Call for Presentation Proposals
Theme
Local Issues and Global Perspectives: Nepalese Scholarship and Global Participation on National and Professional Conversations.
Invitation
We invite you to submit presentation proposal to the Second International Conference on Nepal’s Development and Nepalese Scholarship organized by Nepalese Students’ Association (NeSA) at New Mexico State University (NMSU). This conference will focus on two major areas: 1) current and emerging aspects of socioeconomic, political, and cultural development issues, challenges, opportunities, and strategies for the reconstruction of Nepal; and 2) inter-disciplinary academic and professional engagement among the Nepalese and non-Nepalese scholars.
Introduction
In these times when Nepal is experiencing a series of critical socio-economic, cultural, and political transitions, this conference envisions offering theoretical, practical, and strategic discussions and future directions in these areas by drawing collective intellectual efforts from the Nepalese and non-Nepalese scholars, citizens, and communities from around the world.
This will be our interdisciplinary and collective engagement to understand current and emerging pressing issues and challenges and explore viable opportunities in post-conflict Nepal and Nepalese reconstruction era in context of today’s 21st century globalized world. Our endeavor to create a common platform to analyze national and international issues of Nepal, we prospect can be a milestone to begin serious discussions and transform some of the Nepal’s burning issues including health, education, poverty, human rights and conflicts, science and technology, economy and commerce, development infrastructures, politics, governance, environment, art, language, and culture. We hope to bring varying perspectives from multiple disciplines in order to develop a critically comprehensive understanding of various multi-faceted issues and then offer specific development strategies and national debate agenda for resolving those issues about Nepal and its current fluidity of transition.
We acknowledge and affirm that for any country to prosper, a collective understanding of the issues and challenges is crucial and thusly formulation of development strategies and national debate agenda for Nepal fundamentally lies in the common, participatory unified efforts of all Nepalese people. Additionally, a unique opportunity via this conference of having cross-dialogues with non-Nepalese scholars, we hope, will open up new opportunities to strengthen our understanding of contemporary issues and subsequently enhance our capacity to develop better strategies and agenda. We hope this will benefit policymakers, administrators, educators, political leaders, professionals, and everyday people of Nepal as it invites people from all walks of life to engage in critical-creative-conversation (CCC) in Nepal’s national and international issues that are long overdue.
Speaking of the current transitioning Nepal, it has to be understood that within our unified strength of geo-political, cultural, and ethnic diversity, each component of the diversity has to offer unique contribution to the development/reconstruction of Nepal. Also, it has to be addressed how the recent development of decentralized power and economy of the nation and self-governance of the Nepalese people can be envisioned as major shaping forces of future of Nepal and Nepalese people.
Finally, since our organization, NeSA at NMSU consists of aspiring future scholars, leaders, scientists, engineers, educators, and professionals, the symposium also offers a venue for them to share their field-expertise and (co)develop scope-specific and multi-disciplinary knowledge-bases and best practice convergences. The participants, thus, are invited to submit their presentation proposal in any of these two Symposium events.
Welcome to this one-day international conference!
