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Several lectures
and seminars are
organized by the
Institute every
year. Some
of these are
presentations by
scholars, from
within the
institute as
well as from
outside.
Speakers range
from renowned
scholars to
freshers in the
field of
research.
Officials and
social activists
form a sizable
section of the
speakers.
In addition to
the individual
presentations,
the institute
organizes
several special
seminars on
topics of
interest.
For nearly
thirty years the
Institute has
been conducting
three important
annual workshops
every year.
One is for
improvement of
the Ph D
Scholars and
Guides in the
state.
Another is to
foster
inter-university
cooperation
among social
scientists.
The third is to
promote
inter-disciplinary
research, which
is one of the
objectives of
the Institute.
To foster
academic
cooperation
between the
Institute and
the Universities
of Tamilnadu,
the workshop of
Ph D Scholars
and Guides is
conducted every
year since 1978.
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Workshop on
Global Financial
Crisis and
Indian Economic
Revival
and
Valedictory
Function for
Professor
Malcolm
Adiseshiah
Centenary
Date: April 30,
2010.
The workshop
under the theme:
“Global
Financial Crisis
and Indian
Economic
Revival” is
organised as
part of the
concluding event
of the year long
celebrations of
Dr. Malcolm S.
Adiseshiah
Centenary at
MIDS. The
workshop aims to
assess the
impacts of
global financial
crisis on Indian
economy and
discuss the
efficacy of the
policy measures
that are being
undertaken to
revive the
Indian economy
and to insulate
it from the
effects of
ongoing global
recession.
Invitation and
Programme
Schedule
Report on Prof
Malcolm
Adiseshiah
Centenary
Celebration - R
Maria Saleth,
Director, MIDS
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Founder's Day
Lecture 2010:
The Founder's
Day Lecture is
organised in
honour of the
founder of MIDS,
Dr Malcolm S
Adiseshiah
(1910-1994).
Topic:
The Power of
Uncertainty:
Reflections on
the Nature of
Transformational
Initiatives,
Dr Mihir Shah,
Member, Planning
Commission,
Government of
India
Date: 20 April
2010, 5:30 pm.
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Feminist
Research
Methodology
A
four day
MIDS-IAWS
Workshop was
organized
between 23rd
February and 26th
February 2010 at
the Institute.
The first day’s
session began
with the
inaugural
address by Prof.
Maria Saleth,
Director, MIDS.
Three papers
were presented:
(1)Women’s
Studies:
Emergence of a
Discipline,
Prof. Maithreyi
Krishnaraj,
Bangalore
(2)Women and
Work: A Feminist
Perspective,
Prof Padmini
Swaminathan,
MIDS and (3)
Measuring Gender
Differences:
Using Adult
Nutritional
Status, Prof
Brinda
Viswanathan,
Madras School of
Economics.
Prof. Maithreyi
Krishnaraj
introduced the
participants and
moderated the
discussions.
On the second
day February 24
– two papers
were presented:
(1) Exploring
Cross-disciplinary
Approach to
Researching the
Family by Prof.
Kalpana
Kannabiran; by
ASMITA Resource
Centre for
Women,
Hyderabad (2)
Gender,
Environment and
Livelihood: Some
Methodological
Issues by Dr.
Sagari Ramdas,
Hyderabad. On
February 25th
– four papers
were presented:
(1) Feminist
Research in
Health:
Experiences and
Issues by Dr.
Renu Khanna
(2)Interface
Between Violence
– Law – Feminist
Method Dr.
Rukmini Sen,
Centre for
Women’s Studies,
New Delhi (3)
Women and
Violence: Toward
a Feminist
Methodology by
Prof. U.Vindhya,
Centre for
Economic and
Social Studies,
Hyderabad (4)
Feminist
Approach to
Justice Delivery
System: The
case of Family
Courts by Ms
Geetha
Ramaseshan,
Senior Advocate,
High Court of
Madras,
Chennai. The
last session on
February 26th
was by Ms V
Geetha, Writer
and Feminist
Historian,
Chennai. This
was followed by
a presentation
by Dr. Sarah
Hodges, Dept. of
History,
University of
Warwick, UK on
History and
Feminism. The
session
concluded with
distribution of
certificates to
the
participants.
In all around 25
persons
participated in
the workshop.
