Additional discussions from 2004 to present
8 Dec 2004
Topic: Promoting Social Science in Nepal: The International Collaboration Angle
Pundits: Dr Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Dr David N Gellner, Oxford University, UK and Dr Krishna Hachhethu, CNAS, TU, Nepal
13 December 2004
Millennium Development Goals-MDG.
Basudev Neupane, Samuhik Abhiyan.
7 March 2005
Impact of Bagmati Riverside Road Project on Slum Dwellers.
Bal Krishna Pandey, Nepal Basobas Basti Samrachhyan Samaj and Bimala Lama, Nepal Mahila Ekata Samaj.
14 March 2005
Democracy and Press Freedom.
Taranath Dahal, Federation of Nepalese Journalists; Yuba Raj Ghimire, Samaya;
Kanak Mani Dixit and Rajendra Dahal. Himal Khabarpatrika
16 March 2005
Social Entrepreneurship.
Anil Chitrakar,ECCA.
23 March 2005
Political Parties in Democracy.
Dr. Devendra Raj Pandey, Prof. Krishna Khanal and Dr. PitambarSharma
11 May 2005
How to Sabotage a ritual ? The political downfall of theRana as mirrored in narrations of divineboycott
Dr. Stefanie Lotter,anthropologist
18 May 2005
Interaction With Political Parties.
Mahesh Acharya, Nepali Congress;
Pradeep Gywali, Communist Party of Nepal (UML);
Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat, Nepali Congress (Democratic);
Sarita Giri, Nepal Sadbhawana Party(Anandidevi) and
Pari Thapa, Janamorcha Nepal.
29 August 2005
What kind of medical education can improve rural health service?
Dr. Arjun Karki, Patan Hospital
2 February 2006
Science and Justice: Revisiting US Military's Film Secrets Hepatitis E Vaccine Trial on Royal Nepal Army Jawans: Question of Ethics
Shakya Suren, Lumanti; Sharad Onta, Public Health Expert and Sunilbabu Pant, Blue Diamond Society.
22 May 2006
Satus of Non-Resident Nepali in Democratic Nepal
Balkrishna Pandey and Laxman Pant, Anti-monarchy Joint Democratic front, India.
14 January 2007
Topic: What should be Done to Increase the Efficiency of Chautari Library
Open Discussion
4 March 2007
Practice of Book Distribution from Private Sector
Shyam Khadka, Nawadeep Prakashan and Bijayraj Acharya, Bibek Shrijanshil Prakashan.
8 April 2007
Book Launch of Four Latest Publications by Martin Chautari
Saharikaran, Kanchko Parda, Samajik Abhiyan ya Vikas Sahayata, Mass Media in Post-1990 Nepal
13 Sep 2007
Release of Chautari New Book [Binod Dhungel's Shahi Shasan ma Swatantra Radio (Independent Radios under Royal Regime)].
Comments By: Shiva Gaunle (FNJ) and Hari Sharma (Social Science Baha)
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Interaction on Regional Media (Biratnagar and Nepalgunj)
Pundits: Saraswati Karki and Hemant Karmacharya
26 Dec 2007
Bali Conference on Climate Change and Achievements for Nepal.
Sandeep Chamling Rai, WWF- Nepal and Others.
9 Jan 2008
Mugu: Looking through Developmental Eye from Outside.
Teeka Bhattarai and Others from Local NGOs.
21 Jan 2008
Land, Ownership and Art Practice.
Rikke Luther, Artist, Denmark and Dr Jaime Stapleton, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London
About the Topic and the Pundits
Lecture Title: “Land, Ownership and Art Practice”
The lecture will begin with a presentation by Jaime Stapleton examining the history of land in the United Kingdom. The presentation will cover the development of the now dominant ‘Anglo-American’ view of ‘property’, and contemporary views on economic ‘incentives’ and ‘investment’, and critical concepts of ‘enclosure’ and the ‘tragedy of the commons’ that have come to dominate contemporary discourses of knowledge production, distribution and access. The presentation will relate these concepts to the social and political history of land use in the United Kingdom.
Stapleton’s presentation will provide a critical context for the second part of the lecture, presented by Rikke Luther. Luther’s presentation will examine her own past, recent and on-going art projects. The projects focus on and interrogate the social and economic relations that arise in relation to the different localations in which different projects are actualised. A key focus in this presentation will be the access, use, and ownership of land, economy and knowledge.
