 The British Academy has kindly provided funding for a partnership project (involving Pratyoush Onta at Martin Chautari and Michaei Hutt at SOAS) entitled the Creation of Public Meaning in Nepal. To view the call for papers, please click here to view the document in English and here to read it in Nepali. |
A Nepal Study Day was held at Durham on 19 April, 2010. Click here to view the call for papers and here to view the final programme.
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• Ian Martin gave a special evening lecture entitled Supporting Nepal’s Peace Process: From Conflict to Constituent Assembly for the Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) on Thursday 18 March. Martin served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) until February 2009. The talk was held from 7-9pm in room B102 at SOAS. Click here to download a flier about the talk and here to listen to an audio recording of the event. The audio file, poster and a report by the Centre on International Cooperation on lessons learned from UNMIN have been back archived on DSpace@Cambridge.
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• BNAC Annual Lecture entitled "Religion and Politics in Contemporary Nepal: The Case of the Pasupatinatha Temple" by Professor Axel Michaels of Heidelberg University, was held at SOAS on 10 November, 2009.
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• A Nepal Study Day was held in Edinburgh on 30 March, 2009, to coincide with the British Association of South Asian Studies conference. Over forty people attended, including a large contingent from Aberdeen. Click here to view the final programme.
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| • The 2008 Annual Lecture, sponsored by the Bhandari brothers, was given on 6 November, 2008 by Sapana Malla, MP. For a report, click here. |
