The ANHS Himalayan Lecture Series supports academic exchange
between scholars from the Himalayan region and US scholars
and promotes the field of Himalayan studies as a whole.
ANHS invites a scholar to the USA to present a three- to four-week series of lectures at ANHS member and/or affiliated institutions. The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, provides funding through the Council of America Overseas Research Centers of which ANHS is a Center in Developing Status.
2011 Himalayan Lecture Series
Invited Speaker
ANHS welcomes Dr. Pratyoush Raj Onta as the invited speaker for the 2011 Himalayan Lecture Series. Dr. Onta has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and is the General Secretary and Director of Research at Martin Chautari, a research institution, in Kathmandu. ANHS is supporting Dr. Onta's trip to the USA October 15-November 9, 2011 to lecture at five institutions and attend the First ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference.
Lecture Dates
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - Dartmouth College
International and Interdisciplinary Programs, Hanover, New Hampshire
4 p.m., location tba
"Academic Production under Conditions of Load-shedding: Politics, Money and Publication Cultures in Recent Contemporary Nepal"
Most accounts of international social science academic production 'reveal' that countries of the global South, including those in South Asia, have at best a marginal presence in the field that is said to be overwhelmingly dominated by North America and Western Europe. The data and analyses presented in the World Social Science Report 2010 seem to suggest as much. However this paper argues that academic production is not a competitive sports the results of which can be neatly presented in a table resembling the Olympics medal tally. By using historical and ethnographic vignettes from Nepal, this paper suggests that narratives of academic dependency or lack miss the point. Focusing on the links between politics, money and publication cultures in contemporary Nepal, it argues for a different vocabulary of engagement with academic production in the countries of the South.
Friday, October 21, 2011 - Cornell University
South Asia Program, Ithaca, New York
3:30 p.m., 215 McGraw Hall
"The Making of a Newly Inclusive Public Sphere in Nepal during the 1990s"
This lecture focuses on the janajati magazines published during the early 1990s and how they transformed the restrictive Panchayat-era public domain, and the long-form journalism of the mid and late 1990s and how the work of not-for-profit media outlets was crucial to its realization.
Monday, October 24, 2011 - University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
3 p.m., 950 University Hall
"Academic Production under Conditions of Load-shedding: Politics, Money and Publication Cultures in Recent Nepali History"
Most accounts of international social science academic production 'reveal' that countries of the global South, including those in South Asia, have at best a marginal presence in the field that is said to be overwhelmingly dominated by North America and Western Europe. The data and analyses presented in the World Social Science Report 2010 seem to suggest as much. However this paper argues that academic production is not a competitive sports the results of which can be neatly presented in a table resembling the Olympics medal tally. By using historical and ethnographic vignettes from Nepal, this paper suggests that narratives of academic dependency or lack miss the point. Focusing on the links between politics, money and publication cultures in contemporary Nepal, it argues for a different vocabulary of engagement with academic production in the countries of the South.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - Washington University in St. Louis
International and Area Studies Program, St. Louis, Missouri
4 p.m., 149 MacMillan Hall
"Academic Production under Conditions of Load-shedding: Politics, Money and Publication Cultures in Recent Contemporary Nepal"
Most accounts of international social science academic production 'reveal' that countries of the global South, including those in South Asia, have at best a marginal presence in the field that is said to be overwhelmingly dominated by North America and Western Europe. The data and analyses presented in the World Social Science Report 2010 seem to suggest as much. However this paper argues that academic production is not a competitive sports the results of which can be neatly presented in a table resembling the Olympics medal tally. By using historical and ethnographic vignettes from Nepal, this paper suggests that narratives of academic dependency or lack miss the point. Focusing on the links between politics, money and publication cultures in contemporary Nepal, it argues for a different vocabulary of engagement with academic production in the countries of the South.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota
time and location tba
"The Making of a Newly Inclusive Public Sphere in Nepal during the 1990s"
This lecture focuses on the janajati magazines published during the early 1990s and how they transformed the restrictive Panchayat-era public domain, and the long-form journalism of the mid and late 1990s and how the work of not-for-profit media outlets was crucial to its realization.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - Yale University
South Asian Studies Council, New Haven, Connecticut
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Luce Hall 203
"Academic Production under Conditions of Load-shedding: Politics, Money and Publication Cultures in Recent Contemporary Nepal"
Most accounts of international social science academic production 'reveal' that countries of the global South, including those in South Asia, have at best a marginal presence in the field that is said to be overwhelmingly dominated by North America and Western Europe. The data and analyses presented in the World Social Science Report 2010 seem to suggest as much. However this paper argues that academic production is not a competitive sports the results of which can be neatly presented in a table resembling the Olympics medal tally. By using historical and ethnographic vignettes from Nepal, this paper suggests that narratives of academic dependency or lack miss the point. Focusing on the links between politics, money and publication cultures in contemporary Nepal, it argues for a different vocabulary of engagement with academic production in the countries of the South.
Dr. Onta is also attending the First ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference, October 28-30, 2011 at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.
