Event Page : 'Unruly Environments: Ecologies of agency in the global era' a conference at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 13th & 14th February 2014
Programme Schedule: Thursday, 13 February 2014
9.00 a.m. – 9.15 a.m.
Welcome:
Introduction:
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Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan,
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library,
New Delhi
Prof. Christof Mauch,
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
Ludwig Maxililian University,
Munich, Germany
Dr. Siddhartha Krishnan,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment,
Bengaluru.
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9.15 a.m.- 11.15 a.m.
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Session I:
‘Settlement’
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Chair and Discussant:
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Dr. Rinki Sarkar,
Independent Researcher and Economist,
New Delhi
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Speakers:
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Prof. Aloka Parasher Sen,
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
‘Unruly Hinterlands and Settlement Histories of the Deccan Plateau’
Prof. Sunil Kumar,
University of Delhi, Delhi
‘[And] He Went into the Mawas’:
Reconsidering the inhospitable environs of Sultanate settlements, ca 13-15th centuries’
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11.15 a.m.-11.30 a.m.
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Tea and Coffee
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11.30 am.–12.50 p.m.
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‘Empire and Territory’
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Chair and Discussant:
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Prof. Farhat Hasan,
University of Delhi,
Delhi
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Speaker:
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Dr. Samuel Temple,
University of Oklahoma, USA
‘Unruly Marshes:
Obstacles or agents of empire in French North Africa?’
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12.50 p.m.– 2.00 pm.
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Lunch
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2.00 pm.- 4.00 p.m.
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Session III:
‘The Built Environment’
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Chair and Discussant:
Speakers:
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Prof. Christof Mauch,
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
Dr. Harini Nagendra (jointly with Hita Unnikrishnan)
Azim Premji University,
Bengaluru
‘Unruly Commons:
Contestations around Sampangilake in Bangalore
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Dr. David Biggs,
University of California, Riverside, USA
‘Tread Lightly:
Exploring the multiple surfaces of militarized landscapes in central Vietnam’
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Prof. Paul Sutter,
University of Colorado, USA
‘The Greatest Liberty Man has Ever Taken with Nature:
Ruling the tropics during the construction of the Panama Canal’
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4.30 p.m. -5.30 p.m.
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Keynote/Public Lecture
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Chair:
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Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan,
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library,
New Delhi
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Speaker:
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Prof. William Beinart,
Oxford University, UK
‘Bio-invasions, Unruly Plants, and Biocultural Diversity:
Perspectives from Africa’
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Friday, 14 February 2014
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9.00 a.m. -10.00 a.m.
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Session 1
‘Climate’
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Chair and discussant:
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Dr. Vibha Arora,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi
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Speaker:
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Prof. Sajal Nag,
NMML
‘Rain, Rain, Go Away, Come Again Another Day:
History of rainfall, deforestation and desiccation in Cherrapunji, the rainiest spot in the globe’
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10.00 a.m. -10.15 a.m.
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Tea and Coffee
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10.15 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
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Session II
‘Wilderness and Animals’
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Chair and Discussant:
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Dr. Swati Shresth,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment,
Bengaluru
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Speakers:
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Dr. Siddhartha Krishnan,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment,
Bengaluru
‘The Symbolic and Material Appropriation of Openness:
The transformation of Nilgiri grasslands into spaces of woody, thorny and predatory risk’
Dr. Radhika Govindrajan,
Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
‘Pigs Gone Wild:
Human-wildlife conflict and the production of wildness in Uttarakhand’
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12.30 p.m.– 1.45 p.m.
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Lunch
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1.45 p.m. – 2.45 p.m.
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Session III
‘Edges’
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Chair Discussant:
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Dr. Asmita Kabra,
Ambedkar University,
Delhi
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Speaker:
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Prof. Christopher Pastore,
University of Montana, USA
‘Line in the Sand:
The promises and perils of ordering the Ocean’s Edge’
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2.45 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
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Tea and Coffee
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3.00 p.m. -4.30 p.m.
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Session IV
‘Conservation Laws and Resistance’
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Chair and Discussant:
Speakers:
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Dr. Vasudha Pande,
NMML
Dr. Usha Ramanathan,
Independent Scholar, New Delhi
‘Unruly’ Law, Conflict and a Confused Environment:
Three decades of the law through conservation, conflict and changing relationships (1980-
Dr. Uday Chandra,
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
‘The State, Popular Resistance, and "Democracy" in the Forests of Eastern India’
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