Sudarshan
Foundation Trust
Co-sponsors
International
Conference on
‘RURAL SOUTH ASIA: IMAGING HERITAGE AND
PROGRESS’
4th to 7th January, 2013
At Aurangabad, India
Rural
South Asia in one of the fastest growing and developing region of the world,
since the time of decolonization in mid twentieth century the region has
achieved several milestones in rural progress while experiencing newer
challenges in terms of conserving heritage and efforts to curb forces of
economic and social change which are reworking rural areas of the developing
world. With globalization agriculture and rural societies are being squeezed by
nonagricultural pursuits, aspirations are increasingly informed by a wish to
avoid farming and the ‘household’ is being restructured as the genders and
generations contest and renegotiate their respective roles. The diversification
of the household economy and the interpenetration of rural and urban have
created multiple hybridities where individuals and households shift between
agricultural and industrial pursuits and cross between rural and urban value
systems[1]. Farm is in thrall to nonfarm,
and industry is often dependent on ‘rural’ labour and its natural resources making
wider communication gaps between social living and economic linkages in rural
settlements (Rigg, 1998: 497). Ten years ago when an
American liberal scholar, echoing a sentiment widely held in South Asia as well
as in the Western world, wrote: “The [South Asian] … democracy can claim with
some pride to speak for its four hundred million citizens. The most remarkable
feature of [these] democrac [ies] is that more than three hundred million of
its citizens are rural, largely peasants with little if any education…”[2] (Hamza,
1974:413), his then statement remains a matter of concern
even today’s folk behaviour of South Asia. Raising concern for as how do we
visualise a progressive future for our rural heritage when they are marred with
several fundamental issues caste-class based exploitation and social, economic
and medical deprivation.
Drawing
largely on human-nature relations in context of cultural, scientific and folk
trends with rural life and livelihood, the conference is an attempt to review
multiple changes and discuss them further on levels of rural-urban continuum in
South Asia, with scientific, sociological and historical probing. To further
the questions and seeking solutions for pressing issues in ‘Rural South Asia’
Sudarshan Foundation Trust invites maximum participation from the subject
experts, people involved in rural welfare and learners. This is the second
initiative from Sudarshan Foundation Trust after our successful conference held
in 2009 on ‘Gandhi and Gram Swaraj: Reflections on Gandhian Ideology’ http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171247. The objective of the
conference is to organize a series of brainstorming sessions the results of
which will be disseminated through projects for rural planning and improvement
in South Asia.
Interested
participants are requested to send the abstract of their research papers
(maximum 200 words) and presentations on the following sub-themes, with a brief
updated resume (Maximum 2 page) to conference email: ruralsouthasia2013@gmail.com,
Last Date to submit Abstracts: 30th July, 2012, Date of Abstract
Approval: 15th August, 2012.
Please Note: Deadline to submit Abstract extended till 30th July, 2012
Please Note: Deadline to submit Abstract extended till 30th July, 2012
Registration
Fees: Rs. 1500/-
Student Registration Fees: Rs. 500/-
Student Registration Fees: Rs. 500/-
Subthemes
of conference in perspective to Rural South Asia
1. Rural Environment, Power and Gender
2. Rural and Urban Continuum: Historical-Cultural Heritage
3. Rural Medical Heritage and Contemporary Healing Trends
4. Rural South Asia Imagined through Print and Visual Media
Ø In the conference there will
be special screening sessions on documentary and photo exhibitions on Rural
South Asia
Conference Organizers’:
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad
Co-Sponsor, Sudarshan Foundation Trust, Gujarat, India
Co-Sponsor, Sudarshan Foundation Trust, Gujarat, India
Conference organizing
contact persons:
1.
Dr. Adhya Bharti Saxena,
Founding Trustee and President,
Sudarshan Foundation Trust
Sudarshan Foundation Trust
Professor,
Department of History
The M.S.
University of Baroda
Vadodara,
India
2. Dr. Bina
Sengar,
Founding Trustee & Secretary, Sudarshan Foundation Trust
and
Conference Co-Convener & Treasurer
and
Conference Co-Convener & Treasurer
Assistant Professor,
Department
of History and AIC,
Dr. B.A.M
University,
Aurangabad,
India
3. Mrs. Pushpa
Gaikwad,
Conference Convener
Professor,
Department of History and AIC,
Dr. B.A.M
University,
Aurangabad,
India
4.
Prof. Mabel Fernandes
Conference
Treasurer
Professor,
Department of English,
Dr. B.A.M
University,
Aurangabad,
India
5.
Ms. Swarnmala Maske,
Conference
convening Assistant
Project
Fellow
Sudarshan
Foundation Trust
Aurangabad-Chapter
Aurangabad, India
Conference
Email: ruralsouthasia2013@gmail.com
Weblinks:
http://www.sasnet.lu.se/content/aurangabad-conference-rural-south-asia
The conference initiative is updated and the present event brochure goes as follows:
Earlier versions of the conference
http://www.sasnet.lu.se/content/aurangabad-conference-rural-south-asia
The conference initiative is updated and the present event brochure goes as follows:
Earlier versions of the conference
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