Social Science Baha
announces

The Second Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya

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.

Please click here to see the list of presenters and their respective abstracts.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Joint Regional Conference: Governing Youth in South Asia

22-24 September, 2013, Kathmandu

Investigation into issues that are of core importance for youth is a major challenge not only for policy makers and development partners but also for academics. By their sheer numbers, youth is a core constituency and the provision of services part­icularly to this group is crucial in order to support them for setting up their lives, both pro­fessional and personal. Ideally, Youth Surveys not only aim at investigating into the roles of young people as economically and politically active citizens but also at strengthening youth policies. This also implies allowing them to have, and supporting them in having, a critical interest in inclusive democratic governance and active participation in (re-)formulating policies that are of crucial relevance to them, such as health, education, and access to labour markets.