International Conference on Childhood, Youth and Identity in South Asia
January 6-7 2020
Venue for the conference proceedings: D Block, Third Floor, Room 330, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida
Tea/Coffee, Lunch, and Conference Dinner will be at the C & D Atrium
Day 1: January 6 2020
9.00am-9.30 am- Registration
9.30am- 9.45 am- Opening Remarks
Dr Divya Kannan, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shiv Nadar University
9.45am- 11.15 am
Session 1: Politics of Schooling and Pedagogic Practices
Discussant: Dr Akash Bhattacharya, School of Education, Azim Premji University
Dr Hem Borker, Assistant Professor, Centre for Study if Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jamia Millia Islamia
Shailly Kumar, PhD scholar, Women and Gender Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Smruthi Bala Kannan, PhD scholar, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers Camden College of Arts and Sciences
11.15am-11.30 am: Tea/Coffee
11.30 am-13:00pm
Session 2: Youth, Nation, and the Development Question
Discussant: Dr Iman Mitra, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shiv Nadar University
Dr Gunjan Wadhwa, Independent Scholar, Delhi
Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli , Head Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in New Delhi.
Thomas Wilkinson, PhD scholar, Department of International History, The London School of Economics and Political Science
13.00pm-14.00 pm – Lunch
14:00pm-15.30pm
Session 3: Skilling and Aspirations in Contemporary India
Discussant: Dr Anandini Dar, Assistant Professor, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University
Dr R. Maithreyi, formerly at the Centre for Budget Studies, Bengaluru
Ketaki Prabha, Research Scholar, Centre for Budget Studies, Bengaluru
Suchismita Chattopadhyay, PhD scholar, Anthropology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
15.30pm- 16.45pm
Session 4: Histories, Emotions and Imperialism
Discussant: Dr Divya Kannan, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shiv Nadar University
Soni, PhD Scholar, Institute of History, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr Sarah Emily Duff, Assistant Professor of African and World History, Colby College, USA
Dr Sneha Krishnan, Associate Professor, Human Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
16.45-17.00pm – Tea/Coffee
17.00 pm- 18.30pm: Room C 021
Keynote Lecture: Prof. Karen Vallgarda, Associate Professor, SAXO Institute, History, University of Copenhagen
Venue for Keynote Lecture: C Block, Ground Floor, Room 021
19.30- 20.30pm Conference Dinner (participants only)
Day 2: January 7 2020
9.45am -11.30 am
Session 5: Representations of Childhood in Performance and Literature
Discussant: Professor Rukmini Sen, Sociology, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi
Najia Zeb, Assistant Professor, Department of Elementary Education, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
Aryak Guha, Assistant Professor, Department of English, S.C College, Kolkata
Catriona Ellis, Assistant Professor, History, University of Strathcylde, Glasgow
11.30am - 11.45 am: Tea/Coffee
11.45 am-13.00 pm
Session 6: Children, Community, and Policies of Care
Discussant: Deepti Sachdeva, Assistant Professor, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi
Arun Viknesh, Research Scholar, Centre for Budget Studies, Bangalore
Kimberly Fernandes, PhD Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Shreya Kundu, PhD scholar, Department of History, Ashoka University
13.00pm -13.45 pm: Lunch
13.45pm-15.00 pm: In Conversation: Children’s Literature/Publishing in India
Rukmini Sen, Director Centre for Publishing, Ambedkar University Delhi will be in conversation with Rinchin and Shefalee Jain
Rinchin writes short stories for children as well as for grown-ups and her recent collection of short stories called Ajooba, published by Eklavya is out now. She explores many layers of politics, gender, struggles of everyday lives and love in her stories. Rinchin has been part of many social movements in Chhattisgarh and Madhyapradesh since last two decades and has been working with women and queer groups. She is a member of Ektara Collective. Ektara Collective is an independent, autonomous, non-funded group of people who seek to combine creative efforts and imagination and collaborate with trained and untrained people to make films that are content-wise and aesthetically located in people’s subjective, contextual realities and experiences.
Shefalee Jain is an artist based in New Delhi, India. She is currently teaching Visual Art as Assistant Professor at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi. She is the Co founder of BlueJackal, a platform for engaging with and creating visual narratives, comics, picture books and initiating dialogue and learning within these contexts through interactive programs. She occasionally writes and illustrates for children and adults.
15.00pm- 16.15 pm- Roundtable: South Asia and Beyond: New Directions and Approaches
16.15pm-16.30 pm: Moving ahead and Vote of Thanks
Professor Rukmini Sen, Sociology, School of Liberal Studies and Director, Centre for Publishing, Ambedkar University, Delhi
16.30pm-16.45 pm: Tea/Coffee