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MAKING MIGRANT: DIALOGUES THROUGH FILM

A Series of Screenings and Discussions

Auditorium, India International Centre

Thursday, 15th January to Sunday 18th January, 2009

The Public Service Broadcasting Trust; Dr Radhika Chopra, Department of
Sociology, University of Delhi and the India International Centre are
organising a series of film screenings and discussions, between 15 and
18 January 2009, entitled Making Migrant: Dialogues through Film. The
series will focus on the experiences, processes and realities that go
into creating the `migrant'.

The event will showcase powerful films dealing with the politics of
migration, labour, identity, citizenship, human rights, exile,
dehumanisation, refugees, borders, home and many other complexities of
what constitutes migration, not in terms of statistics, but the social,
political, economic and emotional realities that lie behind them.

Making Migrant: Dialogues through Film

15-18 January 09

India International Centre

Programme

Thursday, 15 January
Auditorium

06:30 pm

A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: THE SAKHALIN KOREANS (Dai Sil Kim-Gibson | 1995 |
59")

The documentary presents a neglected aspect of World War II and a tragic
legacy of the Cold War: the saga of the Koreans who spent 50 years on
Sakhalin Island. Koreans were brought by the Japanese to the island as
forced labourers during the war, only to be abandoned to the Soviet
Union in 1945. Forgotten by everyone including their own country, less
than 1,000 remain of the original 43,000 labourers. It is a universal
story of displaced peoples whose lives were assigned to oblivion as the
power struggle unfolded in the latter part of the 20th century.

Film Courtesy: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Discussion: Prof. Radha Kumar

Friday, 16 January

Auditorium

06:30 pm

OUJDA FRONTIERLAND (From Sahara Chronicle: A Collection of Videos on
Mobility and the Politics of Containment in the Sahara. Ursula Biemann |
2006-07 | 7".10')

A video collection containing a number of short videos that visually
chronicle the current sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe. The piece
examines the politics of mobility and containment which lies at the
heart of the current global geopolitics and takes a close look at the
modalities and logistics of the migration system in the Sahara. This
piece looks at the impossibility of marking borders in desert
landscapes.

Film Courtesy: Ursula Biemann

06:40 pm

DUR KINARA (SHORES FAR AWAY) Savyasaachi Jain | 2007 | 53"

A film about the thousands of Indians who are smuggled across borders to
Europe every year. Their journey is a saga of risk, deprivation and
imprisonment. Many die en route. Some freeze to death, others are
killed by the smugglers' mafia or disappear without a trace, leaving
their families wondering what happened to them. The film moves across
the borders of Austria, the UK and India to highlight the multiple
crossings of transnational migration. A film about the thousands of
Indians.

Film Courtesy: Savyasaachi Jain

Discussion: Dr Prabhu Mohapatra, Prof. Meenakshi Thapan, Savyasaachi
Jain

Saturday, 17 January

Auditorium

11:00 am

SAHAR: BEFORE THE SUN (Sahar Adish, Joe Babarsky, Sanja Jovanovic, Luke
Tilghman 2005 | 5".30')

From "Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet"

After the Taliban took control of Kabul in 1996, Sahar Adish fled
Afghanistan with her family to find safety in the United States. Sahar,
at age 18, speaks powerfully of the courage and aspirations of her
parents, her family's struggle for intellectual freedom and educational
rights. Her fierce will to continue her schooling in her new homeland is
in part a reflection and remembrance of the denial of education imposed
by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Film Courtesy: Listen Up! Youth Media Network

11:10 am

FOREIGNERS (Ayala Sharot | 2006 | 9". 40')

The film is based on interviews with ten young people from different
countries who live in London. These interviews suggest a fresh look on
contemporary English culture, and raise more fundamental questions about
cultural differences and human nature. The animation combines various
techniques including rotoscoping, sketches and hand rendered animation.

Film Courtesy: Ayala Sharot

11:20 am

I FOR INDIA (Sandhya Suri |2005 | 70")

A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and
belonging, "I for India" is a chronicle of immigration in sixties
Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their
movie camera. Images of events travel across space and time to capture
the links between multiple homes.

Film Courtesy: Sandhya Suri

Discussion: Sir Mark Tully

04:00 pm

CONTINUOUS JOURNEY (Ali Kazimi | 2004 | 87")

In 1914, the Komagata Maru, a ship carrying 376 immigrants from British
India, was turned away by Canada. The consequences were felt throughout
the British Empire. Continuous Journey is a compelling and eye-opening
investigation into the past and present ramifications of this incident.
More than history film, Continuous Journey is a provocative, moving, and
multilayered essay that interweaves photographs, newsreels, home movies
and official documents to unravel a complex and little-known story.

Film Courtesy: Ali Kazimi

05:30 pm

REX VS SINGH <http://www.usayyork .ca/?p=111> (Ali Kazimi, John Greyson,
Richard Fung | 2008 | 30")

The film documents the trial of two Sikh men charged with sodomy in
Vancouver in 1915 and explores the intersections of race, homophobia and
the law, where sexual orientation was deployed for deportation.

