The Society for Social and Economic Research is organising a Young Scholars’ Conference on “Exploring New Research Frontiers in Social Sciences”. The conference will be held on January 15–16, 2022 in online mode using zoom. Forty selected participants from various universities and research institutions in India would present their research papers in the conference. Please register for the conference using the following link.
Link for Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd-qorzgqG9z0NCGPyX6R_PsdwwASQhOV
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email including the zoom link for joining the meeting.
Conference Schedule
Jan 15, 2022
Session 1: 10:00 AM–10:30 AM
- Jesim Pais (SSER): Chair
- Suresh Garimella, Gayatri Balu and Manish Kumar (Organising Committee): About the Conference
Session 2: 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
- Jesim Pais (SSER): Chair
- Basit Abdullah (Centre for Development Studies): Employment Crisis and Decent Work Deficits: Challenge for Youth in India
- Deepti Mary Minj (University of Cambridge): Invisibility of the Indigenous Earth Diggers: A Study of the Skill, Work and Labour Movement of the Odh Community of Delhi, India
- Sarika Chaudhary (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Wages in India: Social Disparities and Well-being
- Shreya Nupur (Indian Institute of Technology Patna): Impact of Remittance on Household’s Self-reported Economic Well-being in Rural India
- Niyati S (International Rice Research Institute): Discussant
- Nelson Mandela S (National Institute of Urban Affairs): Discussant
Session 3a (Parallel Session): 12:00 PM -1:15 PM
- Avinash Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Chair
- Gautam Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Alcoholism and Alcohol Ban: The Case of Bihar
- Gomathy KN (University of Hyderabad): Where Pleasure Meets Precarity: Reflections from Ethnographic Study of Urban Home Gardening
- Kavithabh Kumar (University of Hyderabad): Significance of Mohalla Clinic as a Primary Healthcare Before and During Covid Pandemic
- Sipoy Sarveswar (Visva Bharati University): Discussant
Session 3b (Parallel Session): 12:00 PM–1:15 PM
- Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (Ranchi University): Chair
- Kinriwiliu R (Jawaharlal Nehru University): ’Naga’ Body Politics: Bareness or Nakedness?
- Neha Gautam (University of Hyderabad): Poster as a Political and Social Archive: Emerging Visual Discourse in Colonial India in Early 20th century
- Swapnil Choudhary (IISER Mohali): Atheism in Uttar Pradesh: Ideology of Arjak Sangh
- Dinesh Kataria (Delhi University): Discussant
Lunch: 1:15 PM–2:00 PM
Session 4: 2:00 PM–3:00 PM: Keynote Address
- Vikas Rawal (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Chair
- Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Formerly, Assistant Director General, FAO, and Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, UN-DESA): Identifying Our Own Social Science Priorities
Session 5a (Parallel Session): 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
- Suresh Garimella (SSER): Chair
- Ansh Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University): The Hungry Dead: Ritual, Food and Lineage in the Gṛhyasūtra Corpus of Early India
- Hinduja Ramesh (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Mercantile Community and Hydraulic Works in Early Medieval South India
- Nyamath Hussain Shaik (University of Hyderabad): Religious Faiths and Popular Practices: A Sociological Study of Dargahs as Interfaith Sacred Spaces in Andhra Pradesh
- Stooti Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Transformative Stages of Bhaona: The Creation of a Hybrid Stage for Actresses
- Srabani Chakraborty (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research): Discussant
- Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (Ranchi University): Discussant
Session 5b (Parallel Session): 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
- Pooja Lal (Delhi University): Chair
- Ayushya Kaul (Jamia Millia Islamia): The Nadru: Class, Religion and Conflict in Kashmir
- Pankaj Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Perception on Environmental Courts and Tribunals: Comparing Australia’s Land and Environment Court and India’s National Green Tribunal
- Pranav Menon (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Locating Pastoral Politics through a Sangathan–The Struggle amongst Van Gujjars under Forest Rights Act 2006
- Rohit James Joseph (Ashoka University): The Perils of Purification: A Synthetic Control Analysis of a Civilian Militia in India’s ’Red Corridor’
- Balu Sunilraj (Christ University): Discussant
- Piyush Kant (Tata Institute of Social Sciences): Discussant
