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

Bharati University on March 2010. He delivered a lecture in the UGC-Sponsored Refresher course on The Philosophy of Literature: Language,Meaning and Ideology at the University Staff College, NEHU in Shillong on15th March 2010. He also presented two paper (i)in a national seminar onSociety and Literature: Interdisciplinary Transactions organized by thedepartment of English, North Eastern Hill University in collaboration withICSSR-NERC at Shillong from 16th March 2010 to 18th March 2010. and(ii) in a national seminar on Power in Modern India: Discourses and Practicesorganized by the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Universityat New Delhi from 25th March 2010 to 27th March 2010.Keya Dasgupta presented papers on ‘Interrogating the Right to the City:Community Participation and the Spaces of the ‘Legal’ in ContemporaryKolkata’ at a Workshop on ‘Opening up or Ushering in? Interrogatingdiscourses of Public Consultation and Citizen Participation (PC and CP) inUrban Governance”, organized by the Madras Institute of DevelopmentStudies, Chennai, in collaboration with the Centre de Sciences Humaines,New Delhi with support from the Centre for The Future State based at theInstitute for Development Studies, Sussex, UK. ; on ‘Between the Spacesof the Invented and Invited: The Politics of Negotiation in ContemporaryKolkata’ at a workshop on “The Voice of the Poor in Urban Governance”,held at the Department of Geography, University of Cape Town, in November2009.She also made a short presentation on: ‘From participation to research:Three divergent perspectives in Contemporary Kolkata’ in the session:“Debating the researcher’s positioning in his/her fieldwork through fieldworknotes”, at the workshop held in Cape Town in November, 2009 She visitedsome field sites in Johannesburg – for example, theAlexandra township,Protea South in the Soweto Township, meeting activists, visiting rehabilitationsites, areas of informal trade, etc. She also participated in a discussionarranged for this purpose with activists from varied organizations andacademics at the University of Johannesburg. The comparative study willcontinue with Dr. Sinwell visiting selected sites, civil rights groups in Kolkatalater this year. She coordinated on behalf of the Centre a workshop entitled“Contesting the Indian City: State, Space and Citizenship in the Global Era’,organized jointly by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and CSSSC, atthe Centre in March 2010.Mollica Dastider presented papers on “Minoritised and Subalternised: KiratiMongoloids and the Construction of Caste Nepali Culture in Darjeeling andSikkim” at a two day seminar on Minority Cultures in June 2009 and on“Voices from the Margins: ‘Matwali Mongoloids’ and the deconstruction ofcaste Nepali Culture in East Himalayas” at a one-day workshop onMarginality, Memory and History (CSSSC-Emory University) in August 2010at CSSSC. She also presented papers on “From Caste to Tribe: ‘MatwaliMongoloids’ in eastern Himalayas” at a three day Conference on Power inModern India: Discourses and Practices organised by Centre for PoliticalStudies, JNU in March 2010 and ‘The Himalayan Transition: Towards aFederal Nepal’ in a Seminar in MAKAIS, Calcutta in August, 2009.Pranab Kumar Das got Visiting Fellowship under ESRC–ICSSRInternational Exchange Programme at Essex Business School, Universityof Essex (UK) for three months in 2009 for doing research on FinancialSystem Architecture in South and South East Asia. He attended regularEconomics Study Group seminars at the Centre and in other places suchas Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, Jadavpur University and Institute ofDevelopment Studies Kolkata.Rohan Deb Roy presented papers on ‘Shifting geographies of a diagnosticcategory: Malaria in the long nineteenth century’, in an InternationalConference on ‘Environment, State and Society’ in March, at the HistoryDepartment, Jadavpur University; on ‘Burdwan fever and the making of amalarial locality’ in the History of Malaria Session at the University of Cardiffin March, 2010. He is guest editor of ‘History of Medicine Special Issue’,Global South: The SEPHIS e-zine.Anjan Ghosh convened a workshop at the CSSSC, in collaboration withEmory University, USA, on “Marginality, Memory and History” in August2009. This workshop was one of series that a team of faculty from EmoryUniversity organized at different academic institutions in India during August2009. He was the main facilitator of the conference at the CSSSC, and healso presented a paper here titled, “What do Dalits remember? ReadingDalit autobiographies from (West) Bengal”. He presented a paper at aconference on Partitions II, organized by South Asian Forum for HumanRights at Kathmandu in April, 2009. He was invited to deliver a series oflectures at the Refresher Course in Sociological Theory, organized by theDepartment of Sociology, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, inSeptember 2009. He organized a workshop for the UNICEF-CSSSC SocialInclusion Cell on “Mapping Marginality” in October 2009.He participated inthe Advisory Committee meeting of the Sixth Survey of Research onSociology and Social Anthropology, organized by the ICSSR in its offices in50 51