REGISTRATION FOR ALL OUR EVENTS TO BE HELD ON 7th MARCH, 2013 IS STILL OPEN.
BUT, STUDENTS INTERESTED MUST REGISTER THEMSELVES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE ENTRIES ARE LIMITED.
GET IN ELSE U REGRET OUT!!
Register yourself at: karvanefikr@gmail.com
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Good news friends!!
Honourable Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung has consented to give the inaugural address for the Inter-University Student Seminar scheduled on 13th March, 2013.
Besides, Shri Harsh Mander has also agreed to be the Keynote Speaker for the Student Seminar on the same day.
We are also in talks with some noted sociologists like Prof. Dipankar Gupta and Dunnu Roy who might chair a session for the seminar either on 13th or 14th March, 2013.
And last but not the least, we are thankful to all of you for your support, we are receiving a healthy registration for all our events, if you are interested and wish to participate, please do not have a re-think rather take the plunge. It will surely be worth it.
PHOTOGRAPHY PARTICIPANTS who have got themselves registered will soon be informed through their e-mail / contact no. about the details of the event by their coordinator. Meanwhile, you are requested to look for the Rules and Regulations of the event already uploaded on the blog or www.jmi.ac.in(events) Jamia Millia Islamia's official website.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
CONTACT US FOR SEMINAR:
Abstracts may be sent
to the following:
Dr. Kulwinder Kaur - +919899122919 ; kulwinder10@gmail.com
Ishita Sinha -
+919873639303 ; ishi_25@live.com
You may send your entries in English, Hindi or Urdu to: karvanefikr@gmail.com latest by 27th
February, 2013.
For further queries: Contact- Qadeem: 9990926883, Homam:
8744847114, Ishita: 9873639303.
CONTACT US:
Students
interested to participate for the events laid out in ‘Programme Guide’ should
contact the respective Event Coordinator/s.
POSTER
MAKING – Shagufta Abbas: +918585987303 ; Maitreyee Shukla: +919971303538
ESSAY -
WRITING – Daud Arif: +919650179424 ; Owais Wani: +918447705050
QUIZ – Homam
Ajmal: +918744847114 ; Meghna Srivastava: +919871655628
JUST-A-MINUTE
– Mohd. Aalam; +917827959787 ; Shakir Ali: +917503704441
PHOTOGRAPHY
– Neelima Chadha: +919868822178 ; Simad Ali: +919717945116
Participants
may also register on the spot for the above mentioned events but their
registration is subject to availability. You are therefore requested to register
yourselves as early as possible.
Keep
Visiting!!
PROGRAMME GUIDE
VENUE: M.A. Ansari Auditorium, JMI
DATE: 7th March, 2013
· 10:00 - 11:00AM POSTER MAKING
· 11:00 - 12:00PM ESSAY – WRITING
· 12:00 - 01:00PM QUIZ
· 01:00 - 01:30PM JUST-A-MINUTE
· 01:30 - 04:30PM MOVIE SCREENING & DISCUSSION
· 04:30 - 05:00PM AWARD CEREMONY
· 06:00 - 09:00PM CULTURAL SHOW IN AMPHITHEATRE
Note: Photography Competition is also a
part of our event, the photographs are to be sent with all the details, which
includes the Name of the Participant, Caption and the institutional
affiliation.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Karvan-e-Fikr
Subject Association, Department of Sociology
JMI
Invites you to
The Annual Students’ Seminar and Academic Fair
On
'The Informal City'
Date: 13th and 14th March, 2013
Venue: Ansari Auditorium, on the 7th of March, 2013
Mir - Taqi - Mir Hall on the 13th and 14th March, 2013.
The Events
Inter-University Students’ Seminar
Theme: ‘The Informal City
Date: 13th and 14th March, 2013
Time: 9:30 am
Venue: Tagore Hall, Mir-Taqi-Mir, JMI
Overall Coordinator : Ishita Sinha - 9873639303
Sharp Focus: The Photography Competition and Exhibition
Theme: Capturing The Informal City
Date of Exhibition: 7th, 13th and 14th March, 2013
Venue: Ansari Auditorium, JMI on the 7th of March,
Mir - Taqi - Mir Hall on 13th and 14th March,2013.
