AR 2009-10 - Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

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Date Speaker Topic03.12.09 Philippe Cadene Spatial Differentiations: Lessons from anUniversité Paris-Diderot, Atlas of IndiaFrance22.12.09 Dipesh Chakrabarty The Untimely Historian: Europe and theUniversity of Chicago Birth of Historical Research in India23.12.09 Santanu Das The Singing Sepoy: India, Empire and FirstQueen Mary,World War WritingUniversity of London22.02.10 Partha Chatterjee For The Happiness of MankindCSSSC03.03.10 Partha Chatterjee The Pedagogy of Violence04.03.10 CSSSCStudent SeminarDate Speaker Topic09.07.09 Trina Nileena Banerjee ‘Dangerous Play’ - Punishment andDoctoral Fellow,Masculinity in Anurag Kashyap’sCSSSCNo Smoking: Exploring Spectacles ofSexuality and Surveillance inContemporary India28.01.10 Kamel Gaikhonlu Kangla Fort: Contested PerceptionsFord Foundation Doctoral between Archaeologists and ReligiousInterimBodiesWORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCESWorkshop on Gender Sensitization against Sexual HarassmentThe CSSSC organized a one-day workshop on gender sensitization againstsexual harassment on June 3, 2009. Manabi Majumder coordinated theworkshop. Introductory speech was given by, Prof Sugata Marjit, theDirector of CSSSC. Participants are Samita Sen, School of Women’ Studies,Shefali Moitra,Paramita Ckravarty, Samantak Das of Jadavpur Universityand all the academic and non academic staff of CSSSC.Papiya Ghosh Memorial Annual Workshop on “Minorities Culture”The first annual workshop was held at CSSSC on 25-26 June 2009. Thetheme of this year’s workshop was ‘Minority Cultures’. Prof. ParthaChatterjee gave an inaugural address on the theme. Of the ten paperpresenters,three were Papiya Ghosh fellowship-holders (Nisha, Epsitaand Bitasta). Others who presented papers, included Raziuddin Aquil,Rituparna Basu, Roma Chatterji, Mollica Dastider, Sanal Mohan, NasimaSelim, and H. Sudhir. All the papers were commented upon by Discussants,comprising CSSSC faculty and scholars from other institutions in Kolkata,including Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Subhas R. Chakraborty, Roma Chatterji,Amit Dey, Rajat K. Das, Pradip K. Datta, Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Janaki Nair, and Samita Sen. Besides, the inaugural sessionalso had short presentations by Tuktuk Ghosh-Kumar, Raziuddin Aquil,and Anjan Ghosh, on Papiya Ghosh, her research projects on Islam andBihari Muslims, and the Tata Social Welfare Trust supported programmesof the CSSSC-Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund.Conference on Theory and Applied Theory in EconomicsThe CSSSC organized a Conference on Theory and Applied Theory inEconomics in August, 3-4, 2009. Saibal Kar was the coordinator of theconference. Sugata Marjit, Director of CSSSC, inaugurated the conference.Two Special Lecture was delivered by Kalyan Chatterjee, Penn State.andKaushik Basu, Cornell University. Papers are presented by ConanMukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, Parimal Bag, NUS andBibhas Saha*, UEA, UK, Bhaskar Goswami, Burdwan University, DibyenduBanerjee*, Serampore College, Rilina Basu, St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta,Sarbajit Sengupta, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, Runa Ray, JadavpurUniversity, Rakhi Banerjee, Gurudas College, Calcutta, Jayanta Dwibedi*,BKC College, Rajat Acharyya*, Jadavpur University and, Different sessionswas chaired by Kalyan Chatterjee, Penn State, Ajitava Raychaudhuri,Jadavpur University, Pranab Kumar Das ,Jyotsna Jalan (CSSSC),Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Sugata Marjit and Sugato Bhattacharyya, U.Michigan.24 25
