

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Transitioning to a Research-also University: Tribhuvan University during its First Three Decades
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 04:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Research Seminar Series

Title:
Transitioning to a Research-also University: Tribhuvan University during its First Three Decades

Speaker:
Pratyoush Onta
Martin Chautari

Date, Time and Venue:
11 January 2026/२७ पुस २०८२ (आइतबार, दिउँसो ३ बजे)
मार्टिन चौतारी सभाकक्ष, थापाथली, काठमाडौँ

Abstract:
This paper is a preliminary attempt to think about the state of academic freedom at Tribhuvan University (hereafter TU) during the Panchayat Era (1960–1990). The concept of academic freedom is an expansive one that encompasses related but also distinct domains of teaching, research, publications and extra- or co-curricular activities at any educational institution (in this case, a university). I have not done the necessary research to tackle all of these domains at TU during its first three decades. Hence, I concentrate on some aspects of the research scene at TU to offer some preliminary ideas about how academic freedom operated at that university during that era. In particular, this paper will demonstrate how academic research and publications took place amid the then existing political, human resource, and financial constraints.

About the Speaker:
Pratyoush Onta is the Director of Research at Martin Chautari. In 2025, he published several memoir essays including "The Early Years of SINHAS: A Founding Editor's Recollections" in Studies in Nepali History and Society 30(1); “Getting Admitted to St. Xavier’s School” in The Commons; and “My Early Years in St Xavier’s School” in The Kathmandu Post, 26 December.
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- **Event Categories**: workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Kathmandu
- **state**: BA
- **country**: Nepal
- **location**: Post Box 13470, 27 Jeet Jung Marg Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal 44600
- **lat**: 27.69268
- **long**: 85.32115
- **full address**: Post Box 13470, 27 Jeet Jung Marg Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal 44600, Nepal

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- **organizer**: Martin Chautari (https://allevents.in/org/martin-chautari/21758203)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Post Box 13470, 27 Jeet Jung Marg Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal 44600, Nepal
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Martin Chautari
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