Dignity Initiative, Nepal and the Centre for Development Studies, Shimla, India
are pleased to invite you to the
13th Distinguished Lecture
to be jointly delivered by
Professor David Gellner, FBA
&
Dr. Krishna Adhikari
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
University of Oxford
on
Nepal’s Dalits in Transition
Date: 12th November 2024
Time: 07:45 PM India, 08:00 PM Nepal, 9:15 AM USA, 02:15 PM UK
Meeting ID: 89425473029, Passcode: 779036
Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89425473029?pwd=wapfnvb2QBbnu6Je70bHYVjn6Nt11k.1
Meeting ID: 894 2547 3029
Passcode: 779036
Kindly feel free to share the link with other participants who may be interested in attending the session.
*Professor Gellner and Dr. Adhikari will speak for duration of about 20 minutes each.
The talk will be followed by a chat-box moderated question-answer session with the participants.
We look forward to seeing you on 12th November, 2024.
For any queries, please contact:
Dr. Prashant Negi, Assistant Professor, Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit, and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India at negiprashant@gmail.com
or
Rup Sunar, Chairperson, Dignity Initiative, Kathmandu, Nepal at info@dignityinitiatives.org
WatchLive: Facebook/DignityInitiative
About the Speakers
Professor David Gellner
Professor David Gellner was Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. Earlier, he taught at Brunel University, west London and held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, which he combined with a Visiting Professorship at the Research Institute for Cultures and Languages of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He was also University Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia, a position held by Srinivas, Dumont, Pocock among others. Professor Gellner also coordinated the MIDEA project on democratization in South Asia.
His area of expertise include politics and ethnicity, healers, mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, religious change, activism of all sorts, democratization, elections, borderlands, Dalits, and class formation. He has published extensively and has many books and peer reviewed papers to his credit.
Dr. Krishhna Adhikari
Dr. Krishhna Adhikari, a doctorate from the University of Reading, is currently leading a study on ‘Deepening Awareness of Dalit issues in the School Curriculum in Nepal’. Till 2023, he worked a researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), wherein con-investigated a study ‘The Dalit Search for Dignity: State, Society, and Mobilization from Below in Far West Nepal’. From 2011-2013 and 2009-2012, he held a post-doctoral and research associate position at the ISCA. From 2010-2011, he was the Executive Director of Centre for Nepal Studies.
His areas of interest include caste and ethnic relations and identity politics; Dalits and social transformation in South Asia; education, employment, and social mobility; migration and diaspora communities; poverty and exclusion; social capital and community-based institutions; international and rural development; collective action and the governance of natural resource management; mixed-methods.
Professor Gellner and Dr. Adhikari have recently co-authored a book titled ‘Nepal’s Dalits in Transition’, Vajra Books, 2024.
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The previous lectures in the Series have been delivered by:
Professor SukhadeoThorat
Chairperson, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
Editor-in-Chief, Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Chairperson, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
Former Chairperson, University Grants Commission
Former Chairperson, Indian Council for Social Science Research
Professor N V Varghese
Former Vice Chancellor, National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
Founding Director, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (NIEPA)
Former Head of Governance and Management in Education, International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, Paris
Professor KanchaIlaiah Shepherd
Political Theorist and Social Activist
Former Director, Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, MAANU, Hyderabad
Former Head of the Department, Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad
Professor Nicholas B Dirks
President and CEO, New York Academy of Sciences
Former Professor of History and Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Former Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Barbara Harriss-White
Senior Research Fellow, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford
Professor Emeritus of Development Studies, University of Oxford
Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Professor William ADarity Jr.
Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished
Professor of Public Policy
Duke University
Dr. Suraj Yengde
Author, Caste Matters and
Co-editor, Radical in Ambedkar
Dr. Waris Husain
Professor of Law
School of Law, Howard University
Dr. Vikrant Kishore
Associate Professor, International Communications and Creative Industries
University of Nottingham (UK, China, Malaysia)
Honorary Fellow, School of Communication and Creative Arts,
Deakin University, Australia
Board Member, Australia India Film Council
Member, Victorian Multicultural Commission’s Regional Advisory Council
Advisor, Scanlon Research Foundation
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak
Founder, Sulabh International Social Service Organization
Public Health and Sanitary Educator Par Excellence, Global Innovator, Human Rights Activist
Dr. Kshama Sawant
Author, Politician and Activist
Former Council Member, Seattle City Council, Seattle
Dr. Drona Prakash Rasali
Adjunct Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Race and Health Policy, 2023-24