Rules and Regulation:
1. The theme of the photographs is The Informal City
2. Maximum number of entries per person is 2.
3. First three places will be awarded.
4. The prints should be 8 inches x 10 inches and mounted on a card-board sheet of 9 inches x 11 inches.
5. Digital special effects are not allowed.
6. The entries should have a caption on the front.
7. Name and college of the photographer only with the digital copy, not on hard copy.
8. Email digital copies for registration. Send to: karvanefikr@gmail.com
9. The hard copies should be submitted by 1st March, 2013 at the following address: Dr. Kulwinder Kaur, Dept. of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi – 110025
Coordinator : Neelima Chadha - 9868822178
Critique in Colour: The On-the-Spot Poster Making Competition
Theme - To be announced on the spot
Venue - Mir-Taqi Mir Lawn, JMI
Date - 7th March 2013
Timings - 10:00 am to 11.00 am
A poster can allow creative expression and encourage critical thinking. Through this event we hope to give the artistic student a forum to express his or her thoughts informal aspects of the the city such as slums, urban poor, homeless, informal workers, and so on and the challenges it poses to the urban development.
Rules and Regulations:
1. The poster should be related to the theme.
2. Only sheets and water will be provided. Participants should get their own supplies.
3. There should be only 1 participant for 1 poster.
4. Only 1 hour will be given to complete the poster.
5. Posters may or may not include text or slogans.
6. Registration starts on 18th Feb, 2013 Participation will be limited, and decided on first come, first served basis. Participation will be confirmed on 1st March 2013.
7. To register, e-mail: karvanefikr@gmail.com with your name, class, educational affiliations, and phone number.
Coordinators : Shagufta Abbas - 8585987303, Maitreyee - 9971303538, Rusti - 8010995584.
QnA: The Quiz
PRELIMINARY ROUND
Date: 7th March, 2013
Time: 12.00 p.m.
Venue: Ansari Auditorium, JMI
This round is schedule to select ten teams out of total registrations. For this, teams have to answer a written quiz which will consist of 15 questions.
THE MAIN QUIZ
Date: 7th March, 2013
Time: 12.00 pm – 1:00 pm
Venue: Ansari Auditorium, JMI
ELIMINATION ROUND:
This is the beginning of the quiz show. It has 2 parts.
1. Quick fire: In this round quick questions will be asked continuously for 1 minute and answers are expected followed by the questions. For every right answer 2 points will be given. There will be no negative points.
2. Question with Answer options: In this round 5 questions will be asked along with answers options. 15 seconds will be allocated to answer each question. For each right answer, 2 points will be given and for wrong answer there will be 2 negative points. Questions would not be passed so, answering each question is mandatory.
After these rounds, 5 teams will be selected for the final round. This selection will be based on obtained points in the earlier rounds.
FINALE:
This round has two stages:
1. Long quick fire round: Again questions will be asked continuously for 2 minutes and answers are expected after every question. 2 points will awarded for correct answers and 1 negative point for wrong answers. Team will be free to pass the question.
2. Limited time period round: In this round, 5 questions will be asked in each team and they have to answer within 15 seconds. Two points per each correct answer and 2 negative points per each negative answer, and 1 negative point for passing the question to next team.
After this round, points will be calculated and the top 3 teams will be declared.
Rules and Regulations:
1. Teams should comprise of two members. The team members cannot be changed once the competition has started.
2. These questions will be asked from the field of current affairs, sports, cinema, politics, national & international affairs, literature and academics.
3. Registration starts on 18th February, 2013. Participation will be limited, and decided on first come, first served basis. Participation will be confirmed on 1st March 2013.
4. To register, e-mail: karvanefikr@gmail.com with the name, class, educational affiliations, and phone number of both team members.
Coordinators : Meghna - 9871655628 , Homam Ajmal – 8744847114
The Written Word: On-the-Spot Essay Writing Competition
Date: 7th March, 2013
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Sociology.
We welcome those who have a way with words to participate in the Essay writing competition. This event will require one to exhibit analytical and critical thinking, clarity of thought, creativity and the ability to express oneself through the written word.
