Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

cordially invites you to a Conference

 

 

at 9.00 a.m. on Thursday-Friday, 6-7 February 2014

in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building

on

 

‘Diversities and Connections:

Reconsidering ethnic boundaries in Northeast India’

 

 

in association with

Dr. Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh,

University of Gottingen, Germany,

Dr. Philippe Ramirez,

National Centre for Scientific Research, France and

Prof. Tanka Subba,

Sikkim University, Gangtok.

 

 

 

Programme Schedule:                              Thursday, 6 February 2014

 

 

 

9.00 a.m. – 9.05 a.m. Welcome:     Introduction: 9.05 a.m. – 9.30 a.m.	Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi   Dr. Philippe Ramirez, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Inaugural address: 9.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.	Prof. George Van Driem, University of Bern, Switzerland ‘Ethnogenesis in Northeast India’
10.30 a.m.-10.45 a.m.	Tea
10.45 a.m.- 12.30 a.m.	Session 1
Chair:	Prof. A. C. Bhagabati, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, Northeastern Regional Centre, Guwahati
Speakers:	Ms. Nasrin Siraj Annie, Jahangir Nagar University, Sarvar, Bangladesh ‘“This is (not) a love story” : Mixed, conviviality and intercommunity relations in the Chittagong hill tracts in Bangladesh’ (in collaboration with Dr. Ellen Bal, Un. Amsterdam)     Ms. Rashmi Upadhyay, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong ‘Migration and Assimilation: A study of the Nepalese migrant workers in the coal mines of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya’
Discussant:	Prof. A. C. Sinha, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m.	Lunch
1.30 p.m.–3.00 p.m.	Session 2
Chair:	Dr. Vibha Arora, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Speakers:	Mr. Sean Dowdy, University of Chicago, USA. ‘Icthyonomics or Fish in the Time of Floods: Rethinking multiplicity in lowland Assam’     Mr. Jelle Wouters, Sikkim University, Gangtok ‘Exploring “Pre-Ethnic” and ”Trans-ethnic” Identities in Eastern Nagaland’
Discussant:	Dr. Philippe Ramirez, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
3.00 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.	Tea
3.15 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.	Session 3
Chair:	Prof. Bengt Karlsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Speaker: (Lead Paper)	Prof. Subhadra Channa, University of Delhi, Delhi ‘State Control, Political Manipulations and the Creation of Identities’
	Friday, 7 February 2014
9.00 a.m. -11.00 a.m.	Session 4
Chair:	Prof. Sanjoy Hazarika, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
Speakers: (Lead Papers)	Prof. A. C. Bhagabati, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, Northeastern Regional Centre, Guwahati ‘Reflections on Ethnic Boundaries in Northeast India’     Prof. Bengt Karlsson, Stockholm University, Sweden ‘Migration and Belonging: Northeasterners in South India’
11.00 a.m.-11.15 a.m.	Tea
11.15 a.m. -1.00 p.m.	Session 5
Chair:	Dr. Rana Behal, University of Delhi, Delhi
Speakers:	Dr. Charisma Lepcha, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong ‘The Significance and Celebration of Khada in Sikkim’     Mr. Iftiqar Rahman, Gauhati University, Guwahati ‘A Comparative look at Three Ethnic Communities of Arunachal Pradesh’
Discussant:	Dr. Meenaxi-Barkataki Ruscheweyh University of Gottingen, Germany
1.00 pm – 1.45 p.m.	Lunch
1.45 p.m. -2.30 p.m.	Session 6
Speaker:	Dr. Philippe Ramirez, National Centre for Scientific Research, France Presentation of New Book: ‘People of the Margins: Across Ethnic boundaries in Northeast India’
2.30 p.m.-2.45 p.m.	Tea
2.45 p.m. -4.30 p.m.	Session 7
Round-table:         Speakers:	Initiated by Dr. Philippe Ramirez, National Centre for Scientific Research, France     Prof. A.C. Bhagabati, IGNCA, NE Regional Centre, Guwahati,   Dr. Anungla Aier, Nagaland University, Kohima   Mr. D. S. Teron, Assam University, Diphu Campus.   Mr. Paim Thee Gohain, Writer, Freelance Journalist,   Mr. Banwang Losu, Freelance Journalist, Arunachal Pradesh.
4.30 p.m. -4.45 p.m.	Conclusion

 

 

All are welcome.

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