonnie Nicole Kaiser Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of San Diego, USA Brandon A. Kohrt Charles and Sonia Akman Professor of Global Psychiatry, The George Washington University, USA	Recovery Narratives in Global Mental Health: Understanding the Benefits and Harms of Mental Health Service User’s Storytelling in Nepal
380	Janak Rai Lecturer, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Rediscovering and Remaking of an Ancestral Place: Ritual, Place-Making and Indigenous Historical Agency in Nepal
381	Sara Parker and research team (TBC)	Reflecting on The Role of Diaries in Collaborative Action Research Opportunities and Challenges
382	Sita Mademba Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha	Reimagining and Reviving Resistance: An Anthropological Study of the Limbu Community’ Chasok Celebration
383	Pooja Thapa PhD Candidate, Sociology, Institute for Social and Economic Change, India	Religion and Development in Sikkim
384	Ram Tiwari Master of Law, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Religion and Modernizing Imperatives of the Nepali State
385	Akshay Balan Field Representative, Worker Rights Consortium Anisha Maini Research Associate, StepChange Avantika Jhunjhunwala Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha 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 Daily Religious Practices in Kathmandu and Delhi
386	Jigme Yeshe Lama Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta	Religious Syncretism in ‘Dorjeling’ – A Study of the Mahakal Mandir
387	James Sharrock Independent researcher	Remote Response: International Humanitarianism and Nepal’s 2015 Earthquakes
388	Rukh B. Gurung Research Assistant, Martin Chautari, Nepal	Reorganizing Resource for School Education: Reflecting on Earthquakes and Subsequent Crisis
389	Ivan Deschenaux ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics	Replication Reconsidered: Anti-Casteist Norms and Prejudiced Behaviour
390	Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Political Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, India	Representing and Performing the Contested Trans-Himalayan ‘Shared heritages’ of ‘Gorkha’: Virtualisation of the Public Sphere and the Aesthetics of ‘being Gorkha’ in South Asia
391	Rashmi Upadhyay PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, NEHU and Aarhus University	Return of the Nepalese Coal Mine Migrant Workers
392	Chiranjibi Bhandari Assistant Professor, Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University	Revisiting Ex- Combatants: Past Assumptions and Present Realities
393	Naresh Shakya Lecturer at Lotus Academic College, Kathmandu, Nepal	Rich Buddhist Heritages in Nubri Valley along Tracks of Manaslu
394	Vijay Jayshwal Teaching Faculty, Kathmandu School of Law Roshana Parajuli & Ankita Tripathi BA. LLB, Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal	Right to Privacy vs National Security, Law and Order: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Provision of Nepal and India
395	Harsha Man Maharjan Researcher, Media Research Unit, Martin Chautari	Rise and fall of High Level Information Technology Commission in Nepal
396	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)
397	Manoj Suji & Nilima Rai Research Associate, Social Science Baha Sambriddhi Kharel Independent Researcher	Role of Actors and Institutions in Translating the 2030 Agenda for Gender Equality Commitments in National Discourse: A Case Study of Nepal
398	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
399	Lagan Rai Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Post Graduate College, Biratnagar (Tribhuvan University)	Rural Roads Matters: Debate and Practice of Road Building in the Eastern Plains of Nepal
400	Miranda Weinberg PhD Candidate, Educational Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania	Schooling Languages: Investigating Language-in-Education Policies and Educational Aspirations in Jhapa District, Nepal
401	Alba Castellsagué PhD Candidate, Socio‐Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (UAB)	Schooling, Gender and Mobility in Nepal: At The Crossroads towards Development?
