Ethnologie

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
Garhwal Himalayas in the context of severe social,

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:
Field Reflections from trans-Himalayan Lahaul Valley

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:
Notes from a Historian

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