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Conference 2020 | Panel 7 | Violence and Literature
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 7 | Violence and LiteratureThe 7th panel of the conference was titled Violence and Literature, and was moderated by Dr. Divya. The first speaker, Baishali, began by referring to Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain. She described how experiencing physical pain leads to the destruction of language, since language becomes inadequate to communicate or express the reality of that…
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Conference 2020 | Keynote Lecture | Women and the Partition: Rethinking Violence
Read more: Conference 2020 | Keynote Lecture | Women and the Partition: Rethinking ViolenceThe second Keynote Lecture of the Conference was given by Dr. Paulomi Chakraborty, on the topic of Women and the Partition. Dr Chakraborty explained how the partition was a time of population transfers and migration, both on the east and west of India, but what was common on both sides was the rampant violence against…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 6 | Colonial/Historical Violence
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 6 | Colonial/Historical ViolenceThe sixth panel of the Conference was titled “Colonial/Historical Violence” and was moderated by Dr Arvind Sivaramakrishnan. The first presentation, ‘Paper Citizens of South Asia: Delineating “Violence” in the Identification Regimes of Post-colonial India and East Pakistan’, was presented by Jigme Wangdi of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The paper examined the documentary practices of India and…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 5 | Gender, Sexuality and Violence
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 5 | Gender, Sexuality and ViolenceThe fifth panel of the conference was titled “Gender, Sexuality and Violence, and was moderated by Prof. Binitha Thampi. The session started off with Priyam Sinha investigating the representation of disability in Bollywood cinema, not just how it is, but how it was and how it has changed over the years. She used a methodology…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 4 | Violence, Protest and Resistance
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 4 | Violence, Protest and ResistanceThe fourth panel featured the speakers Bushra Punjabi, Ivy Roy Sarkar, and Ruth Susan Mathew, and moderated by Santosh R. The speakers all spoke about a similar form of protest against the state which came from unconventional positions. As the state clamped down on regular forms of protest against laws, especially in Kashmir which was…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 3 | Violence, Memory and Trauma
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 3 | Violence, Memory and TraumaThe third panel of the Annual DoHSS Conference 2020 was titled “Violence, Memory and Trauma”, and was moderated by Dr. Avishek Parui. Dr. Parui began by introducing the presenters of this panel – Jasmine Sharma, Nirmala Raja Cynthia, and Anshu Saluja. The first paper was titled “Exploring Techno-archival Violence in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”.…
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Conference 2020 | Lecture – Role of Youth in Ending Violence Against Women and Children
Read more: Conference 2020 | Lecture – Role of Youth in Ending Violence Against Women and ChildrenThe session hosted Dr M Devasitham, the Associate Director of Strategic Development at International Justice Mission, Chennai and Dr P M Nair, a UN recognised expert on human trafficking, from IJM. After the welcome address, the session began with Mr Devasitham, who talked of the hidden violence that many victims of trafficking are inflicted with.…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 2 | Violence and Space
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 2 | Violence and SpaceThe second panel was on the theme ‘Violence and Space’ and was moderated by Dr. Solomon J. Benjamin. Unfortunately, the first two presenters were absent due to personal reasons. The third presenter, Mansa’s paper on ‘Mapping Space and Gender in Nihal Vihar: Young Women’s Aspirations and Experiences of Violence in the Lower Middle Class Neighbourhood…
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Conference 2020 | Keynote Lecture | Everyday Violence and Ethical Loneliness
Read more: Conference 2020 | Keynote Lecture | Everyday Violence and Ethical LonelinessThe keynote lecture on the second day of the DoHSS Conference 2020 was delivered by Dr. Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, titled “Everyday Violence and ‘Ethical Loneliness’: Narratives from Prison”. The speaker used two main narratives recollected by prison inmates as punctums (a concept borrowed from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida) to explore the various kinds of violence experienced…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 1 | Violence, Subjectivity and Marginality
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 1 | Violence, Subjectivity and MarginalityPanel 1 of the Conference was moderated by Professor Kalpana. Of the three speakers, only one was able to present her paper as the other two were unable to make it to the conference – Sulthana Nasrin, a Masters student of EFLU. Sulthana’s paper was titled “Reflections on Death as an Ability: Questioning the ‘Body’,…
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