Dear Colleagues,
Herewith a final reminder email about this year's Nepal Study Day to be
held in April at the University of Cambridge. We are delighted to
announce that we have already received a large number of abstracts, so
encourage those who would like to present to send in abstracts soon.
Call for Abstracts
9th BNAC Nepal Study Day
University of Cambridge
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
(with an ever greater chance that we will continue on Thursday 21 April
given the number and quality of abstracts)
With support from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences
and Humanities <www.crassh.cam.ac.uk> and the Centre of South Asian
Studies <www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk> at the University of Cambridge, the
Britain-Nepal Academic Council announces its 9th Nepal Study Day to be
held at the University of Cambridge on 20 and 21 April 2011.
The 2010 Study Day, held at Durham, was popular and well attended. BNAC
encourages participants to make short presentations that share research
findings or discuss ongoing projects that focus on Nepal or the Nepali
cultural world. Programmes from previous years can be found online at
<www.digitalhimalaya.com/bnac/study_days.html>. Research from all
disciplines will be considered, including work relating to the Nepalese
Diaspora. We encourage presentations on all stages of research, and
particularly welcome abstracts by masters and doctoral students.
If you are interested in participating please send a brief abstract of
250 words to Dr Mark Turin <[log in to unmask]> by 5pm on Monday, 28
February 2011. In keeping with previous study days, only abstracts will
be circulated in advance, with full papers presented on the day. Members
of BNAC may attend the Nepal Study Day for free, while for non-members
the attendance fee is £20. Lunch will cost around £8, to be paid in cash
on the day. Small bursaries towards travel costs and registration fees
will be made available to students whose presentations are accepted.
Presenters and participants are expected to organize their own travel to
Cambridge and their accommodation while here. Please refer to these
helpful websites for more information: <www.visitcambridge.org> and
<www.cam.ac.uk/visitors>.
The convenors ask that all those interested in attending but who are not
planning on presenting a paper make contact so that an accurate number
of lunch and dinner reservations can be made.
The organizers are particularly grateful to the Kosciuszko Trust for its
generous financial support of travel bursaries for this year's Nepal
Study Day.
Please circulate this announcement to colleagues and students who may
not be on the BNAC list.
For more information please contact one of the conveners by email:
Dr Mark Turin, CRASSH/MAA, University of Cambridge <[log in to unmask]>
Dr Sara Shneiderman, St Catharine's College, Cambridge <[log in to unmask]>
Very best wishes
Mark
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Mark Turin
Director, Digital Himalaya Project
Director, World Oral Literature Project
Research Associate, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Visiting Scholar, Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
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project: <http://www.oralliterature.org>
film: <http://bit.ly/vanishingvoicesfilm>
writings: <www.bit.ly/markturin>
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