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Seminar on "Development, Civil Society, and Third sector: The Emerging Perspectives" 27-28 March 2007
From: UDAY KUMAR <udayraji@yahoo.com>
Subject: [jivika] MANGALORE SEMINAR
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:02:22 -0000  (22:32 IST)



SEMINAR ON
Development, Civil Society, and Third sector: The Emerging Perspectives
27-28 March, 2007


In the context of momentous changes having wide theoretical and practical global implications, there is a need to rethink and redefine some of our received understandings of and approaches to a wide variety of issues. This rethinking is crucial, as the new conditions that have emerged in the contemporary era have demonstrated some of the inadequacies of our theoretical frameworks and analytical tools of understanding.
       
We today speak of globalization that has brought the world together through its immense technological, communicative and informative power. However, this process has also made some of received assumptions of universality a matter of serious critical enquiry. Although the world appears to be smaller and easily comprehensible, the basic issues of development, equity and justice have become increasingly complex and multi-dimensional across societies. This implies, on the face of it, at least two things: First, the arbitrary boundaries across disciplines (not only between social sciences but also between social sciences and natural sciences) have ceased to exist.  Second, when we engage with some of these key categories of understanding `nature and society' and its evolution, we need to bring in crucial questions of history and culture. The obvious shift, therefore, in the process of understanding our reality is a shift from universal, uni-dimensional, uni-disciplinary perspective to plural, multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Given the above, three issues stand out and compel us to engage in critical enquiry. They are the issues of Development, Civil society, and Third sector. We are aware that the contemporary intellectual universe is already into this. Questions like, what is development?, is there a universally acceptable model of development or whether should different societies pursue different modes of development?, what is the relation between development, ecology, climate change and resources?, are being explored.  Hence, the question, what is sustainable and desirable development that ensures equity, justice and democracy assumes greatersignificance. Similarly, the questions on civil society and Third sector have also emerged in a major way arousing contestations from divergent ideological viewpoints. As a result, issues like civil society; third sector, State, market, development, democracy and their interrelationships have been interrogated from multi-disciplinary, multidimensional and pluralistic perspectives
        
It is in this context that this seminar on "Development, Civil society, and Third sector: The emerging perspectives" has been  envisioned. It seeks to bring together scholars and researchers from different disciplines to reflect and deliberate on the issues indicated above. This, the organizers believe, would further enhance our understanding and lead us to rigorous theoretical appraisal of issues that haunt our time.
 
The seminar is scheduled for two days in the last week of February 2007. It is proposed to have two distinct parts in the seminar: one part entirely devoted for a serious exploration of issues in terms of a colloquium with presentations by the invited scholars and discussions. The second part will be paper presentation on these issues by researchers engaged in different disciplines. The presenters will be selected on the basis of the abstracts submitted by them.

Themes and Sub-themes:
The following are the topics indicated within the larger thematic framework of the seminar. However, the list is neither extensive nor exclusive. One can always choose a theme, which could appropriately be related to the overarching theme of the seminar. Needless to say, both theoretical as well as empirical papers that are inter-disciplinary and/or multidisciplinary in approach are appreciated.
 Who can participate?    
Scholars, Teachers, Researchers, Development Practitioners, Policy Makers, and    Civil Society Organizations (CSO's) from India and abroad are invited to participate in the seminar.

Submission of Abstracts
The abstracts of the proposed papers are to be sent to Dr Uday Kumar at udayraji@yahoo.com, with a copy to Dr. T.N. Sreedhara at tnsree@yahoo.com on or before 15th February 2007. Paper Abstract should be brief, preferably in 500 words typed in MS Word format. Should have email, snail mail, and a brief biographical detail. Organizing committee will intimate authors of the selected papers by 20th of February 2007.  The full papers have to be submitted by 20th of March 2007. 

Registration Fee
Participation in the seminar is through registration only.
Registration Fee of Rs.500.00 (US $50 in case of non resident Indians)
is to be paid through the Demand Draft, drawn in favour of The Director, Seminar on Development, Civil Society, and Third Sector: The emerging of perspectives.  The registration fee covers Conference materials lunch and refreshments for two days.

Accommodation
Participants have to arrange for their stay and accommodation. The University campus is located at a distance of 20 kilometers, from the Mangalore City, and Hotel accommodation in the city is available in the range of Rs 300 --- Rs.3000.00 per day. If any of the participants require assistance to book the hotel accommodation, the organizing committee is pleased to do the same. The committee will be glad to help you in this respect.

Scholarship     
Limited number of scholarships is available to the participants. The participants therefore are requested to explore other sources of funding. However, those who are in dire need of financial support may apply for subsidy, and such applications will be considered based on merit of each case and availability of funds.

For further information please contact Dr T. N. Sreedhara, Professor of Business Administration, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri, 574 199, India at tnsree@yahoo.com or Dr Yashavantha Dongre, Coordinator, Third Sector Research Resource Centre (TSRRC), University of Mysore, Mysore, India at ydongre@gmail.com