[Reader-list] Conference in Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta: The 'Long' 1950s

[Bodhisattva Kar]

Dear friends,
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta is organizing a three-day conference on "The 'Long' 1950s" from March 18 through March 20, 2008. The conference seeks to bring together a sample of the critical, interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship to reflect on the significance of the nineteen fifties in the making of post-colonial South Asia.
We feel privileged to invite you to the conference. Please find the detailed conference schedule below. We would be grateful if you could forward this schedule to interested persons.
My apologies for the cross-posting.
Regards,

Bodhisattva Kar
Fellow in History,
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta



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The ‘Long’ 1950s
18-20 March 2008
Conference Schedule
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R-1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata 700 094. Ph: 91-33-24625794/5


 

DAY ONE: 18 March 2008, Tuesday


Inaugural session: 10:00 – 10:30


Panel 01: “India, i. e., Bharat”
Chair: Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

10:30-11:30
Badri Narayan (G. B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad),
“The Making of Dream: The Long of 1950 in a Village of North India”
Discussant: Anjan Ghosh (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Tea: 11:30-11:45

11:45-12:45
Flavia Agnes (Majlis, Mumbai),
“Nation Building through the Enactment of Hindu Code Bill:  The Nehruvian Agenda”
Discussant: Janaki Nair (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

12:45-13:45
Dilip Subramanian (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
“Labour Relations in Public Sector Companies during the Long 1950s: The Case of ITI”
Discussant: Samita Sen (Jadavpur University, Calcutta)

Lunch: 13:45-14:45

Panel 02: The Fixed and the Floating
Chair: Pranab Kumar Das (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

14:45-15:45
Anil Persaud (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
“Between Colonization and Independence: Debating Indian Citizenship in the 1950s”
Discussant: Pradip Bose (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

15:45-16:45
Joya Chatterji (University of Cambridge)
“Migrants, Minorities and Citizens: Nationality in India 1947-57”
Discussant: Pradip Kumar Datta (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

DAY TWO: 19 March 2008, Wednesday

Panel 03: Developmentality
Chair: Jyotsna Jalan (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

10:00-11:00
Pulapre Balakrishnan (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi)
“The Recovery of India: Public Policy and Economic Growth in the Nehru Era”
Discussant: Dwaipayan Bhattacharya (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

11:00-12:00
Benjamin Zachariah (University of Sheffield)
“The Tragedy of Developmentalism: ‘Nehruvianism’ in India”
Discussant: Bodhisattva Kar (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)


Tea: 12:00-12:15

12:15-1:15
Riddhi Sankar Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta)
“Did Zamindari Abolition Matter in Bengal, in the 1950s?”
Discussant: Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Lunch: 13:15-14:15

Panel 04: Nations of Narrations
Chair: Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

14:15-15:15
M. Madhava Prasad (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad)
“The Republic of Babel: Language and Political Subjectivity in Free India”
Discussant: Manas Ray (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

15:15-16:15
G. Arunima (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
“Faultlines: Or Rethinking the Malayali ‘Literary Public Sphere’“
Discussant: Anirban Das (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Tea: 16:15-16:30

16:30-17:30
Rajarshi Dasgupta (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
“Technology as the Experience of Nature: Communist Art in the Fifties”
Discussant: Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University, Calcutta)

DAY THREE: 20 March 2008, Thursday

Panel 05: The New Urban
Chair: Dhrubajyoti Ghosh (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
10:00-11:00
Awadhendra Sharan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
“Zones of Contention: Location, Environment and the Modern City”
Discussant: Priya Sangameswaran (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

11:00-12:00
Markus Daechsel (University of Edinburgh)
“Culture and Development in the Urban Built Environment: Pakistan in the Age of the International Consultant, c.1947-1965”
Discussant: Keya Dasgupta (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Tea: 12:00-12:15

12:15-13:15
A. Srivathsan (‘The Hindu’, Chennai)
“Marking the Urban”
Discussant: Sohel Firdos (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Lunch: 13:15-14:15

Panel 06: Laughing Mirrors
Chair: Manabi Majumdar (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

14:15-15:15
Dilip Menon (University of Delhi)
“‘Don’t Spare Me Shankar’: Shankar’s Weekly and Political Cartooning in the Nehruvian Fifties, 1947-1964”
Discussant: Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

15:15-16:15
Baidik Bhattacharya (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
“The Apocalypse That Will Never Be: Reading Political Ambivalence in Paraśurām’s Short Stories”
Discussant: Sibaji Bandyopadhyay  (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Valedictory session: 16:15 – 16:30


       
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