402	Lokranjan Parajuli Senior Researcher, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	Schools as an Arena of Struggle: Reexamining the Panchayat Era Politics of Education
403	Ang Sanu Lama Research Associate, Social Science Baha, Nepal	Secondary Level Organization and Exclusion in Community Forestry: A Case Study of Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
404		Securing the status quo: donors, development and reconstruction in post-war Nepal
405	Bal Krishna Khadka Assistant Professor, School of Management, Kathmandu University, Nepal Pranaya Sthapit Researcher, Interdisciplinary Analysts, Kathmandu Sudhindra Sharma Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts, Kathmandu	Self Help Group’s Effects on Women’s Empowerment
406	Amy Leigh Johnson PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, USA	Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change: The Unmaking of a Malarial Landscape in the Far West Tarai
407		Sexing the State: Negotiating Sexual Politics in Naya Nepal
408	Shubha Kayastha MA Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Sexuality of Women with Physical Disabilities: Experience and Realities
409	Dipti Sherchan Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois – Chicago	Shifting Imaginations: Contemporary Arts Education and Practices in Nepal
410	Kanako Nakagawa Research Fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Graduate School of Asia African Area Studies, Kyoto University	Shifts in the Strategy of Caste-Representation: Links between Commercial Negotiations in the Meat Markets and Identity Politics
411	Susan Clarke PhD Candidate, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia	Sit up to feed your baby and you will have no problem…An Explanatory Model of Childhood Ear Disease and Gender Inequality in Jumla
412	Young Hoon Oh Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, USA	Social Connectivity: ‘New’ Sherpas and the Recent Evolution of Himalayan Mountaineering
413	Sanjaya Mahato PhD Fellow at Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), Polish Academic of Sciences, Warsaw	Social Costs and Benefits of Party Switching in Nepal
414	Hilary Silver Professor of Sociology, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA	Social Inclusion and Affirmative Action: Conceptual and Policy Distinctions
415	Amar BK PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh	Social Injustice and Emerging Subaltern Religiosity Nepal
416	Arjun Kharel Researcher, Social Science Baha	Social Perception, Media Representation, and the Policies of Female Labor Migration in Nepal
417	Claire Martinus Pedagogic Assistant, Anthropology and Sociology, UMONS-ESHS	Social Rules and Uses in Public Spaces in Kathmandu
418	Jailab Rai Lecturer (Anthropology), Central Department of Sociology Anthropology, Tribhuvan University	Social Space of Indigenous Peoples in Forestry Sector Public Discourses in Nepal
419	Arjun Bahadur BK Independent Researcher	Social Stratification and Dalit Leadership in Nepal: An Ethnographic Study of a Village in Western Nepal
420	Diksha Tamang Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Purash-Kanpur Haridas Nandi Mahavidyalaya, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India.	Socio-Cultural Organisation and the Construction of Gorkha/Nepali Identity in the Darjeeling Hills: A Study of Nepali Sahitya Sammelan (NSS) and Gorkha Dukha Niwarak Sammelan (GDNS)
421	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
422	Bryony Whitmarsh Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth, UK	Staging Memories at the Narayanhiti Palace Museum
423	Gaurav Lamichhane MA South Asian Studies, University of Heidelberg	State Recognition and Emerging Trends of Modernization of Tibetan Medicine in Nepal
424	Jeevan Baniya Assistant Director, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal	State-Society Relationships After Nepal’s 2015 Earthquakes
425	Mitra Pariyar Research Fellow, Kingston University, UK (Last affiliation)	Stifled Aspirations: Dalits in Contemporary Nepal
426	Pitamber Sharma Former Vice-Chair, National Planning Commission and former Professor of Geography, Tribhuvan University	Strategic Plan for the Proposed Social Science Research Council in Nepal
427	Komal Phuyal Lecturer, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	Structural Drives and Common Sense: Building Conflict in Select Stories from B. P. Koirala and Guru Prasad Mainali
428	Susan Clarke PhD candidate, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales	Structural violence, health and the lives of women in Jumla
429	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
430	Tulsi Ram Pandey Associate Professor, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal	Subject Citizen Identity and Class: Contesting Dimensions of Social Inequality and the Implication of Affirmative Action for Change
431	Ashley K. Hagaman PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Global Health, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, MPH Uden Maharjan Thammasat University, Thailand	Suicide Surveillance and Health Systems: How Nepali Institutions Frame a Growing Public Health Burden