Film Courtesy: Ali Kazimi

06:00 pm

BACKSTAGE BOYS (Meera Dewan | 2002 | 30")

An exploration of illegal immigration of young men, from Punjab to
Europe and North America, in search of a better life and `for the
sake of the family'.

Film Courtesy: PSBT

Discussion: Prof. Harleen Singh, Prof. Shohini Ghosh Richard Fung ,
Meera Dewan

Sunday, 18 January

Auditorium

04:00 pm

DREAMING OF TIBET (Will Parrinello | 2006 | 60")

In isolated communities around the world, particularly in India, Nepal
and the United States, Tibetan exiles have created a 'virtual Tibet,'
where they have endured and even flourished in the face of overwhelming
adversity. The film follows their arduous journeys from Tibet into exile
over a 19,000 foot Himalayan pass. The film looks at the lives of three
extraordinary Tibetan exiles who have survived in exile and are deeply
involved in working for the survival of their culture.: Ms. Tseten
Phanucharas, a political activist, who is one of the Dalai Lama's press
coordinators in Los Angeles; Ms. Tsering Lhamo, a nurse working with
recent refugees in Kathmandu, Nepal; and Mr. Ngawang Ugyen, a monk in
the Mt. Everest foothills.

Film Courtesy: Foundation for Universal Responsibility

Discussion: Dr Bharati Puri, Youdon Aukatsang

06:00 pm

DESERT RADIO DRONE | 5"40'

INTERVIEW ADAWA | 10"20'

DEPORTATION PRISON LAAYOUNE | 5"46'

From Sahara Chronicle: A Collection of Videos on Mobility and the
Politics of Containment in the Sahara. Ursula Biemann | 2006-07

A video collection containing an undefined number of short videos
documenting the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe. The piece
examines the politics of mobility and containment which lies at the
heart of the current global geopolitics and takes a close look at the
modalities and logistics of the migration system in the Sahara. Unlike
the networks facilitated by lasting material infrastructures such as
rails or fibreglass, the trans-Saharan migration network is a vibrant
process of spatialisation performed by the psychic dynamics of anxiety,
fantasy and desire, a web made of obstinacy and vulnerability.

Film Courtesy: Ursula Biemann

06:30 pm

X-MISSION (Ursula Biemann | 2008 | 35")

"X-Mission" explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest
extraterritorial zones. Taking Palestinian refugee camps as a case in
point, the video engages with the different discourses – legal,
symbolic, urban, mythological, historical – that give meaning to
this exceptional space. According to International Law, the Palestinian
refugee represents the "exception within the exception" outside
the domain of rights. In the course of 60 years they had to build a
civil life in the camps, fostering an intense microcosm with complex
relations to homeland and diaspora. Given the vital connections among
the separated Palestinian populations, the video attempts to place the
Palestinian refugee in the context of a global diaspora and considers
post-national models of belonging which have emerged through the
networked matrix of this widely dispersed community

Film Courtesy: Ursula Biemann

Discussion: Prof. Achin Vanaik, Dr Nivedita Menon

Forwarded Mail:

Dear Friend,

Human Rights Law Network, Bangalore Unit, in association with Society for Human Rights, Bangalore requests your presence at a meeting with Mr. Riku Virtanen from Finland. He is the world's first deaf-blind lawyer and specializes in human rights.

A brief note on Riku is appended below:

He is a Board member in the Threshold Association (a human rights organisation which promotes the rights of persons with disabilities in Finland). He is a Consultant Member of the Board in the Finnish Deaf blind Association and has worked on several reports and surveys in Finnish and published a survey in English relating to CRPD, in May 2008. In addition, he was following two Ad Hoc meetings in New York when the United Nations was preparing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

HRLN and Society for Human Rights are jointly organising this meeting with Riku Virtanen on 10/01/2009 from 9:30 a.m. to 12.30 pm at Institution for Agricultural Technologies (IAT). The purpose of the programme is to have an interaction on the UNCRPD and mainstreaming the Disability rights Movement with the human rights movement in the Finnish and Indian perspectives.

Programme Venue:
Institution for Agricultural Technologies (IAT)
15, Queens Road, Shivaji Nagar
Bangalore - 560 051

Date : Saturday, 10/01/2009

Time : 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Look forward to meeting you.

Best regards

Yours sincerely,
Muthamma B.Devaya
Society for Human Rights

From Rama Chari
Diversity & Equal Opportunity Centre (DEOC)
rama_c@deoc. in
Tel: 98805 83277 (Bangalore)

From: swarup bhattacharyya

Invitation to the Launch of the Report

"Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas"

on Monday, January 12, 2009 from 2.30 pm to 4 pm

at the India International Centre (Annex), Conference Hall-3

40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003, India

Shripad Dharmadhikary of Manthan Adhyayan Kendra will present his study on dam building in the Himalayas: "Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas". It discusses the linkages between climate change and dam-building in the Himalayas, and comprehensively analyses the impacts of the dam building spree on the region's people, ecosystems, and economy.

Ratan Bhandari from Water & Energy Users' Federation Nepal will present the impacts of the India-driven hydropower program in Nepal.

Key Speakers: Shri Surya P Sethi (Principle Advisor (Energy), Planning Commission) and Shri Mahesh Rangrajan (Delhi University).