Workshop on Marginality, Memory and HistoryOn August, 10, 2009 a workshop was held at the CSSSC, in collaborationwith Emory University, USA, on “Marginality, Memory and History”. Thisworkshop was one of series that a team of faculty from Emory Universityorganized at different academic institutions in India during August 2009..Anjan Ghosh on behalf of CSSSC had coordinated with Prof. Gyan Pandey(Emory University). Mollica Dastider, Sujith Parhail and Anjan Ghoshpresented papers on behalf of CSSSC while Prof. Gyan Pandey, Dr.Chris Krupa and Prof. Joseph Crespino represented Emory Universitywith their papers..Workshop on Mapping MarginalityUNICEF-CSSSC Social Inclusion Cell organized a one-day workshop on“Mapping Marginality”, on October 21, 2009. Anjan Ghosh was thecoordinator of the workshop. Welcome address was given by Prof.GautamBhadra, Acting Director of CSSSC .This was followed by Introductoryremarks by Dr Anjan Ghosh. The Key Note Address –‘Engaging with Caste’was delivered by Professor Surinder S. Jodhka, Indian Institute of DalitStudies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. This was followed by a discussionsession. Prof. Nirmala Banerjee, Sachetana and Former Professor, Centrefor Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta discussed her paper on “Genderand Poverty” which was followed by a discussion session as well.The second half of the day consisted of a presentation on “BeyondCompassion: Representation/Resistance in the ‘Political Society’ of childrenof Sex Workers’ in Kolkata”- a paper by Debolina Dutta, Human RightsLawyer and Researcher, Open Space Fellow, Centre for Communicationand Development Studies, Pune and Oishik Sircar, Jindal Global LawSchool, Sonipat. After the discussion following this paper, Dr. DhrubajyotiGhosh, Calcutta, presented a paper on “An Empirical Enquiry into someexcluded groups in Purulia”. The session ended with a discussion on this.The day came to an end with the vote of thanks from the Cell.Workshop on Inclusive Goals Exclusive PracticesA one day workshop titled ‘Inclusive Goals Exclusive Practices’ wasorganized by the UNICEF-CSSSC Social Inclusion Cell in April 2010 whereeminent scholars like Virginius Xaxa, Prashant Negi and others sharedtheir valuable insights on different aspects of the topic in concern. In thisworkshop the secondary data analysis was presented by the Cell. A bookletcontaining contacts of the network partners of the Cell was published andcirculated. The session was inaugurated by Dr. Anjan Ghosh, Nodal Faculty,CSSSC-UNICEF Social Inclusion Cell.After the inauguration of the session by Dr. Anjan Ghosh, a keynoteaddress was delivered by Prof. Virginius Xaxa, Department of Sociology,Delhi University. This was followed by presentations by Dr. Prashant Negi,Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia MilliaIslamia, New Delhi, Dr. Deepita Chakravarty, Centre for Economic andSocial Studies, Hyderabad and Presentations on Secondary Data Analysisof Two Minority Concentration Districts in West Bengal by Ms. RiddhitaBanerjee and Primary survey in Cooch Behar district by Dr. Sohel Firdos,CSSSC. The sessions ended with a panel discussion on “Deprivation ofChildren: Issues and Prospects”with panelists Prof. Sugata Marjit (CSSSC)-Moderator and Kumar Rana (Pratichi Trust). The day came to an end witha vote of thanks from the CellCSSSC-NRTT Annual Workshop on Violation and ViolenceThe Workshop for Beginning Doctoral, Doctoral and Post-doctoral Scholarssupported by the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust (NRTT) was held at Centre forStudies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), R-1 Baishnabghata PatuliTownship, Kolkata 700 094, from November 4-10, 2009. The theme of theworkshop was Violation and Violence.Part of a larger three-year programme that seeks to intervene in theinstitutional structure of training in the different social science departmentsin Indian universities, the workshop was conceptualized around the ideaof guiding and interacting with doctoral and post-doctoral researchers atdifferent stages of their research in new social science research methodsand to assist them in formulating research questions in its disciplinary fieldand postulating the significance of the research for disciplinary or acrossdisciplinary fields. Along with this, the workshop also aimed at evaluatingthe works of the Post-doctoral scholars, receiving the fellowship under theNRTT Fund.CSSSC received a huge number of applications from beginning doctoraland doctoral participants in response to the announcement from acrossthe country, with a significant number of applications from non-metropolitanuniversities in Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh andManipur. Applications were spread over various disciplines – like History,26 27
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