JNU
Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
and Department of History, University of Warwick, present
Science, Technology and Medicine in India, 1930-2000:
The Problem of Poverty
22nd - 23rd March 2012
Venue: Committee Room I, School of Social Sciences, II
Thursday, 22nd March
1000-1045
Welcome: Dr Mohan Rao (JNU)
Introductory Remarks: Dr Ritu Priya (JNU)
Overview of Project: Dr Sarah Hodges (Warwick)
1045-1100: Tea Break
1100-1300: First Session
Chair: Dr Rama Baru
Dr Dhruv Raina (JNU): The Different Worlds of Indigenous Science
Dr Jahnavi Phalkey (KCL): Science, Poverty and the Reconstruction of India
13.00-14.00: Lunch break
1400-1530: Second Session
Chair: Dr Sarah Hodges
Dr. Rajeswari Raina (NISTADS): Science, Technology and the Disjuncture between Food and
Nutrition Policy
Banojyotsna Lahiri (JNU): Scientific Forest Management, Expropriation and the Production
of Poverty
1530-1400: Tea
Friday, 2rd March
0930-11: Third Session
Chair: Dr Mohan Rao
Rebecca Williams (Warwick): Surveillance for Equity? ‘Epidemographic’ Interventions from
the Khanna Study and Beyond
Dr Rama Baru (JNU): Commercialisation and the Poverty of Health Services
1100-1130: Tea Break
1130-1300: Fourth Session
Chair: Dr K R Nayar
Dr Sarah Hodges (Warwick): Limits to Speculative Surplus Value: Cord Blood Banking in
Chennai
Dr Sunita Reddy (JNU): Poverty, Desperation and Aspirations: A Story of Surrogacy
1300-1400: Lunch Break
1400-1630: Fifth Session
Chair: Dr Ritu Priya
Gauri Raje (Warwick): Gaining Legitimacy to Practise: Private Doctors in Tribal Regions of
Gujarat
Kumaran M (JNU): Agrarian Classes, Distress and Poverty: Findings from an Empirical Study
in Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh
Ann Isaac (JNU): Trajectories of Development and Agrarian Distress in Wayanad District,
Kerala
Vote of Thanks: Dr Mohan Rao (JNU)
1630-1700: Tea
Funded by the British Academy