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DECEMBER 2024

• 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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• July 05, 2021 Prof. Sushan Acharya to Deliver 19th BNAC Annual Lecture (2021)

  Dr Sushan Acharya, Professor of Education at the Central Department of Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, will deliver the BNAC’s 19th Annual Nepal Lecture, on “We didn’t get to study so we learned to weave”:  Women, indigenous learning and functional literacy in Nepal (“हामीले पढ्न पाएनौँ, त्यसैले बुन्न सिक्यौँ”: नेपालमा महिला, रैथाने सिकाइ र व्यावहारिक साक्षरता). […]

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• May 04, 2021 Amy Leigh Johnson and Kumud Rana awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2021

  22.04.2021 The Britain Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)’s PhD Dissertation Prize 2021 is awarded to Dr Amy Leigh Johnson and Dr Kumud Rana for their PhD dissertation chapters ‘Before Belonging: Settler Emplacement in the Farwest Tarai’ and ‘Transnational AIDS networks, regional solidarities and the configuration of male sexuality in Nepal’ respectively. In her chapter Amy, who was […]

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