432	Yangchen Dolker Research Associate, Social Science Baha Khem Raj Shreesh Social Science Baha	Summer Farmers, Winter Traders: Loba’s Adaptation through Changing Socio-Political Times
433	Devendra Chauhan, Vishal Singh, Anvita Pandey & Rajesh Thadani Centre for Ecology, Development and Research (CEDAR), India Ngamindra Dahal Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Nepal	Sustainability of Water Supply in Hill Towns in The Himalayas
434	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
435	Niraj Lawoju PhD Scholar, School of International Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China	Teaching Chinese Culture: Perception of Nepali Students Studying in China
436	Rekha Khatri Senior Qualitative Research Officer I, Health Research and Social Development Forum (HERD), Nepal Ian Harper Senior Lecturer & Head of Anthropology, Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK	The ‘Computer Janch’ for TB: Rolling Out of Gene Xpert in Nepal
437	Sabin Ninglekhu Principal Investigator, Heritage as Placemaking, Social Science Baha	The ‘Quiet Encroachment’? A Parable of Cross-Border Movements between Ayodhya and Janakpurdham
438	Mingma Lhamu Pakhrin PhD student, Jawaharlal Nehru University	The Beginning of the Making of Darjeeling: ‘Threatened Frontier’, Settlement and Labour
439	Sabin Ninglekhu Member, Editorial Board, New Angle: NepalJournal of Social Science and Public Policy	The City as a Bourgeois Desire
440	Rinzing Ongmu Sherpa PhD candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India	The Construction of Sherpa Identity in Darjeeling: A Sociological Study
441	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Education Coordinator, Mercy Corps, Nepal	The Contents and Relevancy of Social Studies and Life Skills Education Curriculum
442	Tashi Tshering Ghale ‘Dolpo’ Social Science Baha	The Contested Local Elections
443	Ishwor Adhikari PhD Scholar, Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi Anirban Dasgupta Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi	The Conundrum of Labor Shortage in a Labor Surplus Economy: An Investigation of Nepal
444	Jinglu Song Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi'an Jiaotong- Liverpool University, Hong Kong Bo Huang Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T Rishikesh Pandey School of Development and Social Engineering, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal	The Determinants of Disaster–Resilience in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal: An Assessment of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience in Nepal after 2015 Earthquake
445	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Education Coordinator, Mercy Corps, Lalitpur, Nepal	The Dynamics of Financial Accountability in Nepal’s Community Schools
446	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Associate Researcher, Martin Chautari, Nepal	The Dynamics of Financial Accountability in Nepal’s Community Schools
447	Gregory Pierce PhD Candidate, Human Ecology, LUCID Research Centre, Lund University, Sweden	The Embodiments of Ice and Bone: Dualistic Ideologies, ‘Permanence Through Certainty’, and The Phenomenology of Being of Dolpo
448	Youba Raj Luintel Central Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University	The Expanding and Consolidating ‘Middle Class’ in Contemporary Nepal
449	Dinesh Paudel Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University, USA Philippe Le Billon Professor, Department of Geography & Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Canada	The Geopolitics of Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Nepal
450	Kapil Dahal Lecturer, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University Ian Harper Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh Sushil Baral Health Research and Social Development Forum (HERD) Rekha Khatri Independent Researcher	The Global Fund in Nepal
451	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
452	Neha Choudhary Independent Researcher	The Gurkha Wives of United Kingdom: Challenges to Social Integration
453	Seira Tamang Director of Research, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	The Hindu State, Women’s Activism and The Cultural Coding of Sexual Violence and Impunity in Nepal
454	Lila Bahadur Bishwakarma Teacher, Kallery Secondary School, Dhading, Nepal	The Life-World of Dalits in Great Himalayan Trail (GHT- Lower Route) in Nepal
455	Todd John Wallenius Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Handong Global University, Pohang, South Korea Karen Valentin Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, Aarhus University	The Logic of Comparison of Education in Nepal
456	Ujjwal Prasai Faculty, Institute of Advanced Communication, Education and Research, Kathmandu	The Loneliness of a Nationalist Madhesi
