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Science and Humanity - an Open House Seminar

27th to 28th November 2009

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Programme

27th November 2009 : Scientific sessions, with invited audience, to showcase research at IFP

INAUGURATION

9:00 am – 9.05 am Welcome speech by Prof. Vêlayoudom Marimoutou, Director, French Institute of Pondicherry
9:05 am – 9:30 am Inaugural speech by Chief Guest, Prof. M. Ramadass, Head, Department of Economics, Pondicherry University

TROPICAL FORESTS : DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS

9:30 am – 09.55 am Dynamics of forests in the Western Ghats : Insights from remote sensing and catchment studies - Jagdish Krishnaswamy, ATREE, Bangalore
9:55 am – 10:20 am Analysing canopy heterogeneity of tropical forests by texture analysis of very high resolution images - Mr. Pierre Ploton (IFP), R. Pelissier (IFP), B.R. Ramesh (IFP), N. Barbier (AMAP), P. Couteron (AMAP), C. Proisy (AMAP).
10:20 am - 10:45 am Tea break
10:45 am – 11:10 am Modelling of fire occurrences in the Western Ghats - Quentin Renard, R. Pelissier, B.R. Ramesh (all from IFP)
11:10 am – 11:35 am Pollen studies of sediment profile from the Eastern Ghats, India - Mr. Stephen Azaria, IFP
11:35 am – 11:45 am Chairman Remarks- Dr. R. Pelissier (IFP)

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND HERITAGE

11:45 pm – 12:10 pm Studies in Paninian grammar - Dr. François Grimal (EFEO), S. Lakshimi Narasimhan (IFP), S. Ananadvardhan (IFP)
12:10 pm – 12:35 pm History of Saivasiddhanta – Deviprasad Mishra, T. Ganesan, Sambandan S., Anilkumar A. (all from IFP)
12:35 pm – 1:00 pm Jainism in Tamil Nadu : a project in the photo archives - N. Murugesan (IFP), Nalini Balbir (Paris Univ. 3), Karim Ladrech (Paris Univ. 4), K. Ramesh Kumar (IFP)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:25 pm The Ondaatje Letters (1728-37) : Private Correspondence in Tamil from the beginning of the 18th century - Simon Schmidt (Leiden University, Netherlands)
2:25 pm – 2:50 pm Studies in contemporary Tamil culture - M. Kannan (IFP)
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm Chairman Remarks- Prof. Y. Subbarayalu (IFP)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tea break

LABOUR AND SOCIETY

3:30 pm – 3:55 pm Employment and indebtedness in rural India - Isabelle Guérin (IRD), M. Roesch (CIRAD), Santosh Kumar (NGO), M. Sanpare () G. Venkatasubramanian (IFP)
3:55 pm – 4:20 pm Forms of money in tribal areas - Dr. Thanuja Mummidi (Pondicherry University / IFP).

MEASURING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFERENCES AND CHANGES

4:20 pm – 4:45 pm Financial sector development and growth in Indian states 1981-2001- C. Fanton d’Andon (ENSAE), B. Chaudhuri (CSH), V. Marimoutou (IFP)
4:45 pm – 5:10 pm Measuring urbanization in India - Eric Denis (IFP), Frédéric Borne (IFP), Kamala Marius-Gnanou (Université Bordeaux III), G. Venkatasubramanian (IFP)
5:10 pm – 5:35 pm Status and Infrastructure of Ayurvedic Healthcare in Kerala – Harilal Madhavan (IFP)
5:35 pm – 5:55 pm Chairman Remarks (last two sessions) – Prof. B. Mohanty, Head, Department of Sociology, Pondicherry University)
5:55 pm – 6:00 pm Vote of thanks

28th November 2009 : Popular talks on scientific research, and exhibition of IFP resources and activities

9:00 am – 9:15 am Introductory remarks - Prof. Vêlayoudom Marimoutou
9:15 am – 10:00 am How Would Certain Animals Respond to Climate Change ? - Dr. R.J. Ranjit Daniels, Care Earth, Chennai
10:00 am - 10:30 am Tea break
10:30 am – 11:15 am The Making of Transnational Babies in India : Reproductive technologies and the everyday ethics in society - Dr. Laurent Pordié, IFP
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Digital Historical Atlas of India - Prof. Yellava Subbarayalu, IFP
9:15 am – 05:30 pm Exhibition of IFP resources and activities

Dernier ajout : 8 décembre 2009.