Other Events

Seminar on Ethnicity and Identity in South Asia: A Comparative Perspective
(in collaboration with the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, USA)
conducted by Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota

3-4 December, 2009, Kathmandu

Arjun Guneratne led a discussion-based reading seminar on the issue of ethnicity and identity. The main objective of the seminar was to understand the concept of ethnic identity as a processual and relational phenomenon, within the larger social, historical, and political contexts in South Asia and especially Nepal, India and Sri Lanka.