This 3-day seminar is being organized by the Department of Cultural Studies at EFLU, and the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. The event is being held from February 19 to 21, 2014.
The new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s marked a shift in Indian politics, with new and long-neglected issues moving into the centre of political discourse. As movements by and for marginalized social groups began to gather strength, a new set of issues came to the forefront of public debate, chief among them being the discrimination and violence faced by oppressed groups, including Dalits, women, tribal groups and minorities.
These developments demanded a rethinking of all the most important political issues of modern times, including questions of autonomy, representation, power, constitutionalism, democracy, equality and liberty. These social groups, and Dalits and adivasis in particular, have put a number of new proposals on the table about the possible course of social transformation in India.
This conference has been conceived with the intention of encouraging a concerted effort to foreground these philosophical, theoretical, ideological, critical, creative, speculative and expressive aspects ? in short, the dimension of thought ? of the politics of the marginalized in India today.
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