Programme

Friday 25th June, p.m.

13:30-14.15
Gerald D. Berreman (Professor Emeritus, University of California)
Social Activism and Diversity in the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas: A Comparison
Discussant: David Gellner

14.15-15.00
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Challenging Goliath? Dams, People, and Legal Pluralism
Discussant: Makito Minami

15.00-15.45
Abhijit Dasgupta (Delhi School of Economics)
Local Politics and Alternatives in Development in North Bengal
Discussant: Masahiko Togawa

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16.00-16.45
Tetsuya Nakatani (Nara Prefectural University)
Bengalis outside Bengal: The 1947 Partition of India and the Formation of a Bengali Refugee Colony in South Delhi, India
Discussant: Krishna Hachhethu

16.45-17.30
Tatsuro Fujikura (University of Chicago)
The Bonded Labourers' Freedom Movement: Apparatuses of Development and the Practices of Democracy in Nepal
Discussant: Bishwo Kallyan Parajuli

17.30-18.15
Keiko Yamanaka (University of California)
Bowling Together in Japan: Social Capital and Community Activities of Nepalese Visa-Overstayers
Discussant: Keshav Maharjan

Reception
18:30-20:00

Saturday 26th June, a.m.
10.00-10.45
Hayami Yasuno (Yamaguchi Prefectural University)
The Human Rights Movement in Nepal
Discussant: Surinder Singh Jodhka

10.45-11.30
Makito Minami (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)
>From Tika to Kata: Ethnic Movements among the Magar in an Age of Globalization
Discussant: Taeko Uesugi

11.45-12.30
Minoru Mio (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)
Public Space, Voluntary Association and Hindu Nationalism: Changing Urban Festivals in Udaipur, Rajasthan
Discussant: Lancy Lobo

Saturday p.m.
14.00-14.45
Akio Tanabe (Kyoto University)
Cultural Resources and Social Practices: Understanding Post-Postcolonial Transformation in Rural Orissa
Discussant: Jonathan Parry

14.45-15.30
Lancy Lobo (Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara)
Hindus vs. Muslims in Communal Gujerat: 'Imaging' as Binary Opposites
Discussant: Katsuo Nawa

16.00-16.45
Hiroshi Ishii (ICLAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
The Transformation of Caste Relationships in Nepal
Discussant: Abhijit Dasgupta

16.45-17.30
Bishwo Kallyan Parajuli (TU Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara)
Occupational Change among the Gaines of Pokhara City
Discussant: Izumi Morimoto

17.30-18.15
Surinder Singh Jodhka (Jawaharlal Nehru Univerity, Delhi)
Dissociation, Distancing and Autonomy: Social Transformation and Caste Conflict in Rural Punjab
Discussant: Minoru Mio

Sunday 27th June, a.m.

10.00-10.45
Khusiyali Subba (Mahendra Multiple Campus, Dharan)
Women and Drug Addiction in Dharan: Processes of Marginalization
Discussant: Akio Tanabe

10.45-11.30
Seika Sato (Teikyo University)
'Never Mind Being Born a Woman': Positioning 'Women' among the Yolmo of Nepal
Discussant: Keiko Yamanaka

11.45-12.30
Makiko Habazaki (Hokkaido University)
Laments for Unfortunate Marriages: Domestic Violence in the Nepali Context
Discussant: Tatsuro Fujikura

Sunday p.m.

14.00-14.45
Ram Chhetri (Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur)
The Processes of Change in a Himalayan Village: Loba of Mustang and Their Environments
Discussant: Seika Sato

14.45-15.30
Yuji Yamamoto (Osaka International University)
Socio-Cultural Changes in Pokhara
Discussant: Gerald Berreman

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15.45-16.30
Jonathan Parry (London School of Economics)
Changing Childhoods in Chattisgarh
Discussant: Ram Chhetri

16.30-17.15
Kiyoko Ogura (freelance journalist, Kathmandu)
Realities and After-Images of Nepal's Maoists after the Attack on Beni
Discussant: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

17.15-17.45
Final Panel: Gerald Berreman, Ram Chhetri, Abhijit Dasgupta, Minoru Mio, Jonathan
Parry, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

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