JNU
Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University and
Department of History, University of Warwick
Committee Room, Centre for Law and Governance
“Science, Technology and Medicine in India, 1930-2000: The Problem of Poverty”
17th-18th March 2011
Thursday, 17th March
Histories
11.30 -13.00: First Session: Chair: Dr. Mohan Rao
Welcome: Prof. Rama Baru
Introduction: Dr.Sarah Hodges
Prof. David Arnold (Warwick): “The Medicalization of Poverty: India, 1890-1940”
13.00-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-16.00: Second Session: Chair: Prof.K.R.Nayar
Prof. David Hardiman (Warwick): “The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 in the Adivasi Tracts of
Western India”
Ms Rebecca Williams (Warwick): “The Khanna Study: Population and Poverty 1953-1969”
16-00-16-30: Tea break
16.30-17.30: Third Session: Chair: Dr. Ramila Bisht
Dr. Joydeep Sen (Warwick): “The Problem of Poverty: Representing Science and Technology
in India at the London Science Museum, 1982”
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Friday, 18th March
Futures
09.30-11.30: First Session: Chair: Dr.Sarah Hodges
Dr.Vikas Rawal (JNU): “Income Poverty and Inequality: Faces in Rural India”
Dr.Kaustav Banerjee (JNU): “Resowing Misery: An Analysis of the Impending Second Green
Revolution in India”
11.15-11.30: Tea Break
11.30-13.30 : Second Session: Chair: Prof.David Arnold
Ms. Lakshmi Kutty (CSMCH, JNU): “Poverty as Artefact, As Mirage, As Context: Scientific
Responses to Tuberculosis”
Dr. Harish Naraindas (CSS, JNU): “Build Back Better and the Creation of a Psychic Economy
of Want: A Perspective on Privation”
13.30-14.30: Lunch Break
14.30-16.30: Third Session: Chair: Prof.David Hardiman
Ms. Divya Padmanabhan (CSS, JNU) “Locating ‘Poverty’ in Mental Health Legislation and
Policy in India: A Study of the Mental Health Act”.
Dr.Indira Chakravarthy (Public health researcher): “Issues in the Study of Medical
Technology: A Way Forward”
Vote of Thanks: Mohan Rao
16.30-17.00: Tea
With the kind assistance of the British Academy.
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