457	Tracy Fehr PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder	The Multiplicity of Widowhood in Post-Earthquake Nepal: An Intersectional Analysis of Lived Experiences
458	Meena Acharya Team Leader, UN Women research on progress of women in Nepal	The National Market under a Federal System, Ensuring Equal Playing Field for Women
459	Michael Baltutis Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies & Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, USA	The Nepalese Indra Festival as Index of Contemporary Political Life
460	Michael Hutt Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies, SOAS, University of London	The Nepali Poetry of the 2015 Earthquakes and their Aftermath
461	Ajaya N Mali Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities	The Newar Town and the Festival
462	Neha Sharma MPhil Candidate, Sikkim University, India Swati Akshay Sachdeva Associate Professor, Sikkim University	The Other World Connection: A Study of the ‘Thread Cross’ Ceremony in Sikkim
463	Sanjay Sharma Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility	The Political Economy of Migration Process: A ‘Distorted’ Rational Choice of Nepali Labour Migrants
464	Prem Chalaune Lecturer, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University	The Politics behind Indigenous Rhetoric in Nepal
465	Shyam B. Kunwar Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal	The Politics of the Road: Ethnography of Charikot-Singati-Lamabager Road of Dolakha, Central Nepal
466	Feyzi Ismail Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK	The Post-war Direction in Nepal: Deepening Capital, Deepening Inequality
467	Josef Neubauer PhD Scholar, Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria	The Power of Policy: How Immigration Policy Changes in South/East Europe Reshape Migration Strategies and Inequalities in Nepal
468	Michael C. Baltutis Associate Professor, South Asian Religions, Department of Religious Studies & Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA	The Public Life of a Royal Scribe: Displaying Indra’s Flag in 18th Century Kathmandu
469	Amrit Kumar Bhandari Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara	The Quest of Urban Materiality in an Urban Neighborhood: A Case of Butwal, Nepal
470	Nawaraj Upadhaya Emerald Project Coordinator, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal	The Role of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support NGOs: Reflections from Post Conflict Nepal
471	Ramesh Rai & Pratyoush Onta Martin Chautari	The Saga of a Transition: The Efforts to ‘Rightsize’ Tribhuvan University in Post-Panchayat Nepal
472	Anisha Bhattarai Research Associate, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal	The Samdhis in Intermarriages: A Study of Evolving Marriage Practice Between Bahun and Newar
473	Glenn C Loury Merton Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA	The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Policies
474	Sabin Bahadur Zoowa Lecturer, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences	The Social Construction of Boksi in Tamang Community in Kavrepalachowk District
475	Noah Coburn Faculty Member, Bennington College Dawa Tshering Sherpa Independent Researcher	The Socio Economic Impact of British Army Recruitment in Nepal
476	Kalyan Bhandari Lecturer in Events, Hospitality & Tourism, School of Business and Enterprise, University of the West of Scotland, UK	The Sociology of Mt Everest
477	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Lifelong Learning Mandala	The State of Policy and Practice on Complaint Hearing and its Implication in Creating a Safe Learning Environment in Schools
478	Shak Bahadur Budhathoki Member, Lifelong Learning Mandala, Nepal	The State of Policy and Practice on Complaint Response Mechanism in Nepal’s Community Schools
479	Nabin Maharjan PhD Candidate, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Ontario, Canada Richard C. Mitchell Professor of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Ontario, Canada	The UNCRC and Global Childhoods: Transdisciplinary Reflections from Nepal
480	Sanjaya Mahato Independent Researcher Pooja Chaudhary Advocate affiliated with the Nepal Bar Association Dogendra Tumsa & Bipin Upadhyaya Statistician, Social Science Baha	The Untouchables: Prevalence of Sexual Relationship during Menstrual Period
481	Shak B. Budhathoki Associate Researcher, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu	The Use and Misuse of State Resources in Nepal’s Public Schools
482	Aidan Seale-Feldman Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, Bioethics Program, University of Virginia, VA, USA	Thinking with Ghosts: Bhut laagyo, Hysteria, and the Politics of Conceptualization
483	Zsóka Gelle Independent Researcher	Tibetan Sources on the Political and Religious Contacts Between Tibet, Yolmo and the Kathmandu Valley in the 17-18th Century
484	Chaaru Jain Project Manager and Art Educator, Srijanalaya	To Partner and Influence? A Post-Colonial Approach to Dissecting the Historical Narratives about the Gurkhas
