Wednesday 5 February 2014

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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