"Mountains of Concrete" is published by International Rivers and can be downloaded from http://www.internat ionalrivers. org/node/ 3601. Hard copies will be available at the launch.

Selected key findings and questions from the report:

Global warming is changing the Himalayas faster than any other region of the world. The mountains' mighty glaciers, the source of most large Asian rivers, are melting.

Against these dramatic changes, the governments of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan are planning to transform the Himalayan Rivers into the powerhouse of South Asia. They want to build hundreds of mega dams to generate electricity from the wild waters of the Himalayas. Most of the large hydropower projects planned for Nepal and Bhutan will be financed and constructed by Indian companies, for export of electricity to India.

The dams' reservoirs, tunnels, transmission lines and related works will destroy thousands of houses, rivers, forests, fragile hills, towns, villages, fields, ecology, spiritual sites and even parts of the highest highway of the world, the Karakoram highway. But who will reap their benefits? Will they be able to generate as much electricity as promised? At what cost? For whom? How long? What will happen to the people, ecosystems and rivers of the Himalayas if the dams are built and climate change takes its toll?

You are requested to join us for tea/ coffee after the launch.

Please RSVP to Swarup Bhattacharyya swarup.bhattacharyy a@gmail.com.

South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People International Rivers

www.sandrpin

www.internationalrivers.org

From Monica Bhasin


*Breakthrough* proudly announces *the 5th Tri Continental Film Festival,
2009 – "Human Rights in Frames".*

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The Festival has emerged as a leading platform for human rights cinema in
India. It opens in Delhi on January 15th and will be inaugurated by
critically acclaimed actor and social activist *Nandita Das*. After Delhi it
travels to Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore and Kolkata.

So block your calendars for the following dates!

*Delhi: 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th January*

*Venue: India Habitat Centre and Alliance Françoise de Delhi*

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*Mumbai: 23rd, 24th and 25th January*

*Venue: Little Theatre, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA)*

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Goa: 24th, 25th and 26th January*

*Venue: Maquinez Palace, ESG Complex, Panaji*

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*Bangalore: 30th, 31st January and 1st February*

*Venue: Alliance Françoise de Bangaluru*

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*Kolkata: 6th, 7th and 8th February*

*Venue: Nandan, 2 A.J.C. Bose Road*

Look out for film listings and schedules on our brand new website
www.triconfilm.com which will be accessible Sunday 11 January 2009 onwards!

This year the festival will be exhibiting four categories of films. They are:

Warm Regards,

Alika Khosla

Asociate Director

Monica Bhasin

Festival Programmer

 http://lassnet. blogspot. com


LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH NETWORK (LASSnet) INAUGURAL CONFERENCE

JANUARY 8-11, 2009

Organised by
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE (CSLG),
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI

Supported by
FORD FOUNDATION &
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, HALLE

Thursday, 8th January, 2009
4.30 pm - 7 pm: Opening Plenary
Peregrinations: travelling through law and theory
Venue: School of Social Sciences 1, Auditorium, JNU
Chair: Niraja Gopal Jayal
Panelists:
KG Kannabiran, Reflections On The Life Of Law
Veena Das, Law And Violence: Counter-Narratives From An Anthropological Imagination
Peter Fitzpatrick, The Laws Of Empire
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, On The Nature And Limits Of Judicial Authority
Upendra Baxi, Peregrinations: The Catastrophic Lives Of The 'Modern' Law

Friday, 9th January, 2009
9.30 – 10.00 am: Tea @ SSS1 Auditorium
10.00 – 12.00 noon: Plenary
Conversations on Law and Fear
Venue: SSS1 Auditorium
Chair: Julia Eckert
Panelists:
Jean Comaroff, Detective Fictions: Law, Longing, and the Search for Sovereignty in the Postcolony
Veena Das, Law, Fear and the Obligation to Obey: On the Cremation Grounds of Delhi
Comments by: Lawrence Liang & Stewart Motha

12.00 – 1.30 pm: Lunch @ CSLG

1.30 – 3.15 pm: Session 1
1.1 Citizenship and Its Dilemmas 1, @ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room
Panel Coordinator: Niraja Gopal Jayal
Chair and Discussant: Neera Chandhoke
Panelists:
1. Evelina Dagnino, Disputing Citizenship: the Brazilian experience
2. Shirin M. Rai, Risks and Agency: Dilemmas of Citizenship
3. Ted Svensson, Another Kind of Violence: Rupture and Closure in the Constitution of Citizens
4. Anupama Roy, Unravelling the Aleph: Mapping the Topology of Citizenship in India

1.2 Terror, Law and Bio-politics: Exploring Extraordinariness, 1,
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Class Room
Panel Coordinators: Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Julia Eckert
Chair and Discussant: Gautam Navlakha
Panelists:
1. Shylashri Shankar, Human Rights and the Medical Jurisprudence of Terror
2. Rubina Saigol, Rule of Law or Law of the Ruler: Black Coats Struggle For An Independent Judiciary
3. Sam Adelman, The Unexceptional Exception: Sovereignty and Biopolitics