485	Anisha Bhattarai Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha Kiran Giri Station Manager, BMHD Television, Kathmandu	Toilet as the Mainland of Institution: A Study of Toilets in Tribhuvan University
486	Sanjaya Mahato Researcher, Social Science Baha Pooja Chaudhary Research Assistant, Social Science Baha, Nepal	Token Versus Team Work: Women in the Local Bodies of Nepal 2017
487	Ramawatar Yadav Former Vice-Chancellor, Purbanchal University, Nepal	Toward a Historiography of Lexicogenesis in Maithili – With Special Reference to the Hitherto Unstudied and Unpublished Hand–Written British Library, London MS. of Henry Thomas Colebrooke’s Comparative Vocabulary (1807 CE)
488	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
489	Snigdha Bhatta Junior Associate, Unity Law Firm & Consultancy, Nepal	Traditional Knowledge in the Himalayas: A Call for an Exploration in Policy Discourse and the Need for a National Regulatory Framework
490	Rose Schwietz Fulbright US Student Research Nepal; affiliated with One World Theatre and Actor’s Studio Nepal	Trance-Dance & Actor-Gods: From Himalayan Storytelling to Contemporary Nepali Theate
491	Kishan Harijan Assistant Professor, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata	Trans-himalayan Commercial and Cultural Interactions: A Case Study of Colonial Darjeeling Himalaya
492	Bade Qunzhu Lecturer, Qinghai Minzu University, China; Ph.D. Scholar, Ethnography, Qinghai Minzu University, China	Trans-Himalayan Mobility and Modernity: An Ethnographic Study on Eco-Tourism in Sino-Nepal Border Gyirong Valley
493	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
494	Sushila Chatterjee Nepali & Kanchan Lama Women Leading for Change in Natural Resources, Nepal	Transformation in Gender Norms for Innovation and Development in Agriculture and NRM Sector: A Case Study of Jajarkot, Myagdi and Devdaha, Nepal
495	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
496	Krista Billingsley Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, University of Tennessee	Transitional Justice in Nepal: Perspectives of Nepalis Affected by Conflict as Children
497	Mason Brown Independent scholar	Translating Sargam: Issues and Obstacles with South Asian Notation and Sibelius
498	Sara Bertotti PhD Student, SOAS, London	Translating Hybridity and Change: The 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord of Nepal
499	Kumud Rana Universty of Glasgow	Transnational AIDS Networks, Regional Solidarities and the Configuration of Metis in Nepal
500	Andrew Haxby PhD candidate, University of Michigan	Transparency and Disaster: Tales from the Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Nepal
501	Young Hoon Oh Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Department of Religious Studies, University of California	Transregionalism, Hierarchy, and Belonging Dynamics in Himalayan Mountain Tourism
502	Paulina Stanik PhD candidate, University of Warsaw, Poland	Two Sides of the Same Coin? Gurkhas and Indians in Polish World War Two Memoirs
503	Michael D. Smith Researcher, Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute (RYI)	Types of Spiritual Song (Mgur, Dohā) in 18th Century Dolpa
504	Paulina Stanik PhD Scholar, University of Warsaw, Poland	Unbalanced Power: The Role of the British in the Polish-South Asian World War Two Relations
505	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	Understanding Nutritional Behaviour of Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Dhanusha District, Nepal
506	Pranab Kharel Member, Martin Chautari	Understanding Social Movement through the Life of Its Actors: A Case of Madhes Movement
507	Lata Gautam Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK Agatha Grela University of West London, UK Jaya Satyal & Sharad Gajuryal Annapurna Neurological Institute and Allied Sciences, Nepal	Understanding the Nature of Sexual Assault Cases in Nepal Through a Forensic Lens
508	Binayak Sundas PhD Candidate, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India	Understanding the Success of the Gorkha Expansion in the 18th Century: Going Beyond Prithvi Narayan Shah
509	Shishir Lamichhane Research Officer, Law and Policy Forum for Social Justice, Nepal	Universal Human Rights Versus Domestic Courts: Rethinking The Cultural Relativist Debate In Nepal
510	Shristi Shakya MPhil Scholar, Development Studies, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford	Unpacking the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Framework in Nepal
511	Bishnu Pandey Faculty, Civil Engineering, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada	Untangling the Technology-society Knot: An Engineer’s Social Scientific Observations of the Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Process in Rural Nepal
512	Bhuwan Thapa Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, USA Ujjwal Upadhyay Senior Program Coordinator, National College, Kathmandu University, Nepal Indresh M Sharma Senior Research Coordinator, National College, Kathmandu University, Nepal	Urban Green Space Is a Critical Nature-Based Infrastructure for the Climate Resilience of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
