16Jun 2015 by annual

Panels/Sessions 2015

Panels/Sessions 2015
  2015 Social Science Baha announces The Fourth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya being organised in partnership with Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council & Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS. The conference will be held in Kathmandu from 22 to 24 July, 2015.
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16Jun 2015 by annual

Day 3: 24 July

Panels/Sessions 2015
2015 Social Science Baha organised The Fourth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya in partnership with Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council & Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS. Day 3: 24 July (Friday) SESSION 9: 9 – 10:30am HALL A [sta_anchor id="Raktim Patar"] HALL B[sta_anchor id="Ajapa Sharma"] Panel A9 Politics and the Local Panel B9 Literature, Politics and Boundaries Chair: Dambar Chemjong [sta_anchor id="Tashi Tshering"] Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University Chair: Ramawatar Yadav [sta_anchor id="Mallika Shakya"] Former Vice-Chancellor, Purbanchal University Raktim Patar Assistant Professor of History, Gargaon College, Sivasagar, Assam Village Administration among the Tiwa: A Discourse on The Loroship[sta_anchor id="SanjayaMahato"] Ajapa Sharma M.A Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University Modernity Multiplied: B.P Koirala’s Women Between Literature and Politics [sta_anchor id="Catherine Warner"] Tashi Tshering Ghale ‘Dolpo’ Social Science Baha The Contested Local…
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16Jun 2015 by annual

Day 1: 22 July

Panels/Sessions 2015
2015 Social Science Baha organised The Fourth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya in partnership with Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council & Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS. Day 1: 22 July (Wednesday) SESSION 1: 9 – 10:30 am[sta_anchor id="HALL A"][sta_anchor id="HALL B"] HALL A HALL B Opening Remarks: Basanta Thapa, Vice-Chair, SSB Gerard Toffin, CNRS Opening Remarks: David Gellner, Chair, BNAC Heather Hindman, Incoming President, ANHS Panel A1 Dukha at Home and Abroad: Nepali Transnational Labour Migration Panel B1 Politics and Indigeneity Chair: Gerard Toffin Distinguished Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris Chair: David Gellner Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Jeevan Raj Sharma Lecturer in South Asia and International Development, University of Edinburgh Bodies in Search of Freedom: Suffering,…
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18Jul 2014 by annual

Indigeneity, Territoriality and the State in Nepal: New Perspectives, Emerging Practices

Abstract 2014
In the last decade, indigenous peoples’ claims of territoriality and political autonomy have become one of the most contested political agendas in Nepal. Indigenous peoples’ movements for federalism based on ethnic identity, territory and history have heightened a distinct sense of “geographical imagination” (Harvey, 2005) among indigenous communities.  At the community level, people’s sense of place, their locally embedded practices of place-making such as rituals and place-names, and peoples’ understanding of their historical relationships with their territories have acquired new meanings and political significance. In this panel, we will draw on historical and ethnographic analysis to discuss the emerging practices of territoriality and indigeneity, particularly in the contexts of the post-April 2006 political transformations towards inclusive democracy and federal restructuring of the nation-state.  We bring ethnographic cases from the hill…
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18Jul 2014 by annual

Historically Situating Knowledge Activities in the Interstices of Change in Nepal

Abstract 2014
This panel situates instances of knowledge activities in the historical interstices of change in Nepal. From the initiative in the late Rana period to establish a university, to the circulation of research in the immediate post-Rana period to the creation of the “sikkimization” concept during the political turmoil of the mid-1970s, these papers seek to expand upon common-held assumptions of specific historical activities.  Through historically based analyses with analytically divergent lenses, these papers reengage with history in the interstices of change to bring to the fore a fresh re-examination of their implications.   
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09Jul 2014 by annual

Registration 2014

General
 23-25 July, 2014 • Hotel Shanker, Lazimpat Registration is now closed for the Third Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya being organised by Social Science Baha in partnership with the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies and the Britain-Nepal Academic Council.  The conference web page can be viewed at here.  The conference also includes a keynote address in the afternoon (2 pm onwards) of 25 July, 2014. This is a public session in which admission is free and open to all. Please direct your queries via email to conference@soscbaha.org or via phone at 01-4472807/4480091.
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04Jul 2014 by annual

Local Government Officers’ Perspectives on their Role During the Transition to Democracy in Nepal

Abstract 2014
Susan Boser This study seeks to describe the functioning and challenges experienced by local government officials during Nepal’s efforts to transition into democracy, particularly as it relates to marginalized groups’ access to civil liberties and opportunities. Nepal is striving to establish a democratic government in part by creating a federal structure with a three-tiered administrative system of governance (UNFPA Nepal, 2012.)  Since the end of the 30-year panchayat system of government, the multiple political parties in power have been deeply divided regarding how to draw geopolitical boundaries for representation, given the implications these decisions have regarding political and economic rights of the various groups (von Einsiedel, Malone & Pradhan, 2012.).  The rhetoric and ideals of the conflicts and the periodic steps toward democracy create hope in the people.  Yet in…
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27Jun 2014 by annual

Contact 2014

General
2014    Please direct your inquiries to: Rita BhujelEmail: conference@soscbaha.org Telephone: 01-4472807, 01-4480091
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28Apr 2014 by annual

Understanding the Success of the Gorkha Expansion in the 18th Century: Going Beyond Prithvi Narayan Shah

Abstract 2014
Binayak Sundas The political history of the Himalayan region has demonstrated that states in the region were more prone to political fragmentation rather than consolidation and expansion. The various historians of the region have cited several reasons for this, the terrain, lack of resources, succession disputes which when combined with the terrain complicated the matter etc. Thus in the early 18th century the entire Himalayan region was littered with several small states. The state of Gorkha was one of these several small states, struggling against one another. In the latter half of the 18th century it began a process of expansion which culminated in the creation of an empire which was in size and in the multitude of people that it ruled over, unprecedented in the region. The traditional historiography…
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