Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Expert Presentation, Manjushree Thapa, Kathmandu

Nepali Literature: Its Emergence in the Modern Era

Required Readings:

• Excerpts, Michael Hutt, Himalayan Voices. Univ. of California Press, 1991.

• Manjushree Thapa, The Tutor of History. London: Penguin, 2001
  
                           

   

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof Dagli

Islam II: Ritual Practices and Muslim Traditions of South Asia                

Required Readings:

• John Esposito, “Islam” from World Religions Today,5th ed. (Oxford, 2014).

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Peter Burleigh, Carter Center

Nepal and the Indian Himalayas in Transition

Required Readings: Both are available at:  www.icg.org

• “Nepal: from People Power to Peace?”  (Asia Report # 115, 10 May 2006)

Afternoon Program

Free Time

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. David Smith, University of Minnesota

Contemporary Human Ecology: Tigers and Humans                   

Required Readings:        

• Zurick, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya, 9-98

Thang PowerPoint Slides

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Expert Presentation by Dr. Narayan Kaji Shrestha

Community Forestry, Women’s Empowerment, Contemporary Movements

Required Readings:

• Zurick, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya, 99-142

• Kaji Shrestha, “Community Forestry in Crisis: Where do we go from here?”   

PowerPoint Slides

Morning I Program: [9-10:30]

Expert Presentation: Mat Schmaltz, Holy Cross

Christian Missionaries in Asia and the Himalayas

Required Readings:

• Selections from Trent Pomplun, Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito                   Desideri’s Mission to Tibet. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009

Further Readings:

• Keiko Yamanaka, “Transnational Community Activities of Nepalese Visa- Overstayers in Japan: Governance and Transnationalism from Below,” in Nelson H. H. Graburn, et al. (ed.), Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Borders Within, Oxford: Berghan Press, 2008, 151-170.
• “Changing Family Structures of Nepali Transmigrants in Japan: Split- Households and Dual-Wage Earners,” Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 5, 2005, 337-358.

Morning II Program: [10:45-12:15]

Expert Presentation: Keiko Yamanaka, Univ. of  California-Berkeley

A Dalit Sadhu in the Garhwal Himalayas

Image Gallery

Afternoon Program

Free Time

Evening Program

6-8 PM Evening Program: Farewell Dinner

Workshop on Making Tibetan Foods in Hogan Kitchen, 3rd Floor

Morning and Afternoon Programs

Presentations of Teacher Implementation Plans

Check-out from Campus Apartments