I'll be in Bangalore at NIAS Indian Institute of Science campus from 23 to 25 Jan, will stay in Bangalore till 26th evening. Do find time to attend the conference. and would like to visit few places on 26th such as dialogue in the dark. It would be great if I get a chance to meet Bangalore-based access Indians friends. Do check the programme schedule below.
Seminar on Contesting Exclusions in Higher Education: Pedagogy, Practices and Politics Education Programme School of Social Sciences National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru January 24 and 25, 2017 Programme: Day 1: January 24, 2017 9:30 - 9:45 Welcome and Introduction to the seminar Shivali Tukdeo, NIAS 9:45 - 11:30 Session I: Understanding Exclusions in Higher Education Forming Savitribai-Ambedkar Caravan at the Law School Abhishek Asha Kumar, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru Rights to Education: A Transgender Experience Suma and Rakshita, St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru Of Blind Alleys and Mirages: an Experiential Account of University Education for the Visually Impaired Shireen Irani, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad How do Educational Institutions become exclusionary? A Case of IITs Manish Gautam, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Moderator: Anitha Kurup (NIAS) 11:30 -12:00 Tea/Coffee Break 12:00 - 1:00 Special Lecture: Insights from the Fact-Finding Report on the Death of Rohith Vemula Suvrat Raju, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Prajval Shastri, IndianInstitute of Astrophysics Moderator: Mrinmayee Mandal, NIAS 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:45 Session II: Caste, Religion and Institutional Cultures Interrogating Academic Culture: University Campuses in throes of Caste Power and Populist Vernacularism Pushpesh Kumar, University of Hyderabad Post-Babri Muslim Presence in Universities: Exclusionary practices and alternative paradigms of knowledge production Thahir Jamal K M., Manipal University Student politics at the University of Allahabad: a tool for analyzing socio-political space for OBC and Dalit students at the University of Allahabad Vineet Singh, Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad Caste Census and Institutional Culture at the Law School Chirayu Jain and Sanjana M., National Law School of India University, Bengaluru Moderator: Sambaiah Gundimeda, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi 3:45 - 4:00 Tea/Coffee 4:00 - 5:30 Session III: Cultural Capital and Higher Education Discussing language as a site of exclusion in higher education Richa Singh and Sheena D’Lima, Svitribai Phule University, Pune Bridge courses as means to address linguistic exclusion in colleges Cheriyan Alexander, St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru De-coding ‘loafers college’: Experiences of Teaching in a marginalised college, Bengaluru Subroto Dey, NIAS, Bengaluru Moderator: Savitha Suresh Babu, NIAS Day 2: January 25, 2017 9:30 - 10:30 Session I: Institutional Responses to Diversity Measuring Diversity in higher educational institutions: a case of Savitri Bai Phule Pune University Pranav Patil and Snehal Sharma, Savitribhai Phule University, Pune Redefining University Education in India- Pedagogy and Student Voices Chetan B. Singai and Anitha Kurup, NIAS Moderator: Rashmi M., NIAS 10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Special Lecture: Prof.Fr. Ambrose Pinto 12:00 - 1:30 Session II: Disability and Education Recent scenario of students with disabilities in West Bengal: In Perspective of Higher Education Bubai Bag and Tamoghna Mondal, University of Calcutta Students with disabilities: exploring equal access to higher education in India Avinash Shahi, Jawaharlal Nehru University Systemic Exclusions of Persons with Disabilities in Higher Education Namitha Kumar, Centre for Health Ecologies and Padmavathi, Karnataka Knowledge Commission Moderator: Anupama Mahajan, NIAS 1:30 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 Way Forward 3:30 – 4:00 Tea/Coffee -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
