Friday 3 February 2012


Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

Research Scholars' Workshop 2011-12/ II




Transformations:

Object, Field, Method 



9th and 10th February 2012

Room No. 1, Ground Floor

Department of Sociology




PROGRAMME

9 February – Thursday



9:30 – 10:00 


Welcome

Dr. Tulsi Patel / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Introduction


Rokhsar Vakharia / Dept. of Sociology, DU

10:00 – 11:30 


Panel I – Negotiations Within


Discussant: Prof. Satish Deshpande / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala Dalmia, Abhimanyu Pandey,


Shagufta Kaur Bhangu, Varsha Upraity / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Negotiating Change in Ballimaran

Manoj Bandan Balsamanta / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Between Ethics and Unethics: The Paradox Called Ethnography

Garima Yadav / Dept. of Sociology, DU


'Choice' in the Context of Pregnancy and Childbirth

11:30 – 11:45 Tea

11:45 – 1:15 


Dialogue I – Cultivating a Contingent Appearance


Chair: Paankhi Agrawal / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Nandita Badami / Centre for Political Studies, JNU


Theorising Capitalism

William F. Stafford, Jr. / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Subsistence


1:15 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 


Dialogue II – Forestalling Identity


Chair: Divya Murali / Dept. of Sociology, DE

Mohammad Sayeed / Dept. of Sociology, DU


“You Can't be Communal Anymore?”: Object as Event and Field as Space

Soumick De / School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU


The Insistent Object of Non-identity

3:30 – 3:45 Tea

3:45 – 5:15 


Panel II – Inside Out


Discussant: Dr. Deepak Mehta/ Dept. of Sociology, DU

Vidhi Shah / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Narrating Sousveillance: A look at Hasan Elahi's Orwellian Project


Geetika Bapna / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Objecting the Intimate: Marriage, Language and Time

Sarover Zaidi / Dept. of Sociology, DU


The 'Object' of Experience


10 February – Friday

10:00 – 11:30 


Panel III – Discourses, Discourses


Discussant: Dr. Rita Brara / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Urvashi Tilak / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Development of the Discourse on 'Trafficking'

Arshad Amanullah / Independent Scholar, Documentary Filmmaker


Maslak and Transformation in Post-Colonial India

Anubhav Pradhan, Avipsa Das / Hansraj College, DU; Miranda House College, DU


(Re)Searching Resistance: Some Notes on Activism, its Causes and the Rhetoric of Right(s)

11:30 – 11:45 Tea

11:45 – 1:15 


Dialogue III – A Wager on Transformation


Chair: Amit Chaturvedi / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Anubhav Sengupta / Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU


Sociologists as Subjects: Studying the Maoist-led People's Movement in India

Malay Firoz / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Contemporary War: Objects in Transformation

1:15 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 


Dialogue IV – A Question of Participation


Chair: Sharib Zeya / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Anirban G/N / School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU


Asphalt as Political Territory: Media and the Urban Occupations

Subhashim Goswami / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Malegaon and its Cinema – the Making of the Unaesthetic Object?

3:30 – 3:45 Tea

3:45 – 5:15 


Panel IV – Finding Movements


Discussant: Dr. Rajni Palriwala / Dept. of Sociology, DU

Nilamber Chetri / Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU


Reconceptualising the Structure/ Agency Debate in Social Movement Literature


Chitra Bisht / Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU


Moving Back and Forth: Practicing Abduction

Sarbani Sharma / Dept. of Sociology, DU


Methodological Attempts to Conceptualise Meanings of Azadi in Kashmir

5:15 High Tea




FORMAT

The Workshop is organised under two categories of presentation - “Dialogues” and “Panels”.

Dialogues: We will have four ‘dialogue’ sessions in which two participants whose work suggests a strong resonance with each other will each present their own work and also comment and engage with their colleague’s work. There will be no discussant for these sessions, but time will be allotted for an open audience discussion as well.

Panels: We will have four panels of three participants each. These panels also follow a principle of coherence around the participants overall interest areas. There will be a discussant for each panel. Each presentation will have 20 minutes each and there will be time allotted for the discussants comments as well as an open discussion.

As we hope that that the workshop will be an opportunity for researchers to establish links and relationships beyond the workshop to continue discussions on its theme, please also note the high tea to be held after the last session on the last day, so that presenters, chairs, discussants and attendees can interact more informally.

                                                      
                                                
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Sunday 29 January 2012

Lecture: Experience and Experiment: Reflections on Ethno-botany


Research Scholars' Group, Department of Sociology,
University of Delhi


invites you to a lecture organised parallel to the Department of
Sociology Research Scholars' Workshop 2011/ II: Transformations:
Object, Field, Method

Experience and Experiment:
Reflections on Ethno-botany

Savyasachi
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Jamia Millia Islamia


2 February (Thursday), 3pm
MA Classroom, Ground Floor
Department of Sociology,
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi


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Saturday 19 November 2011

Concept Note:Research Scholars Workshop 2012, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi

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Research Scholars Workshop
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi

9th - 10th February 2012


Transformations: Object, Field, Method

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Transformations: Object, Field, Method”  is a way of understanding what may be at stake in the question of selection of objects and problems, the methods by which we study them and the ways in which we validate those methods. In this spirit, we invite papers on the topic of objects of research and their transformations – the appearance, the creation, the suppression, the cultivation, the annihilation of objects, queries and problems. We invite explorations on the theme of the workshop outlined below through elaborations, refinements, disagreements, critiques, alternate formulations and refusals of this theme in presentations of planned, ongoing or completed research. The aim of the workshop will be an engagement with the general question of the object of research, the exploration of specific projects, and the cultivation of a spirit of experimentation with these questions......