Here is the conference program The University of Melbourne
Conference on Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India
September 20-21, 2007
Conference Program
Day 1 – 20 September 2007
8.30 – 9.20 Registration
9.20 – 9.30 Welcome
9.30 – 11.00 Interrogating Democracy and Secularism Chair: TBA Ian Copland, Monash University What’s in a Name? India’s Tryst with Secularism Meera Ashar, University of Pune Taking a Step Back: Revisiting the Studies of Indian Politics Niraja Jayal (keynote speaker), Jawaharlal Nehru University The Limits of Representative Democracy
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE
11.30 – 1.00 Governance and the State Chair: TBA Arun Bali, Indian Council of Social Science Research ICTs and Governance in India: Changing Configurations of State and Civil Society Fazal Yahya, National University of Singapore Rise of India as an Information Technology (IT) hub and Challenges to Governance John McGuire, Curtin University of Technology The 2004 Federal Election and the Reshaping of Governance in India
1.00 – 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 – 4.00 Parallel Session I Multiple Locations of Civil Society Chair: TBA Shoma Choudhury-Lahiri, West Bengal Institute of Technology, India Civil Society Initiatives in Development and Democracy: Evidence From the Peoples’ Science Movement in Kerala, India Kalpana Ram, Macquarie University ‘I now have arivu [knowledge] which dispels fears’: Instabilities in what it means to ‘know’ and the effects of Tamil political party and civil society intellectuals on rural women’s discourses Michael Gillan and Janaka Biyanwila, University of Western Australia (presented by Janaka Biyanwila) Revitalising Trade Unions as Civil Society Actors: Trade Unions and Party Politics in India Sarbeswar Sahoo, National University of Singapore Welfare Civil Society and Democratic Governance in Rajasthan (India)
Parallel Session II Development and Environmental Governance Chair: Kenneth Nielsen, University of Oslo Elizabeth Siebert, URS Sustainable Development Good Ideas and Good Governance: Lessons from Himachal Pradesh Geetanjoy Sahu, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Urban Environmental Governance in India Ephrem Tadesse Gebre, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa Social Capital, Local Organizations and Development Performance: A Case Study of the Soliga Development Association in Kernataka, India Sue Chaplin, Population Health Division, Department of Health and Ageing, ACT Participation, Partnerships and the Urban Poor: New Approaches to Providing Basic Services
4.00 – 4.30 COFFEE
4.30 - 6.00 Democracy and Territorial Challenges in the North-East Chair: TBA Smita Sabhlok, University of Melbourne Civil Society and Development: Between Peace and Insurgency in the North-East Sanjiv Goswami, Supreme Court Bar Association, New Delhi, India Migration and the Challenges to Democracy in Assam Duncan McDuie-Ra, University of New South Wales Exclusion, Extraction, and Expurgation: Waiting for Democracy in Northeast India
7.00 – 10.00 Conference Dinner Venue: TBA
SPEAKER: Professor Robin Jeffrey, Australian National University
Day 2 – 21 September 2007
9.00 – 10.30 State and Civil Society Chair: TBA Zoya Hasan, (keynote speaker) Jawaharlal Nehru University Paper Title: TBA Akhil Gupta (keynote speaker), University of California, Los Angeles Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy John Quigley, European Institute of Asian Studies Europe’s Interest in a Democratic India: The Role of Civil Society
10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE
11.00 – 1.00 Media and Democracy Chair: R. Harindranath, University of Melbourne Robin Jeffrey, (keynote speaker) Australian National University Media and Democracy in India: Preliminary Comparisons of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh R. Harindranath, University of Melbourne Terrorism, the Media, and the Politics of Difference Mugdha Rai, University of Melbourne Indian Television News: Mediating Deliveration and Democracy Nalin Mehta, La Trobe University Argumentative Television: Politics, Democracy and the Indian News Television
1.00 – 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 – 4.00 Neo-Liberalism, Markets and the Marginalised I Chair: Shalendra Sharma, (keynote speaker) University of San Francisco An Assessment of Institutional Capacity of the Indian State under Globalization Sisira Jayasuria and Donald MacLaren, University of Melbourne Implementing Economic Reforms in a Federal Democracy: Agricultural Markets in India Tim Scrase, University of Wollongong Neo-liberal Markets and the Marginalized: The Production and Consumption of Crafts in India Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Australian National University Adivasis in the coal mining tracts of eastern India: From Victims of Development to Agents of Change
4.00– 4.30 COFFEE
4.30 – 6.00 Neo-Liberalism, Markets and the Marginalised II Chair: TBA Salim Lakha and Pradeep Taneja, University of Melbourne Balancing Democracy and Globalization in an Era of Coalition Politics: the Indian experience Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, University of Wollongong Women, Development and Displacement: Experiences of Forced Migration and Settlement in India Eswarappa Kasi, University of Hyderabad Role of NGO’s in the Development of Tribal Lives: Case Study from a South Indian Tribal Settlement
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Here is the conference program
