Session 10.5 Problematising Ability: Disability, Disablement and Discrimination in Contemporary India
12 December 2016 11:15: 1:00 pm. Chair and Discussants: Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad & Asha Hans, Women with Disabilities India Network and formerly with School of Women's Studies, Utkal University, Odisha Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Renu Addlakha, Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi. K.S. James, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Avinash Shahi, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Full Programme schedule LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE, FOURTH EDITION “Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth” 10 - 12 December, 2016 India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi PROGRAMME Saturday, 10 December 2016 8:00 – 9:00 am – Registration and Tea 9.00 – 10:45 am, Session 1 1.1 Rites, Religion and Violence, Silver Oak 1 1.2 Evidencing Gender, Silver Oak 2 1.3 Sexuality, Gender Identity and Sedition: A Roundtable, Jacaranda 1 1.4 Politics of Evidence and the Right to Health Care, Jacaranda 2 1.5 Evidence, Truth and Justice, Willow 1.6 Law, Technology and Evidence, Gulmohar Tea: 10:45 – 11:15 am 11.15 am – 1:00 pm , Session 2 2.1 The Whole isn’t the Sum of its Parts: Continuums of Feminist Political Thought and Practice – Panel dedicated to Priya Thangarajah, Silver Oak 1 2.2 Unmaking Reason as Evidence, Silver Oak 2 2.3 Colonial and Post Colonial Landscapes, Jacaranda 1 2.4 Evidence of Judicial Performance in India, Jacaranda 2 2.5 Evidence, Law and Govermentality, Willow 2.6 Making of the Techno-social Horizon: Evidentiary Techniques, Truth-making and Visioning of Futures in India – I, Gulmohar 1.00 – 2:00 pm, Lunch 2.00 – 3:45 pm, Session 3 3.1 Rehearsing The Witness: The Bhawal Court Case, Silver Oak 1 3.2 Evidence of Suppression, Suppression of Evidence: Queer Archiving Practices in India, Silver Oak 2 3.3 Evidencing Discrimination, Jacaranda 1 3.4 Law, Politics and the City, Jacaranda 2 3.5 Detections: Categorizing Crime, Order and Technique, Willow 3.6 Making of the Techno-social Horizon: Evidentiary Techniques, Truth-making and Visioning of Futures in India – II, Gulmohar 3.45 – 4:15 pm, Tea 4.15 – 6:00 pm, Session 4 4.1 Political Allegories of Justice and Democracy: Invoking the Lens of Emblems, Art and Architecture, Silver Oak 1 4.2 Documenting Evidence of Rightlessness, Willow 4.3 Law, Justice and Evidence of Identity, Jacaranda 1 4.4 Evidence for/as Atrocity: A Roundtable, Jacaranda 2 4.5, Legal Pluralism and the Making of Truth in Conflicts over Natural Resources and the Environment, Gulmohar 4.6 Techno-Utopias of Identification: Comparing and Situating the Fantasy in Aadhaar, Silver Oak 2 7.00-7.30 pm: Welcome, Stein Auditorium WELCOME C. Raj Kumar, Professor and Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat Ranbir Singh, Professor and Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi Shyam Menon, Professor and Vice Chancellor, Ambedkar University Delhi Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Transnational Law, Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Director, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru Ravinder Kaur, Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Pratiksha Baxi, Anchor, Law and Social Sciences Research Network, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi OPENING PLENARY Chair: C. Raj Kumar, Professor and Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat Satyagraha and Collective Power: Gandhi and the Dilemmas of Mass Action Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, USA Gandhi’s suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement, after the outbreak of violence at Chauri Chaura, inaugurated an important line of criticism of nonviolent politics. For critics from the left, especially, the decision betrayed a mistrust of popular agency when mass protest strayed beyond the prescriptive forms of Gandhian satyagraha. This mistrust also came to be read as a collusion between nonviolence and reformist, bourgeois and/or reactionary agendas. But what Gandhi rejected at Chauri Chaura was not mass action as such but forms of action that were premised on the generation and display of collective power. This talk explores Gandhi’s critique of collective or corporate power, from his skepticism of majoritarian democracy to the disavowal of radical revolution, and shows how this critique shaped an alternative model of action and mobilization, namely, mass satyagraha Gandhian satyagraha tried to invent and enact forms of protest that dramatized discipline, suffering, and constraint as a counterpoint to political enthusiasm, provocation, and