1.3 Of Love, Hate and Gossip in the Shadow Worlds of Law
@ the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Committee Room
Panel coordinator: Lawrence Liang
Chair And Discussant: Ravi Vasudevan
Panelists:
1. Shohini Ghosh, Cinema and the Fear of Hate
2. Anuj Bhuwania, Mediation and the Impossibility of Justice
3. Lawrence Liang, Kanoon Ke Haath Bahut Lambe Hote Hain
4. Sivamohan Sumathy, Gendered Fictions: Media and the Making of the Malaiyaha Identity

1.4 Dalits and the Law
@ the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Seminar Room, First Floor
Panel Coordinator and Chair: Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Panelists:
1. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Globalizing Caste: The Dalit Movement as a Global Justice Movement
2. Kalpana Kannabiran, Sociology, Law and the Caste System or the Problem of the Crooked Mirror
3. Anupama Rao, Rights, Recognition, Redistribution: Thoughts on Caste and the Juridical
4. Martin Macwan, Looking beyond the law
5. Gopal Guru, Indian Law, If Caught, It Bites, If Left Alone, It Runs Away: On Theorizing Dalit Dilemma

1.5 The Bright Lines and Rhetorics of Intellectual Property, 1,
@ the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Classroom, Ground Floor
Panel Coordinators: Brenna Bhandar and Dwijen Rangnekar
Chair and Discussant: graham dutfield
Panelists:
1. Rajshree Chandra Ahuja, ip rights: excluding other rights of other people
2. Rosemary Coombe, Works in Progress: Civilization and its Cultural Others
3. VG Hegde, Towards Regaining Territorial Notions of Creativity in IPRs
4. Dwijen Rangnekar, The Exclusion of Clubs: GIs and the Dilemmas of Collective Action

3.15 pm - 3.45 pm: Tea

3.45 pm – 5.30 pm: Session 2
2.1 Citizenship and Its Dilemmas, 2,
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room
Panel Coordinator: Niraja Gopal Jayal
Chair and Discussant: Manoranjan Mohanty
Panelists:
1. Hester Betlem, Between Victim and Perpetrator: Citizenship, Law and the Devadasi Woman
2. Catalina Smulovitz , Legal Mobilization and Judicialization in Latin America: Political Consequences of a Newly Discovered Tool
3. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Secularism and citizenship in India: The View from Literature
4. Niraja Gopal Jayal, In but not Of the State: Social Citizenship in Western India

2.2 Terror, Law and Bio-politics: Exploring Extraordinariness, 2,
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Classroom
Panel Coordinators: Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Julia Eckert
Chair and Discussant: Bimol Akoijam
Panelists:
1. Julia Eckert, Pota and the Categories of Danger
2. Radhika Singha, 'Desperate and dangerous': The Bad-livelihood Sections of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1861-1898
3. Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Free and Voluntary? Confessions, the Right to Silence and the Construction of 'Voluntary' Truth

2.3 Queer perspectives on the law: Developments since 2006,
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Classroom
Panel Coordinator and Chair: Arvind Narrain
Discussant: Deepak Mehta
Panelists:
1. Alok Gupta, Keeping the closet doors shut: Shame, Secrecy and Blackmail
2. Mayur Suresh, Possession is 9/10ths of the Body: Law, Land and Hijra Identity
3. Padma Govindan & Aniruddhan Vasudevan, The Razor's Edge of Oppositionality: Exploring the Politics of Rights-Based Activism by Transgender Women in Tamil Nadu
4. Arvind Narrain, Towards a subaltern queer perspective: Reflections on Law and Society Scholarship in India

2.4 Law, Justice and Politics in South Asia, 1,
@ the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Alex Fischer
Chair and Discussant: Lavanya Rajamani
Panelists:
1. Varun Gauri, A Systematic Examination of Public Interest Litigation in India
2. Susan Visvanathan, The Arunachala Mountainscape Tiruvannamalai, South India: An oral
history inscribed in memoirs, newsletters and court records
3. Rinku Lamba, The State For Women? : An Examination Of The Judicial Discourse Leading Up To The Daniel Latifi Judgment

2.5 Critical Pedagogies
@ Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Committee Room, FF
Panel Coordinators: Jennifer Beard and Sandhya Pahuja
Chair And Discussant: Kamala Sankaran
Panelists:
1. Jennifer Beard and Sundhya Pahuja, Constituting the Global Legal Subject
2. Jason Keith Fernandes, Requiem for a Dream: The National Law School and the Interpellation of the National Subject
3. Sandipto Dasgupta, The Student before the Law: An Examination of Student Politics in National Law School and the Language of Legal Activism
4. Ponni Arasu, The New Law Schools: Boon or Bane

Saturday, 10th January, 2009
9.30 am – 11.15 am: Session 3

3.1 Labour rights and Livelihoods In Colonial and Contemporary India, 1,
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Classroom, FF
Panel Coordinators: Prabhu Mohapatra and Kamala Sankaran
Chair and Discussant: Tca Anant
Panelists:
1. Jaivir Singh, Who is a Worker? : Normative Implications for Indian Labour
2. Kamala Sankaran, Legislating for the Self Employed: Have We Reached the Limits of Labour Law?
3. Christian Strümpell, 'Producing Adivasi Workers': Ethnicity And Inequality In Rourkela, Orissa

