Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). Christiane Brosius is conducting research on urban transformation in Patan as well as on artistic production and social change in Kathmandu Valley. She has been involved in PhotoKathmandu 2015, with ‘Patis in Patan’, a photographic ‘heritage walk’ co-curated with Sujan Chitrakar, School of Art and Design, Kathmandu University. Christiane also coordinated funding of post-earthquake reconstruction of phalcas in Lalitpur funded by Mohr Foundation, with Padma Sundar Maharjan.

Dr. Rajan Khatiwoda is the Chief Scientific Documentation Coordinator in the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (HAdW). Khatiwoda studied Classical Indology at Heidelberg University, from where he received his PhD in 2017. His dissertation deals with the formation and enforcement of the Mulukī Ain, Nepal’s first legal code promulgated in 1854. From 2013 to 2016, he was part of the Cluster´s Project A14 "Transcultural Legal Flows in 18th- and 19th-Century South Asia." Since 2014, Khatiwoda is research associate at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, and the Research Unit "Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal," Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Previously, he worked as a research assistant and cataloguer for the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (NGMCP) and the Nepal Research Centre (NRC) in Kathmandu for nine years (2004–2013). His recent publications include:
2024: Homicide Law in 19th-Century Nepal: A Study of the Mulukī Ains and Legal Documents
2021: The Mulukī Ain of 1854: Nepal’s First Legal Code.

rajan.khatiwoda@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de

www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people/all/person/persdetail/khatiwoda.html

Senior Professor and Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Axel Michaels has been researching on Newar rituals in Bhaktapur along with Niels Gutschow. He is also the leader of the project 'Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal' at Academy. Axel has published widely on Nepalese culture and traditions, his latest publication being 'Kultur und Geschichte Nepals' (Kröner 2018) (English translation 'Culture and History of Nepal').

michaels@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/krs/abteilung/michaels.html

Roshan is the Director at Taragaon Museum and a visual artist based in Kathmandu. He also manages the Nepal Architecture Archive (NAA), which is run by the Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture, a patron organization of the Taragaon Museum.
Since 2014, he has been affiliated with the Museum and has been working with its permanent collection, launching of the Contemporary Art Gallery and creation of a Library. He has been curating the external and internal exhibitions those are organized at the Taragaon Museum.
Roshan is a visiting faculty at the Kathmandu University for research, archiving and documentation program. He studied Fine Arts in Nepal and in the UK, and holds a Master’s Degree in Digital Art.

roshanmishra@taragaonmuseum.com

A third generation hotelier, Varun has a deep routed connection to Nepal. Having lived his formative years in Nepal, he has launched several social enterprises in the country.
He oversees the activities of the Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Tradition and Culture as well as the Taragaon Museum. He is interested in waste management for which he created a company that manages 15 tons of waste in the city of Kathmandu on a daily basis.
Further, he is developing a centre at the Sagarmatha National Park in the upper Khumbu region of Nepal to show how tourism, environment and sustainability can create a circular economy that benefits all stakeholders.

varunsaraf@charteredhotels.com

Pabitra holds an MA degree in Business Studies from Tribhuvan University (Kirtipur, Nepal) and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Development, Environment, Societies and History in South Asia (MADESH) from Heidelberg University (Germany). Within NHDP, she worked as a research assistant, organizing historical data and the project's literary resources. She is working as an administrative assistant at NHDP.
She overviews and monitors all administrative tasks, the monthly reports, and takes care of the financial matters. She is the connecting link between the Nepal and Heidelberg teams, the Saraf Foundation, the administration of Heidelberg University, and the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities.

pabitrabajracharya69@gmail.com