Madhavi Menon
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Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University in Delhi. She works on questions of desire and identity, and is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in the English Renaissance (2004) and Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (2008). Her current work is on ideas of difference and indifference in relation to sexuality, culture, and temporality. |
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“We Have Always Been Lesbians”
Jonathan Gil Harris
| Jonathan Gil Harris, Professor of English at Ashoka University, is interested in early modern understandings of globalization and the foreign, and how these have helped shape our knowledge and experiences of bodies, disease, commerce, time, and religious difference. He is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic (1998), Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (2004), Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (2009), Shakespeare and Literary Theory (2010), and Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise (2012). |  |
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“The First Firangis”
Rich Rice
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Rich Rice is Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University, USA, where he directs the department’s Multiliteracy Lab. He teaches courses in new media, intercultural communication, rhetoric, and technical communication. His most recent co-edited collection is entitled ePortfolio Performance Support Systems. He focuses on problem-based universal design, study abroad models, mobile medicine, photo essays, media labs, faculty professionalization, and hypermediated teaching philosophies. |
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“New Media Translocal Communication”
Jayati Ghosh
| Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi. Since 2002 she has been the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS). Her recent books include Work and well being in the age of finance; The market that failed: Neoliberal economic reforms in India; Tracking the macroeconomy; Never done and poorly paid: Women’s work in globalising India; and After Crisis: Adjustment, recovery and fragility in East Asia. |  |
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“Incorporation and Exclusion in the Indian Economy”
Kanika Batra
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Kanika Batra is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Texas Tech University. She specializes in Postcolonial literatures and teaches and researches Postcolonial Feminism and Postcolonial Queer Studies. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Callaloo, Feminist Review, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Her third book, scheduled to appear in 2015, is entitled Postcolonial Counterpublics: Genders and Sexualities in Print. |
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“Theatre and the Right to Food Staples in India”
Richard Mahapatra
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Richard Mahapatra, a senior editor with Down To Earth magazine, has been reporting on development issues for the last 15 years. He has been writing on the linkages between environment and poverty. His reporting analyses and discusses developments at village level in the wider context of national and global changes.
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“Reporting Globalisation from a Village Dateline”
GN Devy
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GN Devy writes in three languages – English, Marathi and Gujarati – and has won literary awards for his various works in all three languages. He is the founder of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, the Adivasi Akademi, Tejgadh, and the Budhan Theatre, Ahmedabad. He headed and led the 50 volume People’s Linguistic Survey of India. His major books in English include After Amnesia, A Nomad Called Thief and The GN Devy Reader. |
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“Why Do the Adivasis Want to Speak?”
Mary E John
| Mary E. John is currently Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. Her areas of interest span the cross- and anti-disciplinary fields of women and gender studies; she has been working in and writing about feminist politics for over two decades. She is presently Co-Chair of the UGC Task Force on Issues of Safety for Women and Youth on Indian Campuses. Recent publications include Women’s Studies in India: A Reader (2008); the co-authored Planning Families, Planning Gender: The Adverse Child Sex Ratio in North India (2008), and guest editing Seminar on the issue of Democratizing Knowledge: A Symposium on Reforming Higher Education (August 2011). |  |
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“Re-Thinking Violence Against Women”
Ambai
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Ambai (CS Lakshmi) is a historian and a creative writer in Tamil. She has been an independent researcher in Women’s Studies for the last thirty-five years. Her stories have been translated in two volumes entitled A Purple Sea and In a Forest, A Deer. She is currently the Director of SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women) and the series Editor of five volumes of translations of 87 writers from 23 languages of India. |
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“Ways of Seeing: Text, Translation and Authors Who Refuse to Die”
Sadanand Menon
| Sadanand Menon has been exploring the charged space linking politics and culture for several decades through his work in media, pedagogy and activism. He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, and at the Humanities Department of IIT, Madras. He is member of Apex Advisory Panel, National Museum, Delhi, of Apex Advisory Committee, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru, of Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi, of the General Council, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and Managing Trustee of SPACES, Chennai. |  |
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“State of Arts Institutions in India”
Sundar Sarukkai
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Sundar Sarukkai is the Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities, Manipal University, India. He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language (2002), Philosophy of Symmetry (2004), Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (2005), What is Science? (2012) and The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (2012, co-authored with Gopal Guru). He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Leonardo Book Series published by MIT Press and the Series Editor for Science and Society, Routledge. |
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“Thinking and Learning in the Age of Maggi Noodles”
Vinod K Jose
| Vinod K. Jose is the Executive Editor of The Caravan and an award-winning journalist. He has previously worked as a producer from South Asia for public radio stations in the US and Europe. He is also doctor in Sociology. The Oz Prize jury 2013 cited his articles “The Emperor Uncrowned: The Rise of Narendra Modi”, a profile of Gujarat’s Chief Minister and “On the Success of Ethics”, about the state of media industry in India, for reporting excellence. |  |
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“Media and Responsibility”
Anil Gupta
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Anil K Gupta is Professor at Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), Executive Vice Chair of National Innovation Foundation, Founder of Honey Bee Network, SRISTI and GIAN, Fellow of The World Academy of Art and Science (California 2001) and Member of the National Innovation Council. He aims at supporting social innovations in public and private sectors to expand entrepreneurial opportunities for disadvantaged people, and to strengthen the pursuit of authenticity in public life. He and his project received multiple national and international honours. |
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“India Reimagined, Redefined and Reignited:
A perspective on the grassroots, youthful creativity and innovation”
Harsh Mander
| Harsh Mander, social worker and writer, works with survivors of mass violence, hunger, homeless persons, street children, minorities, bonded workers and other marginalized people. His books include Unheard Voices: Stories of Forgotten Lives; The Ripped Chest: Public Policy and the Poor in India, Fear and Forgiveness: The Aftermath of Massacre; Fractured Freedom: Chronicles from India’s Margins, Untouchability in Rural India (co-authored), and his newest Ash in the Belly: India’s Unfinished Battle against Hunger. He regularly writes columns for the Hindu and Hindustan Times. |  |
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“Inequality and Indifference in India”
Srinath Reddy
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Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is presently President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and he formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He has served on many WHO expert panels and is presently the President of the World Heart Federation (2013-14). Prof. Reddy is a member of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, established to assist the United Nations in developing the post-2015 goals for sustainable development. He chairs the Thematic Group on Health in the SDSN. |
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“Universal Health Coverage for India: Dream or Development Imperative?”