3.2 Interrogating the Governance of Intimate Violence: Social Movements, State Presences, Legal Processes, 1, @ the CSLG Committee Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Srimati Basu
Chair and Discussant: Tanika Sarkar
1. Uma Chakravarti, The Law as a Horizon: Challenging Impunity, Pursuing Justice
2. Srila Roy, Sexual violence in/and the Logic of Resistance
3. Flavia Agnes, Who Speaks for the Victim - Movements, Agency, and Legal Provisions
4. Rukmini Sen, Family Endorsing Silenced Affliction and Intervening Sexual Violence: Disjuncture between Legal Rhetoric and Subjectivities of Suffering

3.3 The Bright Lines and Rhetorics of Intellectual Property, 2,
@ the CSLG Classroom, GF
Panel Coordinators: Brenna Bhandar and Dwijen Rangnekar
Chair and Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Panelists:
1. Donatella Alessandrini , GMOs and the Crisis of Objectivity: Nature, Science and the Challenge of Uncertainty
2. Brenna Bhandar , Controlling Interests: The Salience of Law in New Regimes of Ownership
3. Graham Dutfield, Who Invents Life: Intelligent Designers, Blind Watchmakers, or Genetic Engineers?

3.4 Mobility and Movement in South Asian Legal History
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Renisa Mawani
Chair and Discussant: Aparna Balachandran
Panelists:
1. Binyamin Blum, Doctrines without Borders? The Rejection of the Indian Codes of
Procedure in the Mandates of Iraq and Palestine
2. Kunal Parker, Law and History in the English Utilitarian Imagination of India
3. Renisa Mawani, 'Habitations of Sovereignty': Migrations of Legality from British India to the Dominion of Canada
4. Mitra Sharafi, The Marital Patchwork of Colonial South Asia: Forum Shopping from Britain to Baroda
5. Gail Pearson, First Steps in Global Rules: Making the Indian Contract Act

3.5 Law, Justice and Politics in South Asia, 2, @ the CSLG Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Alex Fischer
Chair and Discussant: Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar, Delhi High Court
Panelists:
1. Marc Galanter and Alexander Fisher, Competing Equalities after India's Silent Revolution
2. Ridwanul Hoque , The Recent Emergency and the Politics of the Judiciary in Bangladesh
3. Martin Lau, Constitutionalism in Pakistan: The Musharraf Years
4. Renu Addlakha and Saptarshi Mandal, Pathways to Inclusion: Disability, Law and Social Change

11.15 – 11.30 am: Tea @CSLG and CSS

11.30 am - 1.15 pm : Session 4

4.1 Labour rights and Livelihoods in Colonial and Contemporary India, 2,
@ Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Classroom, FF
Panel Coordinators: Prabhu Mohapatra and Kamala Sankaran
Chair And Discussant: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Panelists:
1. Prabhu Mohapatra, A Moving Target: The Worker in the Mirror of Law in Colonial India
2. Aditya Sarkar, Questions of Entitlement: The Tensions of Early Factory Law in India
3. Srinivas Chokkakula, Poetics and Politics of Survival: State and Law in Everyday Lives of Daily Wage Labourers

4.2 Interrogating the Governance of Intimate Violence: Social Movements, State Presences, Legal Processes, 2, @ the CSLG Committee Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Srimati Basu
Chair And Discussant: Jean Comaroff
Panelists:
1. Srimati Basu, Compensation and Harm, Violence and Intimacy in the Staging of Rape and Divorce Cases
2. Pratiksha Baxi, The Hostile Witness and Public Secrecy in Rape Trials in India
3. Shaheen Sardar Ali , Let the Field Speak: Law's Violence and Narrative of the 'invisible'
4. Vasudha Nagaraj, Adjudicating Illness and Capacity : Notes from a Custody Trial

4.3 Law's Violence, @ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Bikram Jeet Batra
Chair and Discussant: Veena Das
Panelists:
1. Mayur R. Suresh, Law like Love: Living in the Place of Law's Devastation
2. Priya Thangarajah, Kanamalponor, Athurudhanovan (those who are lost), Disappearances: Memory and the disappeared body in Sri Lanka
3. S. Vivek and Kalyani Ramnath, Rumour Has It
4. Bikram Jeet Batra, Playing God? Decision Making on Mercy Petitions in India
5. David T Johnson, State Killing in Asia: On the Relationship between Judicial and Extra-Judicial Executions

4.4 Water Law Reforms in India: An Analysis, @ the CSLG Classroom, GF
Panel Coordinator: Philippe Cullet
Chair and Discussant: Navroz K Dubash
Panelists:
1. Usha Ramanathan, Eminent Domain, Sovereignty and Water
2. Philippe Cullet , Water Law Reforms, Access to Drinking Water and the Human Right to Water
3. Sujith Koonan, Groundwater: An Analysis of Legal Reforms in India
4. Shripad Dharmadhikary, Groundwater: Water Sector Reforms in India: Privatisation and Public Resistance

4.5 Political Theologies and the Postcolonial State, @ the CSLG Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Stewart Motha
Chair: Kalpana Kannabiran
Discussant: Stewart Motha
Panelists:
1. Peter Fitzpatrick, Legal Theology: Law, Modernity and the Sacred
2. Manas Ray, Talal Asad and the Critique of Liberal Secularism
3. Deepak Mehta, Words that wound: Archiving hate in the making of Hindu and Muslim publics in Bombay

