2012 LASSnet conference in Srilanka - Program DRAFT ONLY – SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT

Day 1, Friday, December 14th, 2012

Friday, Dec 14th, 9.30am – 10.30am	Registration and Tea
10.30 – 11	Welcome and Introduction to LASSNET and the Conference

Friday, Dec 14th, 11.00am – 1.00pm

Session 1

Panel 1 Left, Liberal and the Radical Chair: TBC Arvind Narrain “My experiments with law”: Gandhi’s exploration of laws potential Nishan De Mel Left Politics and Liberalism in Sri Lanka: unpicking the antagonisms in relation to State Formation Dr Kiran Grewal From Civil Society to Political Society: Reimagining Rights Discourses in Sri Lanka Tamara Relis, Untitled

Panel 2 The Violence of Law: Publics, Impunity and the Rhetoric of Justice Chair: TBC Deepak Mehta The Ayodhya Dispute: The Absent Mosque, Emergency and the Jural Idol Moyukh Chatterjee The Impunity Effect: Tracing the FIR in the Gujarat Pogrom Pratiksha Baxi “Mock Trial”: Reading the Best Bakery Case

Panel 3 Land and Resources I Chair: TBC Rose Wijeyesekera Democratising post-armed conflict reconciliation: A feminist perspective on the IDP’s right to leave, to return and the right not to return to their property Raju KD, Roopa KL, and KD Raju The Sociological Effect of Land Acquisition Laws in India Girija Godbole Understanding the changing relationship between land and rural women in western Maharashtra, India Bhavani Fonseka A Critique of the Legal Framework Governing Land Issues in Post War Sri Lanka

Panel 4 State and Development I - On Technology, Resources and Expert Knowledge Chair: TBC Naveen Thayyil Law, Public participation and Normativity: Contestations about Techno-science. W.A.D.J. Sumanadasa Achieving (in)Justice in Law Making: An Appraisal of Revival of Underperforming Enterprises or Underutilized Assets Act, No. 43 of 2011

Friday, Dec 14th, 1.00pm – 2.00pm

Lunch

Friday, Dec 14th, 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Session 2

Panel 5 Rethinking Resistance : Subalternity and the State in contemporary India - Part 1 Chair: TBC Uday Chandra Beyond Subalternity: Land, Community, and the State in Contemporary Jharkhand Lipika Kamra Non-Sovereign Agency and the Maoist Movement in India Samrat Sengupta Strategic Outsiderism: Performances of Resistance by ‘Multitudes’ after ‘Empire’ Minati Dash The ‘Moral Collective’ in the Moral Economy

Panel 6 Trauma, Memory, Witnessing I Chair: TBC Cayathri Divakalala Understanding Psychosocial Wellbeing in Post-War Sri Lanka: A Call For Change Based on Women’s Experiences of Grievance and Hope Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan The Child-State Relationship Revisited: Some Notes from India Lakmini Seneviratne The Truth Behind a Right to the Truth Debaditya Bhattacharya Testifying to the Limits of the ‘event’: Witness-accounts as literature

Panel 7 Law and the Social Chair: TBC Rohini Chaturvedi Researching public policy: a methodological reflection on ‘studying up’ in India Zoe Rathus The Role and Risks of Using Social Science in Family Law Decision-Making Malavika Kasturi Law,  Caste and Religious Conversion: The Arya Samaj Marriage Validation Bill of 1930 Anindita Mukherjee Aymen Mohammed Cows. Holy, don’t eat (?)

Panel 8 The Left and Social Justice Chair: TBC Buddhima Padmasiri Untitled §  Anisa Rahim Foregrounding Agency: Law, Poverty and Sex Work in India §  shayak sircar Beyond Labour Law: A Case Study of the Maruti Workers' Struggle in IMT Manesar §  Durgambini Patel Quasi Legal Determinants of Labour Unrest in Developing Economies-

Friday, Dec 14th, 4:00pm – 4.30pm

Tea

Friday, Dec 14th, 4.30 pm – 6.30pm	Plenary 1 Law and the Social Chair: Savitri Goonesekera §  Radhika Coomaraswamy §  Kalpana Kannabiran §  Tobias Kelley §  Stewart Motha

Day 2, Saturday, December 15th, 2012

Saturday, Dec 15th, 8.30am – 10.30am

Session 3

Panel 9 Rethinking Resistance : Subalternity and the State in contemporary India - Part 2 Chair: TBC Kenneth Bo Nielsen Subaltern Resistance and the Law Alf Gunvald Nilsen Deepening Democracy in Rural India? Adivasi Struggles in Madhya Pradesh Swagato Sarkar History, Capitalism and Resistance: Deconstructing Democratic Power Jhuma Sen Siting Insurrectionary Jurisprudence: Law as the ‘State’s Emissary’?

