Chautari Annual Conference - 2022

Discussion Type: Chautari Annual-Conference | Date: 30 Nov 2022 | Time: 09:00 PM

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(Special Theme: Histories of Nepal)
Organized by Martin Chautari (MC) | Venue: Martin Chautari, Thapathali, Kathmandu
November 30–December 2, 2022 (Mansir 14–16, 2079)

Day I (November 30, 2022, Wednesday)

09:00 a.m.
Tea/Registration

09:20 a.m. Opening Remarks: MC	09:20 a.m. Opening Remarks: MC
Hall A	Hall B
09:30 a.m. Panel 1: Trees, Mountains & Transnational Subjects Moderator: Ujjwal Prasai, MC	09:30 a.m. Panel 2: Cyber Laws & Freedom of Expression Moderator: Harsha Man Maharjan, MC
Paper I: Subjects Between States: Extradition Between Nepal and Colonial India in the 1920s Ajapa Sharma, PhD Student, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Paper I: Unshackling Expression: Regulation of Freedom of Expression Online and Sexual Expression in Nepal Shubha Kayastha and Kabita Bahing Rai; Body & Data
Paper II: Sales of Sleepers: A History of Nepal Government Timber Works and Saw Mills, Nepalgunj, 1900-1905 Avash Bhandari, PhD Student, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Paper II: Punishing through the Process: A Critical Review on Section 47 of the Electronic Transaction Act, 2006 Suraj Ray, Freedom Forum
Paper III: Mountains, Modernity and Nature: Reconfiguring the Aspects of Himalayan Mountaineering Debaditya Dutta, Assistant Professor, Government General Degree College, Mangalkote, India Floor Discussion	Paper III: Perception Regarding Online Classes among Nursing Students in Kathmandu Sumita Pathak, Department of Gender Studies, Tribhuvan University (TU) and Supriya Dawadi, Kathmandu Model Hospital Floor Discussion
11:00 a.m. (Break)
11:15 a.m. Panel 3: Disability, LGBTQI & Senior Citizens Moderator: Kabita Bahing Rai, Body & Data	11:15 a.m. Panel 4: Violence, Torture & Human Rights Moderator: Sanjila Moktan, MC
Paper I: Status of Digital Literacy and the Barriers Faced by Senior Citizens in Nepal: A Case Study of Latitpur District, Nepal Lazana Deshar, Patan Multiple Campus, TU	Paper I: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: A Review Priti Sharma, Department of Gender Studies, TU
Paper III: Identifying Legal Barriers to the Equal Enjoyment of Human Rights of People with Psychosocial Disability in Nepal Bidya Maharjan, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand	Paper II: Exercising Rights against Torture in Nepal Samrat Kunjeda, Independent Researcher
Paper III: Social Situation of LGBTQI Santosh Aryal, Country Representative, Tulip Diagnostics Floor Discussion	Paper III: Perception of Married Women on Marital Rape in Nepal Kalpana Kumal, Department of Gender Studies, TU Floor Discussion
12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m. (Lunch)
1:45 p.m. Panel 5: Histories of Gurkhas: Manifested, Latent & Silenced Moderator: Michael Hutt, SOAS, University of London Paper I: Symbolic Spaces of Gurkha Intermediation Avash Piya, Independent Researcher Paper II: Fashion, Politics, Protests: Intergenerational Transmissions of Gurkha Culture in a Diaspora Premila van Ommen, PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK Paper III: Transnational Experiences of Professional Gurkha Women Sanjay Sharma, PhD, Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore Floor Discussion
3:15 p.m. (Break)
3:30 p.m. Open Session: *Moderator:* Pramod Bhatta, MC *Keynote* *Address* उच्च शिक्षा सुधार्ने चार सूत्र डा. चैतन्य मिश्र, प्राध्यापक, त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय
05:00 p.m. (End of Day 1)

Day II (December 1, 2022, Thursday)