Session 6: 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
- Navsharan Singh, Independent Researcher: Chair
- Chinju Johny (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): The Feminisation of Labour in India’s Garment Industry: A Case-study of NCR
- Mansi Mehta (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi): Falling Back Through Collectives: Enquiring the Linkages Between Women’s Participation in Collectives and their Fall-back Position within Household
- Samiksha Kapoor (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Trade Union’s Challenges in Organizing Female Domestic Workers in Delhi
- Smit Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Labour Conditions and Discrimination against Transgender in India: A Casestudy of Delhi NCR
- Gayatri Balu (SSER): Discussant
Jan 16, 2022
Session 7: 1:00 PM–2:00 PM: Special Lecture
- Manish Kumar (Delhi School of Economics): Chair
- Sudhanva Deshpande (Editor, Leftword Books): Special Lecture: How to Write – Or Not
Session 8: 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
- Pradeep Shinde (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Chair
- Anju Sanwal (Indira Gandhi National Open University): Study Approach of Undergraduates during Emergency Remote Teaching amid Covid-19 Pandemic in India
- Karan (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi): ’I Feel Disrespect when I Don’t Speak in English’: Experiences of Dalitbahujan Students in Higher Education
- Jaspreet Kaur (Punjab University): Job Satisfaction of Teacher Educators In Relation to Professional Commitment
- Pooja Rathore (Jawaharlal Nehru University): The Effect of School Mergers on Students Performance: A Case Study of India
- Sunaina K (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi): Discussant
Session 9a (Parallel Session): 3:30 PM–5:30 PM
- Satyaki Roy (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development): Chair
- Charitha Kommalapati (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Marx on Technology: Does It Help Us Understand Current Days’ IT Development?
- Gaganpreet Kaur Chadha (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Impact of Fiscal Deficit on Real Interest Rates: Evidence from 110 Countries
- Nanduri Kranthi (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): Can Informal-sector Enterprises become Sites of Capital Accumulation in India?
- Neha Jain (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Demographic Change and Private Savings in India
- Trisha Chandra (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Predicting Recessions and Economic Slowdowns: A Comparative Study of the United States and India
- Subin Dennis (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research): Discussant
Session 9b (Parallel Session): 3:30 PM–5:30 PM
- Santosh Verma (Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability): Chair
- Angshuman Sarma (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Restructuring of Tea Supply Chain and Intermediary Forms of Labour
- Rasmita Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Rural Households: A Village Study in Bhadrak District of Odisha
- Sania Jamal (Jamia Millia Islamia): Women Empowerment through National Food Security Act 2013: A Case study of Lakhimpur and Meerut districts of Uttar Pradesh
- Satheesha B (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): Agriculture and Rural Labour Markets in India: A State-Level Analysis
- Swastika Satyam (Central University of South Bihar): Prevalence of Child Malnourishment in Bihar: Evidence from NFHS-4, 2015-16
- Sunit Arora (SSER): Discussant
- Manish Kumar (Delhi School of Economics): Discussant
Session 10: 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
- Kalpana (Gitarattan International Business School): Chair
- Bincy Mariya N (IISER, Bhopal): Caste, Gender and Conversion in Kerala: A Study of Literary Representations
- Dhivya (Delhi University): Politics of Caste, Religious Worship and Temple Entry: Dalit Assertion in Tamil Nadu
- Kaushal Kumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai): Disabled Women’s Access to Justice and it’s Challenges in India: A Comparative Study of Register and Unregister Cases of Sexual Violence Against Women with Hearing and Speech Disability
- Oli Borah (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Poverty Status of Children in India: A Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis
- Suresh Garimella (SSER): Discussant
- Pindiga Ambedkar (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research): Discussant
Session 11: 7:00 PM–8:00 PM: Valedictory Address
- Jesim Pais (SSER): Chair
- John Harriss (Emeritus Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver): Where are we going? Reflections on social science research in the 2020s