The conference, spanning over two and half days, consist of eight themed panels on various social science disciplines. For the conference, proposals were initially invited either as stand-alone papers or as panels. These papers/panels were then selected by an international committee representing the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), the Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) and the Social Science Baha.  The conference also included two keynote addresses delivered during the evenings (5–6:30 pm) of 24 and 25 July as well as a panel discussion on 26 July (2:30 - 4:30 pm). The first keynote entitled 'Five Nepali Novels' was delivered by Prof Michael Hutt on 24 July and the second keynote 'Democracy in Trouble? Political Elite's Attitude and Behaviour and Regime Stability in Nepal' was delivered by Prof Mahendra Lawoti on the…

2013 [sta_anchor id="Pauline Limbu"] [sta_anchor id="Gregory Pierce"] Day 3: 26 July (Friday)  Panel 7 9 – 10:30 am Chair: Steven Folmar, Assistant Professor Cultural/Applied Anthropology, Wake Forest University Pauline Limbu Junior Research Fellow,  Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities History and Political Movements: Kipat in Today’s Limbuwan Movement 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 Discussant: Ajaya N Mali, Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities [sta_anchor id="Joanna Morrison"] BREAK: 10:30 – 11 am Panel 8 11 am – 1 pm Chair: Kathryn March, Professor of Anthropology [sta_anchor id="Vikas Paudel"] and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, Cornell University Joanna Morrison Senior Research Associate, University College London Institute for Global…

2013 [sta_anchor id="Sudeep Jana Thing"] Day 2: 25 July (Thursday) [sta_anchor id="Soma Kumari Rana"] [sta_anchor id="Christopher Butler"] Panel 4 9 – 11 am Chair: Sudhindra Sharma, Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts Sudeep Jana Thing PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Western Australia Politics of Conservation and Space: National Park and Sonaha Ethnic Minorities Soma Kumari Rana Programme Officer (GESI), SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal Shiva Kumar Shrestha Senior Programme Officer, SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal [sta_anchor id="Gérard Toffin"] Decentralising the Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Approach to the Local Level: Challenges and Opportunities 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 [sta_anchor id="Kanako Nakagawa"]Discussant: Christie Lai Ming Lam, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University BREAK: 11 am –…

2013  Day 1: 24 July (Wednesday) [sta_anchor id="Sudhindra Sharma"] [sta_anchor id="Lok Ranjan Parajuli"] Opening remarks: Nirmal Man Tuladhar, Chair, Social Science Baha [sta_anchor id="Thomas Robertson"] Panel 1 9 – 11 am Chair: David Holmberg, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University 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   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 Thomas Robertson Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute A Lowland Plague in a Himalayan Country: A Historical Political Ecology of Disease in…