BASAS ANNUAL WORKSHOP
BASAS Annual Workshop 2006
"Development and/in South Asia:
Ideas, Policies, Practices"
One-day workshop on Wednesday, 22 November 2006
Centre For Development Studies (CDS)
Department of Economics and International Development
University of Bath, UK
FULL PROGRAMME
(also available as a pdf file.)
Morning Session: Wessex House Council Chamber, 0915 - 1330
- 0915 — 0945 Registration and tea and coffee
- 0945 — 1115 Development in South Asia: The Local, the National and the Global (I)
- Haroon Rafique, International Policy Fellow, Hungary: 'Development: What Does it Mean in a Developing Country?'
- Palash Kamruzzaman, University of Liverpool: 'Who cares about participation? All is needed another piece of paper to continue debts and loans.'
- Talk by Prita Jha, an activist from Gujarat, India, on community action.
- 1115 — 1130 Tea and Coffee
- 1130 — 1215 Development in South Asia: The Local, the National and the Global (II)
- Nitya Rao and Amit Mitra, University of East Anglia: '"Well Being or being well: What is the difference if my children are not happy" A subaltern view from Santhal Parganas, Jharkhand, India.'
- K. Chamundeeswari, Sheffield University: 'The Right to Development and its Relevance to the South Asian Region: Is there Value in the Human Rights Approach to Development?
- 1215 — 1330 Lunch
Afternoon Session: room 2E 3.1, 1330 — 1700.
- 1330 — 1400 Informal Session
- Introduction to Development Studies in University of Bath (Joe Devine)
- A new initiative on South Asia graduate student network (Arif Naveed)
- 1400 — 1500 Gender and Development
- Carole Spary, University of Bristol: 'Mapping Gendered Discourses of Development in Indian National Policy: 1990s to present.'
- Yutaka Sato, Royal Halloway: 'Community Participation, Gender and Urban Change: Evidence from the Slums of Ahmedabad, India.'
- Radhika Govinda, University of Cambridge: 'Dalit Women in Development Discourse and Praxis: a Grassroots Perspective from Uttar Pradesh, India.'
- 1500 — 1530 Tea and Coffee
- 1530 — 1645 Education and Development
- Mahruf C. Shohel and Andrew J. Howes, University of Manchester: 'The Contribution of Nonformal Education to Development in Bangladesh.'
- Marie Lall, University of London: 'Education Dilemmas in Pakistan- the current curriculum reform.'
- Chaminda Hettiaracchchi, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka: 'Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Human Development in South Asia.'
- 1645 — 1700 Closing Remarks
REGISTRATION
The workshop is free of charge. However, the room has a limited capacity so participants will need to register their attendance with Ipshita Basu at ib209@bath.ac.uk.
The conference has limited funding and we would aim to cover the travel cost (within UK only) for speakers and discussants. Overseas speakers will be reimbursed the cost of within UK travel and will have to secure their own funding for travel to and from the UK.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Download the Call for Papers and Registration details as an A4 poster [pdf].
Directions: See http://www.bath.ac.uk/getting-here/ and http://www.bath.ac.uk/maps/campusmap.html.
A frequent and convenient bus service from close to the rail and coach station will drop you close to 'Parade', next to East Car Park. Ask for Wessex House which is 5-8 minutes away. Council Chambers will be signposted in the Wessex House building. If you take a taxi, ask to be dropped where the buses stop. From the West Car Park, Wessex House is 5 minutes walk.
For any further information, please contact workshop organiser Dr Dibyesh Anand of the University of Bath via email at D.Anand@bath.ac.uk