Gandhi, Non-Violence and Modernity

1–3 September 2004

Provisional Program

Conveners: John Docker and Debjani Ganguly

Wednesday 1 September

1.30 – 2.30 Registration

2.30 – 3.00
Welcome: Ian Donaldson, Director, Humanities Research Centre
Opening Remarks: Debjani Ganguly, Conference Convenor

3.00 – 4.00
Keynote Address: Leela Gandhi, School of English, La Trobe University, HRC Visiting Fellow
Ahimsa and other Animals: The Genealogy of an Immature Politics

4.00 – 4.30 Afternoon tea

4.30 – 5.30: Embodying the Mahatma
Tridip Suhrud, DA Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Emptied of All But Love: Gandhiji and his Fasts
Sandhya Shetty, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Experimental Medicine: Gandhi ‘the Quack Whom We Know’

5.30 – 6.30: Welcome drinks at the foyer of Old Canberra House

Thursday 2 September

9.30 – 11.00: Global Peace Movements and Gandhi
Sean Scalmer, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University
Gandhism in Circulation: Translation, Experiment and Tension
Rhonda Y. Williams, History, Case Western Reserve University
Black Women’s Activism in 1960s Baltimore
Penny Edwards, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, ANU
Gandhiji in Burma and Burma in Gandhiji

11.00 – 11.30: Morning Tea

11.30 – 12.30 Gandhi and Friendship
Tom Weber, Department of Politics, La Trobe University
Gandhian Moves: International Communities and Friendship
Ajay Skaria, History, University of Minnesota
Another Justice: Gandhi and the Question of Friendship

12.30 – 1.30: Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Indigenous Australia and Gandhi
Frances Peters-Little, Australian Centre of Indigenous History, ANU
Resistance and Maintenance in the Ordinary Day to Day Life of an Aborigine
Larissa Behrendt, Law, University of Technology, Sydney
Indigenous Choices: Some Thoughts on Gandhi and DuBois
John Maynard, Aboriginal Studies, University of Newcastle
’Be the change that you want to see’: The Awakening of Cultural Nationalism – Gandhi, Garvey and the AAPA

3.00 – 3.30: Afternoon Tea

3.30 – 5.00: Gandhi, Intertextuality and Writing
Ned Curthoys, University of Technology, Sydney
The Colonist Who Refuses: Revisiting the Camus-Sartre Conflict
Satendra Nandan, Centre for Writing and Culture Studies, University of Canberra
Gandhi’s Gift: The Markings of an Outsider – The Ethics of Writing

7.00 Conference Dinner (Turkish Pide Place, Moore Street, Civic)

Friday 3 September

9.30 – 11.00: Conceptualising Non-Violence
Brian Martin, Social Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong
How Non-Violence Works
Christine Mason, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland
Gandhi, Gender and Non-Violence
Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Political Science, Burdwan University
Gandhian Non-Violence Against ‘Particularised Trust’ in Religious Fundamentalism

11.00 – 11.30: Morning Tea

11.30 – 1.00: Law, Pedagogy, and Ecology
Charles Di Salvo, College of Law, West Virginia University
The Transformation of a Lawyer in South Africa
Laurence Tamatea, School of Education, University of New England, Armidale
Two Gandhi Schools in Bali
Michael Allen Fox, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and the University of New England, Armidale
Gandhi and the World Environmental Crisis

1.00 – 2.00: Lunch

2.00 – 3.00: Postcolonial Gandhi
Anjali Roy, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-HRC Visiting Fellow
Homegrown Wisdom: Gandhian Counter-Modernity
Makarand Paranjape, Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, New Delhi
Still Searching for Swaraj? India After Gandhi

3.00 – 3.30: Afternoon Tea

3.30 – 4.30: Gandhi: Pasts and Futures
Tara Sethia, History, California State Polytechnic University
Gandhi in World History
John Docker, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
Josephus: Traitor or Gandhian avant la lettre?

4.30 – 5.00 Reading by Tridip Suhrud: Letters from Gandhi to his son, Harilal Gandhi

5.30 – 6.00: Concluding Panel
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Leela Gandhi, and Debjani Ganguly

Administration:
Leena Messina
Programs Manager, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
T: 02 6125 4357; F: 02 6125 1380; E: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au
Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au