1.15 pm – 2.15 pm: LUNCH

2.15 pm - 4 pm: Session 5
5.1 Transition and Transformation: Law, Politics, and the State, 1942-52,
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Arudra Burra
Chair and Discussant: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Panelists:
1. Rohit De, Judges, Nationalists and The Colonial State in South Asia: Courts And the Quit India Movement, 1942
2. Rebecca Grapevine, Ambedkar, Moderated: Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar in the Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946-19510
3. Arudra Burra, Arguments from Colonial Continuity: The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951
4. Devika Sethi, The Censored Turns Censor: Press Censorship in India in the First Decade after Independence
5. Hans Dembowski, Academic Freedom Only For The Online Avatar?: Calcutta High Court Puts Limits on Sociological Debate

5.2 Contesting Notions Of The Community In State And Non-State Law
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Class Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Rinku Lamba
Chair And Discussant: Susan Visvanathan
Panelists:
1. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Between 'Community' And 'State': An Ethnographic Glimpse Of Nari Adalats In Rural Gujarat
2. A. Suneetha, Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Hyderabad: Mufti as a 'Juridical' Figure
3. Malavika Kasturi, Legal Engagements And 'Shared' Sacred Space: Debates Over The
Bodh Gaya Temple Bills, 1915-1950

5.3 Bodies In Law
@ the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Classroom, GF
Panel Coordinators: Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh And Namita A. Malhotra
Chair and Discussant: Mary John
Panelists:
1. Mayur R. Suresh, Pendulous Penises And Couture Clitorises: What Medical Men Do To Intersex Infants
2. Namita A. Malhotra, The Curious Disappearance Of The Orgy Of Bodies: A Legal Mystery
3. Nitya Vasudevan, When The Spots Appear: A Rethink Of Oppositions In Sexuality Politics
4. Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh , The Unvictimlike Body Of The Dance Bar Girl

5.4 The Germinal Contribution Of J.M. Duncan Derrett To The Study Of South Asian Comparative Law And Social Change
@ the CSLG Seminar Room, FF
Chair And Panel Coordinator: Upendra Baxi
Panelists:
1. Werner Menski, Situating Duncan Derrett In The Landscape Of Postmodern Hindu And Indian Law
2. Oliver Mendelsohn, Professor Derrett, Indian Marriage, And The Proponents Of A Uniform Civil Code: Whose Is The "Progressive" Position?
3. Vasudha Dhagamwar, Two Cheers for the UCC, None for Other Options: Professor JDM Derrett on Codification and Code - Hindu or Uniform
4. Alex Fischer, Revisiting Derrett's "Death of a Marriage Law" – The Living Dead Or Avatars Of Hindu Law?
5. Upendra Baxi, Duncan Derrett And The Comparative Method

5.5 Normality Of Custodial Violence: Collusive Strategies Of Policing Desires, 1, @ the CSLG Committee Room, FF
Chair and Panel Coordinator: Uma Chakravarti
Panelists:
1. Sara Hossain, Protecting Our Bodies, But Respecting Our Choices
2. Usha Ramanathan, Restoration And Return: The Silent Questions
3. Niti Saxena, Custodians And Guardians: Examining The 'Protective' Face Of State, Family And Community
4. Perveez Mody, The Construction Of Marital Rights In Delhi

4 - 4.30 pm: Tea @ SSS1

4. 30 pm 0 6.30 pm: Plenary 3
Law's Technologies: Critical enquires into the Domains of Science, Capital, and Regulation
@ the SSS1 Auditorium
Chair: Brenna Bhandar
Panelists:
Suman Sahai, Ownership and Regulation of Transformative Technologies
Rosemary coombe, Intellectual Property and its Cultures: Informational Capital and Cultural Resources in a Neoliberal Era
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Intellectual Property, Pharmaceutical Logics, and Ideologies of Innovation
Sheila Jassanoff, Natural or Naturalizing? – Law and Knowledge in a Constitutional Moment

Sunday, 11th January, 2009
10.00-11.45 am: Session 6
6.1 Gender, Law And Agrarian Relations: Panel In Honour Of Jayoti Gupta, @ the CSLG Classroom, GF
Panel Coordinator: Brenna Bhandar
Chair And Discussant: Rajni Palriwala
Panelists:
1. Utsa Patnaik, A Comment On Jayoti Gupta's Early Work
2. Anand Chakravarti, The State, The Law, And The Agrarian Underclass In India
3. Kumkum Sangari, The Gendered Economies of Law and Labour
4. Glimpses Of Jayoti Gupta's Work: Video Extracts (A Compilation Of 15 Mins) will be screened. All the films have been Directed/Produced by Manjira Datta.
5. Brenna Bhandar, Comment on Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow

6.2 Property Rights, Labour, And Displacement
@ the CSS Classroom, First Floor
Panel Coordinator: Karine Bates
Chair and Discussant: Dipankar Gupta
Panelists:
1. Karine Bates, An Anthropological Study Of Women's Property Rights And Access To Justice In India
2. Rajendra Pradhan, Legal Fields, Inheritance And Family: Negotiating The Meaning Of 'Property' In The Netherlands
3. Ahilan Kadirgamar, Post-Coloniality, Armed Conflicts And The Vicissitudes Of The Question Of Land In Sri Lanka