Panel 10 Feminism I Chair: TBC Chulani Kodikara Untitled Sanghamitra Choudhury Shailendra Kumar Singh Women at crossroads: A study of conflict and trauma in NE India focusing Assam, INDIA. Zoe Rathus The Role and Risks of Using Social Science in Family Law Decision-Making

Panel 11 Land and Resources II Chair: TBC Namita A. Malhotra National Resources for Public, Public as National Resource: conspiracies and legalities Rohini Chaturvedi Are we missing something?: Federalism as an analytic variable in natural resource governance K. S Dhanya Rights and resources of indigenous people: A study among the adivasis in Kerala Deepa Kansra Untitled

Panel 12 State and Development II - On Neoliberalism, Conflict, South Asia Chair: TBC Rajya Laxmi Gurung Neoliberal economic reforms in Post-conflict context: A Peace Dividend or Peace Penalty? Manasa Sundarraman Tarun Krishnakumar Blooming Threats to Existential Rights: Response and Tactics of the Indian State Rasika Mendis Restitution in post conflict Vanni – a legal framework for post-conflict policy formulation

Saturday, Dec 15th, 10.30am – 11.00am

Tea

Saturday, Dec 15th, 11:00am - 1:00pm

Session 4

Panel 13 Regulating Sex Work in South Asia Chair: TBC Rohit De, Mellon Husna Bai's Profession: Sex, Work and Freedom in the Indian Constitution Prabha Kotiswaran Sword or Shield? The Role of the Law in the Indian Sex Workers’ Movement Vibhuti Ramachandran Responding to ‘sex trafficking’ in India: affect, morality and efficiency in law enforcement discourses

Panel 14 Land and Resources III Chair: TBC Arpitha Upendra Kodiveri Biocultural Community Protocols and affirmation of Biocultural Rights Sankar Pani Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as a case study for the Emergence of Biocultural Rights Namita Wahi The Evolution of the Right to Property in the Indian Constitution Satyadeep Kumar Singh Socio-legal dynamics of Land-acquisition and Land grabs in name of Development: Tale of two Nations (India and Sri Lanka)

Panel 15 Governance I Chair: TBC Aditi Surie Placing Women in Local Governance: Reflections from Fieldwork Rasika Mendis Restitution in post conflict Vanni – a legal framework for post-conflict policy formulation Kshetrimayum Subarta Singh When Sublime Shifts to Profane Amit Bindal Stanley Kubrick in Law School Curriculum: Bringing Humanities back through Popular Culture Mario Gomez Sport, Rights, and Transformation

Panel 16 Antidiscrimination law: A common point of struggle? Chair: Kalpana Kannabiran Fatima Hassan Step by step…Race, HIV, Sexual Orientation in South Africa:  Challenging unfair discrimination using the law  and by necessity, other tools Tarunabh Khaitan ‘Will it help the poor?’: Antidiscrimination Laws in Developing Countries Jayna Kothari Disability Discrimination – Understanding Equality in the context of Disability Aniruddhan Vasudevan Gowthaman Ranganathan Anti-discrimination Laws Addressing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities in India

Saturday, Dec 15th, 1:00pm – 2.00pm

Lunch

Saturday, Dec 15th, 2.00pm - 4:00pm

Session 5

Panel 17 Law and Freedom Chair: TBC Ratna Kapur, The Politics of Feminism Lite and Re-imagining Freedom. Maryam S. Khan, The law of defamation in Pakistan: a normative window into the freedom of the press Mathew John Hate, Hurt and the Law: Courts and the Constitution of ‘Hate Speech’ in India

