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) | |
| 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 | |
| '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 | |
| 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 | |
| 11:15-11:30 | [Coffee] Break | |
| 11:30– 12:45 | 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] | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch (BNAC Executive Committee Meeting 61 Banbury Road) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| Changing Dynamics of Discrimination Based on Caste and Practice of Untouchability: An Intergenerational Experience [online] Ujjwal Sundas & Gopal Nepali, Samata Foundation | ||
| 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] | ||
| Dalits as subjects, Dalits as authors [in person] Michael Hutt, SOAS | ||
| 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] | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |