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The Quarterly Newsletter of South Asian University | Volume 4 Issue 1 September 2019 The Quarterly Newsletter of South Asian University | Volume 4 Issue 1 September 2019

Second Annual Forum
Off Campus
New Delhi (21-23.08.2019) SAU DIR News: South Asian University partnered with the Transboundary Rivers
of South Asia (TROSA) program and the School of Advanced Studies (SAS), TERI University, for facilitating
the Second TROSA Annual Learning Forum held on 21-23 August 2019 in New Delhi. TROSA is a Summer School
Government of Sweden-supported regional water governance project (2017-2021) working on inclusive
Sariska, Rajasthan (04.06.2019-11.06.2019) SAU
Sociology News: The Department of Sociology,
South Asian University, in association with Rosa
Luxemburg Stiftung (South Asia), organized its
residential Summer School in Sariska, Rajasthan
from 4th June to 11th June. The Summer School
titled “Transformations, Continuations and Social
Movements in Contemporary Times”, while dwelling
on the question of struggles from a historico-
materialist perspective, attempted to re-look and
understand varied social movements like women’s
movement, peasant movement, tribal movements,
etc. From more than 300 applications, 26
water governance in transboundary river basins of Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) and Salween.
participants were selected from India, Bangladesh,
Oxfam in Nepal is working in Mahakali, a part of the Ganga basin. The TROSA ALF is a forum that promotes
Afghanistan, Ireland and Germany. The participants
cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary and collaborative learning among various partners and stakeholders comprised of young academics, journalists and
engaged in water governance issues across scales from local to regional level. The Second Annual Forum professionals. Sessions included lectures, film screening, informal discussion meets along with various
offered a dialogic platform for interaction between civil society members, academia, water professionals other methods of pedagogy. Participants presented their own work in different fields through reflection
and grass-root activists. on six days of sessions, with the participants and resource persons. The programme was coordinated by
Dr. Ravi Kumar from the Department of Sociology.
The Annual Forum is also the beginning of a long term partnership , where efforts will be made to bridge
the gap between academics, civil-society, grass-root activism and policy networks in a series of events
Conference on Humour and Performance of Power
which can be organised at a later stage.
Colombo, Sri Lanka (27 & 28.06.2019); SAU Sociology News: The Department of Sociology, South Asian
University and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo in association with Open Society
Foundation, Society and Culture in South Asia and Dakshin: South Asia Research Collective organized a
Library News
two day international conference on 27th and 28th June 2019 Colombo, Sri Lanka. The conference,
focused on the theme 'Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia: Anxiety, Laughter and
New Delhi (01.09.2019) GK Chadha Library News: Library User Orientation 2019 was held on 1 September Politics in Unstable Times,' presented 16 research papers based on work in Sri Lanka, India and
2019 at the Mezzanine Hall. Mr. Abdullah al-Modabber, the Assistant Librarian, discussed the facilities and Bangladesh. Conference travel was partially supported by the India Sri Lanka Foundation. The
services of the Prof. G. K. Chadha Library, including managing library account, online book reservation, conference also saw the participation of a number of SAU graduate students. The Sri Lanka launch of the
online renewal of library books, ways to avoid library late fee, searching resources through A-Z library book, Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices edited by Ravi Kumar, Dev
collection using SUMMON Discovery System, Inter-Library Loan request, document delivery through J- Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera was also held during the conference with a panel discussion with the
Gate, using Online Resources, using off-campus access facility and using reference manager. About 120 participation of Sri Lankan anthropologist Malathi De Alwis, Delhi-based sociologist Rashi Bhargava and
new students attended the event. SAU's Dev Nath Pathak, and was chaired by Mario Gomez, ICES's Executive Director. Prof Sasanka Perera
coordinated the conference.

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