6.3 Independent Regulatory Agencies In India: Origins, Politics And Practice
@ the CSLG Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Navroz K Dubash
Chair and Discussant: Partha Mukhopadhyay
Panelists:
1. Tca Anant And Jaivir Singh, Indian Regulatory Bodies And The Social Costs Of Unbalanced Delegation
2. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Regulation, Law And Governance
3. Rajat Kathuria, Does Regulation Matter? A Case Study Of Indian Telecom
4. Navroz K. Dubash, Regulation As Politics: How Indian Electricity Regulators Re-Institutionalize The Politics of Power

6.4 Assessing The 'Conservative Shift' In The Indian Supreme Court's 'PIL' Jurisprudence
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Siddharth Narrain
Chair And Discussant: Sitharam Kakarala
Panelists:
1. Anuj Bhuwania, Public Interest Litigation: The Thing Itself
2. Siddharth Narrain and Prashant Iyengar, Courting Development: The Appellate Judiciary And Large Developmental Projects In The Nineties
3. Sruti Chaganti, More Than The Sum Of Its Parts: The Constitution In The Judicial Nineties
4. Arun K. Thiruvengadam, A Complex And Fluid Dynamic: Analysing The Relationship Between Social Movements and The Judiciary In India

6.5 Normality Of Custodial Violence: Collusive Strategies Of Policing Desires, 2,
@ th CSLG Committee Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Uma Chakravarti
Chair And Discussant: Sara Hossain
Panelists:
1. Aisha Gill, "Honour"- Based Crimes And Violence Against Women In The UK
2. Shaheen Sardar Ali, 'Fractured Modernities', Politics Of Parallel Judicial Systems And Women's Human Rights: A Case Study Of The North West Frontier Province Of Pakistan
3. Nighat Said Khan, Still In The Closet: Human And Women's Rights Responses To Sexualities, Gender and The Other
4. Priya Thangarajah And Ponni Arasu, Queer Women and the Law in India: The Writ of Habeas Corpus

11.45 -12.15 pm: Tea

12.15 - 2 pm: Session 7
7.1 Competing Images of Law, Regulation and Rights
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Classroom, FF
Panel Coordinator: Anusha Hariharan
Chair and Discussant: Usha Ramanathan
Panelists:
1. U C Jha, South Asian Military Legal Systems: Implementation of the International Human Rights Law
2. Anusha Hariharan, Analyzing Vishakha
3. Dania Thomas, Where have all the Women Gone? Rights, Private Ordering and the Economics of Sex-selective Abortions
4. Sangeeta Udgaonkar, India's Regulations on Embryonic Stem Cell Technology

7.2 Learning from Gujarat 2002: Scope of the Criminal Justice System to address Mass Crimes
@ the Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Anita Abraham
Chair and Discussant: Vrinda Grover
Panelists:
1. Vrinda Grover, Challenging Regimes Of Immunity And Violence: What Can We Learn From International Law And Criminal Jurisprudence?
2. Arvind Narrain, Global Justice in the era of the War against Terror: Learning from Gujarat 2002
3. Anita Abraham and Prita Jha, Interrogating Mass Violence And Mass Impunity
4. Mukul Sinha, Statutory Prevarication: Commission or Omission?
5. Indira Jaising , The Law Of Sovereign Immunity: A Critique [tentative title]

7.3 The Bright Lines and Rhetorics of Intellectual Property, 3,
@ the CSLG Classroom, GF
Panel Coordinators: Brenna Bhandar and Dwijen Rangnekar
Chair and Discussant: Rosemary Coombe
Panelists:
1. Lawrence Liang, Meet John Doe's Order: Piracy, Temporality and the Question of Asia
2. Nandan Nawn, Political Economy of Music Copyright: Challenges from Recent Technological Developments and the Survival of the Justificatory Rhetoric
3. BS Chimni, TWAIL Perspectives On "The Bright Lines And Rhetorics Of Intellectual Property": A Comment

7.4 Rethinking the Regulation of Sex Work-Reflections on the Indian Sex Work Debates
@ the CSLG Committee Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Prabha Kotiswaran
Chair and Discussant: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Panelists:
1. Svati P. Shah , Sex Work, Criminalization, and Biopolitics in the Informal Sector
2. Ashwini Tambe, Moral Panics Compared: Moments in the History of Colonial Prostitution Laws
3. Prabha Kotiswaran, Born unto Brothels: Towards a Legal Realist Ethnography of Sonagachi's Sex Industry
4. Ashwini Sukthankar, Activist engagements with sex workers in India (and vice versa)

7.5 Conversations On Empire and Law
@ the CSLG Seminar Room, FF
Panel Coordinator: Ratna Kapur
Chair And Discussant: Nivedita Menon
Panelists:
1. Ratna Kapur, Human Rights: The Liberal Ruse of Power
2. Vasuki Nesaih, Delimiting Accountability: Writing History Out Of Transitional Justice
3. Peter Fitzpatrick, Interjections On Empire And Law

