The Schedule

Registration and Breakfast 8:00 a.m.  - 9:00 a.m.

Political Participation, Citizenship, and Social Inequalities

Making claims, belonging, and rights: everyday democracy in India

Presentation by Dr. Aniket Nandan (IISER Bhopal)

Followed by 15 minutes of QnA

Political Participation, Citizenship, and Social Inequalities

Chair: Dr. Aniket Nandan (IISER Bhopal)

Co- Chair: Dr. Chaitra Redkar (IISER Pune)

List of Presentations:

1. The city as an affective site of cultural negotiation and transformation: An ethnography of the urban condition through folk music(ians) in Delhi by Srijay Sutar, IISER Mohali

2. Identity Under Pressure: Banjaras, State, and Religion by Vishal Rathod, Banaras Hindu University.

3. RETHINKING PARTICIPATION: DISSENT, RESISTANCE AND LOCAL DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENT AMONG KERALA’S COASTAL COMMUNITIES  by Anupama S Krishnan, University of Hyderabad

4. Children’s Outdoor Play, Spatial Consciousness, and Constrained Childhoods in New Seelampur, Delhi by Tuba Athar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

5. Through the Age of production to the Age of comfort: Complicating Notions of Manoranjan (Recreation/Entertainment) and Space in the lives of older women in Delhi by Charvi Tandon, IIT Hyderabad

6. Public Perception and Environmental Discourse in Pune City (1980-2020) by Nishant Natu, IISER Pune

7. Nari Adalats and Feminist Justice Making Process by Kalpita Wadher, IISER Pune 

Lunch 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Labour, Livelihoods, and Economic Transformations

Presentation by Dr. Ajeet Kumar Pankaj (IISER Bhopal):

Neoliberal Governmentality and Social Policymaking: Current State of Informal Workers

Followed by 15 minutes of QnA

Labour, Livelihoods, and Economic Transformations

Chair: Dr. Ajeet Kumar Pankaj (IISER Bhopal):

Co-Chair: Dr. Bejoy Thomas (IISER Pune)

List of Presentations:

1. Systematic Gendered invisibilisation in the handloom sector in Banaras (Online) by Diksha Rai, University of Hyderabad

2. Work structures, community networks, and issues of mobility and livelihood security in the tea plantation economy in Assam by Seonti Sengupta, IIT Dhanbad

3. Brushstrokes of Tradition: Continuity, Change, and Caste in the Production of Madhubani Art by Pallavi, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

4. Assessing the Post-Lockdown Recovery of the Eri Silk Industry of Assam: An Integrative Review by Khyatee Kashyap, OP Jindal Global University

5. The Sublime And The Uncanny: Cultural Production Among Urban Maithil Painters by Ankita Sinha, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Breakfast

Gender, Sexuality, and Everyday Social Experience

Structural Injustice, Everyday Complicity and Gender Resistance

Presentation by Dr. Pritika (IISER Mohali)

Followed by 15 minutes of QnA

Gender, Sexuality, and Everyday Social Experience

Chair: Dr. Pritika (IISER Mohali)

Co-Chair: Dr. Pooja Sancheti (IISER Pune)

List of Presentations:

1. Social Intervention through Grassroots Comics: Rohingyas and the Power of Multimodal Storytelling by Elizabeth Varkey, CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

2. Who’s Affected When the Matsyagandhi Cries?: Positioning the Affects of the Fisherwoman’s body as a Socio-Economic Critique by Keerthana Raj, VIT, Vellore 

3. Gender, Sexuality and Social Experience in Kanyadan: A Sociolinguistic Analysis(Online) by Puja Kumari, The Assam Royal Global University

4. Cognitive and biopolitical reading of contemporary Anglophone poetry from Northeast India by Shreya Manna, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati.

