The Sixth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration, 2008

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 Schedule of the 15 day Programme  
                   

(1-15 December 2008, Kolkata)
(Venue – Sabhaghar I, Swabhumi, Kolkata, unless otherwise stated) 

[A three-month long distance education programme precedes the 15-day winter workshop in Kolkata. Course reading, assignments of various types, on-line interaction, discussions on assignments, and distribution of responsibilities and participatory roles in various events during the Kolkata workshop are features of the distance education period. Performance in the distance education period contributes to the over all credits in the programme. Low performance bars the participants from participating in the Kolkata workshop.] 

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1 December (Monday)  

12.00 Noon              Lunch (Swabhumi)

1.30 PM                  Chair: Samir Kumar Das (President, CRG, and University of Calcutta)
                             Welcome by the Chair

2.00 – 3.00 PM       Introducing the Course and formation of groups / Paula Banerjee (Honorary Senior Researcher, CRG and University of Calcutta) and Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury (Honorary Course-Coordinator, CRG and Rabindra Bharati University)

3.00 – 3.30PM          Tea break

3.30  – 4.00 PM        Module A (State Formation and Refugee Flows in South Asia) / Samir Kumar Das

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Venue:                   Hotel Sojourn

5.30 –7.30 PM         Addresses by Guest of Honour, Sanna Selin, First Secretary, Embassy of Finland, New Delhi and Guest in Chief, Montserrat Feixas Vihe, Chief of Mission, UNHCR New Delhi and Inaugural Lecture by Ranabir Samaddar, Director, CRG on “ Governing Unruly Population Flows”.

                             Chair: Samir Kumar Das

8.00 PM                  Reception

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2 December (Tuesday) 

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module E (Environment, Resource Crisis and Forced Migration: Discussion on the Colonial Time)/ Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Senior Member, CRG, and Additional Director, Police Archival Wing, West Bengal State Archives

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30  – 1.00 PM      Module B (Gendered nature of Forced Migration – An overview) / Paula Banerjee

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00 – 4.00 PM         Modules C and G

Workshop I: Theme: “Humanitarian Institutions and their Task of Care - Experiences of South Asia and Elsewhere” (Based on discussions of reports brought by Participants (group discussion format) / Moderators: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Paula Banerjee

4.00 – 4.30 PM         Tea break

4.30 – 5.30 PM         Continued / Plenary

 

6.00 – 8.00 PM         Library hours

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3 December  (Wednesday) 

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module C (Human Rights Origins of the International Regimes of Protection of the Victims of Forced Migration) / Oishik Sircar (Legal Researcher, University of Toronto)

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 PM      Module A (Rights or Charity? State Response to Refugee Crisis in Post Partition India)/ Samir Kumar Das

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00– 3.30 PM.        Module D (Internal Displacements in India’s North East– An Overview) / Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury

3.30 – 4.00 PM         Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 P.M.     Participants’ Presentation under Module A and B – parallel presentations (Moderator: Samir K. Das for Module A and Paula Banerjee for Module B)

6.00 – 8.00 P.M.      Library hours and discussion on the revision of term papers under modules A and B (Samir K. Das and Paula Banerjee with respective term paper writers only – AT CRG OFFICE)

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4December (Thursday) 

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module E (Globalisation, Resource Politics, and Displacement – A South Asian Overview)                             / Subir Bhaumik, East India Bureau Chief, BBC and Member of CRG

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 PM       Module A  (Camps and Displaced Women – Experiences of Partition Refugees/
                            Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Centre for South and South East Asian Studies, University
                            of Calcutta and Ishita Dey, CRG) Moderator: Paula Banerjee

1.00 – 2.00 PM        Lunch break

2.00 – 3.30 PM        Parallel sessions: Module F (Research Methodology) / Prasanta Ray, Institute of
                            Development Studies, Kolkata and Module G (Ethics of Care and Protection) / Julian Reid,
                            University of Lapland

2.00 – 3.30 PM        Tea break

4.00 – 5.30PM         Parallel sessions: Module F (Research Methodology) / Pradip Kr. Bose, Eminent Sociologist and former Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Module G (Ethics of Care and Protection) / Ranabir Samaddar

6.00 – 8.00 P.M.      Library hours

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5 December (Friday)           

