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Jawaharlal Nehru University

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WEEKLY SEMINARS 2008-09

  1. WEEKLY SEMINARS
The Centre has been organising weekly seminars in the Centre. Dr. A. Bimol Akoijam and Dr. G. Srinivas organised seminars till December 2009 as Seminar Coordinators. Prof. Rowena Robinson and Dr. Nilika Mehrotra have been organising seminars since January 2010. During the period, following lectures were organised as part of weekly seminar .

S.No Speaker/Panelist Topic Date
1. Prof. Pier Luigi Luisi
University of Rome
Science and Spirituality 2.4.2009
2. Panelists-Prof. Ravi Vasudevan,Historian & Film Scholar, Senior Fellow, CSDS &
Dr. A.Bimol Akoijam
Chair : Prof. Susan Visvanathan
Politics of Modernity and Popular Cinema : Idioms of Nation- BuildingScreening of Yeh Gulistan Hamara followed by a panel discussion 22.4.2009
3. Dr. Priyadarshini Vijaisri
Associate Fellow, CSDS
Writing Outcaste  Pasts : Rethinking Boundary 13.8.2009
4. Prof.Ehasanul Haq
CSSS/SSS/JNU
Cultural Interpretations of Child Birth 20.8.2009
5. Dr. Uday Balakrishnan
Member, Postal Life Insurance & Chairman, Investment Board Postal Services Board
Indian  Lessons : Gender and Workplace 27.8.2009
6. Dr. Vivek Kumar
CSSS/SSS/JNU
Dalit Movement in Contemporary India 3.9.2009
7. Prof. Susan Visvanathan
CSSS/SSS/JNU
Ecology, Town Planning  and Legal Questions 17.9.2009
8. Dr. Mallarika Sinha Roy
Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Society and Globalisation Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
 
Magic Moments of Struggle : Women’s Memories of the Naxalbari Movement in West Bengal 1967-1975 24.9.2009
9. Prof. Dennis Smith
Professor of Sociology Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University
Resentment of Power and the Power of Resentment 8.10.2009
10. Prof. Helene Basu
Professor of Social Anthropology  Westfaelische-Willhelms University Muenster
Drugs & Prayers 29.10.2009
11. Dr. V. Sujatha
CSSS/SSS/JNU
Who is the Knower in Sociological Inquiry? Debate between  the Siddha Philosopher and the Sociologist 5.11.2009
12. Prof. Bradley R.Hertel
Formerly with Virginia Tech University, USA
Indian Calendar Art : Origins and  Recent Development 12.11.2009
13. Ms. Malini Awasthi
Folk Exponent and ICCR Fellow
Understanding Labour Through Folk Songs 19.11.2009
14. Prof. Helen Lambert
Medical  Anthropologist
(University of Bristol)
Wrestling  with Tradition : Subalternity and Medical Knowledge at the Margins of the State 14. 01.2010
15. Prof. Vijaya  Ramaswamy  
Centre for Historical  Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University
Goddess Mattamma  Renuka  : A Chandala- Brahmin Symbiosis 21.01.2010
16. Prof. Tiplut Nongbri
CSSS, SSS, JNU
Christianity, Colonialism and Tribes with special reference  to North East India 28.01.2010
17. Arima Mishra,
Faculty, Department of Sociology
 Delhi University
“Is this healthy? Engaging with the discourse on lifestyle 04.02.2010
18. Prof. Nandini Sundar (DU)
Mr. Akshaya Mukul (TOI)
Chair : Prof. T.K. Oommen
Journalistic Enquiry and Sociological Research 06.02.2010
19. Prof. Rajesh Gill
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Seeking Community Among Individuals : The Contemporary Predicament 09.02.2010
20. Scott Kugle
Scholar in Islamic Studies
A Sociological Approach to Sufism 10.02.2010
21 Irfan Ahmad
Lecturer in Politics,
Monash  University
Culture and Critique 11.02.2010
22. Sylvie Fainzang
Director of Research
(National Institute of Health and Medic all Research) and Member ( CERMES)
The Imprint of Religious Culture on the use of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Prescriptions 18.02.2010
25. Prof. Paramjit Singh Judge
Professor of Sociology,  Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
Economic Development and social  transformation 24.02.2010
26. Prof. Paramjit Singh Judge
Professor of Sociology,
Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar
Naxalite Movement and its Construction of  India’s Freedom 02.03.2010
27. Prof. Yogendra Singh,
Emeritus     Professor, CSSS/SSS/JNU
Prof. JPS Uberoi,
formerly Professor of Sociology, Delhi University
Prof. Tiplut Nongbri
CSSS/SSS/JNU &  Director –NEISP
Dr. K.V. Cybil
Research Associate, Sociology Department, DU
Understanding Theory and Methodology of Levi Strauss 06.03.2010
28. Shilpa Deshpande,
President ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition
Of Participation, Communities and Health : The case of Community Health Workers in India 11.03.2010
29. Dr. V. Janardhan
Dept. of Sociology
University of Hyderabad
Industrial Sociology : An Overview of the system of Industrial Relations 17.3.2010
30. Dr. V. Janardhan
Dept. of Sociology
University of Hyderabad
Telangana: A Sociological Assessment 19.3.2010
31. Dr. Hudita Nura Mustafa
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
‘Practicing Beauty: Gender and Urbanism in Senegal’ 25.3. 2010
32. Dr. Bhargavi V. Davar
Director
Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse
PuneDiscussant : Madhu Sharan, BALM Chennai
Legal and Social systems Impinging on Lives of Persons Living with a Mental Illness 22.3.2010
33 Prof. K. Madavane
Mr. Benoy Behl
Prof. H.S. Shivprakash
Ms. Ratna Raman
Ms. Archana Verma
Chaired by Prof. Susan Visvanathan
Representation of Women in Art and Politics 23.3.2010
34 Dr. Hudita Nura Mustafa
School of Orienta and African Studies, University of London
Practising Beauty: Gender and Urbanism in Senegal 25.3.2010
35 Prof. Alok Rai
Department of English, DU
Dr. Krishnaswamy Nachimuthu
Prof. of Tamil, CIL, JNU
Prof. Ajit K. Mohanty, ZHCES, SSS, JNU
Language and Nationhood: Problems and Perspectives 29.3.2010
36. Dr. Ferzina Banaji,
University of Cambridge
“Representing the Un-Representable: Film and the Holocaust” 1.4.2010
37. Dr. Rukmini Sen,
Junior Fellow, CWDS
“Culture of Silence: Social History through Bengali Women’s Autobiographies” 8.4.2010
38. Dr. Jayati Lal
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor & JNIAS, JNU
unbecoming women
indian factory women’s counter-narratives of domestic citizenship
15.4.2010

  1. The Centre organized 7th Memorial Com. H.L. Parawana memorial Lecture on 8.9.2009 and the lecture was delivered by Prof. T.K. Oommen.  

  2. Ph.D. Research  Scholars’ Seminar of the Centre was organized by Dr. G. Srinivas on March 4-6, 2010