[Reader-list] April 2: 'The Perversity of National Security'/ 2nd Violent Modernities Workshop @ JGLS, Sonipat, India

[OISHIK SIRCAR]

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The Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies and
the Collaborative Research Programme on Law, Postcoloniality and Culture
at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), Sonipat
with
JGLS Student Coalition Against Sedition

present

THE PERVERSITY OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Workshop 2 of the Violent Modernities Project

April 2, 2011, Saturday | Public Lecture Hall, T1 | 9.30am-5.00pm

Schedule

9.30-9.45am Tea

9.45-10.00am Introduction to the ‘Violent Modernities’ Project and Workshop
2

10.00am-12.00pm Session I – MEMORIES AND HISTORIES OF IMPUNITY
Chair: Ratna Kapur, Visiting Professor, JGLS
Gujarat 2002: Impunity and the Legal Imagination / Teesta Setalvad, Citizens
for Peace and Democracy, Mumbai

Operation Green Hunt: Past Continuous / Nandini Sundar, Professor of
Sociology, Delhi University

The Cartography of Impunity in Kashmir / Vrinda Grover, Human Rights Lawyer,
New Delhi

Impunity and the Erosion of the Rule of Law / Ravi Nair, South Asia Human
Rights Documentation Centre, New Delhi

12.00-12.15pm Tea and Heavy Snacks

12.15-2.00pm Session II – CONTOURS OF DISSENT

Frames in Search of Freedom: Hashimpura and Beyond (Illustrated talk) /
Parthiv Shah, Centre for Media and Alternative Communication, New Delhi

I Have Not Booked My Face Yet: A Tribute to Aga Shahid Ali (Installation
performance) / JGLS Student Coalition on Sedition

Faces in the Dark: Curating in Such Times of Sedition (A talk with installed
exhibits) / Parnab Mukherjee, Third Theatre Activist (with Dhrupadi Ghosh
and Manas Acharya)

2.00-2.45pm Lunch

2.45-4.45pm Session III – CULTURES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY

Chair: Vik Kanwar, Assistant Director, Centre for Public Law and
Jurisprudence, JGLS

1984: Monologue as Evidence / Jarnail Singh, Journalist and Author of ‘I
Accuse...: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984’

What does the AFSPA got to do with peace? / Bimol Akoijam, Professor, School
of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Curious Case of the Batla House Encounter and other Strange Stories of
Suspicion / Manisha Sethi, President, Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association,
New Delhi

4.45-5.00pm Closing Statement by JGLS Student Coalition against Sedition


For more information, and if you like to attend and require transportation
from Delhi please contact:

OISHIK SIRCAR

oishiksircar at gmail.com
oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca

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