Panchayat Cultural Politics, Nepali Modernisms, and Building a Modern Nation
- Dipti Sherchan
Discussion Type: Research Seminar Series |
Date: 07 Jul 2024 |
Time: 03:00 PM
Details
7 July 2024/२३ असार २०८१ (आइतबार, दिउँसो ३ बजे)
Research Seminar Series
Panchayat Cultural Politics, Nepali Modernisms, and Building a Modern Nation
Dipti Sherchan, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Brief:
In this seminar, I will be presenting a chapter draft based on my dissertation tentatively titled, “The Contested Academy and Proliferating Modernities: The Art of Nation Building in Nepal.” My dissertation project was based on long-term ethnographic and archive-based fieldwork in Kathmandu between 2018-2022. In this chapter, I ask how does the emergence of “Nepali modernism” align with the cultural politics of building a modern nation under the Panchayat regime.