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Documentary film
festival and
photo exhibition
MIDS organized
between January
25-27, 2010 a
three day film
festival and
photo exhibition
on “Imaging
Dalit Reality:
Politics of
Visual
Representation”.
The festival
included award
winning films
such as The
Untouchable
Country, She
Write and Note
From a
Crematorium.
Eminent scholars
like Anand
Teltumbde and
others took
part in the
three day
event. For the
first time, the
MIDS and the
Dalit
Intellectual
Collective (DIC)
organized this
festival
especially to
expose the
cultural
marginalization
and the crisis
of identity
faced by the
dalits.
Programme
Schedule and
Details
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Adiseshiah
Centenary Public
Lecture
As part of the
Centenary Public
Lecture, Prof
Ramasamy R. Iyer
delivered the
lecture on
`Water Laws’ on
January 5, 2010
at the
Institute.
Prof. Ramasamy
R. Iyer is with
the Centre for
Policy Research,
New Delhi.
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Malcolm
Adiseshiah
Memorial Lecture
C.P.
Chandrasekar,
Professor at the
Centre for
Economic Studies
and Planning,
JNU, New Delhi
was the
recipient of the
Malcolm
Adiseshiah Award
for
Distinguished
Contributions to
Development
Studies for
2009. The
Malcolm
Adiseshiah
Memorial Lecture
for 2009 was
delivered by him
on the theme:
“Global
Imbalances and
the Dollar’s
Future” on
November 20,
2009 at MIDS.
The author
argued that SDR
may be good as a
supplementary
reserve that
aids
diversification
of the
composition of
reserves of
individual
countries. But
it falls short
of the
requirements
that a true
reserve currency
must meet unlike
the dollar.
While the dollar
lacks the
legitimacy to
serve as the
world’s reserve,
it dominates
because the time
for its
substitute is
yet to come. He
asserted that
some form of
international
currency union
or
institutionalization
of global
economic
coordination
would be
necessary for an
independent
global currency
to serve as a
reserve.
He has served on
the Standing
Committee on
Industrial
Statistics of
the CSO, and
currently chairs
two technical
advisory
committees
constituted by
the GOI for
developing
indices to
capture
movements in the
prices and
production of
services,
respectively.
He is a founding
executive
committee member
of international
development
economics
associates, and
plays an
important role
in managing its
outreach
activities. He
is a regular
columnist for
Frontline and
Business Line
The Award
function was
jointly
organized by the
M&EA Trust and
MIDS and held
on November 20,
2009 at the
Adiseshiah
Auditorium.
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Special Workshop
A
two days
workshop on
“Climate Change,
Vulnerability
and Livelihood
Resilence:
Towards
Transport Water
Policy and Water
Governance” was
held on August
26-27, 2009 at
the Institute.
This was funded
by IWMI-TATA
Water Policy
Programme. The
seminar was
organized by
Dr.
S.Janakarajan.
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Special Lecture
A
special lecture
to commemorate
the centenary
celebration on
Globalisation:
An Analysis of
key aspects of
the Emergence of
big malls and
Retails in India
was delivered by
Prof Kaliappa
Kalirajan,
Crawford School
of Economics &
Government,
Australian
National
University,
Canberra. It
was held on July
9, 2009 at the
Institute.
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Launch function
for Centenary
Celebrations
The launch
function for
Malcolm
Adiseshiah
Centenary
Celebrations
started with a
memorial lecture
on May 4, 2009.
Prof M.S.
Swaminathan,
Member, Rajya
Sabha Chairman,
M. S.
Swaminathan
Research
Foundation
delivered the
lecture on
“Agrarian
Crisis: The Way
Ahead.”
This was
followed by an
MIDS-NABARD
co-sponsored
workshop on
Financing for
Rural
Development.”
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Founders’ Day
Lecture
The Founders’
Day Lecture on
“Lineages of
Political
Society” was
delivered by
Prof. Partha
Chatterjee on
April 3, 2009 at
MIDS. Partha
Chatterjee is
Professor at the
Centre for
Studies in
Social Sciences,
Calcutta and was
its Director
from 1997 to
2007. He has a
Ph.D in
Political
Science from the
University of
Rochester,
U.S.A. and he is
also a Professor
of Anthropology
at Columbia
University. He
has held many
visiting
professorships
across Europe,
Asia and North
America.
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