Women's
history is a key component of the Prajnya Resource Centre's
research agenda and we have launched a series of roundtable
presentations of women's history-related research.
Our
objective is two-fold: first, to promote our own learning
about research, ideas and methods relating to women's contribution
to public life, and second, to create a space for a community
of those interested in this topic.
In
June 2011, we revived the series after a hiatus. Our first
speaker was Dr. Kalpana Karunakaran, who teaches at IIT
Madras. She spoke on "The Self-Help Groups Experience:
Reflections on empowerment and on a personal journey."
The
new series is held at Knowledge House, one of the training
centres run by Launchpad
Ventures. They have very kindly offered us the use of
the space for our meetings. We are very, very grateful because
this enables us to revive a cherished programme whose suspension
was largely a function of the loss of our old meeting-place.
Photographs
and reports are posted at The
PSW Weblog.
The
Second Series
December
10, 2011
|
The PCVC
Story
|
Dr. Prasanna
|
September
10, 2011
|
Family
Album: Intersections of Personal and Public History
|
Dr.
Anita Ratnam |
August
13, 2011
|
Return
and resettlement of refugees and IDPs after the
civil war: Problems faced by female-headed households
in northern Sri Lanka
|
Dr. Nirmala
Chandrahasan
|
July9,
2011
|
Women and Work:
An Indian Saga
|
Dr.
Padmini Swaminathan
|
June 11,
2011
|
The Self-Help Groups
Experience: Reflections on empowerment and on a
personal journey
|
Dr.
K. Kalpana
|
The
2009 series
September
12, 2009
|
Retracing
The Positive Identity Of Devadasis And Their Contributions
To The Social, Cultural and National Movement In
Tamil Nadu
|
Dr.
M. Bhuvaneswari
|
July
11, 2009
|
Engendering
History: Experiences of Writing Nonbrahmin Women’s
History
|
Dr.
S. Anandhi
|
June
13, 2009
|
Collecting
Personal Narratives: Pleasures and Perils of Intimate
Ethnography
|
Dr. M.D.
Muthukumaraswamy
|
April
11, 2009
|
Encoding
Women's Identity in Madras Presidency
|
Dr. Prema Kasturi
|
March
14, 2009
|
The Other
Half of the Coconut
|
Dr.
Srilata K.
|