2 - 3.30 pm: LUNCH @CSLG

3. 30 - 4.30 pm: LASSnet - Mapping the Future
@ the CSLG Seminar Room
Moderated by: Pratiksha Baxi

Venue Information at a glance:
- All 3 Plenaries and the Closing will be held at the School of Social Sciences 1, Auditorium, JNU
- 3 Parallel Streams in each session will be held at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG). In each panel, 2 parallel streams will be held in the Centre for Sanskrit Studies (CSS) next to the CSLG venue.
Please note that there are 35 panels i.e., 7 sessions and 5 parallel streams in all.

lassnet@gmail.com

Abstracts are hosted on www.lassnet.org

From Toto Funds the Arts tfabangalore@gmail.com

Dear Friend,

Toto Funds the Arts takes great pleasure in inviting you to the fifth Toto Annual Awards. The function will be held at the Alliance Française de Bangalore, Thimmaiah Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore on Monday, 12 January 2009 at 7.30 pm.

Renowned photographer T. S. Satyan will be the Chief Guest.

Five awards will be presented - two for creative writing, two for photography, and one for music. The winners of the creative writing awards will read from their entries and the winning photographers will show and discuss their work. The work of the awardee in the music category will also be featured.

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) was established in 2004 in memory of Angirus Toto Vellani. With a mission to promote artistic creativity among the young, TFA gives awards to recognize and reward nascent talent in the arts, offers workshop to nurture potential in the arts, and organizes readings to provide a public platform for young writers. TFA also hosts a young writers' group in Bangalore.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Sarita Vellani

Trustee

TFA would like to thank its partners:

Tasveer, for their sponsorship of the photography awards, and

Counter Culture Records, for their association with the music award

With Regards,

Vindya Vausini

For Toto Funds the Arts

From Arpita Das arpita@tarshi.net

Sub: Announcing TARSHI's Basics and Beyond Training for Trainers - March

*TARSHI invites applications for Basics and Beyond: Training for Trainers on
Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights to be held in New Delhi
from March 18 to 21 2009.*

TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) has been
conducting trainings on sexuality since 1999 and on sexuality, sexual and
reproductive health and rights for practitioners since 2003. Over the years,
these trainings have called attention to the need for a training resource.
To this end, TARSHI developed Basics and Beyond: Integrating Sexuality,
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, a Training Manual. This manual
provides the necessary tools and methods to demonstrate and strengthen the
connections between sexuality, sexual health, reproductive health and human
rights.

*Basics and Beyond*: With over 75 exercises comprising more than 70 hours of
training time, and detailed message points and instructions for each
exercise, this manual is appropriate for both experienced as well as novice
facilitators. The exercises combine information on sexuality, sexual health,
reproductive health and rights to elicit discussions and build clarity and
understanding for participants on a variety of subjects and topics. The
exercises also give participants tools and ideas to implement these issues
in their day-to-day work.

*Issues addressed in the training*: The training will comprise of an
introduction to the manual and its contents; an understanding of sexuality,
and its links with reproductive health, sexual health and human rights;
basics of gender, sexual orientation, sex work issues, and sexual health
information; tips and tools to deal with difficult participants/ issues;
and, ideas for adapting the exercises for specific audiences. Suggestions
for how to use the manual (depending on the facilitator' s goals and the
level of understanding, experience and nature of work of the participants) ;
how facilitators can select exercises from the modules that address issues
relevant to the training groups' needs; and, how sessions from the modules
can be tailored to specific needs will be discussed. The training will be
conducted in English.

*Who can apply*: We invite applications from trainers from India and the
South and Southeast Asia region with at least two years training experience.
The course materials and discussion will be in English; therefore
participants should be fluent in English. Twenty four individuals will be
selected based on their completed application forms. Some may be
interviewed on the phone as well. Please fill out the attached application
form and return it to the address provided below by January 31,
2009.

*Costs and Logistical details*: The programme will be held in or around New
Delhi, India. Details of the programme and venue will be finalized by early
February 2009. TARSHI will bear the cost of boarding and lodging for
*all*participants during the training period in Delhi. TARSHI will be
able to
subsidise travel costs for a *maximum amount of upto USD 250* for
participants from South and Southeast Asia. Please note that this subsidy is
*not* available for participants from India.

*About us*: The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality, aims
to increase knowledge and scholarship on issues of sexuality, sexual health
and sexual well being in this region. The Resource Centre specifically
focuses on sexuality related work in China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, The Philippines, and Vietnam. The Centre is hosted by
TARSHI in New Delhi, India.

Informed by a rights perspective, TARSHI addresses issues of sexuality
keeping young people and women at the centre of its programmes. TARSHI's
work includes providing much-needed sexuality information, counselling and
referrals to people of all ages on the TARSHI helpline for 13 years;
strengthening capacity of practitioners in the field through trainings on
the interlinkages between rights and sexuality and reproductive health;
sensitizing practitioners as well as the general public to sexual and
reproductive rights through publications and public education.

Please send us (training@tarshi. net) the attached Application form duly
filled out by *31st January, 2009*. Selected participants will be informed
by February 10, 2009.