Programme schedule is pasted below
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UGC-SAP National seminar on Unfamiliar Margins in the social
(Co-sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi, Centre for Women Studies, UoH)
(14thand 15thOctober, 2014) Department of Sociology Programme Schedule
Day 1:14thOctober, 2014, Tuesday Venue: S.S.S Conference Hall
INAUGURAL SESSION- 9.30 am to 10.30 amChair- Prof.E.Haribabu, Pro-
Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad. Welcome address;Prof. K.
Laxmi Narayan, Head, Department of SociologyProf. Purendra Prasad,
Coordinator, UGC SAP programme. Introductory Remarks:Pushpesh Kumar
Introducing the Key Note Speaker- Shreyasee Dasgupta Key note session-
Dr.Radhika Chopra, Sexual Insults and Dependent HusbandsVote of
thanks- Dr.G.Nagaraju, Department of Sociology Tea Break- 10.30 am to
10.45 amSession 1-10:45 am to 12:15 pm Erotic and Pleasurable: Beyond
the Familiar Chair- Prof K. Suneetha Rani, Head, Centre for Women's
Studies, UoH.Speakers- Rukmini Sen, Breaking the Silence on the
'Unfamiliar': Law and Intimate Relationships' Shruti Tambe, Fear of
the Dark Man: Marathi films in the neo-liberal era
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Khairunnisa Nakathorige, the Ultimate Unspeakable: Discourse on incest
narratives in IndiaKetaki Chowkhani, Adolescents and Sexuality
Education: Understanding Adolescent Sexuality, Masculinity, Sexual
Knowledge and Romance. Session 2-12:15 pm to 1:45 pm Debating
Disability: Language, Psychoanalytic and subversion Chair- Dr.Sowmya
Dechamma, Centre for Comparative Literature, UoH Speakers- Nandini
Ghosh, Constructing Deviance: Gendered/Disabled BodiesShilpaa Anand,
Naming and Knowing the Unfamiliar: Disability and the relationship
between language and the social N. Annavaram, Sexuality and
Disability: Reflections on the Normative Constructions of a Normal
Body in Hindu Texts Hemachandran Karah, Ved Mehta's Continent of
Psychoanalysis: an innovative psychoanalytic experiment via the
framework of blindnessLunch Break- 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm Session 3- 2:45
pm to 4:15 pmMarginal Citizens: The Immoral, Imprisoned, Superhuman,
and 'encounterable' Chair- Dr.Manjari Katju, Department of Political
Science, UoH. Speakers-Mahuya Bandhyopadhyay, Ethnographic Forays in
Prison Sociality: Reflections on the 'Indian' Prison Climate and the
Prisoner as Marginal Citizen. Manisha Sethi, the Marginal and the
Encounterable: Discourses of Law and Lawlessness.Asima Jena, "Body
Politics and Marginality: Understanding the Predicaments of
Kalavanthulu".Trina Nileena Banerjee, New Masculinities and
Authoritarian Aesthetics in Contemporary Bombay Cinema Viajayanti
Mogali, Psychiatric Experiences
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Session 4-4:15 pm to 5:30 pmInterrogating Sciences, mapping
Dissonance: Queer Lives and politics for existence Chair- Dr. Anindita
Mukhopadhyay, Department of History, UoH. Speakers-Chayanika Shah,
Family beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer intimacies and
personallaw.Gita Chadha, the Queer question in sciences: Debating the
search for 'gay gene'. Gautam Bhan, Legality, Identity and Queer
Politics: What imaginations are possible? Cultural evening - 6:00 pm
to 8:00 pmVenue- C.V.Raman Auditorium 'In Search of Bawdi Folk Songs'
by Supriya Nasreen Chandramukhi RachnaDay 2: 15thOctober, 2014,
Wednesday Session 5-9:00 am to 10:45 am Performativity and
Representation: Body and Authenticity Chair- Dr.Aparna Rayaprol,
Department of Sociology, UoH. Speakers-Vishal Tondon, Sexuality within
the Socio-Cultural Sphere: A Survey through Contemporary Indian
ArtHimadri Roy, Blasphemous Body: Case studies of Hijras in Urban
Delhi. Zameer Kamble, While Performing Sexuality... A Report on a
Theatre Presentation "To, Ti, Te...( He, She, It...)" with Real Life
Stories of Queer People in Pune.
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Asha Singh, Images of Conjugality and Sexuality in Bahujan women's
Bhojpuri FolksongsJ. Devika,Dutiful daughters, Unruly sons: Sexuality,
gender, and community boundaries in a coastal hamlet in Kerala.Tea
Break- 10:45 am to 11:00 amSession 6-11:00 am to 1:00 pm Bonds,
Friendships and Kinships: 'Vampy', Liminal and Untangled Chair- Dr.
Deepa Srinivas, Centre for Women's Studies, UoHSpeakers- Mayuri
Samant, Will the Real Mother please 'Step' Out: Reflections on
Dichotomous Model ofMotherhood in India: Exploring the Possibilities.
Niladri R.Chatterjee, "Yaar": The Floating Signifier of Masculine
Affect. Tejaswini Madabhushi, Creating groups and kinship through
Social Media- a case of Hyderabad forFeminism.Kedar Deshmukh, Men's
Groups towards Gender JusticeAndy Silveira, Articulating Sexual
Identities in PublicLunch Break- 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm Session 7-2:00pm
to 3:45 pmLegal, Juridical and Institutional: Traversing Uncharted
Terrains Chair- Dr.Brinda Bose, Centre for English, JNU, New
DelhiSpeakers-Saptarshi Mandal, Recasting Sodomy: Prohibited Sexual
Acts in the Legal Regulation of Heterosexual Conjugality Navaneetha
Mokkil, Lesbian Suicides in Kerala: Re-imagining the Political
SubjectAnamika Dutt, Protecting Sex Workers: Law, Policy and
MoralityVenkatesan Chakrapani, Decreasing Stigma and Discrimination
faced by male to female transgender people to improve their access to
healthcare in public hospitals. Kumar Kunal Jha, Identity, Visibility
and Voice of LGBT Community in Indian WorkplaceTea Break- 3:45 pm to
4:00 pm
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Panel Discussion- 4:00pm to 6:00pmHomophobia, Sexual Vigilance and
Annihilation of Gender Venue: C.V.Raman Auditorium. Chair- Prof.Sujata
Patel, Department of Sociology, UoH. Speakers- Raj Rao, Homophobia in
the context of India's Shame CultureBrinda Bose, Sexualities and
VigilantismsKarthik indira, decolonizing Gender Vote of Thanks-
Pushpesh Kumar
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:48:31 +0530
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<disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com>Hi All, Please find the programmes and posters attached. Do share the information widely. best, Shilpaa -- Shilpaa Anand Assistant Professor Department of English (Room No. 15) School of Languages, Linguistics and Indology Maulana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad 500 032. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Disability Studies India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to disability-studies-india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/disability-studies-india. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