Rules and Regulations:
1. The topics will be given on the spot.
2. Under-graduates and post-graduate students will be judged separately.
3. The content of the essay should be original.
4. Total time to write the essay is 1 hour.
5. The essay should have a minimum of 500 words.
6. Only paper sheets will be provided.
7. Registration starts on 18th Feb, 2012. Send an e-mail to karvanefikr@gmail.com with your name, class, educational affiliations, and phone number.
Coordinators : Owais Wani - 8447705050, Daud - 9650179424
Just-A-Minute
Date: 7th March , 2013
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Ansari Auditorium, JMI
If you think you have the wits to take our hits, then we invite you to try the J-A-M.
The participants will be given topics related to current affairs, social problems or social concepts. They will get exactly one minute to present their take on it. They have to speak for one minute without any "repetition, hesitation, or deviation".Repetition" means the repetition of any word or phrase, or argument."Hesitation" and momentary pause will be closely watched."Deviation" could mean deviating from the topic, from the English language as we know it, from grammar as we understand it, from the truth, and from logic.
Rules and Regulations:
1. The participants will get no more than one minute to speak.
2. 30 seconds of preparation time will be given.
3. Topics will be assigned randomly.
4. Presence of mind, creative approach, good reasoning, humour, language, style of speech will all be judged.
5. Pauses, repetitions, deviations from the topic or grammatical errors will be negatively marked.
6. Judges’ decision will be final in case of disputes.
7. Registration starts on 18th February, 2013. Participation will be limited, and decided on first come, first served basis. Participation will be confirmed on 14th March 2012.
5. To register, e-mail: karvanefikr@gmail.com with your name, class, educational affiliations, and phone number.
Coordinator : Qadeem- 9990926883
Film Screening and Discussion
Film: Yet to be announced
Time: 1.45 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: Ansari Auditorium
Coordinator : Meghna - 9871655628, Lakshita - 9818072889
Valedictory and Prize Distribution
Time: 4.30 p.m.-- 5.00 p.m
Coordinators : Homam Ajmal - 8744847114 , Md. Abass - 8800153194 , Areeb Rizvi - 9953178408
Vote of Thanks : Ishita Sinha, Vice President, Subject Association
.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
KARVAN - E - FIKR 2012-13
Welcome Viewers!!
The Subject Association, Department of Sociology is once again organising it's annual academic festival, KARVAN-E-FIKR 2012-13.
Unlike, last year, this time we are going to have a 3 day event, which includes a full day of 'Cultural Programme' and two days of 'Inter University Students Seminar'.
7th March: Cultural Programme (Poster-Making, Essay Writing, Quiz, Photography Competition cum Exhibition, Just a Minute, Movie Screening and Discussion followed by a Cultural Show in the Evening.)
Students interested to participate in the above mentioned events should contact the respective 'Event Coordinators', the names and nos. of each coordinator shall be uploaded soon.
13th & 14th March: Inter University Students Seminar on the theme ''The Informal City''.
Abstracts (250-300 words) for the Seminar are to be submitted by 14th February, 2013. You can choose any of the three languages, English, Hindi or Urdu.
Send your entries to: karvanefikr@gmail.com
We are still to include many other things. Keep visiting our page for further information.
Concept Note For the Students Seminar has been included.
KARVAN-E-FIKR,
2012-13
THE
INFORMAL CITY
March
13-14, 2013.
A Two day Inter-University Student Seminar, organised by the Subject
Association, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as part
of its Annual Fest, “Karvan-e- Fikr” -
2012-13.
Concept
Note :
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The Informal City till a couple of decades
ago, by implication, meant only informal settlements. Today, it applies to a
plethora of services and activities that the informal sector provides to the
city and to the formal sector. A look at the literature will reveal varied
attempts by structuralists and neo-liberals to describe and explain the
causes of urban informality, as it is academically referred to.
