Suren.Pillay@uct.ac.za
11th September
2 pm – 3 pm: Registration at CSDS, Delhi
3 pm – 3:30 pm: Welcome and Introduction by Prathama Banerjee, Martin Fuchs and Laila Abu-Er-Rub
3:30 pm- 4:30 pm: Introduction of Students and their work (5 min max. each)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: High Tea Break
5:30 pm – 7 pm: Public Lecture Alejandro de Oto: Coloniality and the Question of Historical Time
7 pm: Dinner Reception
12th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar Baidik Bhattacharya: Decolonization as Method: Reflections from Literary and Translation Studies
4 pm: Tea break
13th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar Kai Kresse: Thinking across, thinking among, and thinking with: pathways toward the desired ‘rethinking of the academy’
4 pm – 4:30 pm: Tea break
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Keynote at India Habitat Centre David Scott: Between Revolution and Repair: Rethinking Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
9:00 pm: Dinner Reception
14th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar David Scott: Stuart Hall's Voice
4 pm: Tea break
15th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar
Alejandro de Oto: Notes on a Persistent Problem: Internal Colonialism, the Decolonial Turn, and National Space
4 pm – 4:30 pm: Tea break
4:30 pm - 6 pm: Public Lecture Kai Kresse: The obligation to engage and the work of mediation: Anthropology (from the North) and Theory (from the South)
18th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar
Priya Kumar: “Surplus Migrants in post-partition South Asia”
4 pm: Tea break
19th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar Suren Pillay: Coloniality and colonialism(s) : Debating how to think about the legacies of colonialism in the present
4 pm: Tea break
20th September
11 am- 1 pm: Working Group Discussions and Meetings with Resource Persons
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4 pm: Seminar
Prathama Banerjee: The Limits of Decolonization: a Humanist's Reflections of Science, Technology and Democracy
4.30 pm – 6 pm: Public Lecture
Suren Pillay: Subject to a Brutal Fate
Violence and justice in the ruins of late settler colonial world-making
6 pm: Dinner Reception
21st September
11 am -1 pm: Group presentations Part 1(30 min each group plus 30 min discussion)
Lunch: 2-3 pm
3 pm – 4: 30 pm: Group presentations Part 2
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm: High tea break
4:45 pm: Final discussion and Farewell
2. Students divided in Groups
Groups
Group A. Life and Labour
Nicola van der Westhuizen (19014902@sun.ac.za)
Stellenbosch University
Title of project: An are contested and an area abandoned: A multi-sited ethnography of two informal settlements,
Elis de Aquino Ferreira Nascimento (elisdeaquino@gmail.com)
Freie Universität Berlin
Title of the project: Inequalities and Conviviality in Higher Education: exploring the narratives and experiences of BIPOC and lowincome undergraduate students from Rio De Janeiro's outskirts
Aayushi Bengani (aayushibengani1994@gmail.com)
University of Delhi
Title of the project: Understanding the work that goes into preventing, seeing, and contractualizing encroachment in Mumbai
Ranjani Srinivasan (rs4111@columbia.edu)
Columbia University
Title of the project: Caste-Space-Labour: Land transformation in Kolar Gold Fields
Group B. Power and Property
Tirthankar Chakraborty (tirthankar.c@fu-berlin.de)
Freie Universität Berlin
Title of the project: ‘Pedagogy of Fear’: An Ethnohistorical study of the institutionalisation of fear to create a subservient citizenry
P. Arun (parun@polscience.du.ac.in)
Krea University
Title of the project: Difficulty of Being in Touch: Telegraph Surveillance in British India, 1910-1940s
Vaibhav Srivastava (vs374@snu.edu.in)
Shiv Nadar (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University)
Title of the project: Property without Liberty? The role of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in constituting the (mis)rule of property in Early Colonial North India
Vrinda Chopra (vrinda87@gmail.com)
Ashoka University
Title of the project: Mediating Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa and India: Exploring the entanglements of neoliberal logics and social missions
Group C. Representations
Arindam Saha (sahaarindam18@gmail.com)
Pondicherry University
Title of the project: Micro-Worlding Literature: A Study of Local Oratures and Narratives of Coal Miners
Bincy Mariya N (bincy19@iiserb.ac.in bincyvincent26@gmail.com)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Title of the project: Caste and Conversion in Kerala: A Study of Literary Representations
Dennis Thomas (nednis.plodmus@gmail.com)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Title of the project: Forms of the critique in the novels of JM Coetzee
Priya Kumari (priyakumari.oct@gmail.com)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Title of the project: Narratives of Migration and Integration in Cultural History of Germany
Sophia Olivia Sanan (sophiaroso@gmail.com)
University of Cape Town
Title of the project: ‘African art’ as a question mark in the South African National Gallery
Group D. Body
Chan Chor See (chorsee@gmail.com)
Ahmedabad University
Title of the project: Investigating “modernity” through ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine
Sant Ram Antil (Sa707@snu.edu.in , Santramantil11@gmail.com)
Shiv Nadar (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University)
Title of the project: Wrestling, Body, and Aspirations: Sports in Postcolonial North India