Activities Britain - Nepal Academic Council

The Britain-Nepal Academic Council was established on 23 May 2000 at a large meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London of British academics and researchers interested in various aspects of...
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February 14, 2023
Call for Papers: BNAC Nepal Study Day Panel Celebrating the work of Professor Michael J. Hutt
BNAC Nepal Study Day Panel Celebrating the work of Professor Michael J. Hutt Britain Nepal Academic Council Nepal Study Days, University of Huddersfield (24-25 April 2023) Michael J Hutt, Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), whose teaching and research career in the field of Nepal […]
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January 14, 2023
Call for submissions for the BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2023
The Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the PhD Dissertation Prize 2023. There are up to two prizes to be awarded this year too, and we will accept applications from eligible applicants by 17 February 2023. Details of the call including eligibility criteria, assessment criteria and instructions for preparing […]
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November 11, 2022
Call for Papers for the 2023 Nepal Study Days (hosted by the University of Huddersfield)
12 November, 2022 Call for Papers 20th BNAC Nepal Study Days Hosted by School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK 24-25 April 2023 The Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) invites scholars and practitioners from all disciplines as well as the curious general public to participate in the 20th BNAC Nepal Study Days in Huddersfield. […]
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October 28, 2022
If each comes halfway’: doing Tamang life histories, Oxford, 14 Nov 2022
Speaker Kathryn March (Cornell) When: 5pm, Monday, 14 Nov 2022 Where: Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford
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October 28, 2022
Himalayan transformations, gender, & globalization, 10 Nov 2022, Durham
Speaker: Kathryn March (Cornell) When: 13.00-14.55, 10 Nov 2022 Where: D104 (Dawson Building, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham)
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October 28, 2022
Book launch ‘Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal’ by Jeevan R. Sharma, 8 Nov 2022, Edinburgh
You are warmly invited to join us in celebrating Dr Jeevan’s Sharma’s latest book: Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal. Featuring book presentation by Dr Jeevan Sharma, followed by panellist comments from Prof Kathryn March (Cornell) and Prof Jonathan Spencer (Edinburgh), and Q&A. The book is an accessible contemporary political economic analysis of […]
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October 28, 2022
Marriage, Love, Visa and Video Calls, 8 Nov 2022, Edinburgh
Where: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a, George Square, Edinburgh When: 12.30-1400. Tuesday, 8 Nov 2022 This presentation explores what extensive wage outmigration has done to love in a community of Western Tamang in north central Nepal, where I have been engaged in ethnographic fieldwork since 1975. Where 66% of working-age men, […]
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October 04, 2022
20th BNAC Annual Nepal Lecture, Thursday, 3 Nov 2022, SOAS, London
Beyond sex and gender in a career of engagement with Nepal Kathryn S. March is Graduate Professor and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Feminist/Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Public Affairs at Cornell University Date: Thursday, 3 November 2022 Time: arrival at 1730; lecture starts at 1800 Venue: SOAS (room: Alumni Lecture Theatre) SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG […]
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October 04, 2022
Save the date* 20th Nepal Study Days (hosted by the University of Huddersfield)
BNAC’s 20th Nepal Study Days will take place on 24-25 April 2023 at the University of Huddersfield. Details to follow.
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