Selected Abstracts and Panels for the Chautari Annual Conference-2022
Discussion Type: Chautari Annual-Conference |
Date: 30 Nov 2022 |
Time: 08:00 AM
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The following abstracts and panels have been selected for the Chautari Annual Conference-2022 to be held in Kathmandu on November 30–December 2, 2022. More details about the conference will be uploaded in this website when they become available.
| S.N. | Name | Title |
| 1. | Abhijit Dihidar, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Goreswar College, Assam, India | Borderland Communities and Their Interactions with the Nepali State: A Case of the Rajbanshis of Eastern Nepal |
| 2. | Ajapa Sharma, PhD Student, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA | Subjects Between States: Extradition Between Nepal and Colonial India in the 1920s |
| 3. | Anupama Mahat, Visiting Faculty, Kathmandu University | What #metoo Reveals about Society's Attitude Towards Victim of Rape and Workplace Safety for Women in Nepal? An Analysis from Sushmita Regmi Case |
| 4. | Avash Bhandari, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago | Sales of Sleepers: A History of Nepal Government Timber Works and Saw Mills, Nepalgunj, 1900-1905. |
| 5. | Benju KC | Locally Elected Women Representatives’ Construction of Representation: A Case from a Local Government in Karnali Province |
| 6. | Bidya Maharjan, Mahidol University, Thailand | Identifying Legal Barriers to the Equal Enjoyment of Human Rights of People with Psychosocial Disability in Nepal |
| 7. | Chandra Narayan Chaudhary, Central Deprtment of Political Science, Tribhuvan University | Radical Indigenization in Plurinational State Nepal |
| 8. | Darshan Karki, PhD Candidate, University of Zurich | Tarai-Madhes: A Review of Studies on the Region and Its People |
| 9. | Debaditya Dutta, Assistant Professor, Government General Degree College, Mangalkote, India | Mountains, Modernity and Nature: Reconfiguring the Aspects of Himalayan Mountaineering |
| 10. | Deepanjali Shrestha, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Review of Policies and Programmes on Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in Nepal |
| 11. | Devaka KC, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Men's Role to Increase Women's Participation in Politics |
| 12. | Hanna Ketola, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom | From Clandestine to Social Mobilisation Path: The Maoist People's War in Nepal |
| 13. | Harsh Mahaseth, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs), Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India | Art and its Relevance: Is there a Problem with the Kumari Dance or the Kumari Culture? |
| 14. | Jivesh Jha, Judicial Officer, Dhanusha District Court, Janakpur, Nepal | Mediation in Nepal: A Study of the Legal Frameworks for Amicable Settlements |
| 15. | Kalpana Kumal, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Perception of Married Women on Marital Rape in Nepal |
| 16. | Komal Prasad Phuyal, Lecturer, Central Department of English, TU | Changing Contours of the Rebel: A Study of Contemporary Nepali Fictions |
| 17. | Kritika Chettri, Assistant Professor, University of North Bengal, India | Understanding Disaster and Catastrophe through the Lens of the Nepali Short Stories of Sushma Joshi and Maheshbikram Shah |
| 18. | Kundan Chaitanya, Kathmandu School of Law | Role of Caste Based Politics in Madhesh Pradesh |
| 19. | Laxmi Bakhadyo, PhD Candidate, Department of Law, TU | Contribution of Royal Ladies in Legal Regime of Nepal |
| 20. | Lazana Deshar, Patan Multiple Campus, TU | Status of Digital Literacy and the Barriers Faced by Senior Citizens in Nepl: Case Study of Latitpur District, Nepal |
| 21. | Lina Baniya, TU | Blood and Social System: Battle of “Purity” And “Impurity” |
| 22. | Mala Rai, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Underrepresentation of Indigenous Women of Nepal in Academia |
| 23. | Manila Tamang, Assistant Professor, University of North Bengal, India | Migration Trends: A Case Study of Indian Nepali from Darjeeling and Kalimpong to Kathamandu Valley |
| 24. | Mohan Dangaura, Central Department of English, TU | Caste, Community and Construction of a Tharu Subjectivity in Resham Chaudhary's novels "Chirphar", "Bandhuwa Kamaiya" and "Hidden Stories from Prison" |
| 25. | Narayani Devkota, Saraswati Multiple Campus, TU | Self-reflective Analysis of Hundred Years Long Women Movement in Nepal |
| 26. | Nirmal Acharya, TU | Writer Gochalis: Under the Censorship, Publication Activism of the Tharu Scholars |
| 27. | Phatya Bahadur Khadka, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Bridging Disaster and Mental Health: A Study on Marginalized Adolescents Affected by Floods in Melamchi |
| 28. | Pragyan Thapa, PhD Research Fellow, University of Agder Kristiansand, Norway and Sudhamshu Dahal, Department of Languages and Mass Communication Kathmandu University Kathmandu | Entrepreneurial Agency and Emerging Constructions of Youth and Middle-class Identity: An Interpretive Case study on Kathmandu’s Young and Middle-class Digital Entrepreneurs |
| 29. | Priti Sharma, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: A Review |
| 30. | Priyanka Chhetri, Department of Political Science, Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya Siliguri, India | UNHCR and Nepal : The Problems and Challenges of Relief, Resettlement and Rehabilitation |
