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The Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies and
the Collaborative Research Programme on Law, Postcoloniality and Culture
at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), Sonipat
with
The Student Coalition on Sedition, JGLS

present

THE PERVERSITY OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Workshop 2 of the Violent Modernities Project
Date: April 2, 2011, Saturday | Venue: Public Lecture Hall, T1 | Time: 10.00am-5.15pm

Schedule
9.30-9.45am Tea

9.45-10.00am Introduction to the ‘Violent Modernities’ Project and Workshop 2

10.00am-12.00pm Session I – MEMORIES AND HISTORIES OF IMPUNITY

Chair: Ratna Kapur, Visiting Professor, JGLS

Gujarat 2002: Impunity and the Legal Imagination

Teesta Setalvad, Citizens for Peace and Democracy, Mumbai

Operation Green Hunt: Past Perfect and Present Continuous

Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University

Shopian Rapes and the Absurdity of Evidence: A Figment of State Imagination?

Vrinda Grover, Human Rights Lawyer, New Delhi

Impunity and the Erosion of the Rule of Law

Ravi Nair, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, New Delhi

12.00am-12.15pm Tea and Snacks

12.15-1.45pm Session II – CONTOURS OF DISSENT

Frames in Search of Freedom: Hashimpura and Beyond

Parthiv Shah, Centre for Media and Alternative Communication, New Delhi

I Have Not Booked My Face Yet: A Tribute to Aga Shahid Ali (Play)
JGLS Student Coalition on Sedition

Faces in the Dark: Curating in Such Times of Sedition (Exhibition)

Parnab Mukherjee, Third Theatre Activist (with Dhrupadi Ghosh and Manas Acharya)

1.45-2.45pm Lunch

2.45-4.45pm Session III – CULTURES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY

Chair: Vik Kanwar, Assistant Director, Centre for Public Law and Jurisprudence, JGLS

1984: Monologue as Evidence

Jarnail Singh, Journalist and Author of ‘I Accuse...: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984’

What does the AFSPA got to do with peace?

Bimol Akoijam, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Curious Case of the Batla House Encounter and other Strange Stories
Manisha Sethi, President, Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association, New Delhi

4.45-5.00pm Closing Statement by JGLS Student Coalition on Sedition