09:00 a.m.
Tea/Registration

Hall A	Hall B
09:30 a.m. Panel 6: Regionalism, Politics & Social Mobilization Moderator: Sohan Prasad Sha, MC	09:30 a.m. Panel 7: Caste, Ethnicity & Social Resistance Moderator: JB Biswokarma, Dignity Initiative/MC
Paper I: Tarai-Madhes: A Review of Studies on the Region and Its People Darshan Karki, PhD Student, Human Geography Unit, University of Zurich, Switzerland	Paper I: Photography and Protest: Gleaning Dalit Resistance in Nepal Sonam Dechen Gurung, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Paper II: From Clandestine Formation to Social Mobilisation? The Maoist People’s War in Nepal? Hanna Ketola, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield, UK and Nabin Bibhas, Independent Researcher	Paper II: Caste, Community and Construction of a Tharu Subjectivity in Resham Chaudhary’s Novels “Chirphar,” “Paribandh” and “Hidden Stories from Prison” Mohan Dangaura, Central Department of English, TU
Paper III: Borderland Communities and their Interactions with the Nepali State: A Case of the Rajbanshis of Eastern Nepal Abhijit Dihidar, Goreswar College, Assam, India Floor Discussion	Paper III: मासेर नसकिएको समुदायकी चेली सीता बडामहारानी Santosh Kumar Baidhya Tamang, READ Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal Floor Discussion
11:00 a.m. (Break)
11:15 a.m. Panel 8: Exploring Various Facets of Disaster Moderator: Sudeshna Thapa, Social Science Baha	11:15 a.m. Panel 9: Politics of Participation Moderator: Kailash Rai, MC
Paper I: The Patriarchy of Reconstruction: Intersectional Exclusions for Single Women in Post-earthquake Nepal Tracy Fehr, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	Paper I: Factors Reducing Women’s Representation in Local Levels’ Decisive Positions in Nepal Tej B. Sunar, Department of Gender Studies,TU
Paper II: Bridging Disaster and Mental Health: A Study on Dalit Adolescents Affected by the Floods in Melamchi Phatya Bahadur Khadka, Department of Gender Studies, TU	Paper II: Men’s Role to Increase Women’s Participation in Politics Devaka KC, Department of Gender Studies, TU
Floor Discussion	Floor Discussion
12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m. (Lunch)
1:45 p.m. Panel 10: Media & Technologies Histories in Nepal Moderator: P. Kharel, Professor, TU Paper I: Tracing the Antecedents of Media Capture in Nepal Binod Bhattarai, Nepal Open University Paper II: Typewriters in Newsrooms: Writing Machine and the Imaginations of Writing Cultures of Journalists in Nepal Harsha Man Maharjan, MC Paper III: डडेलधुरा जिल्लामा छापा पत्रकारिताको इतिहास उत्तर विष्ट, पोलिगन कलेज Floor Discussion
3:15 p.m. (Break)
3:30 p.m. Open Session: Thinking about Various Research Archives *Moderator:* Pratyoush Onta, MC Panelists: Tracing a Treaty Transnationally: The Global Autobiography of Legal-diplomatic Documents Ajapa Sharma, PhD Student, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA अनगिन्ती स्मृतिग्रन्थ र प्राज्ञिक अनुसन्धानमा यिनको उपयोगिता Arjun Panthi, MC Shikar Files: Documents on Imperial Hunts in Tarai at Archives in Nepal, India and the UK Avash Bhandari, PhD Student, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Creating Your Research Archive via Social Media Sanjay Sharma, PhD, Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore Floor Discussion
5:15 p.m. (End of Day 2)

Day III (December 2, 2022, Friday)

09:00 a.m.
Tea/Registration

Hall A	Hall B
09:30 a.m. Panel 11: Migration, Livelihood & Entrepreneurship Moderator: Sanjay Sharma, National University of Singapore, Singapore	09:30 a.m. Panel 12: Gender, Customs & Social Exclusion Moderator: Rekha Khatri, Possible
Paper I: Opportunities and Challenges: A Sociological Study of Migration from Darjeeling and Kalimpong to Kathmandu Valley Manila Tamang, Assistant Professor, Kashipur Michael Madhusudan Mahavidyalaya, India and Priyanka Chhetri, Department of Political Science, Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya Siliguri, India	Paper I: Menstrual Practices among Hindu Families of Western Nepal: Normative Versus Contemporary Practices Rajya Laxmi Gurung, Researcher, Dignity Without Danger, TU and Madhusudan Subedi, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal
Paper II: Disadvantaged Social Groups, Livelihoods and Kidney Trafficking: Stories from Central Nepal’s “Himla” Village Sanjila Moktan, MC	Paper II: Unpacking the Patrilocal Custom: Study on Lived Experience of Married Women in Nepal Rita Baramu, Program Manager, Body & Data
Floor Discussion	Floor Discussion
11:00 a.m. (Break)
11:15 a.m. Panel 13: What is Himalayan? Panel *Convener:* Swatasiddha Sarkar, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India *Moderator:* Pranab Kharel, MC Paper I: In Search for A Himalayan History: Re-examining Iman Singh Chemjong’s “Kirat History and Culture” Binayak Sundas, Assistant Professor, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India Paper II: Thinking with the Sleepless Mountains: Engaging with Parijat’s “Anido Pahadsangai” Priyanka Chatterjee, Assistant Professor in English, Centre for Distance and Online Education, University of North Bengal, India Paper III: Understanding Himalaya through Regional Scholarship: Projecting Rahul Sankrityayan as a Himalayanist Sanju Sharma, PhD Candidate and NFSC Fellow, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India Paper IV: The Scope of Writing the Himalayan History of its Borderlands Somoshree De, PhD Research Scholar, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India Floor Discussion
1:15 p.m. (Lunch)
2:15 p.m. Open Session: Book Discussion on *Reading Nepali Transition (2006–2015)* Pranab Kharel (ed.) Moderator: Devendra Uprety, MC *Commentators:* Dr. Janak Rai, Central Department of Anthropology, TU and Dr. Meena Paudel, Sociologist Floor Discussion 3.30 p.m. Closing Remarks: Devraj Humagain, MC
3:45 p.m. (Tea)
*Note:* Each paper presenter will summarize his/her paper within 15 minutes. A designated moderator will share his/her comments on all papers in the panel in 10 minutes, and remaining time will be available for floor discussion.