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International Seminar on Marriage in Globalizing Contexts Exploring Change & Continuity in SouthAsia
Posted Date: 11 Sep 2008 Resource Type: News/Announcements Category: Conference and Symposium
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Posted By: josephdx Member Level: Gold
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International Seminar on Marriage in Globalizing Contexts
Exploring Change and Continuity in South Asia
Dates: September 24, 25 and 26, 2008
Venue: IRD Conference Room, IITD
Organisers: Prof. Ravinder Kaur (Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, IITD), Prof. Rajni Palriwala (Head, Department of Sociology, Delhi
School of Economics, University of Delhi) and Dr. Shalini Grover (Institute of
Economic Growth)
Research papers will be presented by scholars working on issues of marriage in
the countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
Participating scholars are from the above countries and from USA, Canada, UK
and Japan.
List of Paper Presenters and Title of Papers
1. Patricia Uberoi (Institute of Chinese Studies, CSDS, Delhi)
Overview of Sociology of Marriage in South Asia (Keynote Address)
2. Akshay Chowdhry (University of Delhi)
Matrimonial Considerations and Dowry amongst the Maithil Brahmins
3. Anuja Agrawal (University of Delhi)
Buying and selling wives: Bride price and dowry in the discourse on marriage
among the Bedias
4. Janaki Abraham (JNU, Delhi)
Marriage, Matriliny and the Idea of the ‘Providing Husband’: Understanding
Transformations
5. Pushpesh Kumar (SRTM University, Maharashtra)
Transgressions, Accommodations and Change: Configuring Gender and Sexuality
within Marriage Practices of the Kolams
6. Shalini Grover (Institute of Economic Growth)
Love, Re-Marriage and Widowhood Amongst Delhi’s Urban Poor
7. Shelly Tara and P. Vigneswara (HSS, IITD)
Western Work Worlds and Altering Approaches to Marriage: An Empirical Study of
Woman Call Centre Employees in India
8. Ravinder Kaur and Priti Dhanda (HSS, IITD and Pricewaterhouse Coopers,
Delhi)
e-kanyadaan: Impact of online marriage portals on Indian matrimony
9. Anwar Shaheen (University of Karachi)
An Interface between Women’s Status, Economic Participation and Marital
Obligations: A Perception Survey in Urban Karachi
10. Henrike F. Donner (London School of Economics)
Love, Marriage, Class and Parenthood: Shifting Understandings of Intimate
Relationships in Middle-Class Calcutta Families
11. Johanna Lessinger (City University of New York)
Love and Marriage in the Shadow of the Sewing Machine: Case Studies from
Chennai India
12. Katherine Lemons (University of California, Berkeley)
Sharia Courts and the Negotiation of Muslim Marriages in Delhi
13. Lester Andrist, Manjishtha Banerji and Sonalde Desai (University of
Maryland)
Marriage as Performance: Examining Age at Marriage in India
14. Maitreyi Das and Sajeda Amin (Washington D.C.)
Marriage in Bangladesh: Change and Continuity
15. Makiko Habazaki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Widowhood and Remarriage: A Study of Single Women's Survival Strategy in
Nepal
16. Sidharthan Maunaguru (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Brokering Marriages: The Figure of the Marriage Broker and the Sri Lankan
Tamil Marriages in the Time of Political Violence
17. Amali Philips (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada)
Continuities and Changes in Marriage Ideologies and Practices in the Context of
Work and Culture Amongst Tamil Workers on Sri Lanka’s Tea Plantations
18. Priti Ramamurthy (University of Washington, USA)
Marriage and Peasant Capitalism in Andhra Pradesh
19. Sonam Chuki (Royal Institute of Management, Bhutan)
Changing Marriage Patterns in Bhutan
20. Srimati Basu (University of Kentucky, USA)
Between Welfare, Equity and Efficiency: Tracing the Trajectory of Indian
Marriage Law
21. Sylvia Vatuk (University of Chicago at Illinois, USA)
Change and Continuity in Marital Alliance Patterns amongst Muslims in South
India
22. Shareen Josi, . Quy-Toan Do and Sriya Iyer (Georgetown University, USA)
The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages
For more details, visit http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/Notice_for_IIT_website.pdf
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