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From: Aaditya Dar <aadityadar@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/11/7
Subject: seminar on AA
Centre for Political Studies, JNU and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
A two day British Academy funded International Seminar
On
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND INEQUALITY IN SOUTH ASIA
on
9th - 10th November, 2009
at Committee Room, SSS-I
Programme attached
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-Aaditya
Centre for Political Studies, JNU and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
A two day British Academy funded conference
On
INEQUALITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
(Venue: Committee Room, SSS-1,
9th -10th November)
9th November 2009
Session-1
10.00am -11.00 am: British Academy Project on Inequality and Affirmative Action
Introduction by:
Dr. Alpa Shah (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Dr. Ajay Gudavarthy (Centre for Political Studies/JNU)
Dr. Mukta Lama (Sociology, Tribhuvan University)
Short Presentations by:
Dr. Sara Sneiderman (St. Catharine's College, Cambridge)
Dr. Rob Higham (Institute of Education, University of London)
Dr. Sanghamitra Misra ( Jamia Millia Islamia)
11.00am-11.15am: Tea Break
Session-2 Chair: Prof. Valerian Rodrigues
11.15am–1.00pm: Theorising Inequality and Affirmative Action
Prof. Neera Chandoke (Political Science, DU): Equality for what?
Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan (Centre for Political Studies, JNU):
Affirmative Action and
Historical Injustices
Dr. G. Aloysius (social activist): The Reservation Discourse as viewed
from within its
Historical and
Ideological Contexts.
1.00pm–2.00pm: Lunch Break
Session-3 Chair: Dr. G. Aloysius ( Social Activist)
2.00pm–3.30pm: Categorisation and Historical Aspects
Dr. Kamala Shankaran (Law Faculty, D.U): Constitution,
Reservations and Courts
Prof.Om Gurung (Anthropology, Tribhuvan University): Indigenous
Peoples of Nepal:
Problems and
Issues of Identification and Classification
Suvash Dharnal (Dalit rights activist): Dalits and Affirmative
Action in Nepal: Issues and
Contestations
3.30pm-3.45pm: Tea Break
Session-4 Chair: Prof. G. Haragopal (Political Science,
University of Hyderabad)
3.45pm-5.30pm: OBCs and the Current Debate
Prof. Dipankar Gupta (Sociologist): Reservation or Affirmative Action?
Case of the OBCs
Prof. Satish Despande (Sociology, DSE): Empirical Injustice,
Practical Politics and
Theoretical Justice
Prof. Ronki Ram (Political Science, Punjab University): Struggles for
Reservation: OBCs in
Punjab
Dr. Lucia Michelutti (Oxford): The Politics of Aspiration:
Reservation, Politics and Goonda Raj in
Uttar Pradesh
10th November 2009
Session – 1 Chair: Prof. Sudha Pai (CPS/JNU)
9.30am – 11.00am: Women and Religious Minorities
Dr. Nivedita Menon (SIS/JNU): Women, Identity and Reservation
Prof. Surinder Jodhka (Indian Institute of Dalit Studies): Affirmative
Action and the
Question of religious Minorities
Prof. Zoya Hasan (Centre for Political Studies, JNU): Politics of
Inclusion: Caste and
Minorities.
Session-2 Chair: Prof. Virginius Xaxa (Sociology,DU)
11.00am – 12.30pm: Reservation for Dalits and Indigeneous People
Prof. Gopal Guru (Centre for Political Studies, JNU): A Biography An Argument
Dr. Clarinda Still (South Asia Studies, Oxford): 'They have it in
their stomachs but they can't
Vomit it up': Reservations
and 'caste feeling' in Rural SouthIndia
Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Council for Social Development): Reservation and Self
Determination
Dr. Anand Teltumbde (Independent Researcher): Reservations within
Reservation : A Case
Study of Sub-Castes.
12.30pm-12.45am: Tea Break
Session-3 Chair: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Council for
Social Development)
12.45pm-2.00pm: Education and New Dimensions
Prof. B. S. Chimni (JNU): Legal Education :Emerging Dimensions
Prof. G. Haragopal (Political Science, University of Hyderabad): The New Tribal
Universities and Higher Education in India.
Dr. Amman Madan (Sociology, IIT Kanpur): Three Models of Merit: Some Contrasting
Implications for Pedagogy and Social Stratification.
Dr. S. Srinivasa Rao ( Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies/JNU): Higher
Education Reform and
Affirmative Action: Dilemmas of Equality.
2.00pm - 2.45pm: Lunch Break
Session – 4 Chair: Prof. Balveer Arora (Centre for Political Studies, JNU)
2.45pm-4.15pm: New Commissions and Alternative Mechanisms
Prof. Madhava Menon (Chairman: Equal Opportunities Committee): Proposed Equal
Opportunity Commission.
Prof. M.H. Qureshi (Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU): Debating JNU
Model of Affirmative Action.
Dr. Chaitanya Subba (Advisor to the National Planning Commission and
Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities) and,
Dr. Lynn Bennett (World Bank, Kathmandu): Affirmative Action and
Autonomy: Debate
within and outside C.A Precinct.
4.15pm – 4.30pm: Tea Break
4.30pm Onwards : Chair: Prof. Nandu Ram (Dean, SSS/JNU)
:Valedictory Address by Prof. S. K. Thorat
(Chairperson, UGC)
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