Britain-Nepal Academic Council

Nepal Study Day

(all welcome, no entrance charge but no free lunches either)

March 3^rd 2005

Room BG05, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

11.00-11.45             Ramesh Dhungel (CNAS, SOAS, and BL)
 The Hodgson Collection at the BL and Opening the Chest of Nepali History 

11.45- 12.30            David Gellner (Oxford)
 Studying Activists in Nepal 

12.30   12.45           University of Bielefeld, project proposal
'Processes of ethnicisation and de-ethnicisation in South Asia and the Andean Region: Role of ethnicity in the conflict in Nepal'

LUNCH

13.45   14.30           Anthony Costello & David Osrin (Institute of Child Health, UCL)
 The Impact of Participatory Women's Groups on The Reduction Of Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Rural Nepal 

14.30   15.15           Catherine Panter-Brick (Durham)
 Health Research: Current Issues in Nepal 

15.15   16.00           Ben Campbell (Manchester)
 Inventing Nature: Fieldwork in and on the Langtang National Park 

TEA

16.15   17.00           Anna Balikci-Denjongpa (Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok)
 Current research in Sikkim  with film scenes from  Tingvong, a Lepcha village in Sikkim  by Dawa Lepcha, Anna Balikci-Denjongpa, and  Asen Balikci (2005).

17.00   17.45           Judy Pettigrew (Central Lancashire)
Fear and denial: Conducting research in rural Nepal during the Maoist insurgency

17.45   18.35  Film  Schools in the Crossfire  Director Dhurba Basnet (2004) Introduced by Judy Pettigrew

DINNER at the Great Nepalese Restaurant, near Euston Station