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module E (River Erosion, Displacement and the issue of Disaster Management) / Kalyan Rudra, Habra College, North 24 Parganas

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 PM       Introduction to the Field Visit by Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury

1.00 – 2.00 PM.        Lunch break 

2.00 – 3.30 PM         Module C

Roundtable (Need for a Fresh Look at the 1951 Convention /Kinga Janik and Sahana Basavapatna, Course Participants) Moderator: Oishik Sircar

3.30 – 4.00 PM         Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 PM         Participants’ presentation under Modules C and D – parallel presentations (Moderator:
                             Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury for Module C and Oishik Sircar for Module D)

6.00 – 8.00 P.M.       Library hours and discussion on the revision of term papers under modules C and D
                             (Oishik Sircar and Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury with respective

                             Term paper writers at CRG OFFICE.

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6 December 2008 (Saturday) 

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module D (Introducing the Guiding Principles on the Rights of the IDPs) / Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 P.M.     Module C

Workshop II: 

“Protection Regimes – International and National” (Moderators: Julian Reid and Paula Banerjee)

1.00 – 2.00 P.M.       Lunch break

2.00 – 3.30 PM         Workshop contd.

3.30 – 4.00 P.M.       Tea break

4.00 – 5.00PM          Workshop findings summarised

8.00 PM                  Dinner and field visit

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7 December (Sunday) 

Field visit To Hamidpur char, Malda

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8 December (Monday) 

11.30 – 1.00 PM     Module E (Resource Politics, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Displacement) / Masud Hossain, KEPA - Service Centre for Development Co-operation, Bangkok.

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00 – 3.30 PM.        Module B (Trafficking and Statelessness) / Paula Banerjee

3.30 – 4.00 PM          Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 PM       Module B: Roundtable ('Resources, Women and Displacement in India's Northeast') / Panelists: Sunita Akoijam, SAFHR, Katmandu; Gita Bharali, NESRC, Guwahati; and Chitra Ahanthem, Imphal Free Press. Moderator: Keya Das Gupta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

6.00 – 8.00 PM         Library hours

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9 December (Tuesday) 

9.30- 11.00 AM        Participants’ presentation under Modules E (Moderator: Masud Hossain)

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 PM       Presentation of reports on Field Visit / Moderator: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury

1.00 – 2.00PM         Lunch break

2.00- 3.30 PM         Film Screening Rabba Hun Kee Kariye followed by discussion with the Director,
                            Ajay Bharadwaj

3.30-5.30PM           Film Screening Yarwng followed by discussion with the Director, Joseph Pullinthananth SDB

                           Moderator: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Honorary Course-Coordinator, CRG and
                           Rabindra Bharati University

6 – 8 P.M.               Library hours and discussion on the revision of term papers under modules E (Masud Hossain with respective term paper writers only) – AT CRG OFFICE)

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10 December (Wednesday)   

9.30- 9.40AM           Introductory remarks / Ranabir Samaddar, Director, CRG

9.40-10.40AM          Introductory lecture by Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Mail Today followed by discussion

10.40-11.00AM         Tea Break

11.00-12.00noon      Book reading session

Ritu Menon, Noted Feminist scholar, Women Unlimited, India and Mandira Sen, Stree Publications, Kolkata

12.00-1.30PM          Parallel Group Discussions

Group A: - The need to link right to information and the right to communicate from victim’s point of view.

Moderator: Supriya Raut, West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences.

Group B: - Forced Migration and Radio Broadcasting (Discussion based on a radio script written by Sahana Basavapatna, Sixth Winter Course participant).

Moderator: Sanjay Barbora, Panos South Asia, India.

1.30-2.30PM            Lunch break

2.30-3.00PM            Discussion Continued

3.00-3.30PM            Tea break

3.30 –5.00PM           Panel discussion on Media and Forced Displacement of population (Voices in the Public Domain)

Soe Myint, Mizzima News, Delhi

Sanjoy Barbora, Panos South Asia, India

Sajan Venniyoor, Prasar Bharati / Community Radio Forum, India

Subir Bhaumik, East India Bureau Chief, BBC and Member of CRG

Moderator: Dipankar Sinha, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta

5.00-5.30 PM           Summing up remarks by Geetisha Dasgupta and Ishita Dey, Research Associate, CRG.

