FOURTH ARVIND MEMORIAL SEMINAR on March 12–16

Ludhiana, February 17, 2013: Fourth Arvind Memorial Seminar will be held on March 12–16 at Sohan Singh Bhakna Bhavan, Chandigarh.

According to Meenakshy (Managing Trustee), Anand Singh (Secretary) Katyayani, Satyam (Member) Arvind Memorial Trust, the debatable key issues in this five-day seminar focusing on ‘The caste question and Marxism’ included `Dr. Ambedkar’s philosophical position, his view of history, political thought and practice, economic theory and policies, views on socio-cultural formation and his projects of the abolition of caste and Dalit liberation – A Marxist critique.’

Further, the issues would also include `Dialectical historical materialist understanding of the caste question. Neo-Ambedkarite positions, their Marxist critique and discussion on them. Post-Modernist positions such as those of subaltern studies, identity politics etc on the Dalit question, other sociological schools and neo-Marxist positions, their Marxist critique and discussion on them, Marxist historiography on caste question, its Ambedkarite opposition and discussion on them, the caste question and the communist movement in India and the theoretics of Dalit literature and criticism.

Chronology of Programme

12 – 16 March

First session: (10 AM to 1 PM)
Second session: (3 PM to 8 PM)

Lunch break: 1 PM to 3 PM
Tea break during second session: 6 PM

Venue-

Sohan Singh Bhakna Bhavan, Sector 29-D, (Opposite Tribune Colony), Chandigarh.