Skip to content Skip to navigation

National Seminar on Gender and Democracy in Northeast India

The Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam has been organizing a UGC–SAP sponsored National Seminar on Gender and Democracy in Northeast India on March 4-5, 2014. Interdisciplinary in nature, the seminar will primarily focus on Northeast India. However, it intends to draw experiences from other regions in the country too. Abstracts and full papers are invited from scholars, teachers and activists from Northeast India and outside on different sub-themes of the proposed seminar. The sub themes include Gender and Democracy: Emerging Issues and Theoretical Formulations; Gender Violence: Domestic Violence, Trafficking, Superstition and Witch-Hunting, Sexual Harassment; Gender Gap: Gender and Land Rights, Sex Ratio; Gender and Media; Gender and Governance: Legal framework, Gender Policies, Gender Budgeting, Women in Panchayati Raj; Gender issues in Tribal Societies; Gender Education and Gender Studies; Role of NGOs; Gender Construction in Literature & Culture etc. Papers on related themes may also be considered.

The abstract and full paper must be sent in electronic format (MS word) through e-mail attachment in the following address: gupolsc@gmail.com  and cc to jayanta1947@gmail.com  and dhruba75@rediffmail.com. Interested participants can send their abstracts by February 1, 2014 through e-mail attachment only. Selected authors will be informed to submit their full paper by  February 10, 2014. 

Author info

Jayanta Krishna Sarmah's picture

Jayanta Krishna Sarmah Ph.D. Associate professor, Department of Political Science GAUHATI UNIVERSITY, GUWAHATI P.O. Gauhati University -781014 District: Kamrup, Assam, India ... Phone Number (mobile):+91 94350 81714 E-mail: jayanta1947@gmail.com Web: http://www.gauhati.ac.in/Department.Political Science/faculty

Add new comment

Random Stories

I am happy: Gogoi

7 Feb 2014 - 7:50pm | AT News
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that he was the happiest of all in the Congress to have ensured the victory of the two ruling party candidates apart from the BPF candidate in the Rajya Sabha polls....

Rapid deforestation causes man-elephant conflict - Daimari

7 May 2010 - 5:12am | Jayanta Kumar Das
At a time when most of the forests of Udalguri district had been encroached by human settlrment,destroying all the existing habitats and elephant corridors,including historic Samran elephant...

Where locals fear to tread

9 Jul 2016 - 4:06pm | AT News
A nondescript hamlet in Morigaon district of Assam, of late, seems to have taken the centrestage of attraction. But only for wrong reasons. Known as Hatimuria under Mayong block in the district, the...

My Waxen Wings

2 Apr 2013 - 11:53pm | Rituparna Goswami Pande
If I had wings and were a birdWould travel the world and orbit the EarthOr had I been a butterfly Eclectic colors would be mineI would hover over trees, flutter over blooms, On a spiritual...