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NFSC Summer School

NFSC Summer School initiative is meant for college and University teachers in the field of humanities and social sciences. NFSC Summer School aims at convening college teachers in a collaborative ambiance to work with audio visual archives, develop online courses, and integrate them in their classroom teaching. NFSC Summer School plans to be an annual event with the participants every year forming themselves in a network of NFSC Fellows to do collaborative work on a regular basis. With this initiative National Folklore Support Centre aims to be a facilitator for collaborative and interdisciplinary academic work in higher education.

For the year 2008 we plan to organize a fifteen days workshop with an inbuilt conference for five days on the theme "Towards a Higher Education of Inclusion, Collaboration, and Community Engagement" Although this year the workshop will not be held during summer, it will lead to the regular annual summer school events. Please view the conference details and register yourself to participate.

  • Towards a Higher Education of Inclusion, Collaboration, and Community Engagement

    July 2, 2009 – July 7, 2009

    From July 2, 2009 to July 9, 2009, in collaboration with the Department of English, University of Madras, and "Panuval", a Journal of Tamil Studies, National Folklore Support Centre organizes an interdisciplinary seven day workshop for college teachers and research scholars working in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Worlds Religions Congress

'World Religions after September 11: An Asian Perspective.' There has been a growing recognition that cultures of the East aim at a holistic view of the conventional binaries of religious versus secular concerns. The primary view of the conference is to evolve a shared space for a dialogue on the positive role of world's religions for securing peace, harmony and fundamental rights of the citizen. Another area of focus is the crucial contribution that the academic study of religion can make to the ongoing challenge of peace-building and peace-keeping, and in stimulating a civilizational dialogue among Asian and South-East Asian cultures by drawing upon its vast corpus of knowledge, historical as well as phenomenological. Abstracts not longer than 150 words may be submitted with the name, title, theme to which is belongs and type of presentation (AV screen, laptop or laser pointer) clearly specified by September 15, 2008, to worldsreligionsjamia@gmail.com

  • Global Congress on World Religions after September 11: An Asian Perspective

    January 17, 2009 – January 20, 2009

    The assault on the twin towers on September 11, 2001, occurred on American soil but is global in significance. The assault is symbolic of a global malaise which has far-reaching consequences for the whole of humanity. This is a crucial historical moment to lay the foundation for a truly global dialogue from an Asian perspective. Does the East have a message, or even a solution to offer in our war-ravaged, terror-stricken times?
    The Congress proposes to bring together a distinguished community of scholars and academics, leading voices and representatives from different faiths, the media and NGOs working in the field of peace building.
    It will be held between January 17 and 20, 2009.

Land Reform: Access of Poor to Common Property, Forest Resources and Agricultural Land Use

Seva Mandir and the Land Reform Programme under the Ministry of Rural Development

Seva Mandir has created an expert group for leveraging existing body of knowledge on CPRs through collaboration with knowledge centres. The group consists of eminent researchers like Ms Kanchan Chopra from Institute of Economic Growth, Mr M S Rathore from Institute of Development Studies, Ms Amita Shah from Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Shri Sivaramakrishnan from Yale University, Shri Ajay S Mehta, President Seva Mandir, and Neelima Khetan, Chief Executive, Seva Mandir.
We would be very happy to receive inputs from the various sections of civil society in the country and invite readers to write status papers and thematic papers on the issue. Readers who are interested in writing Status papers or Thematic papers might get in touch with us on the following email id with a brief on the topic and area proposed to be covered. Any other question or queries are also welcome.

nrd@sevamandir.org or neelima@sevamandir.org

  • Inviting Thematic Papers

    October 22, 2008 – October 22, 2008

    Inviting thematic papers on specific issues related to CPRs like Livestock Rearing, Ecology, Livelihoods etc.

  • Inviting Status Papers for various states on the issue of Common Property Resources

    October 15, 2008 – October 15, 2008

    We would be very happy to receive inputs from the various sections of civil society in the country and invite readers to write status papers and thematic papers on the issues of CPRs. Readers who are interested in writing Status papers can write status papers for a particular state and submit it online in the format that covers the following issues.


    Sponsors

    With a view to looking into the unfinished tasks in land reforms, a committee has been set up under Minister for Rural Development consisting of officials from Department of Land Resources, NGO representatives and subject matter Specialists. Seva Mandir has also been invited to be part of the same. The recommendation of this committee would be considered by the "National Council for Land Reforms" constituted under the Prime Minister to lay down broad guidelines and policy recommendations on agrarian relations and land reforms.

  • Land Reform: Access of Poor to Common Property, Forest Resources and Agricultural Land Use

FOSSILS conference on Urban Folklore

Folklore Society of South Indian Languages (FOSSILS) organizes a national seminar on "Urban Folklore" to be held on June 27 and 28, 2008 at Telugu University, Hyderabad. The sub themes of the conference are 1. Urban Folklore_Conceptual Issues, 2. Urban Folklore_Generic issues and cross-generic transformations, 3. Urban Folklore - Issues in Field Methodology, 4. Interpretations of Urban Folklore- Problems and Prospects, 5. Studies on specific genres in Urban Folklore and 6. Definition of Folklore in the context of the inclusion of urban folklore

  • Urban Folklore



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