Workshop II - Agenda

Welcome Remarks 

Nikita Sud, University of Oxford

Panel 1: Theorising Land's Trajectories

1. Fluid Geography: Notes from Chennai’s Beach c 1833
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto 

2. From Paik to Peasant: Birth of a Raiyatwari in Modern Assam and Unfinished Story of Land
Arupjyoti Saikia, IIT Guwahati

3. Abhay Xaxa, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies

Panel 2: Reporting on Land

4. How To Steal A Forest
Chitrangada Chaudhary, Independent Journalist

5. लिंग, जाती, ज़मीन, और सत्ता: चुनौतियों भरा सशक्तिकरण का एक सफ़र
Gender, Caste, Land & Power: A Journey of Challenge and Empowerment 
Shyamkali and Meera Jatav, Khabar Lahariya

6. Jayanti Buruda, Kalinga TV

Panel 3: Land-Based Activism

9. Natural resource governance in Fifth Schedule areas
Ashok Shrimali, Mines, Minerals and People

10. Embracing Complexities: Creating Narratives that Help to Negotiate Fragmented Views
Pinaki Roy

11. Coast, Commons and Conflicts
Saravanan and Pooja Kumar, Coastal Resource Centre

Singing to the Land, Rida Gatphoh and The Musical Folks

General Remarks, Announcements

Nikita Sud, University of Oxford

Panel 4: Writing the Lives of Land

12. I Will Save My Land
Reflections on writing for children
Radhika Menon, Tulika Books

13. Sumana Roy, Author and Poet 

14. Land of the Roots
Jacinta Kerketta, Poet and Activist 

Panel 5: Visualising Land

15. Land as a tool of dis/empowerment
Nakul Singh Sawhney and Vishal Kumar, ChalChitra Abhiyan

16. Reclaimed territories in the realm of the imaginary
Nina Sabnani, Illustrator, IIT Bombay 

17. Land — Limited Edition
Nadikerianda Subbayya "Nala" Ponnappa, Cartoonist

Concluding Remarks, Ways Forward 

Nikita Sud, University of Oxford

Lunch (ICG restaurant)

Dinner (ICG restaurant)