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April 03, 2022
19th BNAC Nepal Study Days
Hosted by Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
64 and 61 Banbury Road Oxford, OX2 6PE
13-14 April 2022
Contact: bnacstudyday@gmail.com |+447411558732, +447962254274, +447861492654
(NB: For participation, registration is required: Please register here: https://forms.gle/voBEbJzdfaCBuVoSA. Closes on 11 Apr 2022)
Conference Programme
Parallel session A (Both days): 64 Banbury Road & Online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants)
Parallel session B (Both days): 61 Banbury Road & Online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants)
| Day 1: Wednesday 13th April | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Entry (registration). Venue: 64 Banbury Road & online.
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
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| 9:45 -10:00 | Introduction: Krishna Adhikari (BNAC Chairperson) | |
| Welcome: David Gellner | ||
| Parallel Sessions | ||
| Time | Parallel Session A – 64 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
Parallel Session B – 61 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | A1. History and Cultural Production (panel I)
Chair: David Gellner |
B1. Health (panel I)
Chair: Jeevan Sharma |
| Musing on the Memory of Performance: From Content to Context of Selected Tharu Folk Songs [online]
Mohan Dangaura, TU, Nepal |
Socio-economic Inequalities in Hypertension, Diabetes and Overweight in Nepal: A Decomposition Analysis of 2019 Nepal STEPwise Survey [online]
Uttam Paudel & Bihungum Bista, Nepal Health Research Council, Nepal |
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| ‘Guru Rinpoche is Shivaji’: Identity and Ethnic Boundary Drift in Nepal’s Ethnic Paintings [in person]
Jingwei Li, Sichuan University China |
Manifestations of Trauma amongst Ex-combatants in Nepal [online]
Heidi Riley, University College Dublin |
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| Liberating Arniko to Transcultural Complexity [in person]
Zezhou Yang & Tainyi Chen, SOAS, University of London, & Heidelberg University |
Effect of School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene on Health Status of Basic Level Students’ in Nepal [online]
Mohan Kumar Sharma & Ramesh Adhikari, TU, Nepal |
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| 11:15-11:30 | [Coffee] Break | |
| 11:30– 12:45
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A2. History and Cultural Production (panel II)
Chair: Michael Hutt |
B2. Health (panel II)
Chair: Ram Prasad Mainali |
| Transit Kathmandu [online]
Dikshya Karki |
Covid 19: Coping Strategies Among Nepali Community in the UK [in person]
Naresh Khapangi Magar, Centre for Nepal Studies UK [In person], Padam Simkhada, University of Huddersfield [online], & Krishna Adhikari, University of Oxford [In person] |
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| The Making of Colonial Darjeeling, 1830-1930 [In person]
Mingma Lhamu Pakhrin, JNU, Delhi |
Sustainability of Community-based Health Promotion Interventions on Maternity and Neonatal Care in Nepal: Findings from Ten-Year Controlled, Non-randomised Study [online]
Padam Simkhada [online], University of Huddersfield; Vijay Singh GC, University of York; Edwin van Teijlingen, Bournemouth University; Sharada Prasad Wasti, University of Huddersfield |
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| Gurkha Knife in Polish War Two Memoirs [In person]
Paulina Stanik, University of Warsaw |
Using Participatory Visual Approaches to Engage Communities in Public Health Research: Openings and Obstacles for Listening to Ethnic Minority Women in a Participatory Video Project in Rural Nepal [online]
Sarita Pandey, University of Essex, School of Health and Social Care |
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| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch
(BNAC Executive Committee Meeting 61 Banbury Road) |
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13:45-14:45 |
Plenary 1: Nepal Conversations: Rethinking Knowledge Production and Exchange
64 Banbury Road & online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) (Coordinators: Uma Pradhan, UCL (moderator) [in person]; Nimesh Dhungana, University of Manchester, (moderator) & Kumud Rana, University of Zurich [online] Panellists: Sara Parker, LJMU, Sohan Sha, Martin Chautari, & Janak Rai, TU (tbc) |
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| Time | Parallel Session A – 64 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
Parallel Session B – 61 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
| 14:45 – 16:00
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A3. Politics and Federalism
Chair: Krishna Adhikari |
B3. Youth and (Social) Media
Chair: Stefanie Lotter |
| Analysing Nepal’s Foreign Policy: A Hedging Perspective [in person]
Raunak Mainali, Centre for Social Change Nepal |
Mapping Social Media Use Among Youth Organizations Post-2015 Earthquake [in person]
Phoenix Kenney, University of Cambridge |
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| What does Federalism Mean for Political Representatives and Stakeholders? [online]
Jayanta Rai, SOAS University of London |
‘Gurkha Lives Matter!’ Digital Divides and Youth Activism in Britain’s Gurkha Justice Campaigns [in person]
Premila van Ommen, University of the Arts, London |
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| Challenges and Opportunities of Federalisation in the Nepalese Health System
Pasang D. Tamang, Padam Simkhada and Bibha Simkhada (University of Huddersfield), & Edwin van Teijlingen, University of Bournemouth. |
Sustainability of Online News Media in Nepal: Financial Models and Prospects [online]
Prabesh Subedi, Digital Media Foundation |
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| 16:00-16:30 | [Coffee] Break | |
| 16:30-17:45 | Plenary 2: Dalits
Chair: David Gellner A – 64 Banbury Road & online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
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| Changing Dynamics of Discrimination Based on Caste and Practice of Untouchability: An Intergenerational Experience [online]
