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Michael Hutt (SWAY Project PI) and Deepak Thapa (Director, Social Science Baha) gave a presentation on the SWAY project to Mr Pradip Gyawali, the CEO of the Nepal government’s National Reconstruction Authority, and members of his executive committee, at Singha Darbar in Kathmandu on 1 August 2019.

The Sway team – Seira Tamang, Mark Liechty, Michael Hutt, and Stefanie Lotter presented papers in the panel ‘Blown out of proportion: When media, literature and popular culture scale events’ at the NEEDS Conference in Uppsala, June 2019.

Joint ELMNR and SWAY Panel at Kathmandu conference of Nepali and Himalayan Studies on the 2015 earthquakes with presentations by Bina Limbu, Manoj Suji, Michael Hutt, Mark Liechty, John Whelpton and Surendra Basnet.

2019 April- Free access to research database

January 10-11 2019: Conference convened in partnership with SOAS South Asia Institute: ‘Epicentre to Aftermath: Political, social and cultural impacts of earthquakes in South Asia’

26 July 2018 (6 p.m): public presentation of ‘Collaborative Research Projects in the Wake of the 2015 Earthquakes’ Projects represented include ‘After the Earth’s Violent Sway’. (SOAS); ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict Post-Disaster Reconstruction’ (UBC) and ‘Resilience Capacity of the Community’ (Tribhuvan University).

26 July 2018 (9 a.m.): ‘After the Earth’s Violent Sway’ panel at the Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya: papers by Hutt, Lotter and Whelpton, chaired by Baniya

24 July 2018: joint workshop with UBC-based ‘Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Earthquake Reconstruction: Construction, Finance, and Law as Domains of Social Transformation’ project team, at Hotel Shanker, Kathmandu

22 July 2018: Sway project workshop on research and publication strategies in Patan, Nepal attended by Baniya, Hutt, Lotter, Raj, Whelpton, Shreesh and guests Bhaskar Gautam and Sabin Ninglekhu

2018 April- Completion of database phase 1 (restricted access)

16-17 April 2018: Papers presented to Britain-Nepal Academic Council Study Day at University of Durham by Hutt and Lotter.

21-22 March 2018: Papers presented at NEEDS (Northern European Conference of Emergency and Disaster Studies) in Amsterdam by Hutt, Lotter and Raj

9 February 2018: Presentation of Sway project at DFID headquarters, Kathmandu

2017 October- Project website launched

2017 April- Project team planning workshop at SOAS

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