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Roundtable Discussion

Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to Secular State

21 May 2018

Welcome: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar

Opening Remarks: H.E. Dr Durga Bahadur Subedi

Speakers: Professor David Gellner, Dr Mara Malagodi, Professor Sondra Hausner, Dr Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Professor Michael Hutt

To listen to the podcast, click here. This event was reported in Himalayan Mail UK, an online news portal based in London UK. Read their report here.

Speakers

DSubedijpg

 

H.E. Dr Durga Bahadur Subedi is Ambassador of Nepal to the UK.

 

DGellner

 

David Gellner (@DavidGellner) is Professor of Social Anthropology and is Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.

 

MMalagodi

 

Mara Malagodi (@RestlessMafalda) is Senior Lecturer in Law at the City University of London.

 

Sondra Hausner

 

Sondra Hausner is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at the University of Oxford.

Mlecomte tilouine

 

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is a member of the faculty for the Laboratory for Social Anthropology.

 

MHutt

 

Michael Hutt (@eloquenthill) is Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the Principal Investigator for the AHRC funded project (2017-2020) 'After the Earth’s Violent Sway: the tangible and intangible legacies of a natural disaster'.

Nilanjan_Sarkar

 

Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director of the South Asia Centre.

 

 

Banner image credit: 'Langtang National Park, Nepal' by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash.