anybody attend this conference or have the materials from it?

jan 16th, 2009

i had a query from someone about this typical JNU red-white-green conference. anybody have the proceedings, or personal notes from attending it? after all, thsi was funded by the indian government, so the material must be available in the public domain somewhere.

the usual JNU suspects are all there, along with some sepoys from the US and some white guys thrown in as well, presumably sent by the vatican. 

now what's a nice person like madhu kishwar doing in the midst of these rogues? or has she, gulp!, converted, too?

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Hindu Nationalist Organisations in Social and Political ContextIn
Collaboration with . Indian Council of Social Science Research, New
Delhi

University Grants Commission - Special Assistance Programme

November 19-20th 2008
Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Registration: 9.30 am

Inaugural Session: 10am to 10.45am

Chair: Professor Harjit Singh, Dean, School of Social Sciences, JNU
Welcome: Professor Valerian Rodrigues, Chairperson, CPS, JNU
Introducing the Conference: Dr. John Zavos, University of Manchester

Inaugural Address: Professor T.N. Madan, Emeritus Professor of
Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

Vote of Thanks: Professor Pralay Kanungo, CPS, JNU

Tea: 10.45am to 11.00am

Key Note Session: 11am to 1pm

Chair: Professor Balveer Arora, Centre for Political Studies, JNU
Professor Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
Professor Madhu Kishwar, Senior Fellow, CSDS, Delhi

Lunch: 1pm to 2pm

Session I - Religion: 2pm to 3.30pm

Chair: Professor Raymond Williams, Wabash College, Indiana, USA
 Professor Tanika Sarkar, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
'Hindutva's Hinduism'
Professor Pradip K. Datta, Department of Political Science, Delhi University
'Recovering Hindutva's Interlocutors: Tagore's Critique of Hindutva'

Tea: 3.30pm to 3-45pm

Session II - Religion: 3.45pm to 5.15pm

Chair: Professor Zoya Hasan, JNU & Member, National Commission for Minorities
Professor Shail Mayaram, Senior Fellow, CSDS, Delhi
'Rethinking Reconversion: Glo-cal implications of the Visva Hindu Parishad'
Dr. Majari Katju, Department of Political Science, Hyderabad Central University
'The VHP and Dharmic Consciousness'

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Session III - Gender: 9.30am to 11.30pm

Chair: Professor Gurpreet Mahajan, CPS, JNU
Dr. Dibyesh Anand, Westminster University, United Kingdom
'Pornonationalism and the Politics of Fear'
Dr. Atreyee Sen, University of Manchester
'Inventing 'women's history': Female Valour, Martial Queens and
Storytellers in the Bombay Slums'
Namrata R. Ganneri, SNDT College of Arts & SCB College of Com. & Sc., Mumbai
'Matrushakti/Streeshakti : On Representations of Women in the Rashtra
Sevika Samiti'

Tea: 11.30am to 11.45am

Session IV - Diaspora: 11.45pm to 1.15pm

Chair: Dr. Deepa Reddy, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
Dr. John Zavos, University of Manchester
'Hindu Nationalism and the Development of Hindu Identity in Britain'
Dr. Vinay Lal, University of California Los Angeles
'A Bloated Hinduism:  North American Hindus and the Imagination of a Vanguard'

Lunch: 1.15 to 2.15pm

Session V - Local Movements: 2.15pm to 4.30pm

Chair: Professor Gopal Guru, Centre for Political Studies, JNU
Roland Kulke, Leipzig University, Germany
'Vidya Bharati - The Embodiment of the Conservative Outlook of the
Sangh Parivar'
Dr. Rajaram Tolpadi, Mangalore University
'Hindutva's Entrenchment in Civil Society: The Coastal Karnataka Experience'
Professor Pralay Kanungo, JNU & Sudhir Patnaik, Editor, Samadrusti, Orissa
'Hindutva Mobilization against Dalit Christians: The Kandhamal Experience'

Tea: 4.30pm to 4.45pm