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Culture, Environment & Dialogue

Putting hard subjects on the record

A gendered-violence roundtable in 2024, a ward waste discussion in 2025, and a run of podcasts. This is the work of not letting a conversation end with the room.

Kathmandu Valley2 min read

Five people seated around a low table with microphones during a recorded discussion, an organisation banner behind them
A recorded discussion from the Insights & Dialogue series.

In 2024, HISCUS convened an academic roundtable on gendered violence. In 2025, a Ward 3 waste-management discussion brought a local decision into open conversation.

Both were recorded. That is the point of the Insights & Dialogue series.

Recorded, so it travels

Alongside the roundtables sit podcasts and documentaries on waste, mental health, feminism, menstrual dignity and women's resilience, subjects that come directly out of the programme work.

A session reaches the people in the room. A recording reaches the ward that could not attend, the researcher writing about it two years later, and the partner deciding whether to fund the next one.

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