Panel 18 Feminism II Chair: TBC Srimati Basu Coercing Harmony?: Marriage, Violence and Mediation Anusha Hariharan Encroachment as access: questions raised by the Jan Adhikar Andolan Poongkhulali B. and Deepika Murali The case of the helpless minor and habeas corpus remedies

Panel 19 Sexuality Chair: TBC Arpita Das Understanding intersexuality through discourses of law using Foucault’s biopolitical framework Ritu Gupta LGBTI rights in Sri Lanka; Now it’s time for change Urmila Pullat Transgendered in Sri Lanka : Gender Identity and the Law in Sri Lanka and India

Panel 20 The social life of documents Chair: TBC Andi Schubert The Biography of a Form: Interrogating Choice in Sri Lanka’s First Post-War Census Dileepa Witharana An Analysis of the different flexibilities for patents and copyrights in Sri Lanka’s Intellectual Property Act Andi Schubert The Tale of Two Documents: Social Inquiry Report vs. the Social Care Plan Beverley Brown The Challenge of Indian Oaths

Saturday, Dec 15th, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Tea and Break

Saturday, Dec 15th, 5.00pm – 7.00pm

Plenary 2 Law, Neoliberalism and Development Chair:  Babu Mathew §  Abdul Paliwala §  Aditya Nigam §  Ahilan Kadirgamar

Day 3, Sunday, December 16th, 2012

Sunday, Dec 16th, 10.30am – 12.30pm

Session 7

Panel 21 Roundtable/Book Panel on Reviving Comparative Constitutional Discourse in South Asia Moderator: Arun Thiruvengadam Panelists: ·            Sara Hossain ·            Jayampathy Wickramaratne, ·            Rohit De ·            Ridwanul Hoque ·            Deepika Udagama

Panel 22 State and Development III - On Rule of Law, Governmentality Chair: TBC Osama Siddique Untitled Imran Amin Social Justice and the Governmentality of Participation in India Nick Robinson South Asia’s Separation of Powers: Towards a New Model John Sebastian and Anshuman Singh Forgotten Words in the Constitution: Contextualising citizenship, ‘common good’ and the right to ‘fraternity’

Panel 23 Im/Possibilities of Caste and Casteism in South Asia Panel Chair: A. Marx C. Rajeshkumar The Dynamics of Caste in Jaffna Society Balmurli Natarajan The Cultural Foundations of Neo-Casteism: Heterophobic and Heterophilic Casteism  Jayadeva Uyangoda Caste in Sinhala Society

Panel 24 Making Sense of the Right to Sanitation: Social Justice, Environmental, Water and Labour Dimensions Chair: TBC Philippe Cullet The Right to Sanitation as a Self-Standing Right Mathew John Legal and Policy Traps in the Urban Sanitation Debate Sujith Koonan Policy and institutional framework in Rural Areas Lovleen Bhullar Realisation of the Right to Sanitation: Legal Framework for Human Waste Disposal in Urban India

Sunday, Dec 16th, 12.30pm – 1.15pm

Lunch

Sunday, Dec 16th, 1.15pm – 3.15pm

Session 8

Panel 25 Law and the Urban : Exploring ‘Juridicial Urbanism’ Chair: TBC Diya Mehra Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local Trade in New ‘world-class’ Delhi Gautam Bhan Planned Development and/as Crisis: Evictions and the Politics of Governance in Contemporary Delhi Neha Sami From farming to development: An alternative approach to real estate development in Pune, India Amlan Goswami Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Law and Politics

Panel 26 State, Law and Violence Chair: TBC Shomi Brian PTNL Kalangshim: The Judicial System of the Tangkhul Nagas Chubatila Ozukum State law and violence: a study of the AFSPA in Nagaland, India. Umesh,O Communities Imagination of Justice and State Law in the Murder Trials Anu Choudhury Of Love, Court and Media

Panel 27 State and Development 4 - On Institutions Chair: TBC Yasodara Kathirgamathamby Role of State Administration in respect of plantation Community in Sri Lanka - with special reference to district secretariat, divisional secretariat and Grama Nildhari Divisions. Sidharth Chauhan India’s constitutional commitment to quotas in representative institutions and questions about the legitimacy of democratic authority Latika Vashist Vulnerability, Death & Solidarity: Imagining New Forms of Resistance to Violence

Panel 28 The Legal Complex and Political Liberalism in South Asia Chair: TBC Terence Halliday ??