Examples covered will include will range from the new LAND project, to projects on occupied land in Mexico, to underground land projects in Singapore, to alternative cityplanning in Tokyo, to floating dwellings in Denmark - projects which have been done in relation to schools, a mushroom scientist, kindergardens, architects, occupants, land-owners, garbage specialists, and many others.
Rikke Luther Biography
Rikke Luther is an artist and works as part of the group Learning Site. Rikke Luther has been working from building up own projects with different groups of people to international exhibitions.
The Learning Site focuses on the local conditions in which its art practice is located. This entails a critical examination of the material resources and economies available within specific situations. Each situation may entail examination of economic and environmental factors, but also labor rights, property rights and the production and distribution of knowledge, which are investigated in tandem to produce a variety of different critical perspectives. For more information about Learning Site projects go to: www.learningsite.info
Jaime Stapleton Biography
Dr Jaime Stapleton is currently an Associate Research Fellow of the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked as an external consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation and serves on the Editorial Board of Cambridge University’s Primary Sources on Copyright (1459-1900) project. He is also a member of the CRIR group of Researchers in Residence in Christiania, Copenhagen. Until 2005, he was the Research Coordinator of the Adelphi Charter on Creative, Innovation and Intellectual Property, a law reform project based at the Royal Society of Arts in London. Between 2003 and 2006, he also worked at the National Office of the Arts Council of England. From 1994 to 2003 he taught critical theory and cultural history to undergraduate and postgraduate students of art and art history at Goldsmiths College. His doctoral research examined the relations between creative theory, intellectual property and political economy and was awarded in 2003.
6 Feb 2008
Free Health Services and its Challenges.
Dr. Mahesh Maskey, Chairperson, Nepal Health Research Council.
24 March 2008
Drafting a European Constitution: Challenges and Opportunitites.
Dr Andreas Føllesdal, Director of Research, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
27 April 2008 / 15 Baisakh 2065 Time: 3 pm
Books Launch
Media Anusandhan: Pragik Purbadhar Nirmanka Kehi Abhyash (Media Research: Some Exercises on Academic Infrastructure); Maobadi Bidroha: Sashastra Sangharsako Awadhi (Maoist Insurgency: Period of Armed Struggle); Media Sambad: Nepali Patrakaritabare Antarbarta (Media Dialogue: Interviews on Nepali Media); Samabeshi Media (Inclusive Media) and Madhesh Bidrohako Nalibeli (Details of Madhesh Revolt)
Comment by: Tilak Pathak, Journalist, Nepal Magazine on Media Anusandhan: Pragik Purbadhar Nirmanka Kehi Abhyash, and Tula Narayan Shah, Madheshi Analyst on Madhesh Bidrohako Nalibeli.
4 May 2008
Literature and Book Discussion
Discussion on Dwanda ra Yudda ka Katha (Stories of Conflict and War) Edited by Dr. Govind Raj Bhattarai and Bishnubhibhu Ghimire.
Kumar Koirala, Professor, Padma Kanya College, TU
14 May 2008
Increase in Food Price and Food crisis.
Jagannath Adhikari, Martin Chautari.
25 May 2008
Library Discussion
American Library in Nepal: Its Objectives, Services & Limitations.
Prakash Thapa, Library Director, American Library, Kathmandu.
9 July 2008
Republican Nepal's Budget: Expectation and Challenges.
Deependra Bahadur Chhetri, Member, National Planning Commission.
8 AUug 2008
Co-organization by Martin Chautari and Lasanaa Art Group
Modern and Contemporary Art Practices in Nepali -Global Contexts.
Dina Bangdel, Art Historian.
13 Aug 2008 / 29 Saun 2065 Time: 2:30-5:30 pm
Nationalism and Ethnicity: New Directions.
Democracy, Insurgency, Autocracy and Political Reform: The Exclusion/ Inclusion Dimension
Mahendra Lwoti
Dhimals' indigenism and the Cultural Politics of Place: A Preliminary Analysis of the Adivasi Andolan in Practice
Janak Rai
Tamsaling: Aspects of History and Identity
Mukta Lama