Saturday 18 November 2017

Conference on Contemporary Challenges to Indian State and Society



Program Schedule

DAY 1 : 15-11-2017

Timings
Particulars
Guests/Speakers/Resource Persons
Venue

9.30 am.
Registration: C 911

10.00 am
Inauguration of the Conference



GUESTS
Dr Anindya Sinha                                        Dr Anil Pinto  
Dean, Academic Affairs, NIAS               Registrar, Christ University
Keynote Speaker: Dr N Jayaram
Former Director, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru
C911 Central Block, 9th floor
11.30 am
Group Photograph
11.40 pm. – 12 noon
TEA BREAK

12 noon
Session 1



Anthropological Approaches to the Understanding of State and Everyday Life in India
Discussants: Dr Rajeev K and Suparna Kar
1.       Manpreet Dhillon - AADHAR as Neoliberal Governmentality
2.       Brijesh Chandra Tripathi - Electoral politics or autonomous mobilisation
C911 Central Block, 9th floor
1.00 pm
LUNCH BREAK


2.00 pm.-4.30 pm.


Session 2



Anthropological Approaches to the Understanding of State and Everyday Life in India
Discussants: Dr Rajeev K and Dr Vagishwari
1.       Rakesh Kumar - Dominance of Khap over marriage norms and their encounter with State Institutions: A case study of Haryana
2.       Mohon Kumar Naik - The State and Local Structure of Power on Land Acquisition and Livelihood, among tribal people in southern Odisha.
3.       Jitendra Borday - Working class neighbourhoods everyday political mobilization, culture: Studying Ramabai Nagar locality in Mumbai
4.       Aditi Dey Sarkar-Impact of Development initiatives like Microfinance
5.       Meghna Desai - Tracing the remnants of medieval Chitvel
6.       Kushal Bothra and Kanika Vageria - Multifaceted Matrix of External Menace & Challenges to India’s Security from China and Pakistan: A Critical Analysis
C911 Central Block, 9th floor
4.30 pm
TEA BREAK



DAY 2: 16-11-2017
9.30 am. – 11.30 am.
Session 3

Education and New Pedagogy
Discussants: Dr Shivali Tukdeo, NIAS and Dr Greta, CU
1.       Manjit M.Bhatti - A Critique of Alan Sokals Hoax: In the Defense of Interdisciplinarity
2.       Madhushree Joshi - Revisiting Ancient Indian Philosophy to study its relevance in today’s Legal education
3.       Sreehari Ravindranath - Preparing Children in Value Education in the 21st Century: The Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) Approach
4.       Edilbert Fernando, Akshay Kothari, Edward Ntokwo, Renault Fernandes and Shine George - The Application of Biometrics in Identification to Enhance Student Anonymity and Mitigate Identity-Derived Bias in Collaborative Learning Environments
C911, Central Block, 9th floor
11.30 am
TEA BREAK

11.45am -1.00 pm
Session 4

Internal Conflicts and Challenges
Discussants: Dr Manoharan, CU and Dr Anshuman Behera, NIAS
1.       SoumyaAwasthi - Religious Discourses and their Impact on Regional and Global Geopolitics: A Study of Deobandi in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
2.       Anshuman Behera - Internal Security Scenario in India: Interrogation of Narratives
3.       Ningthoujam Koiremba Singh & Praveen MN - Ethnic Conflicts and Insurgency movement in India’s transnational Security dynamics: a Case Study of Naga Insurgency
C911, Central Block, 9th floor
1.00 pm
LUNCH BREAK

2.00 pm -3.00 pm
Session 5

Urbanisation of Wildlife and Conservation of India’s Natural Heritage
Discussants: Dr Anindya Sinha, NIAS and Dr Maya M, CU
1.       Maan Barua & Anindya Sinha - Governing Life in Indian Cities, or Why Conversations between Ecology and Geography are an Imperative
2.       Nishant Srinivasaiah, Srinivas Vaidyanathan, Raman Sukumar, and Anindya Sinha - The Elephant in the Village: Impacts of Rural Transformations on the Behaviour and Management of the Asian Elephant in Southern India
C911, Central Block, 9th Floor
3.00
TEA BREAK


POSTER  PRESENTATIONS

DAY 3: 17-11-2017
9:00 am.-10.15 am


Session 6

Urbanisation of Wildlife and Conservation of India’s Natural Heritage
Discussants: Dr Anindya Sinha, NIAS and Dr Maya M, CU
1.       Jyothi K. M &Kshitija Kanchan - Urban Wildlife: A road towards Co-existence
2.       Pradeep Kuttuva,  Krithika Srinivasan, Aditya Ganesh, Tim Kurz, Stephen Hinchliffe and Anindya Sinha– Street-Dog Biopolitics in Contemporary India
C911, Central Block, 9th floor
10.15 am
TEA BREAK

10.30 – 11.30
Session 7
External Security Challenges

Discussants: Dr M. Mayilvaganan, NIAS and Dr Manoharan, CU

1.       Anjani Devi - Geopolitics and Fishermen Issue: A Perspective from India-Sri Lanka Relations in the Post-LTTE Period
2.       Praveen P K- Return of Geopolitics
3.       Justin J. - Cybercrime and Cyber Warfare: The challenges before digitalized India
4.     Indrajit Sharma, Dr. N. Mohandas Singh- Emerging Challenges to India’s External Security: Perspective from Northeast Region (presented by Sai Deepthi)
C911, Central Block, 9th floor
11.30-12 noon


VALEDICTORY
Presided over by Dr John Joseph Kennedy
Dean Humanities and Social Sciences



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