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 Nepal.

The objective of the Council is to promote academic and scholarly links between Britain and Nepal through, inter alia, collaborative research, exchange programmes and organisation of annual lectures, and seminars on areas of mutual interest to both British and Nepali academics and researchers.

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BNAC Executive Board's have produced a brochure to publicise the Council's activities. Please click here to download a PDF (13 MB) which members are free to print out and distribute.

Call for Paper- 11th Nepal Study Day: This year's Nepal Study Day will be organised by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh on 18-19 April 2013. For detail information and to send your abstract please click here.

Human rights and human wrongs during Nepal's political transition, A roundtable discussion organised by the Britain-Nepal Academic Council and hosted by the SOAS Centre of South Asian Studies. Speakers include: Honourable Justice Kalyan Shrestha (Supreme Court of Nepal), Dr. Mara Malagodi (London School of Economics), Ingrid Massage (Amnesty International) and Professor Surya Subedi (University of Leeds). 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 22 November 2012; Room 4421, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. All are welcome but please register by clicking here in advance.

The 10th Annual BNAC lecture will be held on Friday, 19 October, 2012, at 6.30pm in Room NAB.1.04 in the New Academic Building, London School of Economics, 54 Lincolns Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ. The lecture is entitled 'The Protection of Himalayan Biodiversity: Why a Regional Legal Framework?' and will be delivered by Dr Ananda Mohan Bhattarai, who currently works as a judge in the Court of Appeal of Nepal. Click here to download a PDF with more information.

The 10th BNAC Nepal Study Day was held on Thursday, 19 April and Friday, 20 April, 2012, hosted by CNSUK in Reading. The event featured 30 excellent presentations and many stimulating discussions on a wide range of issues. Click here to view photos of the event.

The 9th BNAC Annual Lecture was held on Monday 31 October 2011. This year Dr Anne de Sales of the CNRS in Paris delivered a lecture entitled 'Our god Braha saved us from our wrong thinking: time, identity and historical change in the hills of Nepal'.

The current Executive Officers are:

• Professor Michael Hutt (SOAS, University of London), Chairman
• Dr Mara Malagodi (London School of Economics and Political Science), Treasurer
• Dr Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh), Secretary

Other members of the executive committee are:

• Dr Krishna Adhikari (CNSUK)
• Dr Ben Campbell (Durham University)
• Professor Anthony Costello (UCL)
• Professor David Gellner (University of Oxford)
• Dr Sondra Hausner (University of Oxford)
• Dr Judith Pettigrew (University of Limerick)
• Professor Surya Subedi OBE (University of Leeds)
• Dr Mark Turin (University of Cambridge & Yale University)

On these pages you will find details of past and forthcoming events sponsored and organised by the BNAC, a membership form, and some means of contacting us.  We hope you will find these useful, and we look forward to meeting you at one of our future events.  If you have any kind of research or teaching interest in Nepal, please do join us.