In April 2019 IOD team members and collaborators organized a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Washington DC.
Description: Geographers of Nepal and the Himalaya have been convening informally at AAG over the past two years to discuss common points of interest across different geographic subfields (physical geography, human geography, human-environment, GIS). The related themes of sustainability, disaster and infrastructure have emerged as both shared research interests for geographers of Nepal and the Himalaya, as well as key questions of global concern that can benefit from Himalayan perspectives.
The Nepal and Himalayan Geographies group invited proposals for short papers that stake out research directions and critical questions in Nepal and Himalayan geography at the interface of sustainability, disaster and infrastructure. The papers aim to clarify how critical conversations on Himalayan worlds can furnish insights on these key themes that will be of interest to wider communities of geographic scholarship.
Find a PDF of the all of the paper abstracts here: Nepal and Himalayan Geographies