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Seminar Papers & Presentations in 2009
19-21 Nov > Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. National Seminar on: Repositioning Subalternity in Globalized India: The Dynamics of Social Inclusion. Paper: “Aukaat, Jugaad aur Sanskar: Samakaleen Jati Vishamta aur Samajik Nyaya ka Sawaal” (in Hindi)
09 Nov > Centre for the Study of Political Systems, JNU, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi and British Academy. International Seminar on Inequality and Affirmative Action. Presentation: ‘Empirical Injustice, Practical Politics and Theoretical Justice’.
08 Nov > Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata and NRTata Trust, Social Science Methodologies Workshop, Kolkata, 4-9 November, 2009. Presentation: ‘Class and Contradiction: Towards a Collegial Conception of Class’.
22-25 Sep > Institute of Social Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brazil. Seminar: The Social Sciences in the Contemporary World: Revisions and Prospects. Paper: ‘The Social Sciences in Postnational Contexts: A View From India’.
21 Aug > National Institute of Advanced Study, Bengaluru. Department of Science and Technology Seventh Annual Training Programme on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science and Technology. Invited Lecture: “Between Rural Past and Urban Future: The Eventful Present of Indian Sociology”.
Jul 25 > Madras Institute of Development Studies and French Institute, Puducheri Workshop Opening Up or Ushering In? Interrogating Discourses of Public Consultation and Citizen Participation (PC And CP) in Urban Governance, Puducheri, 25-26 July, 2009. Keynote Paper: “Outside Capital, Inside the City? Theorising the Possible Futures of Urban India”.
Jun 28 > Keynote Address, XV Annual Congress of the South African Sociological Association, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. “Sharing Sovereignty: Negotiating Inequality and Difference in Postnational Societies”.
Jun 24 > Conference on Comprehending Class, Centre for Social Research, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg. Plenary Paper: “Class and its Colleagues in the Complex 21st Century: A View From India”.
May 8 > Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, Seminar on Comparative Contexts of Discrimination: Social Exclusion and Equal Opportunity Policies in Asia. Presentation: “Muslim and Christian Dalits in India: Mismatches of Status, Identity and Entitlements”.
Mar 26 > Academic Staff College, JNU, Sociology Refresher course, lecture on “Class and Caste in Contemporary India”.
Mar 19 > India-China Institute, New School for Social Research (New York) and Centre for Policy Studies (New Delhi) conference on Rethinking Equality and Prosperity: India and China, presentation: “Thinking About Social Inequality: An Indian Perspective”.
Mar 14 > Resource Person, Consultation Workshop on Caste Census planned by Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, National Law School University of India, Bengaluru, 14 March, 2009.
Mar 2 > “Repression, Welfare, Power-Sharing: Three Models of Caste Politics in Contemporary India”, presented at festschrift workshop for Prof. D.L. Sheth, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, 2-3 March, 2009.
Feb 26 > “Postnational Sociologies: Rearticulating a Politics of Location in the Contemporary World”, presented at seminar on Location in the 21st Century: The Possible Futures of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dept of Sociology, University of Delhi, 25-27 February, 2009.
Feb 20 > Panelist, ‘Barack Obama: Miracle, Myth, Hype’, Lady Shree Ram College, Department of Journalism, 20 February, 2009.
Feb 12 > Resource Person, Workshop on Project Work in New Sociology Textbooks of NCERT, Vasant Valley School, New Delhi, 12 February, 2009.
Jan 29 > Presentation in the ICSSR Round Table on ‘Future Directions in Indian Social Science’, Hyderabad, 29-30 January, 2009.
Jan 4 > ‘Competing Inequalities: Keywords in the Political Vocabularies of the Present’, presentation at the, Social Science Methodologies Workshop, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, 4-9 January, 2009.