513	Ritu Mangar Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal	Urban Married Women in Service Sectors of Darjeeling Hills: Gender Dynamics in Their Everyday Family Lives
514	Bandita Sijapati, Sambriddhi Kharel & Anish Bhandari Social Science Baha	Urbanization and the Transient Migrant Labourer
515	Obindra B. Chand Qualitative Research Officer, HERD International Kathmandu, Nepal Shophika Regmi Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation, HERD International Abriti Arjyal Research Coordinator, HERD International Chandani Kharel Research Manager, HERD International Sushil C. Baral Managing Director, HERD International	Use of Data for Decision Making in Planning Process of Local Health System in Nepal: A Critical Note on Problems and Prospects
516	Anna Hata PhD Scholar, University College London, United Kingdom	Using Intersectionality to Centre Complex Experiences of Injustices and Resistance of Marginalised Children in Education in Nepal
517	Raktim Patar Assistant Professor of History, Gargaon College, Sivasagar, Assam	Village Administration among the Tiwa: A Discourse on The Loroship
518	Frederic Moronval Research Laboratory Dylis, Normandy University, Rouen, France	Vitality of language and religion among the Newars in the Kathmandu Valley
519	Nokmedemla Lemtur PhD Candidate, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi	Voices from the Mountain: Hidden Transcripts and Transculturation of Labour in the Nanga Parbat and Everest Expeditions (1922-1939)
520	Niki Rai Research Scholar, B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India	Voices of the Silenced: A study of the survivors and witnesses of 27th July 1986 in Kalimpong
521	Chetan Agarwal Centre for Ecology, Development and Research (CEDAR), India Tikeshwari Joshi & Kaustuv R. Neupane Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Nepal	Water Catchments and Water Users: Zoning, Negotiations and Other Mechanisms for Water Security in The Urbanizing Himalayas
522		Water Security, Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods in the Himalayas
523	Christopher Butler PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz	Water Unites, Water Divides: Resistance to the West Seti and Upper Karnali Dams in Nepal
524	Phoenix Kenney PhD Scholar, University of Cambridge	What Makes a Peer? Understanding Peer Work Dynamics in Kathmandu’s Youth Sector
525	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	When Are Water Sprouts (Hiti) Part of Basic Needs Provision and When Do They Become Cultural Heritage?
526	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University	When Do Minorities Get Autonomy, And When Do They Not? Marginalized Groups and Movements for Federal Autonomy in Nepal
527	Abha Lal Independent Researcher/ Desk Editor, The Record	When There Was a King There Was Unity: An Exploration of Nostalgia for the Monarchy
528	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
529	Joanna Morrison Senior Research Associate, University College London Institute for Global Health, University College London	Who Participates?: Examining Socio-demographic Differences in a Community Mobilisation Intervention to Improve Maternal and Newborn Survival in Dhanusha and Makwanpur Districts
530	Anne Mocko Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS); Committee for the Study of Religions of India (CSRI); American Academy of Religion (AAR)	Who Sees the Sacred Vest? Ritual, Politics, and the Recasting Bhoto Jatra during Nepal’s Interim Period
531	Jeevan Baniya Assistant Director, Social Science Baha Tracy Ghale Senior Research Associate, Social Science Baha Nilima Rai Research Associate, Social Science Baha Amit Gautam Research Associate, Social Science Baha Lacchindra Maharjan Save the Children, Nepal	Why Children Matter: Vulnerabilities and Needs of Children in Disasters
532	Komal Phuyal Lecturer in English, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University	Why Does Fiction Matter? A Tale of the 1960s from Nepali Literature
533	Pauline Limbu Graduate Student (Anthropology), Cornell University, USA	Will it deliver? Women’s Rights through Land Rights
534	Sanjaya Mahato PhD Candidate, Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology – Polish Academic of Sciences (IFiSPAN)	Women and Competency in Electoral Competitions in the Nepalese Elections after 1990
535	Laxmi Dhungel PhD candidate, Kathmandu University School of Arts	Women Educational Migrants Return to Nepal and Their Role in Transforming Society ‘Gharki Le Ghar Garnu, Marda Le Chari Khanu’
536	Ram Narayan Shrestha PhD Candidate, South Asian University, India	Work-related Migration Aspirations in Youths of Nepal: An Empirical Analysis
537	Surabhi Pudasaini Founder, Galli Galli	Writing Gendered Citizenship: Rights and Tactical Alliances in Nepal’s Constitution Drafting
538	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	Youth Deliberation on Post-federalism and Political Culture Nepal