ICSSR SPONSORED ONE DAY NATIONAL SEMINAR ON

“CHILDHOOD AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT”

ORGANIZED BY

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

IN COLLABORATION WITH

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

HIRALAL MAZUMDAR MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN,

DAKSHINESWAR, KOLKATA-35

DATE: 17TH MARCH 2020

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure and privilege to invite you all to the ICSSR sponsored One Day
National Seminar on ‘Childhood and Intersectionality in the Indian Context’ organized
by the Department of Sociology in collaboration with the Department of English,
Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College for Women, Dakshineswar, Kolkata on 17 th of
March 2020. We sincerely hope that your participation in the seminar will make it a
successful academic event. We solicit your gracious presence on this auspicious
occasion.

Dr. Soma Ghosh Dr. Chandrabali Dutta

Principal Convener & Organizing Secretary

Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College for Women,

Dakshineswar, Kolkata.

About the seminar

Sociology of childhood as a field of study has seen only a nascent beginning in India
where children are primarily projected as objects of socialization and social control.
The study of children and childhood from intersectional perspective is still an
uncharted territory in India. Their subjective standpoints, expressions and experiences
in differential socio-cultural, economic and political settings and in intersection with
various other social dimensions have not yet been researched adequately. There is still
an acute dearth of research in India on Sociology of Childhood especially on areas like
how children’s everyday experiences in family in terms of their socialization,
consumption patterns etc. vary according to their social class and gender, how they face
differential educational opportunities on the basis of their ascribed caste status or
ethnicity and even class backgrounds etc. Children with special needs are also often not
researched differently during the study of children’s educational opportunities and
achievements. Under this backdrop this proposed seminar attempts to bring forth the
need for applying intersectionality (the ‘buzzword’ of present times, primarily coined
by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989) in understanding children and childhoods in India; to
focus on social construction of childhood and children’s identities in India with
reference to intersecting experiences; and finally to initiate a rigorous discourse on
importance of intersectional understanding in relation to childhood researches in India.

Seminar Advisory Committee:

1. Sri Madan Mitra (President, Governing Body)

2. Dr. Soma Ghosh (Principal).
3. Dr. Rupa Sen (IQAC Coordinator).
4. Dr. Lipika Mullick (Bursar).
5. Sri Pradipta Mukherjee (Convener of Seminar Sub-committee).
6. Dr. Pritha Kundu (Joint Convener of Seminar Sub-committee and the seminar).
7. Dr. Chandrabali Dutta (Convener and Organizing Secretary of the Seminar).
8. Sri Sayantan Ghosh (Joint Convener of the seminar).
9. Smt. Kamalika Das Majumder (Organizing Member of the seminar)
10. Smt. Piyali Mitra (Organizing Member of the Seminar).

Programme Schedule

9.30-10.30- Registration

10.30-11.30- Inaugural Session- Lighting the Lamp & Vedic Chant

Welcome Address by Principal of the College Dr. Soma Ghosh

Address by Guest of Honour- Prof. Basab Chowdhury, Hon’ble

Vice Chancellor, West Bengal State University.

11.30-12.00- Keynote Address by Prof. Bula Bhadra, Professor & Head, Dept.
of Sociology, Sister Nivedita University, Newtown, Kolkata, &
Professor (Ret’d), Dept. of Sociology, University of Calcutta and
 Secretary, Sociology of Childhood (Research Committee 53),
International Sociological Association.

12.10-2.00- Technical Session- I

Speakers:

Dr. Nandita Chaudhary, Retired Faculty, Department of Human

Development and Childhood Studies; Lady Irwin College,
University of Delhi.

Dr. Anandini Dar, Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator,

MA Education, School of Education Studies; Ambedkar
University Delhi.

Mr. Deep Purakayastha, Senior Executive Director-Praajak.

Chairperson: Prof. Bula Bhadra.

2.10-2.45- Lunch

2.45-3.45- Technical Session-II

Speakers:

Dr. Piyali Sur, Professor and Head, Department of Sociology,

Jadavpur University, Convener of Research Committe 24
(Sociology of Childhood and Youth) of Indian Sociological Society
(ISS).

Dr. Gargi Gangopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of

English, Ramkrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan.

Chairperson: Dr. Indranil Acharya, Professor of English,

Vidyasagar University.

3.50-4.50- Paper Presentations to be chaired by Dr. Aniruddha Chaudhary,

Visiting Faculty in the Department of Sociology, West Bengal State
University and Former Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology, Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College for Women.

5.00-5.15- Speech by Hon’ble President of Governing Body of H.M.M College

Sri Madan Mitra.
5.15-5.30- Valedictory Session to be conducted by Dr. Madhumita Sen,
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Govt. Girls’
General Degree College, Ekbalpore and Member- Governing Body
of H.M.M College.

 Registration Fees:
Registration can be done online from 3rd March 2020. The rates of registration
fees are as follows:

 Teachers/Research Scholars: Rs. 250/-

 Students (UG & PG): Rs. 150/-
 Teachers/Research Scholars whose papers will be selected for Presentation and
Publication are requested to pay Rs. 300/-.
 Bank Details: Name: H.M.M. College for Women
A/C No.: 10559212041
IFSC: SBIN0004786
Bank: State Bank of India
Branch: Dakshineswar.

 Important Dates:

 Last date for submission of Abstract: 11th March 2020 (12 midnight)
 Acceptance of abstracts will be conveyed by 13th March 2020.
 Submission of Full Paper by 31st March 2020.
 Selected and accepted abstracts will be published in the Abstract Volume and
the full papers within 3000-3500 words with APA 6th edition style of referencing
will be published as Proceedings of Seminar with an ISBN.
 No further extension of deadlines will be entertained.
 Abstracts to be sent to chandrabali_d@yahoo.com,
pritha_kundu2@rediffmail.com.
 Participants including paper presenters are requested to send their filled up
registration form and details of payment of registration fees (Bank
Challan/NEFT details/Fund Transfer details) before 15th March 2020.

Abstract format: Abstracts written in English will be accepted only. Authors have to
write abstracts within 300 words in Times New Roman (Font size 12), with 1.5 spacing
and justified format. Abstracts will contain Title of the paper, Five Key words, Name,
Full Designation and Institutional Affiliation of the Author. Abstracts will also have to
be in tune with the theme of the seminar, failing which they might be subject to
rejection by the organizers.
 Sub-themes of the seminar:

 Sociology of Childhood in India: Issues and Challenges.

 Intersectional approach as a theoretical and methodological tool to study
childhood in India.
 Children within the family: the Intersectional approach.
 Experiences of Children in India: Intersections of Gender, Class, Caste,
Ethnicity, Religion etc..
 Study of Children in Urban India: The Intersectional approach.
 Study of Children in Rural India: The Intersectional approach.
 Study of Differently-abled Children: The Intersectional approach.

Abstracts and full papers should address any of these subthemes or other issues
related to the main theme and authors are requested to mention in their abstract
the specific subtheme under which the abstract is written.

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