Inaugural meeting of the Sciences Po South Asia Program

9:00: Opening by Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po Provost

9:30: Introductory remarks by Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga, Former President of Sri Lanka and a Sciences Po alumna

10:00 – 12:30 : A Crisis of a Different Magnitude

Chair: Alexandre Mariani, Sciences Po-DAI
Discussant: Charlotte Halpern, Sciences Po-CEE/CNRS

Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS
Hydric Stress, Air Pollution and Deforestation in India

Isha Ray, Berkeley University/LSE
Community and the Commons: Case Studies from India, Nepal and Bangladesh

                                                                  --- Lunch break ---

13:45 – 16:45 South Asian Cities and Climate Change

Chair: Sukriti Issar, Sciences Po-CRIS/CNRS
Discussant: Laurent Gayer, Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Lalitha Kamath, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Fisher Stories that Reframe Climate Action in Mumbai

Umair Javed, Lahore University of Management Studies, Lahore
Urban Villages, Environmental Transformation, and Local Politics in Lahore

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements, Dakha
The Future is Fluid: Water as an Existential Theme in Architecture and Urbanism in Bangladesh

9:00 – 11:00: Rural Issues and Agricultural Innovations

Chair: Olivia Aubriot, CESAH-EHESS/CNRS
Discussant: Hemal Thakker, Sciences Po alumnus

Frédéric Landy, Nanterre University
An Agriculture Adapted to the Instability of Tropical Climates, but not yet to Climate Change

Anne Sophie Poisot, Office of Innovation, FAO
Micro-Farming and Macroeconomic Transitions Towards Climate-Resilient Agroecology in Andhra Pradesh, India

11:00 – 12:30: Panel discussion on South Asia and Climate Negotiations

--- Lunch break ---

14:00 – 16:45: Mitigation, Adaptation and Resistance

Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po-CSO/CNRS
From Performative to Transformative Environmentalism: Seeking Cross-Class Coalitions for Climate Justice

Clément Imbert, Sciences Po-Economy Department
Climate Change and Seasonal Migration in India: Evidence from Railway Data

Matthew Gordon, Paris School of Economics
Targeting Disaster Aid: Visibility and vulnerability after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

--- Coffee break ---

REGISTRATION

For over 30 years, the EASTR organizes annual meetings, "STRs European Days" or "Euro-Mediterranean Observatory of public territorial action" which have gathered about 3000 State territorial representatives - prefects, governors, Regierungspräsident , voïvodes or commissioners in 40 different European cities, through 20 countries. The European Days focus on the exchange of experience and professional best practices. The Observatory for its part seeks to promote better coordination of public and private actors for the development of territories.

Intervention de Olivier Borraz : 

The role of state territorial representatives in managing natural disasters 

Venue : Sciences Po - Salons scientifiques, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris  

Le colloque “Réformer le capitalisme de l’intérieur? Acteur·ices, pratiques, mondes sociaux“, à l’initiative de l’équipe ANR PROVIRCAP, aura lieu les 30 et 31 mai 2024 sur le campus Jourdan de l’ENS, 48 bd Jourdan, Paris. Amphithéâtre Jourdan et salle R1-09

Entrée libre et gratuite dans la limite des places disponibles

Comité d’organisation: Pauline Barraud de Lagerie, Laure Bereni, Élodie Béthoux, Anne Bory, Thomas Depecker, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Alice Lavabre

Comité scientifique: Pauline Barraud de Lagerie, Laure Bereni, Élodie Béthoux, Anne Bory, Frédérique Déjean, Thomas Depecker, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Alice Lavabre, Antoine Machut, Xavier Monnier, Élise Penalva-Icher, Scarlett Salman, Chloé Socha

Contact et inscription: reformerlecapitalisme@gmail.com

Voir le programme 

Witnessing through Literature and the Arts:
A Transdisciplinary Symposium

May 30 & 31, 2024
Sciences Po, Campus de Paris
1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin

 Thursday, May 30 

1:45 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 

2-4 pm Panel I- Narratives of Witnessing: Intersections of History, Testimony, and Memory in Genocide Studies 
Chairperson: Larissa Muraveva (Bard College Berlin) 

Boris Adjemian (CRH-EHESS), “Early Narratives on the Armenian Genocide: Aram Andonian, Writer and Witness” 

Judith Lyon-Caen (CRH-EHESS), “What does form testify to? Epistemologies of Testimony among Holocaust Survivor-Historians”

Frédérik Detue (CTELA-Univ. Côte d’Azur.), Charlotte Lacoste (CREM-Univ. Lorraine), Judith Lyon-Caen (CRH-EHESS): “On Interdisciplinarity and Testimony” 

4:30-6 pm Artist Address
A Dialogue with French-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: “Reclaiming One’s Own Survival Story”

Welcome Drinks Reception

 Friday, May 31

10 am-12:30 pm Panel II- Testimony through Film, Literature, and the Visual Arts: 
Witnessing Pandemics and Conflict
Chairperson: James Harker (Bard Berlin) 

Thibaut Boulvain (CHSP, Sciences Po), “The Spanish Flu: A Quiet Pandemic” 

Laura Kunreuther (Bard College, New York), “Earwitnesses: On the Labor and Testimony of Humanitarian Interpreters” 

Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University-Newark), “Warfront Apocrypha: The Dead, Desertion, and Dystopia” 

Patricia Zalamea (Univ. of Los Andes) and Helena Alviar (Ecole de droit, Sciences Po), “Bearing Witness: Transitional Justice and Land in the Work of Delcy Morelos” 

12:30-2 pm Lunch Break 

2:30-4:30 pm Panel III- Auto/Fiction, New Media, and Testimony
Chairperson: Laura Kunreuther (Bard College New York) 

Larissa Muraveva (Bard College Berlin), “Nostalgia for the Immediacy: The Role of the Witness and Mediated Experience in Contemporary Autofiction”

Julio Prieto (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), “Archive Fever: Hybrid Testimony and Documentary Fiction in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez”

James Harker (Bard College Berlin), “Autofiction, Social Media, and Collective Testimony”

Christopher Fort (American University of Central Asia), “Notes on Abdulla Qahhor’s Testimony” 

5 pm-6:30 pm Artist/Scholar Address

Alicia Partnoy (Loyola Marymount University), “When Survivors Write: Literature and Discourse of Solidarity”