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.

Please click here to join our free email list about BNAC events and activities.

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.

The 10th BNAC Nepal Study Day will be held on Thursday, 19 April 2012, hosted by CNSUK in Reading. To express an interest in participating, please send a brief abstract of 250 words to Dr Krishna Adhikari on cnsuk07@gmail.com by 5pm on Wednesday, 29 February 2012. Click here to download a call for papers with more information.

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'.

Click here to read a statement released by the BNAC Executive Committee expressing its concern over the BBC World Service’s recent decision to discontinue broadcasting its Nepali service on short wave frequencies. Click here to learn about an event held at SOAS on 18 April 2011 entitled The Radio in Nepal: Contemporary Debates, and click here to listen to a podcast of the discussion.

On 28 April, 2011, Michael Hutt, BNAC Chairman and Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, received the Nai Derukha International Award in Kathmandu for promoting Nepali literature to the world. Please click here for more information (and for a link to a video of his acceptance speech).

The 2011 BNAC Nepal Study Day was held on 20-21 April 2011 at the University of Cambridge. Please view the Call for Papers for more information. Click here to view the poster, here to download the abstract and programme booklet and here to view/download a large photo of the delegates and presenters taken on 21 April in Cambridge.

The current Executive Officers are:

• Professor Michael Hutt (SOAS, University of London), Chairman
• Dr Mara Malagodi (SOAS, University of London), 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)

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.