Centre for Historical StudiesSchool of Social Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)&

Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesDublin City University (Ireland)

Invite you to an International Conference

on

th th28 & 29 January 2013Committee Hall, Convention Centre

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

10:00 - 10:30 am

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference Theme:

Conveners: Dr. Jyoti Atwal (JNU), & Dr Emer Ní Bhrádaigh (DCU)

Inaugural speakers:

Prof S.K. Sopory, Vice Chancellor, JNU

Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, Dean of SSS

Prof. Bhagwan Josh, Chairperson, Centre for Historical Studies

Chief Guest: H. E. Ambassador Feilim McLaughlin, Ambassador of Ireland to India

Vote of thanks

10:30 - 11:00 am: High Tea

11:00 am - 1:00 pm (Session 1)

Colonialism, Nation and its Histories

Chair: Prof. Mridula Mukherjee

Prof. Aditya Mukerjee, Transition from Colonialism to Nation building

Dr. Agnès Maillot, Non-violent resistance in India and Ireland: Arthur Griffith's legacy

Dr. Jyoti Atwal and Prof. Eunan O'Halpin , Ireland, India and the shared anti-colonial paradigm

1:00 - 2:00 pm : Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 pm (Session 2)

Representations, Reporting and Identities

Chair: Prof. Bhagwan Josh

Dr. Kevin Rafter, Media Coverage of Royal Visits to India and Ireland

Dr. Y.S. Alone, Hindu Nationalist Imaginations and Indian Cinema

Dr. Pat Brereton, Irish and Indian Eco Cinema; and New Filmic Modes of Communicating with Audiences: From Ireland to India

3:30 - 3:45 pm: Tea/Coffee break

India-Ireland:From Colonialism to Nation Building

PROGRAMME

th28 January 2013

3:45 - 5:15 pm (Session 3)

Educating the Nation: Policies, Technology and Pedagogy

Chair: Prof. Binod Khadria

Dr. Parimala Rao, An Officer and a Student: Erskine Perry and Nana Bhai's critique of Educational policies in the Bombay Presidency c1850

Dr. James Fitzgerald, Interpreting International Studies through Cross – Cultural Engagement: an inter-institutional model for collaborative pedagogy

Dr. Ajay Kumar, Development Education as a new discipline in India and Ireland

10:00 - 12:45 (Session 4)

Socio-Economic Transitions

Chair: Prof. Rajat Datta

Dr. Rohan D'Souza, From Amphibian to Reptile: Drainage and its political economy in Colonial Eastern India

Dr. Emer Ní Bhrádaigh, The Work of the morrow will largely consist of the impossible of today'- the legacy of Horace Plunkett's cooperatives in Gaeltacht areas

Dr. Rakesh Batabyal, Disaster Management and Disastrous Politics: The Great Famines in India and Ireland

Dr. Vivek Kumar, Probing Social Exclusion in the era of modernity and democracy

12:45 – 1:45 : Lunch

1:45-2:45 (Session 5)

Revolutionary Technologies: Information and Communications

Chair: Prof. V.K. Jain

Dr. Jim Rogers, An Analysis of the Evolution of the Indian 'Info Tiger' Through the Lens of Irish Media

Dr. Maria Loftus and Dr. Peter Tiernan, Students as Creators of Digital Video Content in the Language Learning Classroom: a comparative study between Ireland and India

2:45-3:00 Tea/Coffee break

3:00 – 4:00 pm (Session 6)

Literature and New Identities

Chair: Prof. Rajendra Dengle

Dr. Jean Philippe Imbert, Queer(y)ing India, queer(y)ing Ireland: Space and Sexuality in Contemporary Writing

Dr. R. Mahalakshmi, Of Phallic Thrusts and Submissive Females: Sexual Violence in Brahmanical Mythical Narratives

4:00 pm Vote of Thanks

th29 January 2013

11:00-11:15 : Tea/Coffee break

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