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11 December (Thursday) 

9.30 – 11.00AM        Modules A (Conflicts and Displacement in Pakistan) / Shahid Fiaz, The Asia Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30  – 1.00PM       Workshop III

Module D / “Developmental Displacement in South Asia” (Resource persons: Sanjay Barbora, PANOS South Asia, Guwahati, Ishita Dey, Khorshed Talati, Shahid Fiaz) Moderator: Ranabir Samaddar

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00– 3.30 PM          Workshop continued

3.30 – 4.00PM          Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 PM         Workshop concluded (with reports submission and recommendations)

6.00 – 8.00PM          Library hours

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12 December (Friday) 

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module E (Environmental Refugees and the Current Protection Regime) / Patrick Hoenig, Jurist and Visiting Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia University  

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 PM       Module A (Continuing Refugee Crisis in Afghanistan) / Shahid Fiaz, The Asia Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan.

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00 – 3.30 PM         Module C (Bhutanese refugees in Tibet) /Rajesh Kharat, School of International Studies,
                             Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

3.30 – 4.00 PM         Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 P M.       Module B

Module B&D / Panel discussion on ‘Displacement and Women’s Access to Citizenship in South Asia’ – (Paula Banerjee, Hina Shahid, and Sultana Kamal, Director, Ain-O-Salish Kendra, Dhaka, Anup Sekhar Chakraborty, Sahana Basavapatna) / Moderator: Susan Forbes Martin, Georgetown University.

6.00 – 8.00 PM         Library hours

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13 December (Saturday) 

9.30 – 11.00 AM       Module D/ E Panel Discussion on “Why should we listen to the voices of the displaced - Discussion of a report on Voices of the Internally Displaced in South Asia" (Susan Forbes Martin, Anuradha Gunarathne, Francis Adaikalam)/ Moderator: Ranabir Samaddar       

11.00 – 11.30 AM     Tea break

11.30 – 1.00 PM         Discussion Continued

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00 – 3.30 PM         Module D (Forced Migration – the case of Burma) / Jason Miller, Human Rights Activist and Editor, Burma Human Rights Yearbook

3.30 – 4.00 PM         Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 PM         Module A / Roundtable discussion on “Partition Refugees and the Right to Return” (Shahid Fiaz, Uttam Das, International Organisation For Migration Mission with Regional Functions for South Asia, Dhaka, Samir Kumar Das) / Moderator:  Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty.

6.00 – 7.00 PM         Module E / Face to face discussion with Susan Forbes Martin, on “Globalisation, Resource Crisis, and Forced Displacement”/ Moderator: Paula Banerjee.

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14 December (Sunday) 

9.30 – 11.30AM        Presentation of creative assignments / Moderator: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Jason Miller

(Tea will be served in session)

11.30 – 1.00 PM       Group reports Modules ABCDE / Moderators (respectively): Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Ruchira Goswami, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ishita Dey, and Jason Miller)

1.00 – 2.00 PM         Lunch break

2.00 – 3.30 PM         Evaluation / Moderators –Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Subrata Hore, Department of Political Science, Bidhannagar Government College.

6.00– 7.00 PM          Participants’ Evening Discussion with Montserrat Feixas Vihe, Chief of Mission, UNHCR, Delhi, Kiran Kaur, Protection Officer, UNHCR India Amit Sen, UNHCR, Nepal and Pascale Moreau (Bureau of Asia and Pacific, UNHCR, Geneva (Moderator: Paula Banerjee)

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15 December (Monday) 

Valedictory Session: (Rotary Sadan) 

6.00- 7.30 PM             Guest-in- Chief, Shri Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal.

Special Guest, Montserrat Feixas Vihe, Chief of Mission, UNHCR, New Delhi.

Distribution of Certificates to the Course Participants followed by brief address by Guest of Honour, Mr. Asko Numminen, Ambassador, Embassy of Finland.

Release of the CRG publication “Women in Peace Politics” edited by Paula Banerjee. Valedictory Lecture on “Racism, Immigration and Xenophoebia in the World today” by Dr. Mireille Fanon Mendes France, Eminent Human Rights Activist, Paris.                            

8.00 PM                  Farewell Dinner