The Center for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai is organizing an ICSSR sponsored national seminar on “Contesting Spaces & Negotiating Development - A Dialogue on Domestic seminar on “Contesting Spaces & Negotiating Development - A Dialogue on Domestic March 25 to March 26, 2016, aims to bring together leading social theorists, social scientists, policy makers, development researchers, demographers and civil society practitioners to examine the contested relationships between the state and domestic migrants and their implications for discursive and material practices of space, territory, nation-state, development and democracy in India.

The seminar is open for senior researchers/academics, independent researchers, post-doctoral, PhD and MPhil scholars from relevant social science disciplines. We also plan a poster session for select papers/ visuals/ documentaries from students in any discipline or course.

An abstract of maximum 500 words, with a brief resume of maximum 300 words should be sent by 15th January 2016. A committee will review and select from the proposals the final list of presenters to be invited. Invitations will be sent by 20th January 2016. The deadline for the submission of papers is 20th March, 2016.

The convener of the seminar is Dr. Ashwani Kumar and co-convener is Dr. Sandhya Iyer. Abstracts may be sent to Shashwat Dhar (Seminar coordinator) at shashwatdhar@yahoo.com & Souradeep Banerjee (Seminar coordinator) banerjeeakash33@gmail.com. For any queries about the seminar, kindly contact:

Nandan Kumar: (Contact No: 09004641456; Email: nandan_iips@rediffmail.com)

Shashwat Dhar: (Contact No: 09833744156; Email: shashwatdhar@yahoo.com)

Souradeep Banerjee: (Contact No: 08335038275; Email: banerjeeakash33@gmail.com)

For Further Details you may see the following link: 

http://www.tiss.edu/workshops-seminars-conferences-programme/national-seminar-oncontesting-spaces-negotiating-development-a-dialogue-on-domestic-migrants-state-andinclusive-citizenship-in-india