Keynote Address What the Nation really needs to know about JNU: Dissent, Sedition and the Difference it Makes Janaki Nair Janaki Nair teaches history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Janaki Nair began her keynote by sharing her experiences of being a part of curriculum and textbook development at the NCERT. NCERT…
Keynote address From National Culture to Cultural Nationalism Sadanand Menon Sadanand Menon is adjunct faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, IIT Madras and Presidency University, Kolkata. Sadanand Menon elucidated how the initial idea of national culture morphs into the problematic of cultural nationalism. The idea of nationalism, which precedes the nation itself, constructs itself around…
In an increasingly polarized world where extremism and hatred seem to be on the rise globally, public debate seems to be driven more by emotions than facts often leading to curtailed opinion making. Media/social media often add fuel to the fire. In our education system there is little room for any discourse outside of the…
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME PLAN 10,11,12 November 2016 Venue: The Harrington Streets Arts Centre ‘a nationalist discourse in a time when there is no longer a national liberation struggle against an external power, and oppression where it exists has become internal.’—Perry Anderson Day 1 (10 November) The Idea of Nationalism Keynote Address by Sadanand Menon [9.15 a.m.-10.30…
DAY 1 When I arrived at the Harrington Art Centre on the morning of 30th July 2015, I was convinced that my phone had conspired to make me arrive late—it was stubbornly declaring the time to be 8.30 when I could clearly see that seats had already been occupied for the conference that was supposed…
