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M O D E R N I T I E S
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The Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies and
the Collaborative Research Programme on Law, Postcoloniality and Culture
at the Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
with
The Hali Panipati Trust, Panipat

present

WHAT’S WRONG WITH ‘HONOUR’ CRIMES?

Workshop 1 of the Violent Modernities Project
Date: December 4, 2010, Saturday | Venue: T1, South Wing Auditorium | Time: 10.00am-5.15pm

Schedule
10.00-10.15 Introduction to the ‘Violent Modernities’ Project and Workshop 1

10.15-11.45am Session I –LOCATIONS

Chair: Abhayraj Naik, Assistant Director, Centre for Public Law and Jurisprudence, JGLS

‘Honour’: The Concept and Enactment

Prem Chowdhry, Former Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi

Insights from Interventions against ‘Honour’ Crimes: Experiences from Haryana

Jagmati Sangwan, Director, Women’s Studies Centre, Maharshi Dayanand University,
Rohtak

Macabre Violence: The Khairlanji Murders

Anand Teltumbe, Writer and Activist, Mumbai

11.45am-12.00pm Tea

12.00-1.30pm Session II – CONTESTATIONS

Chair: J. Aniruddha, Assistant Director, Centre for Public Law and Jurisprudence, JGLS

Women in ‘Custody’: Challenging the Prison House of Received Terminologies

Uma Chakravarty, Former Professor of History, Delhi University

Towards a Law on Honour Crimes

Kirti Singh, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Member (part-time), Law Commission of
India

Reviewing the Media and Feminist Discourse on Khap Panchayats, Or How not to do
Social Activism
Madhu Kishwar, Senior Fellow, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies, New Delhi

1.30-2.30pm Lunch

2.30-3.45pm Session III – RE/PRESENTATIONS

Screening of the documentary film ‘Morality TV aur Loving Jihad: Ek Manohar Kahani’,
directed by Paromita Vohra, Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Mumbai, followed by
Q&A with the director

3.45-4.00pm Closing Remarks: C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University

4.00-4.15pm Tea and refreshments

4.15-5.15pm ‘Ek Nayi Subha’, a play by Jan Natya Manch, Kurukshetra