Schedule
Friday, 27 April 2012
10:30 am – Registration
11:30 am – Inauguration by Professor K. Sivaramakrishnan
11:35 am – Opening Remarks by Professor James Scott
1:30 pm – 3:10 pm – Panel 1: Transgenics in Agriculture
1:30 - 1:50 pm – Glenn Stone, “Your own facts: Epistemological Entitlement and Bt Cotton in India”
1:50 - 2:10 pm – Esha Shah, “From Consequences to Causes, from Indeterminacy to Injustice: Rethinking Social Appraisal of Transgenics in India”
2:10 - 2:30 pm – Dominic Glover, “Transgenic crops and the Right to Food: What are the connections and what are the implications?”
2:30 - 2:40 pm – Discussant: Suman Sahai
2:40 - 3:10 pm – Questions
3:50 pm – 5:30 pm – Panel 2: Agrarian Futures
3:50 – 4:10 pm – Rajeswari S. Raina, “Knowledge Landscapes in Agriculture: Institutions governing the Use and Quality of Arable Land in India”
4:10 – 4:30 pm – Sukhpal Singh, “Landed in Trouble? Changing Role of land in rural livelihoods in India”
4:30 – 4:50 pm – John Harriss, “Reflections on Agrarian Change in India since Independence: Does ‘Landlordism’ still matter?”
4:50 – 5:00 pm – Discussant: Peter Mollinga
Saturday, 28 April 2012
9:00 am – 10:40 am – Panel 3: Urban Frontiers
9:00 - 9:20 am – Robin Jeffrey, “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO “LAND REFORM”? One Big Question and Four Naive Little Answers”
9:20 - 9:40 am – Priya Samgameswaran, “Land for the Expanding City:
Water bodies, Wetlands, and Nature in Kolkata, India”
9:40 - 10:00 am – Jonathan Pattenden, “Circular Migration through boomtown Bangalore:
Labor, Capital, Social Protection, and the State”
10:00 - 10:10 am – Discussant: Nikhil Rao
10:10 - 10:40 am - Questions
11:20 am – 1:00 pm – Panel 4: Land, Conflict, Industries
11:20 - 11:40 am – Ravi Rebbapragada, “Can Economic Policies undermine the Constitution of India?”
11:40 - 12:00 pm – M. Vijayabaskar, “Emergence of ‘Consent’ for Land Acquisition:
Trajectories of Dispossession in southern India”
12:00 - 12:20 pm – Matilde Adduci, “Natural resources privatization in Orissa:
Reproducing patterns of uneven development”
12:20 - 12:30 pm – Discussant: Salil Tripathi
12:30 - 1:00 pm - Questions
2:30 pm – 4:45 pm – Panel 5: Land and Law
2:30 - 2:50 pm – Usha Ramanathan, “Eminent Domain: A Scrutiny of the Relationship between State and Land”
2:50 - 3:10 pm – Jill Carr-Harris, “Land rights in India: A Gandhian social movement’s response to Land and Livelihood Rights”
3:10 - 3:30 pm – Amitendu Palit, “The Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (LARR) Bill 2011:
Providing Solutions or Raising Questions?”
3:30 - 3:50 pm – Amlanjyoti Goswami, “Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Law and Politics”
3:50 - 4:05 pm – Discussant: Namita Wahi
4:05 - 4:45 - Questions
6:30 – 8:30 pm – OST concert (Carnatic Classical Sangeet)
Sunday, 29 April 2012
9:30 am – 11:30 am Closing Plenary Discussion
9:30 - 9:50 am – Ajay Dandekar
9:50 - 10:10 am – A R Vasavi
10:10 - 10:30 am – Vipul Mudgal
10:30 - 11:15 am – General Discussion
11:15 - 11:30 am – Concluding Remarks and Vote of Thanks