5. Experiences and Education of the Christian Girl: A review of existing literature  (Online) by Fiona Vaz, Rutgers University

6. Beyond the Normalization of Pain: Understanding the dilemmas of Femininity and Medical Recognition in South Asian Women with Endometriosis using Critical Discursive Psychology (Online) by Gunjan Bhutani, Banaras Hindu University

7. Reimagining the Littoral: A Blue Humanities Reading of N. S. Madhavan’s Litanies of Dutch Battery by Sudarsana S., IISER Pune

Lunch 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Environment, Climate Change, and Community Knowledge Systems

Situated, embodied and alternative ecological knowledge in the Sundarban narratives of Amitav Ghosh

Presentation by Dr. Antara Chatterjee (IISER Bhopal)

Followed by 15 minutes of QnA

Environment, Climate Change, and Community Knowledge Systems

Chair: Dr. Antara Chatterjee (IISER Bhopal)

Co-Chair: Dr. Shalini Sharma (IISER Pune)

List of Presentations:

1. Cumulative Educational Disruption and Community Adaptation in Flood-Prone Barak Valley (Online) by Suchita Kanoo, Assam University Silchar.

2. Pralayam as Catalyst: Narrativizing Social Transformation and Community Resilience in the 1924 Kerala Flood by K.G. Aishwarya Jyothi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

3. Reinventing Indigenous Agricultural Systems for Climate Resilience in Mizoram, India by Sonali Boro, Sesta Development Services.

4. Rethinking the "Romance of Resistance" : Phototextuality and Everyday Persistence in Pokkudan's Kandalkadukalkidayil Ente Jeevitham by Niyati Pavithran, IIT Palakkad.

5. Non-Humans and Women, their Vulnerability and Resilience in Hannah Gold's 'The Lost Whale' by Soumya Priyadarshini G, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulatur, Chennai.

6. Local Knowledge, Climate Adaptation and Migration in the Transboundary Sundarbans by Ritwika Chatterjee, IISER Pune

Breakfast 

Science, Technology, and Social Transformations 

What is My Role as a Learner? : Students’ Epistemic Agency and Epistemic Consciousness 

Presentation by Dr. Sugat Dabholkar (IISER Pune)

Followed by 15 minutes of QnA

Science, Technology, and Social Transformations 

Chair: Dr.  Sugat Dabholkar (IISER Pune)

Co-Chair: Dr. Antara Chatterjee (IISER Bhopal)

List of Presentations:

1. From Royal Courts to Global Stages: The Socio-Economic Transformation and Transnational Mobility of Chāran Poetic Traditions by Dr. Ashariya Mohan Gadhavi, Centre For Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad (Online).

2. From Access to Affect, Rethinking Disability Inclusion through Firdaus Kanga’s Autobiography Trying to Grow (Online) by Tuhisha Ghosh, The Assam Royal Global University 

3. Shaping and Reshaping of Digital Sovereignty in India: People, Culture and Digital Public Infrastructure by Nishana CM, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

4. Narrating Resistance, Resilience and Universal-Brotherhood: Understanding Matua Pada Geeti Sahitya through a Spiritual-Humanistic Framework by Sangita Neogi, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

5. Statelessness and Citizenship: Tamil Sri Lankan Refugees in India  by Sachin Bhambu, NIT Jaipur.

Lunch 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

History, Culture, and Public Narratives

The Politics of Looking: 

Early Indian Visual Traditions in Public Life

Presentation by Gopal Joge (Deccan College)

Followed by 15 minutes of QnA

History, Culture, and Public Narratives

Chair: Gopal Joge (Deccan College)

Co-Chair: Dr. Pushkar Sohoni (IISER Pune)

List of Presentations:

1. Fear of Death/Fear of Dying Away from Home : Religious and Cultural Beliefs among Manipuri Recruits in World War I by Sandham Nitishkumar, IISER Pune

2. Revisiting the Beginnings: Ad Dharm, Memory, and Community in Colonial Punjab by Prashant Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

3. Pavāra Migrations Across India and the Legend of Jagadēva by Amol Bankar, Deccan College & Postgraduate Research Institute, Pune.

4. Collective Trauma and Community Precarity: Remembering the 1984 Anti-Sikh Violence in Shonali Bose’s Amu by Pushpneet Kaur, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.

Vote of Thanks and Conclusion

Dinner will be served 7:15 onwards