Réseau Chercheurs Nepal study days

The main aim of these days is to provide an overview of recent or ongoing research carried out by young researchers (Masters and PhD students) on Nepal, and to encourage scientific interaction. Open to all, they will offer a space for dialogue supported by specialist discussants.

These days are the initiative of the Réseau Chercheurs Népal (RCN), an association born in the context of the earthquake of 2015, which aims to federate French-speaking research on Nepal. Ten years on, these days will be an opportunity for a collective assessment and will also look back at the events that took place in Nepal in September 2025.

Program

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

10am-12:30pm - Round table Has Generation Z (v)transformed(r) Nepal? - Amphitheater 2

Moderator: Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (CNRS, CESAH) 

With the participation of Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (CNRS, LAS), Blandine Ripert (CNRS, CESAH), Florent Grazide (PhD student, Université de Bordeaux, PASSAGES), and Purushottam Lamsal (former M1 EHESS - online from Nepal, subject to confirmation)

2pm-5pm - Presentations Jeunes Chercheurs / Jeunes Chercheuses - Room 3.03

Discussant: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (CNRS, LAS)

• 2pm- 2:45pm - Garance Mercier-Daudenthun (M2, Université Paris Cité)
  Des chamans 'online': An analysis of the use of social networks by Tamang shamans in Kathmandu

• 2:45pm-3:30pm - Alizé Hugueny (M2, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) (online)
  Habitating the Khumbu. Himalayan mountain practices between deities and mountaineering in the Sherpa community of Phortse

• 3:30pm-3:45pm - Pause

Discussant: Nolwen Vouiller (Doctorante EHESS, Université Liège)

• 3:45pm-4:30pm - Albane Samaran (M2, Université Nanterre)
  Conflictual relationship between the Asiatic black bear and the villagers of Upper Tintek in Sikkim.

• 4:30pm-5:15pm - Soledade Colliot (M2, EHESS)
  La place du comique lors de la fête de Gai Jatra à Bhaktapur : de la transformation de la personne à la métamorphose de l'action

6-8pm - Screening of a Nepalese film - Amphitheater 2

Pooja, Sir by Deepak Rauniyar (1h49, VOSTF)

A woman cop investigates a child abduction against a backdrop of ethnic conflict in the Madhesh/Terai region...A committed and sensitive thriller that had to face censorship, by one of the leading figures of Nepalese auteur cinema.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

9am-1pm - Presentations Jeunes Chercheurs / Jeunes Chercheuses - Room 3.15

Discussant: Olivia Aubriot (CNRS, CESAH)

• 9am-9:45am Louis Joigneaux (M1, EHESS)
  Between migration, intensification and abandonment: trajectoire agricole contrastée à Mandandeupur (Kavre)

• 9:45am-10:30am Magali Croese (CNAM/LISE)
  Once there, if the candidate says "I paid" then all is lost'. When the migration industry in South and Southeast Asia recruits ethically.

Speaker: Ornella Puschiasis (Inalco, CESSMA)

• 10:30am- 11:15am - Rita Guérin (M1, EHESS).
  Getting students to testify about the physical and psychological violence they experience in the school setting in Nepal

• 11:15am-11:35am - Break

Discussant: Blandine Ripert (CNRS, CESAH)

• 11:35am-12:20pm - Marie-Caroline Pons (PhD in Linguistics, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, CLLE, LACITO)
  Le peuple chepang: kingdoms in the heart of the forest

• 12:20pm-1:05pm - Jacques Perkins (PhD student, EHESS)
  "To each his own Gurung": retour critique sur un ethnonyme népalais

1pm-2pm - Pause déjeuner - Passerelle du 3^ème étage

2pm-4pm Assemblée générale du Réseau Chercheurs Népal - Salle 3.15

• Year in review and retrospective of the association's 10 years

4:30pm - Closing drink - 3rd ^floor gangway