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1.      A national workshop entitled, “Missing Girls in India: Science, Gender and the Political Economy of Emotions” was held on 30-31 October, 2003.  

2.      An Indo-French seminar entitled, “Pierre Bourdieu: Sociologist and Sociologies” was held on 19-20 February, 2004. Sixteen papers by an equal number of scholars from India and France were presented at this seminar organized around the work of French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu.   

3.      A workshop entitled, “NGOs and Reproductive Health” was held on 4th March, 2004   

4.      A workshop titled “Window on Europe” was organized in the Department from November 18–20, 2004.  This workshop discussed the foundations of European culture, and explored the methodological principles propounded by European sciences.  

5.      A two-day film festival on “Subaltern Voices” was held on December 2 – 3, 2004 in which a total of seven films were screened.  The films covered varied subjects such as women, alternative sexuality, labour, urban subalterns, caste and indigenous peoples. 

6.      The Department organised a joint LSE-DSE workshop on “Ethnographies of the State” on March 3-4, 2005, falling under the rubric of State and Society.  Ten work-in-progress papers were presented by faculty members of the department, scholars from other institutes in Delhi and elsewhere in India, South Asia and Europe.  The Vice-Chancellor of the University attended the last session and spoke on State and the Market. 

7.      A workshop entitled “Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research” was organised in the Department on March 15-16, 2005.  This is the first time that scholars from different disciplines including anthropology, history and economics came together and exchanged their perspectives on interdisciplinary research in the Social Sciences.  This workshop was attended by several college teachers, university faculty members and around 20 Ph.D. and M.Phil. students of the Department. 

8.      A workshop on “The Ecological and Symbolical: Explorations of a Double Sense” was organized in the Department on April 26-27, 2005.  Five papers were presented at the workshop and forty persons participated in the proceedings. 

9.      A Workshop titled ‘National Dialogue on the Draft Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Right) Bill’, 2005 was organized in the department from September 23-24, 2005.

10.  The department organized an afternoon workshop on the new interdisciplinary concurrent course on ‘Gender and Society’ on November 7, 2005 for teachers of various disciplines from across the university who are teaching the course. During the workshop, the course structure, readings (including issues of availability or translation possibilities into Hindi), modes of teaching, disciplinary issues and examination structure were discussed. 

11.  A workshop on ‘Filmi Sociology: Forays into the Cinematic World’ was organized at the Department of Sociology on 28-30 November, 2005. Eighteen presentations by students and teachers were made at the workshop spread over 7 sessions.  Over 100 persons participated in the workshop including faculty members and students from the university of Delhi.   

12.  A joint DSE-LSE workshop was held in the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics on the theme of ‘The State and Society’ on December 14-16, 2005.  The special focus of the workshop, as the title suggests, was on the interface between the state and society. Participants explored a variety of themes ranging from trade union politics, multiculturalism and citizenship, the global war on terror, tribal policy, agrarian law, economic governance and voluntary organizations, and civil society institutions.

 

13. A workshop on ‘Mapping City Spaces: Communal Violence, Social Reconciliation and Documentary practices of the state’ was held in the Department of Sociology on the 19th of December 2005. This workshop was part of a three-year project on the same theme at ISEERD. The aim of the workshop was to provide a comparative analysis of urban violence between sectarian groups with reference to the riots of 1984 in Delhi, 1992-93 in Mumbai and 2002 in Gujarat.

 

14. A conference on ‘Reflecting on Reflections’ was held in the department from January 19- 21, 2006. The conference was convened to discuss issues of philosophy in general and European philosophy in particular germane to social science. Sixteen papers were presented in diverse fields with interests bearing both on philosophy in and as itself, and its incorporation in studies not philosophical in themselves.

15.  A workshop on ‘Proposed Multi-media Archive and Repository on Institutional and Disciplinary History’ at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi was held from March 16 -17 2006. The workshop discussed the experiences of constructing an archive, preservation and digitalisation of the material, uploading and connecting to Archive Network, cataloguing and copyright.   

16.  A workshop on Making of Environmental Law was held on 29th and 30th November 2006. Based on specific events, crises and locations in India and abroad the workshop discussed ways of broadening the concept and practice of environmental law to be inclusive of political ecology and environmental justice within the frame of State and Society. The workshop also included the screening of a documentary film and discussion around the film. It included papers on subjects such as roads/highway, water, fish farming, establishing a metropolis and rural industrialization and its impact on the peasantry and community's responsibility in shaping environmental law and justice.   

17. A University Seminar on Vanishing Daughters: Gender Imbalance in Contemporary India, was organised in the Department on 14th and 15th December, 2006. Rajni Palriwala presented a paper on ‘Structure and Agency in Daughter Aversion’ at a plenary session, and Tulsi Patel presented her paper titled, ‘Vanishing Daughters: Cultural Perceptions and Sanctions.’

18.  A workshop on European & Non-European Paradigms was held on 18th and 19th January, 2007, oriented to exploring the crisis of paradigms.  The ten papers that were presented addressed issues of knowledge and culture, including those of the sciences and arts.  The dominance of European systems of thought and issues of alternatives were broached.    

19.  A Travelling Seminar on Re-thinking Masculinities, in collaboration with Aakar, was held on 13th and 14th February, 2007. Over a period of two days participants from South Asia (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India) presented a range of papers describing, delimiting and critiquing this field of gender studies.  At this well attended seminar, various perspectives, including the development of curricula, were debated. 

20.  An international workshop on ‘The Nation State, Embodied Practices and the Politics of Identity’ was organised at the Department of Sociology, in collaboration with DCRC, University of Delhi, on March 1-2, 2007. Thirteen scholars, including a psychologist, political scientist, and sociologists, presented papers around the theme, focusing on issues as diverse as citizenship and justice in the context of debates within feminism, media representations of women in Afghanistan, Vietnamese immigrants in Texas and their embodied practices in relation to the nation state, language, identity and ‘nationality’ in Canada, religion and community in different cultural contexts, state patronage and folk art, the experience of young Tibetan refugees and of schooling practices in Nepal and Denmark, narratives of remembering and erasure, of seeking truth and justice, and of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in the context of the ongoing war in Sri Lanka. The rich discussion encouraged the participants to plan towards a thematic volume around the general theme of the workshop.  

21.  A Workshop was organized to discuss the teaching of the ‘Revised B.A. (Hons.) Sociology Programme’ on July 21-22, 2005. Teachers from seven colleges teaching the Honours Programme attended the Workshop. A report of this workshop is available. A half-day workshop of the teachers in the undergraduate colleges was held in the department on December 8, 2005. This was to discuss and finalise a new format for the Annual Examination for the revised syllabus of the Honors program, implemented in the academic session beginning in July 2005. The next round of workshops were held on 20th and 21st July 2006, and another on 21st September 2006. The first workshop focussed on the new papers to be taught to the students of B.A. (Honours), Sociology Part 11, and the second workshop discussed the examination pattern for the new papers. At the workshop in July 2006, a Committee on Sociological Resources in Hindi was formed to address the need of Hindi medium students of Sociology. A third workshop was held in March 2007 to examine the teaching of the new papers that were discussed on 20 and 21 July 2006.

 
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