Re-imagining Development: An Ideas Exchange

Mihilaka Medura, BMICH 11th -12th December 2012

AGENDA
Day 1: December 11, 2012 08.30 - 09.30am 09.30 - 10.00am 10.00 -12.30pm Registration / Refreshments Welcome by CEPA - Language: English (Sinhala and Tamil translations) Inaugural Session - Language: English (Sinhala and Tamil translations) Moderator - Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya Rethinking development Prof Jomo Kwame Sundaram Assistant Director General, Economic and Social Development Department, FAO 'Development as politics - Reflections on post 1971, 1989/90 and 2009' Mr. Sunil Bastian, former Senior Research Fellow, ICES and former Chairperson, CEPA Reimagine or Discard: Future of Development Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Social Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka Lunch Parallel Sessions Environmental Critique of Development: Sustainable Development - Rhetoric or pragmatic solution? - Language:
English

12.30 pm 2.00 pm 2.00 pm 4.30 pm

Development in Art: The case of Sinhala Cinema Language: Sinhala (English and Tamil translations)

4.30 pm 5.30 pm 5.30 pm 6.15 pm 6.15 pm 8.15 pm

Knowledge Hierarchies in Development: Whose Knowledge counts? - Language: English Synthesis of main ideas from sessions Refreshments and networking Re-imagining Development through Visual and Performance Arts

Day 2: December 12, 2012 9.00 am 11.30 am Parallel Sessions Understanding wellbeing - Language: English (Sinhala and
Tamil translations)

11.30 am 12.30 pm 12.30 pm 2.00 pm 2.00 pm 4.00 pm

Women in Development, Deconstructed: Feminist Perspectives on Development - Language: English Can do or Must do? A place for Ethics, Morality and Values in Development - Language: English Development and the City - Language: English Synthesis of main ideas from sessions Lunch Presentation of the Synthesis from the Parallel Sessions and distillation of Lessons Closed Session open for observation only
Language: English (Sinhala and Tamil translations)

4.00 pm 4.30 pm 4.30 pm 6.30 pm 6.30 pm 7.30 pm

Tea Dissemination and Dialogue with Policy Makers Language:

English (Sinhala and Tamil translations)

Reception and end of Symposium

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