The attention given by ILO to the term
informal sector since its anthropological inception by Hart in 1970s led to
its wide acceptance and popularity in academic and policy circles. While the
introduction of the term “informal” served its explicit purpose of
dismantling the notions of “culture of poverty” and “marginality” associated
with the urban poor, it had one severe handicap. We are here referring to the
dualism of formal vs. informal and
its varied avatars and forms such as occident/orient, “homo economicus”/“homo
socialists”, industrial/agricultural, city/ countryside, dynamic/ static,
legal/illegal, manifest/hidden, licenced/unlicenced and
organised/unorganised that have been
reproduced till the end of the previous century. This dual conceptualization
tended to obliterate the complex differentiation in the economy. Some of the
recent research, taking note of this lacuna seems to avoid viewing the
informal and formal as being on two opposite poles. There is a growing
realisation to look instead at the “interstitial spaces” where the two merge
to fully comprehend the fragmented character of the economy. Despite the
ambiguity of the concept of informal, today it can safely be established that
informal is not just something that resides outside the formal, organised,
capitalistic, industrial, official and regulated. The inter-linkages between
formal and informal, urban and rural, immigrants and city dwellers, legal and
illegal are only beginning to emerge in the contemporary works surrounding
informality. This entails looking at questions of inclusion, equity,
sustainability, ecology, gender, diversity, and plurality with respect to
processes of urbanisation and urban development.
Informality is not a purely urban
phenomenon, as made out earlier. However, its various manifestations in the
context of cities are an emergent concern because for the first time, in
human history, the urban population surpassed its rural counterpart in the
second half of last decade. The rate of urbanization also accelerated at an
unprecedented rate for the first time since industrialization began. The
majority of this urban growth is centred in metropolitan cities of the South.
The implications of these facts on urban housing, employment, workforce,
public health, sanitation, infrastructure, goods and services are quite
scary. Further, given the spurt in illegal urbanisation of agricultural land
and accelerated informal development within as well as outside the cities
under the conditions of globalisation and liberalisation, the focus of
epistemological enquiry has now shifted to “urban”. There is no doubt that
issues that are clubbed under the rubric of “informal” have well marked
historical
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antecedents in the Marxist and Liberal
thought. The contemporary discourse, however, is centred in the Latin
American empirical and planning tradition which some researchers hold can be
a great source of analytical framework especially relevant to South Asia,
Africa and Middle East. This framework goes beyond providing descriptive
accounts of urban informality as seen in numerous monographs of slums in
cities across the globe but also provides cues to address the political
economy of the informality. The Brazilian planning experiments to
rehabilitate and relocate the famous or rather infamous favelas, that have been heralded by critics, surely offer a
critical ontological perspective to evaluate the role of different
stakeholders and actors in urban governance to create a “slum free India”.
Empirical reports by international agencies such as ILO, World Bank, and UN
attest to the immense contribution of the informal sector to growth of the
economy despite it being outside the purview of the official parlance. In
this seminar, we propose to arrive at fresh insights based on theoretical,
empirical and ethnographic work in the context of contemporary urban milieu.
Original
academic and research papers are invited around the following themes:
·
Theoretical debates around urban
informality.
·
Political economy of land acquisition,
housing for urban poor, public health and sanitation.
·
Issues surrounding the eviction, relocation
and rehabilitation of residents of informal urban settlements such as slums,
JJ clusters , redeveloped colonies at the centre and the periphery of the
city.
·
Implications of the spatiality of informal
work and labour on gender, class, and ethnicity.
·
Interventions by civil society, artists,
filmmakers, journalists, architects, planners and informal urban actors to
subvert the formal city.
·
Politics of urban space and challenges for
inclusive urban planning, development and governance.
·
Debating the policies of and processes of
de- informalisation in a comparative context.
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Guidelines
for paper presenters:
Please note that the
outlined themes are indicative and suggestive only. Papers touching upon other relevant issues around the theme of
“The Informal City” can also be considered for presentation. The call for
papers is open to UG and PG students, research scholars or research
assistants/associates, studying in government approved educational institutions
from all streams such as social sciences, humanities, law, management, art,
architecture and planning. The presentations may use audio-visual materials
wherever relevant. The expected length of the final paper to be submitted my
range from 2500 – 4000 words to be presented in 15 minutes. Local TA will be
paid to the paper presenters, chairs and discussants. The interested
participants should e-mail an abstract of 250-300 words to be screened by the
Faculty of the Department of Sociology, JMI to the following by February 14th,
2013
Dr. Kulwinder Kaur Ishita Sinha
Student Advisor Vice President
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