Day 1: Fr, 23rd August 2024
Venue: Sangama 102 (from 10.30-12.30am)
& Kaveri Poompuhar 002 (from 2.00-5.00pm)
Day 2: Sa, 24th August 2024
Venue: Kaveri Poompuhar 001 (from 9.00am-5.00pm)
(update August 2024)
Day 1, Session 1: Himalayan Developmental Trajectories – Pasts and Future
Chair: Amit Kumar
| 10:20 – 11:00 am | Chetan Singh (Himachal Pradesh University) | Visualising a Sustainable Future: Culture, Community and Development in Himachal Pradesh |
| 11:00 – 11:40 am | Diya Mehra (SAU, New Delhi) | Modes of Expertise and Regulation: The case of Building, Tourism and Infrastructure in the Kullu Valley |
| 12:00 – 12:40 pm | Karin Polit (Tübingen University, Germany) | Wandering gods: The Dev Bhumi of the environmental and health upheavals |
Day 1, Session 2: Identities and Movements – A view from the Himalayas
Chair: Sarbani Sharma
| 2:00 – 2:40 pm | Vasudha Pande (Delhi University) | Interrogating Chipko: Reviewing Central Himalayan Environmentalism |
| 2:40 – 3:20 pm | Iqbal Bhat (Central University, Jammu) | Changing Contours of Nomadism: Bakkarwals of J&K in Context |
| 3:40 – 4:20 pm | Lokesh Ohri (BTDT, Dehra Dun) | Been There, Doon that - A local Environmental Intervention |
Day 2, Session 3: Methodologies and Discourses – Making sense of Himalayan Presents
Chair: Sharmadip Basu
| 9:00 – 9:40 am | Kesang Thakur (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) | Geopolitical Infrastructures as Intimate: |
| 9:40 – 10:20 am | Manshi Asher (co-founder Himdhara Collective) | Knowledge and resource contestations in Himalayan disaster and Climate discourses |
| 10:40 – 11:20 am | Aniket Alam (IIIT, Hyderabad) | Understanding Polycrisis in the Himalayas: |
Day 2, Session 4, 11:30 – 1:30 pm: Visualizing Himalayan Ecology – Filmic Approaches and Challenges to Sustainability
Chair: Sarah Ewald
Film 1: Ganga Katha | Stories of River Ganga
Film 2: बणः तु हको कथ ः रे Bana-Tu Haqo Kathare | Forest Rights Chronicles
Followed by conversation with the filmmakers Manshi Asher and Lokesh Ohri
Day 2, Session 5, 2:30 – 4:30 pm: Round table discussion – What’s next for Himalayas?
Moderator: Amit Kumar
Discussants: Sadhana Naithani, Diya Mehra, Chetan Singh, Iqbal Bhat, Subir Dey