"A Social History of Caste and Intimacy" workshop in collaboration with Dr. Charu Gupta at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 9th & 10th December 2011

Time : 9:00 am

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi

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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Workshop on ‘A Social History of Caste and Intimacy’ in collaboration with Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi & Dr. Anupama Rao, Barnard College, Columbia University
Friday, 9 December 2011
 9.00 a.m.                       Workshop Opening and Welcome by
                   Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML
9.15 a.m.                       Opening Remarks by
                                      Dr. Charu Gupta and Dr. Anupama Rao
9.30-11.30 a.m.             Session I
                                      ‘Gender, Sexuality, Intimate Relations’
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Mary John, Centre for Women’s Development Studies
1) Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi
“Embodied Desires: Hindu Publicists, Dalits and Intimate Relationships in Colonial India”
2) Dr. G. Arunima, Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
“Mirth, Masculinity, Misogyny?: Representations of Sexuality in  20th Century Malayalam Writing”
11.30-12.00 noon                    TEA
12.00-2.00 p.m.             Session II
                                      ‘Political Thought of Subalternity’
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Uday Kumar, University of Delhi
1) Dr. Anupama Rao, Department of History, Barnard College
“Stigma and Everyday Life”
2) Dr. Aniket Jaaware, Department of English, University of Pune
“Thinking Caste through Touch”
2.00-3.00 p.m.               LUNCH
3.00-5.00 p.m.               Session III
                                      ‘The Grammar of Caste and Labour’
Chair and Discussant: Dr. Uma Chakravarti
1) Prof. Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics
“Merit, Mobility and Modernism: Caste Discrimination in Contemporary Indian Labour Markets”
2) Dr. Vidhya Ravindranathan, Department of History, University of Delhi
“Constructing the Scavenger: Caste and Labour in Colonial Madras”
5.00 p.m.                       TEA
Saturday, 10 December 2011
9.00-11.00 a.m.             Session IV
                                      ‘Caste and Representation’
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University
1) Dr. Raj Kumar, Department of English, University of Delhi
“The Dialectics of Violence: Reading Caste Atrocities in Dalit Novels”
2) Dr. Y. S. Alone, Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
“An Alternative or a Difference: Pictorial Space, Perception and Signifiers”
11.00-11.30 a.m.           TEA
11.30-1.30 p.m.             Session V
                                      ‘Body, Politics and Personhood’
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Gopal Guru, Jawaharlal Nehru University
1) Prof. Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
“Presenting the Self: Politics, Publics and Sartorial Styles”
2) Dr. Tapan Basu, Department of English, University of Delhi
“The Body-Politics of Religious Belonging: Dalit Interrogation of the Physiology of Caste”
1.30-2.30 p.m.               LUNCH
2.30-4.30 p.m.               Session VI
                                      'The Caste Question Book Discussion'
1) Prof. Gopal Guru, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2) Dr. Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
3) Prof. Upendra Baxi, Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi, and Visiting Professor, Warwick
                                     Conclusion
4.30 p.m.                       TEA

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