intimidation. Whereas traditional forms of mass action aim toward overpowering opposition and cascading revolution, satyagraha foregrounds the affective politics of persuasion. These are aspects of satyagraha that might be especially relevant for invigorating democratic politics today. Respondents: Ramin Jahanbegloo, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat Gitanjali Surendran, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat Concluding Observations: Shiv Visvanathan, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat 8:30 pm: Dinner Sunday, 11 December 2016 9.00 – 10:45 am Session 5 5.1 Love, Memory, Justice, and Medical Recognition: Evidence in Ethnographic Methods, Silver Oak 1 5.2 Fisheries in Northern Sri Lanka: A Conflict of Law, Livelihoods and Looming Precarity, Silver Oak 2 5.3 Numbers as Evidence, Numerical Narratives of Evidence, Jacaranda 1 5.4 State Impunity, Law and Human Rights Gulmohar 5.5 Evidence of Colonial Legality, Jacaranda 2 5.6 Gender, Sexuality and Bias: Interpreting Experience as Evidence, Willow 10.45 – 11:15 am , Tea 11:15 am - 1:00 pm, Session 6 6.1 Forensics of the Network: Media, Law & Technology in Contemporary India, Silver Oak 1 6.2 Reading the In-visible: Ethics, Bodies and Residues as Sites of Evidence, Silver Oak 2 6.3 Legal Pluralism and the Evidence of Indigenity, Jacaranda 1 6.4 The Police-Effect: Structure, Ideology and the Everyday-Panel Dedicated to Nasser Hussain, Jacaranda 2 6.5 Roundtable: Attacks on the Labour Regime in Sri Lanka and India, Willow 6.6 LASSnet Authors: Jain & Sircar, Satish, Gulmohar 1.00 – 2:00 pm, Lunch 2:00 -3:45 pm, Session 7 7.1 Performative Forensics: Cinema and Evidence, Silver Oak 1 7.2 Evidence in Environmental Law: Beyond Science and Economics, Jacaranda 1 7.3 Law, Protest and Violence in Indian and African Archives Silver Oak 2 7.4 The Law of Evidence and the Craft of Legal Practice, Jacaranda 2 7.5 Consent: A Roundtable Discussion, Willow 7.6 LASSnet Authors: Parmar and Das Gupta, Gulmohar 3.45 – 4:15, Tea 4:15 - 6:00 pm, Session 8 8.1 Law, Media and Evidence, Silver Oak 1 8.2 Performing Citizenship, Evidence of Constitutionalism, Silver Oak 2 8.3 LASSnet Authors: Bhan and Bhuwania, Jacaranda 1 8.4 Beyond the Rules: Conceptualizing “Untraceable” Evidence in Indian Law, Jacaranda 2 8.5 Law’s Publics: The Courtroom, Evidence and the Legal Trial, Gulmohar 8.6 Reconstructing Legal Truths about Gender Violence: Critical Comparative Reflections - Willow 6.00 – 7:00 pm: High Tea Monday, 12 December 2016 9.00 – 10:45 am, Session 9 9.1 Personal Laws and Religious Dispute Settlement, Stein Auditorium 9.2 Of Spectacles, Surveillance and Dissent: The Making and Unmaking of the Idea of the University, Jacaranda 9.3 The Politics of Narratives, Archives and Fiction, Gulmohar 9.4 Rights-Based Legislation Under India’s New Regime, Silver Oak 1 9.5 Between Evidence and Truth: Voices and Silences—A Roundtable Willow 9.6 Of Identities, Evidences and Separation of Law from Justice, Silver Oak 2 10:45-11:15 am Tea 11:15 am -1:00 pm: Session 10 10.1 Photographic Evidence and Contemporary Notions of Truth Production, Jacaranda 10.2 Encountering Islam and Law in India: Transitions from the Colonial to Post-Colonial, Stein Auditorium 10.3 Judging History, Gulmohar 10.4 Data, Method and Evidence: The Legal Construction of Corporate Governance and Taxation Structures in India, Silver Oak 1 10.5 Problematising Ability: Disability, Disablement and Discrimination in Contemporary India - Silver Oak 2 10.6 Materialising Evidence of Sexual Violence, Willow 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 pm, Session 11 : Featured Sessions 1.Roundtable on Law and Social Science Publishing: TLSI, Kings Featured Panel, Stein Auditorium 2.Evidence and Constitutional Interpretation in India: APU Featured Panel, Jacaranda 3.LASSnet Tenth Anniversary Plenary Panel dedicated to Dwijen Rangnekar, Dwijen’s Injustice or The Global Injustices of Intellectual Property Rights and the Framework of Resistance, Gulmohar 3.30 – 4:00 pm: Tea 4:00 - 5:30 pm Closing, Stein Auditorium CLOSING PLENARY “Any Evidence for Hope?” Law and Social Struggles Chair: Aparna Chandra, National Law University, Delhi Speakers: Indira Jaising, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi Babloo Loitongbam, Human Rights Alert, Imphal Usha Ramanathan, Independent Researcher, Delhi Respondents: Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor Warwick, UK and Distinguished Professor, National Law University, Delhi Julia Eckert, Professor, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Bern 5:30 - 6.00 pm: Vote of Thanks, Stein Auditorium 6:00 pm: High Tea LOGOS Organised by: O.P. 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