The 2nd national
conference of Adivasi School is going to be held on July 5-6, 2013 at Jamshedpur. The overwhelmed response by the
scholars in the last conference held on January, 24-25, 2012 at the Department
of Tribal and Regional Languages, Ranchi University, we encouraged and pleased
to announce the 2nd national conference of “Adivasi School-2013”.
Today, the adivasi issues have become the hot cake in
the national and international arena. Everyone wants to be called themselves as
the expert on adivasi issues without even knowing the crux of the problems and
solutions. This is the time of transition for adivasis; where they need to be more
vocal in their issues, so that the voice is echoed in the academic and
political world. Since, there are wide ranges of indigenous development issues
that can be addressed in the ongoing debates and discussion; hence we will try
to incorporate every article that has been written on adivasi issues within
Adivasi School.
Since the nominal independence that we get in 1947,
there were several plans and special programmes that have been introduced in
India for adivasis, but the real situation of adivasis are still the same. The
rights, under 5th schedule of constitution, PESA (1996), FRA (2006)
and Tribal Sub Plan (1974) etc. are meager eyewash and never been properly designed
to provide benefit to the adivasis. In many cases governments gives adivasis rs.
5 a kilo of rice and in return asks for their land and snatch the livelihoods.
At many places the government is killing adivasis in the name of naxalism and in
exchange giving few thousand rupees in compensation (contract killing).
Macaulay designed Indian education system to produce clerk and now, the
education system has further degraded to the extent that it can hardly produce
the clerks. Coincidentally, newspaper reporting
states that, failure rate is more than 55% at higher secondary level in
Jharkhand in 2011, which further deteriorated in 2012-13. Likewise there are
many core issues we need to address and make our academic claim and the ground
stronger.
The possible sub-themes can be- (1) Adivasi culture and Education (2) Rights of adivasis and Autonomy
(3) Adivasi Society in the Age of Globalization (4) Adivasi and Science
Education (5) Adivasis history till today (6) Gender Equality among Adivasis
(7) Customary Laws (8) Livelihood of adivasis (9) Education and Development
(10) Adivasi Literature and please suggest any other sub-themes under which paper can be
submitted.
Please send your final papers and slides at adivasischool@gmail.com
not later than June 30, 2013.
Your papers will be scrutinized and reviewed by experts committee from Adivasi
School and intimate you for the selection of your papers on 30th
June, 2013 itself by late night. The plan of the conference is on July
5-6, 2013. So please, send in your final paper as soon as possible. We
will provide the Schedule shortly. Our Guest of honor will be Professor
Virginius Xaxa (Director Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati and
currently member of National Advisory Council chaired by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi) and
Dr. Joseph Bara (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Additional Speakers are as
follows-
1. Dr. Vijay Baraik, Associate Professor, IGNOU
2. Mr. Abhay Xaxa, Research Scholar, JNU
3. Mr. Ganesh Manjhi, Research Scholar, JNU,
4. Mr. Raimul Bandra, TISS, Mumbai
5. Mr. Nikas Adwin Kindo, TISS, Mumbai
6. Ms. Meenashri Horo, Research Scholar, JNU
7. Mr. Laxmidhar Singh, TISS, Mumbai
8. Mr. Anurag Ekka, Research Scholar, JNU
9. Mr. Sunder Manoj Hembrom, Literature
10. Mr. Gladson Dungdung, Secretary Jharkhand Human
Rights Movement (JHRM) and Prsident-Indigenous People’s Alliance of India
(IPAI)
12. Mr. Sunil Minz, Human Rights Activist
13. Ms. Madhuri Xalxo, MA Dundee University
14. Dr. Bipin Jojo, Associate Professor, TISS, Mumbai
15. Dr. Gomati Bodra, Associate Professor, JMI
Thanks and regards,
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