| 31. | Rajala Dangol, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Paternity Leave – Experience and Effective in Nepal |
| 32 | Rajya Laxmi Gurung, Researcher and Madhusudan Subedi, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal | Menstrual Practices among Hindu Families of Western Nepal: Normative Vs Contemporary Practices |
| 33. | Rita Baramu, Program Manager, Body & Data | Unpacking the Patrilocal Custom: Study on Lived Experience of Married Women in Nepal |
| 34. | Rita Baramu, Program Manager, Body & Data and Dikshya Khadgi, Law Practitioner | Unshackling Expression: A Study on Laws Criminalising Expression Online in Nepal |
| 35. | Roshani Regmi and Apurwa Baral; Advocates | Inclusive Nationalism as a Tool for Democracy: Understanding the Relationship between Nationalism and Democratic Movements in Nepal |
| 36. | Sabita Maharjan, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Single Motherhood, Parenting and Mental Health : The Lived Experience of a Single Mother in Nepal |
| 37. | Sachin Ghimire, Department of Public Health, Manamohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences | Strengthening Health System and Risk Mitigation at the Local Levels in the Post Federalization Context : A Call to Interdisciplinary Approach |
| 38. | Samrat Kunjeda | Exercising Rights Against Torture in Nepal |
| 39. | Sandesh Dhakal, Madhusudan Pokharel and Sujan Shrestha; Central Department of Psychology, TU | Psychological Research in Nepal: Prospects and Challenges |
| 40. | Sandhya Acharya, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Application of Returned Migrants Skill: Implication on Human Capital Formation |
| 41. | Sanjila Moktan, Martin Chautari | Disadvantaged Social Groups, Livelihoods and Selling Kidneys: Stories from Nepal’s “Hyulsa” Village |
| 42. | Santosh Aryal, Tulip Diagnostics | Social Situation of LGBTIQ |
| 43. | Santosh Kumar Baidhya Tamang, READ Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal | मासेर नसकिएको समुदायको चेली सीता बडामहारानी |
| 44. | Shanti Barma, Handicap International | Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Nepal : A Perspective from Substantive Equality |
| 45. | Shubha Kayastha, Body & Data | Privacy in the Digital Age and as Understood by Marginalized Groups in Nepal |
| 46. | Sonam Dechen Gurung, Universität Heidelberg, Germany | Photography and Protest: Gleaning Dalit Resistance in Nepal |
| 47. | Souvidhya Khadka, Australain National University, Australia | Representative Functions of Neighborhoods Level Citizens Assemblies in Nepal |
| 48. | Subodh Chandra Bharti, PhD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India | A Political History of the Constitutional Development in Nepal |
| 49. | Sumita Pathak, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Perception Regarding Online Classes among Nursing Students |
| 50. | Suraj Ray, Freedom Forum | Punishing through the Process : A Critical Review on Section 47 of the Electronic Transaction Act, 2063 B.S. |
| 51. | Tej Bahadur Sunar, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Exploring Key Reasons Reducing Women’s Representation in Decisive Positions of the Local Levels in Nepal |
| 52. | Tracy Fehr, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder, USA | The Patriarchy of Reconstruction: Single Women and Intersectional Exclusions in Post-Earthquake Nepal |
| 53. | Urmi Shah, Department of Gender Studies, TU | Workplace Sexual Harassment in Armed Police Force ( APF) Nepal |
| Panel I : Histories of Gurkhas: Manifested, Latent, and Silenced | ||
| 1. | Avash Piya, Independent Researcher | Symbolic Spaces of Gurkha Intermediation |
| 2. | Premila van Ommen, PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK | Fashion, Politics, Protests: Intergenerational Transmissions of Gurkha Culture in a Diaspora |
| 3. | Sanjay Sharma, PhD Candidate, Sociology, National University of Singapore | Transnational Experiences of Professional Women |
| Panel II : Media and Technologies Histories in Nepal | ||
| 1. | Harsha Man Maharjan, Martin Chautari | Typewriters in Newsrooms: Writing Machine and the Imaginations of Writing Cultures of Journalists in Nepal |
| 2. | Binod Bhattarai, Nepal Open University | Tracing Roots of Media Capture in Nepali Journalism |
| 3. | उत्तर विष्ट, पोलिगन कलेज | डडेलधुरा जिल्लामा छापा पत्रकारिताको इतिहास |
| Panel III : What is Himalayan? Prof Swatasiddha Sarkar, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India (Panel Convener) |
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| 1. | Binayak Sundas, Assistant Professor, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India | In Search for a Himalayan History: Re-examining Iman Singh Chemjong's 'Kirat History and Culture' |
| 2. | Somoshree De, PhD Research Scholar at the Centre for Himalayan Studies, India | The Scope of Writing the Himalayan History of its Borderlands |
| 3. | Priyanka Chatterjee, Assistant Professor in English, Centre for Distance and Online Education, University of North Bengal, India | Understanding 'Himalayan' Through Parijat and Mamang Dai |
| 4. | Sanju Sharma, PhD Candidate and NFSC Fellow, the Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, India | Understanding Himalaya Through Regional Scholarship : Projecting Rahul Sankrityayan as a Himalayanist |