The University of Melbourne
Conference on Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India
September 20-21, 2007
Conference Program
Day 1 – 20 September 2007
8.30 – 9.20 Registration
9.20 – 9.30 Welcome
9.30 – 11.00 Interrogating Democracy and Secularism
Chair: TBA
Ian Copland, Monash University
What’s in a Name? India’s Tryst with Secularism
Meera Ashar, University of Pune
Taking a Step Back: Revisiting the Studies of Indian Politics
Niraja Jayal (keynote speaker), Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Limits of Representative Democracy
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE
11.30 – 1.00 Governance and the State
Chair: TBA
Arun Bali, Indian Council of Social Science Research
ICTs and Governance in India: Changing Configurations of State and Civil Society
Fazal Yahya, National University of Singapore
Rise of India as an Information Technology (IT) hub and Challenges to Governance
John McGuire, Curtin University of Technology
The 2004 Federal Election and the Reshaping of Governance in India
1.00 – 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 – 4.00 Parallel Session I
Multiple Locations of Civil Society
Chair: TBA
Shoma Choudhury-Lahiri, West Bengal Institute of Technology, India
Civil Society Initiatives in Development and Democracy: Evidence From the Peoples’ Science Movement in Kerala, India
Kalpana Ram, Macquarie University
‘I now have arivu [knowledge] which dispels fears’: Instabilities in what it means to ‘know’ and the effects of Tamil political party and civil society intellectuals on rural women’s discourses
Michael Gillan and Janaka Biyanwila, University of Western Australia (presented by Janaka Biyanwila)
Revitalising Trade Unions as Civil Society Actors: Trade Unions and Party Politics in India
Sarbeswar Sahoo, National University of Singapore
Welfare Civil Society and Democratic Governance in Rajasthan (India)
Parallel Session II
Development and Environmental Governance
Chair: Kenneth Nielsen, University of Oslo
Elizabeth Siebert, URS Sustainable Development
Good Ideas and Good Governance: Lessons from Himachal Pradesh
Geetanjoy Sahu, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
Urban Environmental Governance in India
Ephrem Tadesse Gebre, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa
Social Capital, Local Organizations and Development Performance: A Case Study of the Soliga Development Association in Kernataka, India
Sue Chaplin, Population Health Division, Department of Health and Ageing, ACT
Participation, Partnerships and the Urban Poor: New Approaches to Providing Basic Services
4.00 – 4.30 COFFEE
4.30 - 6.00 Democracy and Territorial Challenges in the North-East
Chair: TBA
Smita Sabhlok, University of Melbourne
Civil Society and Development: Between Peace and Insurgency in the North-East
Sanjiv Goswami, Supreme Court Bar Association, New Delhi, India
Migration and the Challenges to Democracy in Assam
Duncan McDuie-Ra, University of New South Wales
Exclusion, Extraction, and Expurgation: Waiting for Democracy in Northeast India
7.00 – 10.00 Conference Dinner
Venue: TBA
SPEAKER: Professor Robin Jeffrey, Australian National University
Day 2 – 21 September 2007
9.00 – 10.30 State and Civil Society
Chair: TBA
Zoya Hasan, (keynote speaker) Jawaharlal Nehru University
Paper Title: TBA
Akhil Gupta (keynote speaker), University of California, Los Angeles
Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy
John Quigley, European Institute of Asian Studies
Europe’s Interest in a Democratic India: The Role of Civil Society
10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE
11.00 – 1.00 Media and Democracy
Chair: R. Harindranath, University of Melbourne
Robin Jeffrey, (keynote speaker) Australian National University
Media and Democracy in India: Preliminary Comparisons of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh
R. Harindranath, University of Melbourne
Terrorism, the Media, and the Politics of Difference
Mugdha Rai, University of Melbourne
Indian Television News: Mediating Deliveration and Democracy
Nalin Mehta, La Trobe University
Argumentative Television: Politics, Democracy and the Indian News Television
1.00 – 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 – 4.00 Neo-Liberalism, Markets and the Marginalised I
Chair:
Shalendra Sharma, (keynote speaker) University of San Francisco
An Assessment of Institutional Capacity of the Indian State under Globalization
Sisira Jayasuria and Donald MacLaren, University of Melbourne
Implementing Economic Reforms in a Federal Democracy: Agricultural Markets in India
Tim Scrase, University of Wollongong
Neo-liberal Markets and the Marginalized: The Production and Consumption of Crafts in India
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Australian National University
Adivasis in the coal mining tracts of eastern India: From Victims of Development to Agents of Change
4.00– 4.30 COFFEE
4.30 – 6.00 Neo-Liberalism, Markets and the Marginalised II
Chair: TBA
Salim Lakha and Pradeep Taneja, University of Melbourne
Balancing Democracy and Globalization in an Era of Coalition Politics: the Indian experience
Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, University of Wollongong
Women, Development and Displacement: Experiences of Forced Migration and Settlement in India
Eswarappa Kasi, University of Hyderabad
Role of NGO’s in the Development of Tribal Lives: Case Study from a South Indian Tribal Settlement
6.00 – 6.15 CLOSE
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