Category: Conference 2019
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Conference 2019 | Panel 8 – Alternate Identities
The eighth and final panel of the Department Conference, titled “Alternate Identities”, was moderated by Prof. Milind Brahme. Three papers were presented at the panel: “Diaspora and the Sketches of Citizenship: Opening Mics and Minds to Inclusivity” by Ms. Anusha A. J. from the University of Kerala, “Football and Diaspora: The Problematic Identity of the Read More
4–6 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Panel 7 – Statelessness
The 7th panel of the annual department conference was organized around the theme “Statelessness”. Professor Sonika Gupta moderated the panel. Three papers were presented, and the presenters were Angshuman Sarma and Rintu Borah (Jawaharlal Nehru University and IIT Bombay), Swati Condrolli (Panjab University) and Abhijit N.P. and Neelanjana Das (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai). Read More
6–8 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Four Moments in the Career of Caste – Dr. Satish Deshpande
Dr. Satish Deshpande, an all too familiar and respected figure among the students and faculty of the department, was the last keynote speaker of the eighth edition of the HSS Conference. Participants, students and faculty gathered together in the Central Lecture Theatre at 3:00 pm on Saturday, the 2nd of February 2019, to listen to Read More
6–9 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Panel 6 – Blood and Ink: On the Written Word
The second panel ‘Blood and Ink: On the Written Word’, of the third day of the conference was moderated by Prof. Merin Simi Raj. The first paper titled ‘Nuyorican Poets and the Promise of Poetry’ was presented by Manu Joshi from Delhi University. The paper was based around the tense citizenship and political membership that Read More
6–8 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Panel 5 – Fostered Citizenship
It was Day 3 of the Department Annual Academic Conference and the fifth panel titled ‘Fostered Citizenship’ began at 12 pm sharp. Prof. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan was the moderator for the session. The first panellist was a Ph.D. scholar from English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, Yamini Krishna, who presented her paper titled ‘Contesting Ideas Read More
4–6 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Fostering Active Citizenship – Dr. Kripa Ananthpur
The third day of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Academic Conference 2019 began with a keynote lecture by Dr. Kripa Ananthpur, Associate Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies. Dr. Ananthpur’s research interests include democratic decentralization, informal institutions, and women’s empowerment and political participation. Her talk, titled Fostering Active Citizenship: What Role Can Read More
2–4 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Identity and Durable Inequalities – Dr. Amaresh Dubey
Professor Amaresh Dubey, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, delivered a keynote lecture, Identity and Durable Inequalities, on how identity interacts with various macroeconomic factors and outcomes. The lecture took place at HSB 356 on Friday 1 February 2019, the second day of the eighth annual DoHSS conference on Read More
5–8 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Panel 4 – Home and Homeland
The panel on Friday afternoon consisted of two presentations. Chaired by Prof. Milind Brahme, the two were “Twin Disasters’ of Indo – Canadian Migration: Identity and Citizenship in Multicultural Canada” by Urmi Sengupta of Jadavpur University and “Being Kokni South African: The Diaspora experiences of the Kokni community of Cape Town” by Ruta Y. Paradkar Read More
4–6 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Panel 3 – Cityscape
The third panel of the Department Conference titled “Cityscape” was moderated by Prof. Solomon Benjamin. Two papers were presented at the panel – “Politics of Slum Redevelopment” by Ms. Bhuvaneswari Subramanian, of Ambedkar University, Delhi and “No Home for Homelessness: The status in itself is a crime” by Ms. Swati Singh and Mr. Amol Bhalerao, Read More
2–3 minutes
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Conference 2019 | Vanishing Identity, Linguistic Human Rights and Linguistic Citizenship – Dr. Imtiaz Hasnain
The Day 2 of the Conference had its second keynote lecture in stock for the audience. It was titled ‘Vanishing Identity, Linguistic Human rights and Linguistic Citizenship’. Prof. S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Professor of Sociolinguistics from Aligarh Muslim University, shared his insights and observations from his recent studies on the Chinali language, an unclassified (not listed Read More
3–5 minutes
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