Tuesday 5th of March

9:30 AM – WELCOME TEA & INAUGURATION OF THE WORKSHOP – VH Seminar Hall

11 AM – 1 PM –– SESSION 1 – Ethical Concerns in Fieldwork

Discussant: Dr. Fabien Provost (Researcher, CNRS-Paris)  

11 AM – Wafa Razak (CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Ethnography, Ethics and Hospitals: ‘Studying up’ in South Asia.

11:40 AM – Anuj Ghanekar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)

Researcher’s Positionality in Urban Contexts: A Reflexive Account of Qualitative Fieldwork in Low-Income Settlements of Surat, India.

12:20 PM – Medhavi Gupta (Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics)

Authorship Abuse in Research and Academics in the Digital Age.

1:20 PM – LUNCH –

2:30 – 5 PM – SESSION 2 – On Studying Religious Practices and Rituals 

Discussant: Prof. Mathieu Boisvert (Département de sciences des religions, Université du Québec, Montréal)

2:30 PM – Navaneeth H (Department of HSS, IIT Madras)

Researching Inter-religious Practices in South Asia: Methodological Reflections from the Field.

3:10 PM – Trisha Lalchandani (CESAH – EHESS Paris)

Who is a Hindu Sindhi: Asking the Right Questions in the Field.

3:50 PM – Tea break

4:10 PM – Muhammed Anees TA (Department of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar)

Concealing Interlocutor and Revealing Anthropology: Evaluation as a Perquisite for Studying Occult Practices in Islam.

Wednesday 6th of March

9 AM – 12:30 PM –– SESSION 3 – Insider-Outsider:  Dealing with Identity in the Field

Discussant: Dr Laurence Gautier (Researcher, CSH-Delhi)

9 AM – EP Sarfras (Department of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar)

Do I really belong there? Notes on the insider, outsider experience of a Muslim Researcher.

9:40 AM – Afeef Ahmed (Independent Researcher)

Participant Observer or Observing Participant?: Ethical Dilemmas of a Muslim Doing the Ethnography of Muslims

10:30 AM – Tea break

11 AM – Noor Ameena (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad)

Methodological challenges in researching communities: An experiential account of research among Mahal Committees and Qazi Offices in Kerala, India

11:40 AM – Muhammad Ali Jauhar (Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR)

Ethnography: a field mediated by memory

12:30 PM – LUNCH –

1:30 – 4 PM –– SESSION 4 – Critical Perspectives on Heritage and Cultural Memory

Discussant: Dr Swargajyoti Gohain (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ashoka University)

1:30 PM – Dr Sushmita Banerjee (Department of History, Miranda House College, University of Delhi)

Spiritual Genealogies and Role of Memory in Sufism: Religion and Discourse in Fourteenth Century North India

2:10 PM – Rahul Dutt Gautam (Department of HSS, IISER Bhopal)

Victims of Film and Film Theory: A Dualysis of Ākāler Sandhāne

2:50 PM – Adarsh Shahi (Department of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar)

Kol Adivasi’s everyday inhabitation between conflict and deprivation

4 PM – Tea break

4:15 – 6:15 PM –– SESSION 5 (part 1) – On Sacred, Ecology, Subalternity and Urban Sites: Methodological Challenges and Questions

Discussant: Dr Ambika Aiyadurai (Associate Professor, Department of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar)

4:15 PM – Émeraude Lapointe-Provost (Université du Québec, Montréal)

When Kali takes a dip in the Ganges: an exploration of the consequences of Hindu ritual materialism on the environment

4:55 PM – Lalitha M (Department of HSS, IIT Madras)

Intersectional approach in studying Urban sites: Alternative methodologies and ethical concerns

6:30 PM – Panel Discussion: “Disciplines, Methods, and Identities: Reflections and Perspectives” (with the Discussants)

Thursday 7th of March

9 – 10:20 AM –– SESSION 5 (part 2) 

Discussant: Dr Ambika Aiyadurai (Associate Professor, Department of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar)

9 AM – Juri Baruah (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati)

Designing Fieldwork and Practicing Resistance: Urbanisation, Conservation and Eviction in Silsako Wetland, Guwahati, Assam

9:40 AM – Antony Arul Valan (Ashoka University)

Notes upon Researching and Teaching Caste by looking at ‘Castelessness’

10:20 AM – 1:30 PM –– SESSION 6 – Knowledge Production & Reflexivity

Discussant: Prof. Veena Naregal (Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)

10:20 AM –– Amruthraj VG (HSS, IIT Madras)

Knowing the Affective-Sensorial Reproduction of Caste: Employing Embodied Methodology

11 AM – Tea break

11:20 AM –– Deepu Pratheep (Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad)

How Does the Emotional State of Mind Affect Knowledge Production: Reflections of a Researcher

12 PM – Rahul Bishnoi (Department of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar)

An Anthropology of the Walls: Navigating Ethical Complexities of Visual Anthropology in Non-native Spaces

12:40 PM – Dhriti Sonowal (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Access to Power: Studying Parliamentarians in India

1:20 PM – LUNCH –

IN ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE BHOPAL – SHAHPURA

4:30 – 6 PM – Roundtable discussion for « La nuit des idées » (Night of ideas): Public Use of Academic Knowledge: current Practices and Challenges

6:30 PM – Opening ceremony of the art exhibition « Confluence » presenting eight artists from Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of International Women’s Day