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Sign on
Welcome and Opening of Symposium
Setting the Scene
The Farmers' Story
Partnerships for Learning and Development: Collaborating with
Women Farmers for Lasting Development Outcomes
Value and Challenges of Embedding Hydro-geological Research in
Agriculture, Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management
10:40:00 AM
11:00:00 AM
Morning Tea
Creating Space for Smallholder Farmer Innovation: Lessons from East
Indian Tribal Communities for Australian Researchers
11:20:00 AM
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research experience of
managing international research partnerships
11:40:00 AM
Building a Case for the Co-production and Re-integration of Practice
and Knowledge- PRADAN's Development Apprenticeship program
What We Have Been Doing – The Collaboration between AUD and
PRADAN
Transforming the Political-Politicising Transformation: Beyond
Developmentalism
Making sense of collaboration
Lunch
Practice in the Field: Dialogues, Dilemmas and Discourses
12:00:00 PM
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Manas Satpathy CEO PRADAN & Professor Chandan
Mukherjee, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Ambedkar University
Delhi
Dr. Gavin Ramsay, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Video Presentation from Research Farmers
Ashok Kumar, Avijit Choudhury and Team, PRADAN
Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni and Siddharth Patel, Advanced
Center for Water Resources Development and
Management (ACWADAM), India
Professor Bill Bellotti University of Western Sydney,
Australia
Dr. Evan Christen, Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Nivedita Narain, PRADAN
Professor Chandan Mukherjee, Ambedkar University,
Delhi
Bhavya Chitranshi, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Dr. Rukmini Sen, Ambedkar University, Delhi
The Role of Faculty vis-à-vis the Field in Development Practice
Dr. Anil Persaud, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Institutional & Pedagogic Challenges in running an MPhil Development
Dr. Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Practice Program.
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Design Principles to Build Citizen Engagement in Community Media
Using ICTs
Approaches to Building Communication Platforms
Afternoon Tea
Transforming the Field: Methodological Reflections in Transformative
Praxis
Capabilities, Resilience and Communities
Need for a Dialogue: Collaborative Action Research with the Resource
Poor, to Achieve Food and Livelihood Security!
Development, Inequality and Co-operation: Reflections, including on
Climate Change
Transforming Others: Transforming Oneself
Learning, Research and Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities
5:40:00 PM
7:00 PM
Summation of the Day: Building Opportunities
Dinner at the Indian International Centre
Dr. Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi
Professor Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi
Wrick Mitra, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Dr. Nandan Nawn, TERI University, Delhi
Ardhendu Chatterjee, Development Research
Communication and Services Centre, Kolkata
Professor Colin Butler University of Canberra, Australia
Dr Anup Dhar, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Dr Gavin Ramsay, Charles Sturt University, Wagga
Wagga
Deep Joshi, Co-Founder PRADAN & Chairperson,
Institute of Rural Management, Anand