Ian Martin will be giving a special evening talk 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 will be held from 7-9pm in room B102 at SOAS. Click here to download a flier and abstract of the talk. |
| • A Nepal Study Day will be held at Durham on 19 April, 2010. Click here to view the call for papers. |
| • BNAC Annual Lecture entitled "Religion and Politics in Contemporary Nepal: The Case of the Pasupatinatha Temple" by Professor Axel Michaels of Heidelberg University, to be given at 6pm at SOAS on November 10th. |
| • 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. |
| • The 2008 Annual Lecture, sponsored by the Bhandari brothers, was given on November 6th 2008 by Sapana Malla, MP. For a report, click here. |