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The Britain-Nepal Academic Council was established on 23 May 2000 at a large meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London of British academics and researchers interested in various aspects of...
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April 04, 2025
Registration and Draft Conference Programme: BNAC Nepal Study Days, 24-25 April 2025
Registration and Draft Conference Programme: BNAC Nepal Study Days, 24-25 April 2025 The registration and draft conference programme of BNAC Nepal Study Days, 24-25 April 2025, Liverpool John Moore University, has now been announced. Presenters to register latest by Tuesday, 15 April 2025. Other participants (who are not presenting) to register by Monday, 21 April […]
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April 03, 2025
Dr Amber Moore (University of Toronto Department for the Study of Religion) awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2025
The Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)’s PhD Dissertation Prize 2025 has been awarded to Dr Amber Moore (University of Toronto Department for the Study of Religion). The committee met to review the twelve submissions to the competition, and came to a unanimous decision to award the chapter submitted by Dr Moore titled ‘‘Sūtra Pūjā, Sūtra Pāṭha: Worshipping, […]
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April 25, 2024
Final Conference Programme: BNAC Nepal Study Days, 13-14 May 2024
The final conference programme of BNAC Nepal Study Days, 13-14 May 2024, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, has now been announced. Please find the programme: BNAC Nepal Study Days Conference Programme 2024
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April 25, 2024
Paola Tiné and Alice Millington awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2024
The Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)’s PhD Dissertation Prize 2024 has been awarded jointly to Paola Tiné (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Alice Millington (University of Cambridge). The panel has also named Kathrin Fischer (University of Oxford) and Sudha Ghimire (Tribhuvan University) as runners-up. Paola Tiné’s chapter, entitled ‘Feeling Social Change in the Gut: […]
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April 24, 2023 Vanicka Arora (University of Stirling) awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2023
24 April 2023 The Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)’s PhD Dissertation Prize 2023 has been awarded to Vanicka Arora for her PhD thesis chapter ‘Ritual in Reconstruction’. Vanicka Arora was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Heritage at the University of Stirling; her thesis was submitted to the University of Western Sydney in 2022. Her […]
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October 19, 2022
Survey of Nepali Studies in Europe and the Americas
Following the discontinuation of courses on Nepal and Nepali at SOAS University of London, there is now little opportunity for students at British universities to engage academically with Nepali language, literature, culture and society. The Britain-Nepal Academic Council commissioned a survey of Nepali Studies in Europe and America to document current offerings and to identify […]
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April 14, 2022 Hema Kiruppalini and Mikkel Vindegg awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2022
Press note: Hema Kiruppalini and Mikkel Vindegg awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2022 Download the PDF version 14-04-2022. Oxford. The Britain–Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)’s PhD Dissertation Prize 2022 is jointly awarded to Hema Kiruppalini, of National University of Singapore, and Dr Mikkel Vindegg, of the University of Oslo, Norway. Hema received the prize for […]
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January 19, 2022 New Year Message 2022
New Year Message (PDF Version: BNAC New Year Message 2022) We wish you a Very Happy and Successful 2022! We would like to take this opportunity to give you a brief reminder of our achievements in 2021, and to provide you with an update on the planned activities for the 2022. 2021 proved to be […]
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November 12, 2021
BNAC organising forum on fieldwork in Nepal during the Covid-19 pandemic
Discussion forum on fieldwork in Nepal during the Covid-19 pandemic: practicalities, safety and ethics 22nd November 2021, 9:30-10:30 am UK time/3:15-4:15 pm Nepal time With a changing pandemic situation as vaccines are rolled out, many researchers based both in Nepal and overseas are considering the resumption of fieldwork on the ground in Nepal. The Britain […]
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September 27, 2021 BNAC asks PM to remove Nepal from Covid-19 red list
27.09.2021 Britain-Nepal Academic Council has sent a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressing concerns on its decision of 17 September 2021 to keep Nepal in the Covid-19 red list. The council argues that the decision to keep Nepal in the red list while upgrading other South Asia countries to the amber list is […]
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