On the last day of the conference, 22 July, 2012, a policy dialogue entitled ‘Health and Nature: A Policy Dialogue on Ayurveda and Medicinal Plant Conservation’ will be held in the morning at Hotel Shanker. Participation in this part of the conference is by-invitation only. This dialogue falls within what is an emerging and dynamic field of study in medical schools, public health programs, and international health care development institutes in the United States, called global health diplomacy. It is an effort to bring together parties working in the still largely separate institutions of indigenous health care and environmental conservation in Nepal. This dialogue seeks to address ways in which health care and biodiversity conservation can be made co-equal partners. It also aims to make health care and conservation co-equal partners…

2012 For the fourth day of the conference, 21 July, 2012, proposals were initially invited either as stand-alone papers or as panels. The papers/panels were 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. PANEL PRESENTATIONS: HALL A PANEL A1: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE [sta_anchor id="Mahendra Lawoti"] 9 – 10:45 AM Chair: Rajendra Pradhan, Nepa School of Social Sciences and Humanities Discussant: Mara Malagodi, School of Oriental and African Studies [sta_anchor id="Jacob Rinck"] S.N. Presenter Paper Title 1. Mahendra Lawoti Professor of Political Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA [sta_anchor id="James Sharrock"] Neither Exclusionary Nor Inclusive: Political Elite’s Attitudes and Behaviour in Democratising Multi-ethnic Nepal, 1990-2002 2. Jacob Rinck Prospective Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, Connecticut, USA Remittances, Stability…

Hotel Shanker, Kathmandu Sponsored by the British Academy UK-South Asia Partnership Scheme and organised jointly by the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, and Social Science Baha with additional support from Goldsmiths, University of London; Yale University; Social Inclusion Research Fund (SIRF) (SIRF is funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Nepal and managed by SNV in Nepal), and Open Society Foundations, New York. The organising team of the conference consists of: Om Gurung (Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University); Alpa Shah (Goldsmiths, University of London); Sara Shneiderman (Yale University); Mukta Singh Lama-Tamang (Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University); and Deepak Thapa (Social Science Baha). There is general recognition of the need to address inequality due to marginalisation and exclusion resulting from various historical and social processes. The conference will…