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The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 2013

Social Science Baha announces the Second Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya being organised in partnership with the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies and the Britain-Nepal Academic Council. The conference will be held in Kathmandu from 24 to 26 July, 2013.

The 2013 conference is divided into two parts. The first part, spanning over three days, consists of nine themed panels in which researchers will present papers on various social science disciplines and topics. Participation in this part of the conference is by pre-registration only. Online registration will be opened soon.

The second part of the conference includes two keynote addresses delivered during the evenings of 24 and 25 July. These will be public sessions in which admission is free and open to all.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
SN	Presenter	Paper Title	Abstracts
1.	Michael Hutt Professor, Nepali and Himalayan Studies; and Chair, Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS	Five Nepali Novels	Read abstract
2.	Mahendra Lawoti Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University	Democracy in Trouble? Political Elite's Attitude and Behaviour and Regime Stability in Nepal	Read abstract
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
SN	Presenter	Paper Title	Abstracts
1.	Andrea Koebel PhD Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford	‘The Golden Mean’ or ‘Stuck in the Middle’?: Students’ Future Aspirations and Realities in Kathmandu, Nepal	Read abstract
2.	Shrochis Karki PhD Candidate, International Development, University of Oxford	Positive Deviance: ‘Success’ in Unexpected Places	Read abstract
3.	Amanda Snellinger Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford	Mobilising for What: A Discursive History of Nepal’s Youth Policy	Read abstract
4.	Ajaya N. Mali Course Coordinator, and Co-Instructor, & Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities	The Newar Town and the Festival	Read abstract
5.	Christie Lai Ming Lam Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University	Park, Hill Migration, and the Changes of Gender Relations of Rana Tharus in Far-western Nepal	Read abstract
6.	Christopher Butler PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz	Water Unites, Water Divides: Resistance to the West Seti and Upper Karnali Dams in Nepal	Read abstract
7.	Dhruba Bahadur Khatri MPhil Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography and Population Studies, PN Campus, Pokhara	Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Pokhara, Nepal	Read abstract
8.	Gérard Toffin Senior Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris	The Dynamics of Caste in Contemporary Nepal	Read abstract
9.	Gregory Edward Pierce PhD Candidate, Human Ecology, LUCID Research Centre, Lund University, Sweden	The Embodiments of Ice and Bone: Ecological Quickening and the Phenomenology of Being in Dolpo, Nepal	Read abstract
10.	Jagannath Adhikari Visiting Fellow, RMAP/Crawford School of Economics and Governance, Australian National University	Globalisation, Labour Migration, and New Agrarian Transformation in Nepal: Implication for Community Organisations for Resource Management and Development	Read abstract
11.	Joanna Morrison Senior Research Associate, University College London Institute for Global Health, University College London	Who Participates?: Examining Socio Ddemographic Differences in a Community Mobilisation Intervention to Improve Maternal and Newborn Survival in Dhanusha and Makwanpur Districts	Read abstract
12.	Kanako Nakagawa Research Assistant, Institution for Advanced Social Research, Kwansei Gakuin University	Cultural Politics in the Markets: A Case from Inter-Caste Negotiations at Meat Business in Kathmandu	Read abstract
13.	Khem Raj Shreesh Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities Sudhindra Sharma Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts	Nepal's Post-Conflict Political Economy: Prospects for Coming Out of the Conflict Trap	Read abstract
14.	Lok Ranjan Parajuli Visiting Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago	From Controlling Access to Crafting Minds: The History of Education in the Rana Era	Read abstract
15.	Neel Kamal Chapagain Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point	A Review of Literatures and Media on Upper Mustang: Trends and Impacts of Knowledge and Representation	Read abstract
16.	Pauline Limbu Junior Research Fellow, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities	History and Political Movements: Kipat in Today’s Limbuwan Movement	Read abstract
17.	Sanjay Sharma Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility	The Political Economy of Migration Process: A ‘Distorted’ Rational Choice of Nepali Labour Migrants	Read abstract
18.	Shamik Mishra Formerly Programme Officer, Research and Publication, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya Deepak Aryal Archivist/Researcher, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya	Political Ephemera in Palpa during the Referendum 1979-80	Read abstract
19.	Shyamu Thapa Magar PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Asia Pacific University, Japan	Imagined Community and Constructing Magar Identity	Read abstract
20.	Soma Kumari Rana Programme Officer (GESI), SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal Shiva Kumar Shrestha Senior Programme Officer, SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal	Decentralising the Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Approach to the Local Level: Challenges and Opportunities	Read abstract
21.	Sudeep Jana Thing PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Western Australia Hemant Ojha Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne, and South Asia Institute of Advance Studies (SAIS), Kathmandu	Politics of Conservation and Space: National Park and Sonaha Ethnic Minorities	Read abstract
22.	Sudhindra Sharma Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts Sujan Ghimire Research Officer, Interdisciplinary Analysts Bandana Gyawali Gautam PhD Candidate, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland	Modernity Prior to the Era of Development: Forestry Management, Domestic Water Supply, and 'Pragati' during the Rana Period	Read abstract
23.	Sujeet K. Karn Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull	Violent Death Arising out of Maoist Conflict: Disrupted Grief, and the Tensions between Traditional Practices and Coping Ways of the Bereaved	Read abstract
24.	Thomas Robertson Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute	A Lowland Plague in a Himalayan Country: A Historical Political Ecology of Disease in Nepal Before 1950	Read abstract
25.	Vikas Paudel, Dharma S Manandhar, Bhim P Shrestha Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Kathmandu, Nepal Naomi Saville, Joanna Morrison, Kristen Ormston UCL Institute for Global Health, London, UK	Understanding Nutritional Behaviour of Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Dhanusha District, Nepal	Read abstract
26.	Youba Raj Luitel Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tribhuvan University	Migrating to Gulf Countries for Domestic Work: Exploring the Gendered Terrain of Nepalese Women’s Labour Migration	Read abstract