Sunday, Dec 16th, 3.15pm – 5.00pm

Plenary 3 Law and the Politics of Resistance Chair: Neloufer de Mel §  Uma Chakravarti §  Sara Hossain §  A. Marx §  Sumathy Sivamohan

* Sunday sessions include a ‘working tea’

Transnational Torture: Law, Violence and State Power in India and the U.S.

INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE

Cordially invites you to

Discussion of a new book by Dr Jinee Lokaneeta, Associate Professor in Political Science, Drew University, USA

on Custodial Torture in Liberal Democracies

ON FRIDAY, 27TH JULY 2012 AT 6.30 PM IN CONFERENCE ROOM I.

Panelists : Ms Vrinda Grover, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court; Prof Aditya Nigam, CSDS; Prof Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Dept. of Political Science, University of Delhi; and author
Dr Jinee Lokaneeta

Chair : Shri Sankar Sen, IPS (retd.), and former Director General, National Human Rights Commission

Transnational Torture: Law, Violence and State Power in India and the U.S. (2012) brings out the extent to which torture has been practiced in liberal democracies, where there has been constant negotiation with and accommodation of excess violence by the state

(Orient Blackswan, 2012)
http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=38&isbn=978-81-250-4556-4&detail=2

(NYU Press, 2011)
http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookid=6378

The Institute for Human Development (IHD) in association with The Centre for Development and Human Rights (CDHR) is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Thomas Pogge on July 24^th, 6:00pm at the IIC (Lecture Hall 1, Annexe).  The lecture will be preceded by high tea at 5:30pm.  The title of the lecture is ‘Severe Poverty, Human Rights and Institutional Design.’ (Further details of the event are provided below.)  

Professor Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.  He is the author of more than 28 books and 54 journal articles, with leading contributions to the fields of global justice and human rights.  His book World Poverty and Human Rights is widely regarded as one of the most important works on global justice.  Professor Pogge has delivered 880 public lectures in 44 countries, and is the author of a celebrated TED talk, which has already been viewed some 180,000 times online: TED Talk “Reimagining pharmaceutical innovation,” Saturday, September 24, 2011, http://tedxcanberra.org/2011/10/thomas-pogge-reimagining-pharmaceutical-innovation/

Besides being a leading scholar, Professor Pogge is committed to bringing his academic work on global poverty to public audiences, policy makers and NGOs across the world.  His current work is focused on a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org).  He is also the founder and  president of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network that aims to enhance the impact  of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty eradication by promoting their collaboration and outreach (http://academicsstand.org/). A chapter of ASAP (ASAP-India) was launched at Delhi University in October 2011.  

We hope that you will be able to attend the lecture, and also the high tea at 5:30pm.  Looking forward to meeting you on July 24^th!

 

Sincerely,

Dr. Mitu Sengupta, on behalf of CDHR (www.cdhr.org.in)

IHD Distinguished Lecture Series

 

   

  Institute for Human Development (IHD)   

            In association with

Centre for Development and Human Rights (CDHR)

Invites you to a Lecture on

Severe Poverty, Human Rights and Institutional Design

by

PROFESSOR THOMAS POGGE

Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs

Yale University

Chair:

PROFESSOR DEEPAK NAYYAR

Distinguished University Professor of Economics

 New School for Social Research, New York

& Former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University

Comments:

PROFESSOR MANORANJAN MOHANTY

Honorary Professor

Council for Social Development, New Delhi

MR. RAJEEV MALHOTRA

Economic Advisor to the Office of Finance Minister

Ministry of Finance, Government of India

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 6 p.m.

at the Lecture Hall – 1, India International Centre Annexe

40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi – 110003

Please join us for High Tea at 5.30 p.m.

Alakh N Sharma

Professor & Director

Institute for Human Development

New Delhi

RSVP:

Institute for Human Development

NIDM Building, IIPA Campus, IP Estate, New Delhi 110002

Ph. 23321610, 23358166

Email: seminar@ihdindia.org

Announcing an extended deadline for the submission of abstracts for the forthcoming LASSnet conference in Sri Lanka: Deadline Extended to 31st July 2012

Socio-Legal Review

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