ToIndia Summer School
Through an interdisciplinary approach, the School provides students with an extraordinary opportunity to analyse key political, social and cultural issues of contemporary India.
Important recent trajectories of social change – as well as continuity – will be explored, encouraging critical reflection among students.
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Timetable
Talks
Time
Lecturers
Introductory Lecture
What the Adivasis of eastern India can tell us about the global environmental crises
GROUP DISCUSSION
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Vinita Damodaran
University of Sussex
University of Sussex
Evolving Adivasi, tribal and indigenous identities in India
GROUP DISCUSSION
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Felix Padel
University of Sussex
University of Sussex
Understanding tribal social structure and knowledge systems
GROUP DISCUSSION
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Felix Padel
University of Sussex
University of Sussex
Indigenous routes: migration and food sovereignty in northeast India
GROUP DISCUSSION
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bengt G. Karlsson
Stockholm University
Stockholm University
Making insurgent citizenship in India’s Bhil heartland
GROUP DISCUSSION
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Adivasi art: from "primitive" to contemporary
GROUP DISCUSSION
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Raphaël Rousseleau
Université de Lausanne
Université de Lausanne
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Luisa Steur
University of Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam
Adivasis and the Naxalite Insurgency
GROUP DISCUSSION
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alpa Shah
London School of Economics
London School of Economics
Roundtable
Contemporary Adivasi writing in India: paradigms, issues and perspectives
GROUP DISCUSSION
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
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