Centre for the Study of Social Systems
School of Social Sciences

SEMINAR NOTICE

Topic: Class, Caste, and Gender Relations: Female Workers in Kerala 1930 - 2010

Speaker: Dr. Anna Lindberg
Director, SASNET—Swedish South Asian Studies Network
Lund University

Date & Time: 23rd February 2012 (Thursday), 11.30 a.m.
Venue: CSSS Committee Room

All are cordially invited

CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC STUDIES AND PLANNING
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

SEMINAR NOTICE

SPEAKER: Prof. Nobuhara Yokokawa

TOPIC: Dynamic Comparative Advantage and Evolution of Capitalist World System

DATE: Thursday, February 23, 2012
TIME: 4.30 P.M.
VENUE: Room No. 341, SSS-II

Centre for Studies in Science Policy

SEMINAR SERIES

End-of-life Automobiles and the Challenge of Recycling in India

by

Captain N.S.Mohan Ram
[VSM, Indian Navy (retired), Advisor, TVS Motor Company Limited].

India’s vehicle population has increased exponentially over the last two decades. The government has yet to formulate policies, systems and regulations to deal with end-of-life automobiles. Currently, scrapped vehicles are cut and sold by low-tech units resulting in low recoveries and environmental pollution. They employ child labor and use unhygienic practices presenting serious ecological hazards. By 2020, with proper recycling procedures, we can recover annually over 15,00,000 tons of steel scrap, 180000 tons of Aluminum and 75000 tons each of recoverable plastic and rubber. We have to dispose over 25000 tons of residues in landfills. This figure will increase by about ten percent every year in line with the increase in vehicle population.

Capt Mohan Ram is a pioneering engineer, who has awarded the Vishist Seva Medal (1977) for designing India’s first indigenous frigate - INS Godavari. He was also the President and then Director of the TVS motor company and was crucial for turning it around in 1991-93.

Venue: Room no. 227, SSS(I)
Time: 4.00 pm
Date: Thursday, February 23rd , 2012

School of Arts & Aesthetics

Presents

‘Rethinking Political Performance in a Time of Reaction’

A Talk by

Prof. Janelle Reinelt
School of Theatre, Performance & Cultural Policy Studies
University of Warwick

Venue: SAA Auditorium
Date: 24th Feb’12 (Friday)
Time: 04:00 PM

[Tea will be served at 03:45 PM onwards]

Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

WORKSHOP NOTICE

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

In order to assure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from JNU, it will be our policy to keep all scholars well trained through our program of SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING. In continuation of this second Workshop/training on “ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ITS APPLICATIONS” will be scheduled from 28-29th February 2012.The training/workshop shall have lecture/presentations by applications specialist followed by the demonstration session.

Applications are invited for the same. Preference will be given to SC/ST/OBC/PH/Women/Minority candidates. Class size will be limited to 16 people and is filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

PRE- REGISTRATION
These training are free and open to all JNU students. Please register yourself at Director Office for the same from 13th February 2012 to 22th February 2012.

Centre for the Study of Law and Governance,
Jawaharlal Nehru University

cordially invites you to a lecture by

Prof. Indira Hirway
(Director and Professor of Economics at Center for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad,visiting fellow / faculty at Oxford University, Erasmus University at Rotterdam, Amsterdam University, University of Utah at Salt Lake City and at Levy Institute at New York University, Chair of the Working Group on Gender and Agriculture, Land Issues, Innovative Finance and Public Private Partnership set up by the Planning Commission for the Eleventh Plan. She is also a member of the (1) Feminist Economists Group set up by the Planning Commission for engendering the Eleventh Plan and (2) Expert Group set up for designing GDI and GEM in India. )

on

"Employment Guarantee, Livlihood Generation and Planning in India"

Chair & Moderator:Prof. G.K.Chaddha
Former Vice Chancellar, JNU,
CEO South Asian University and former member Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Committee

Friday, 2nd March 2012, 3pm

Conference Room, CSLG, JNU

High tea would be served after the prog

Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD, Jawaharlal Nehru University) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

invite you to a seminar on

“Field Experiments in Market Segmentation Strategies for the Deployment of New Agricultural Technologies:
The Case of Laser Land Levelers in Eastern Uttar Pradesh”

on

Monday, 5 March 2012
Time: 2-4 pm
at Committee Room, Convention Centre, JNU

Presenters:
Professor Travis Lybbert, University of California-Davis
Drs. Nicholas Magnan and David J. Spielman, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC
and
Ms. Kajal Gulati, International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi

Abstract: Making agriculture more productive and efficient is paramount to improving the day-to-day quality of life of poor farmers. However, promising agricultural technologies often are not adopted by poor and marginalized farmers. With scarce public resources available to support agricultural research and extension, the innovation and dissemination process will need to become more efficient and more inclusive of the private sector. We present results from a field experiment with two main goals: (1) to elicit farmers’ heterogeneous valuation of a new technology—laser land leveling (LLL)—to help inform market segmentation strategies and (2) to test to see if farmers learn about the technology and its benefits from early adopters. The study combines an experimental auction with the randomized introduction of the technology in three districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Using data from the experimental auction we test a number of market segmentation strategies for their ability to increase adoption cost-effectively, and also their potential to be inclusive of poor and marginalized farmers. We find that segmenting by landholdings and plot size are among the most effective strategies. Leveraging the randomized introduction of the technology within our sample, we use social network data to find that male farmers and their spouses gain exposure to LLL, and learn about its benefits, through their networks of agricultural contacts. The presence of network effects suggests that providing incentives for early adoption will increase later adoption, and that such incentives could be more effective if distributed across different social circles in order to be inclusive.

We look forward to your participation. Kindly confirm your participation via email to sangeeta@mail.jnu.ac.in