[Anthropgrad] Seminar Notice

Wed Aug 13 17:31:30 EST 2008

South Asia Seminar Series

2.00 pm
Seminar Room A, August 20 2008

150 years of NGO work in India: a history of harmony and hostility;
conflict and compliance

Patrick Kilby, Coordinator, Master of Applied Anthropology and
Participatory Development (MAAPD) Program

Non-governmental organisations in India have a rich and vibrant history,
but one which has been characterised by a fluid relationship with the
state and state instrumentalities. Over the past 150 years the Indian
governments, both colonial and post-colonial, have played a key role in
the shaping Indian NGOs in terms of how they function in society, and
their often fraught relationships with the state. Likewise at key times
in India's history NGOs themselves have played a part in shaping the
State. Generally, though, Indian NGOs are reluctant to admit that the
state determines both the scope and nature of the work that they can
undertake, and to some extent their structural forms?but like it or not
the relationship with the state is a defining feature of Indian NGOs.
This paper will examine this history and its relations to broader NGO
discourse, in the light of current change to NGO regulation in India,
and examine the implications for NGO practice in India.

Dr Patrick Kilby
Coordinator
Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD)
Program
Room G24 A.D. Hope Building
Australian National University
ACT 0200, Australia
Ph: (612) 61254041
Mobile: 0401 453 216
Fax (612) 61252711
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/maapd

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      Dear Anthropgraders --

sorry this came through as junk before, don't know why, but here it is
again.  Francesca               

   RE: POST-GRAD WORKSHOPS WITH PROF SHERRY ORTNER

                                                October 21 and October
28

Hello Anthropgraders,

You may know Professor Sherry Ortner is visiting ANU in
October-November, and the Anthropology program has set aside two days -
October 21 and 28 - on which she will hold workshops with and for
post-grads.

She wants to organize each day around a theme - one, current social
theory; and the second, contemporary film.  (She is giving a talk in the
Wednesday seminar on October 15 on her current interest in class and
independent film-making in the U.S.).

There's an opportunity here for you to discuss your own work, with
either of the above emphases, on those days.  For her own opening
remarks for Oct 21 on social theory she will be presupposing her 2006
book, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting
Subject, Duke University Press  (so I'll shortly make an electronic copy
available for ease of access, announcement to follow. But you can
already access good parts of the book on the web).You will get some idea
of her interest in film from the Oct 15 seminar, and also from her work
on class which is represented in the 2006 book.

She'd eventually like those post-grads interested (in either session) to
write a one-page statement about your work, how it intersects with
topics in social theory (you can take her book as indicating what she's
been mainly concerned with).  She'd like these statements before the
event, and the easiest will be for me to collect them for her
electronically.

BUT you don't need to write this one-pager just yet.  What I'd like now
is just an indication of Post-grads' interest.

Are you interested in coming to one or both sessions? And  having the
chance to work with Sherry Ortner on those days and talking about her
work and yours, whether you're in the first, middle or last stages of a
thesis project -- in a small-group format? If so, which session would
you present some discussion of your work in?

Once I have an idea of people and numbers, more details will follow
about these two days.

Please let me know of your interest by email - 

thanks

Francesca Merlan

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