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