Ujjwal Sundas & Gopal Nepali, Samata Foundation |
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| Facing Multi-Layered Deprivation: State of Dalits of Nepal’s Tarai [online]
Rakshya Ram Harijan, Chief Attorney Office, Madhesh Province, Nepal & Krishna Adhikari, University of Oxford [online] |
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| Dalits as subjects, Dalits as authors [in person]
Michael Hutt, SOAS |
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| 18:30 | Dinner at Nepali Restaurant | |
| Day 2: Thursday, 14 April 2022 | ||
| 9:30-10:30 | Plenary 3 Roundtable on Jeevan Sharma’s book:
64 Banbury Road & online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal Panellists: David Gellner, Oxford University (Moderator) [in person], Mallika Shakya, South Asian University [online], and Ramesh Sunam, Waseda University [online] |
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| 10:30-10:45 | [Coffee] Break | |
| Time | Parallel Session A – 64 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
Parallel Session B – 61 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | A4. Migration (panel I)
Chair: Krishna Adhikari |
B4. Education
Chair: Tejendra Pherali |
| Widening the Theoretical Remit of Return Migration and Reintegration [in person]
Prakash Khanal, Himalayan Development International |
Roles of Technology and the English Language in Reinforcing or Reducing Marginalisation in Low-resourced Contexts [in person]
Saraswati Dawadi [in person], Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Mark Gaved [in person], Open University, UK |
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| Characteristics of Labour-Migration between Nepal & India [online]
Deepak Chandra Bhatta, Far-Western University |
Bureaucratising Social Justice: The Reproduction of Social Inequality through Scholarship Programs in Nepal [in person]
Uma Pradhan, UCL [in person], Todd Wallenius [online], Karen Valentin [online], Aarhus University |
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| Exploring Marital Relationships and Health of Non-migrating spouses of Low and Semi-skilled International Migrant Workers From Nepal [in person]
Shraddha Manandhar, University of Huddersfield [in person], Edwin van Teijlingen, University of Bournemouth, Padam Simkhada (online), University of Huddersfield, Philip Brown, |
Participation of Nepalese Female Students and Faculty in International Academic Community-Challenges and Impact
[online] Anna Sadecka, University of Warsaw |
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| 12:00-12:20 | PhD Dissertation Prize 2022 – Announcement. 64 Banbury Road & online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) | |
| 12:20- 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:00 | BNAC General Assembly (AGM)– BNAC Members only. 64 Banbury Road & online (Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) | |
| Time | Parallel Session A – 64 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
Parallel Session B – 61 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
| 14:00 – 15:15 | A5. Migration (panel II)
Chair: Jeevan Sharma |
B5. Gender and Development
Chair: Ben Campbell |
| Trapped in Debt: Invisible Violence of Migration in Nepal [in person]
Ina Zharkevich, University of Oxford |
Causes of Low Performance in English: Perspectives of College Teachers [online]
Gambhir Bahadur Chand, Far Western University Nepal |
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| Hearts in Australia, Souls in Nepal: Migration and Affective Intergenerational Aspirations [online]
Amrita Limbu, Western Sydney University |
An Overview of Menstrual Normativity in Nepal [in person]
Stefanie Lotter, SOAS & Neeti Aryal Khanal, TU |
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| They too Served: Nepali Women and Children of the British Gurkha Regiment in Asia (1947-1971) [In person]
Hema Kiruppalini, National University of Singapore |
Categorising the Uncategorised: Understanding the Diversity and Marginality of Gurkha Women [online]
Sanjay Sharma, National University of Singapore |
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| 15:15-15:30 | [Coffee] Break | |
| Time | Parallel Session A – 64 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
Parallel Session B – 61 Banbury Road & online
(Teams link has been emailed to all registered participants) |
| 15:30– 17:10 | A6. Energy, the Environment, Earthquake
Chair: Ina Zharkevich |
B6. Occupations and Diversification
Chair: Stephen Biggs |
| Notes From a Buffer Zone of Just Energy Innovation [in person]
Ben Campbell, Durham University & Manoj Suji, Independent Researcher |
Current Demands in the Nepali Electricity Sector: For a Social Reproduction Theory of Infrastructure. [online]
Mikkel Vindegg, CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, Oslo. |
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| People, Animals and Escalating Tensions: The Case of Bardia National Park (BNP) [In person]
Nolwen Vouiller, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales |
Understanding Risk in High-Altitude Mountaineering through Climbing Sherpas’ Narratives in Nepal [online]
Medhavi Gulati, Panjab University, India |
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| Reconstruction Narrative of Nepal Himalayas [online]
Kamal Bahadur Mahat, Triveni Rural Municipality |
Experiments in Collective Farming in Nepal, Bihar and West Bengal: Lessons for Land Reform and the Agrarian Future of the Gangetic Plains [online]
Fraser Sugden, University of Birmingham |
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| Living and Dealing with Landslides: The Political Ecology of Landslide Risks in Nepal [online]
Ramesh Shrestha, [online], Nick Rosser & Ben Campbell [In person] Durham University; & Katie Oven, Northumbria University |
Identity and Cultural Change among the Nepali Youth in Rushmoor, UK [in person]
Prajol Gurung, University of Oxford
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(The BNAC would like to thank the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, the University of Oxford for hosting the NSDs and supporting the event.)
