Final Schedule for 27th and 28th January, 2010

Subject Association, Department of Sociology

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Seminar on

Conceptualising Resistance

Date: 27-28 January, 2011

Venue: Mir Anees Hall, Near Vice-Chancellor’s Office, Jamia Millia Islamia

DAY 1

9:30-10.00 a.m- Registration
10.00-10.10 a.m- Welcome (Ipshita Roy, Vice-President, Subject Association)
10.10-10.20 a.m- Inaugural Remarks by the Head of the Department (Prof. Sheena Jain)
10.20-10.50 a.m- Keynote Address By Gautam Navlakha
10.50-11.05 a.m- Tea
11.05-12.10 p.m- Session I

• Resisting the Seductions of the Text: Rethinking the Role of the Word
  Karthick Ram Manoharan, JNU
• Resistance and the Working Class: The Subject-Structure Relation in Historical Materialism
  Bhumika Chauhan, JMI

Discussant: Paresh Chandra, DU

12.10-1.15 p.m- Session II

• Body, Sex and Revolution in the Swinging Sixties
  Shaheen Salma Ahmed, JNU
• Revisiting the Sixties: Return of the ‘Ultimately Determining Instance’?
  Soheb Niazi, JNU

Discussant: Dave Ferri, DU

1.15-2.15 p.m- Lunch
2.15 – 3:45 p.m- Session III

• Internalising Resistance - The Case of the Bangla Band and the Patuas of Bengal
  Shayeari Dutta
• Singing Resistance: the art of commerciality or true spirit?
  Ipshita Roy, JMI

Discussant: Soheb Niazi, JNU

Book Release and Innaugural Address (Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Najib Jung)

3.45-4.00 p.m- Tea
4.00-5.05- Session IV

• The Return of Resistance in Latin America
  Alok A. Oak, JNU
• Civil and Armed resistance in Manipur
  Seram Rojesh, DU

Discussant: Adityan, DU

DAY 2

10.00-11.30: Session V

• Representing the Veil: The (Un)Covering of Identity Politics
  Yasser Shams Khan, DU
• Empowering the Domestic: Resistance and History in Late Colonial Bengal
  Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, DU
• Caste, Gender and Community Violence
  Namrata Daniel, JMI

Discussant: Yukti Choudhary, Faculty of Law, DU
11.30 – 11:45 a.m- Tea
11.45-12.50- Session VI

• Resisting the “Normal”: Kindergarten Universe as site of Resistance in the works of African American Women Artists
  Shaweta Nanda
• Resistance, Politics and Aesthetics: The Brechtian Alternative
  Paresh Chandra, DU

Discussant: Ashwin Bajaj, DU
12.25-12.35- Vote of Thanks