Paper Presentations

Vandana Palsane : Ph.D Student

1. ‘Interrogating Embodied Relations of Employment in Service Sector Labour Market’ at National Conference on ‘Exploring Contemporary trends in Social Sciences’ at S.P. College, Pune (7th-8th March, 2016)
2. ‘Service Work in Urban India: Sociological Study of Hotel Employees in an Indian Metropolis’ paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation (IWPLMS), at Athens, Greece. (22-24 June, 2015)
3. ‘Informalization of Labour: Recent Trends in India’s Urban Economy’ paper presented at the World Congress of Sociology organized by International Sociological Association, at Yokohama, Japan. (13th-19th July, 2014)
4. ‘New Labour in the Service Sector in India’ presented at the Indian Sociological Society’s conference held at Mysore ‘Inequality, Social Justice and Empowerment’ on 27-29 Dec. 2013.
5. ‘Crisis in Higher Education and Gender Discrimination’ presented at the National symposium on ‘ Empowering Women in Higher Education Institutions’ organized by Modern College, Ganeshkhind, Pune, 26th -27th, 2013.
6. ‘Challenges of Teaching and Doing Research in Sociology’ presented at Department of Sociology, University of Pune in a workshop, 20th March, 2012.
7. ‘Labour Practices in Urban Service Sector’ presented at 37th All India Sociological Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 11th-13th Dec. 2011.
8. ‘Impact of Globalization on Weaker and Marginalized Sections of Society’ presented at Marathi Samajshastra parishad, Aurangabad, 2008.
9. 'Women, Work and Development ' presented at Fergusson College as part of an undergraduate certificate course on Women and Development, on 4th Feb, 2007.
10. 'Women's Movement in Maharashtra after 1880' Presented at Saraswati Mandir Night College of Commerce and Arts, Pune, at a one day symposium, on 15th January, 2007.
11. 'Women and Employment in the Context of Globalization’, Presented at Baburaoji Gholap College, Pune, at a one day seminar ' Women and Sustainable Development ' on 11th March, 2004.
12. 'War and Terrorism’, Presented at 2 day State level Seminar organized by St. Mira's College, Pune, on 5th and 6th March, 2002.
13. 'Alienation and Stress Experiences of Indian Women ‘, Presented at 5 day International Seminar Organized by Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on March 5-9, 1997.

Ms.Mayuri Samant : Ph.D.Student

1. Presented a paper in National Seminar on Social Movements: Trends and Directions in Contemporary India organized by Department of Sociology Savitribai Phule Pune University from 13th to 14th June 2016. The paper titled: “Re-inventing Public and Private: From the Site of Social Movements”.
2. Participated and presented paper on ‘Re-inventing Public and Private: Mapping Family, Kinship and Marriage in Social Experience of Movements – A case of Magowa group in National Seminar on “Gender, Feminisms and Sociology: Towards a state of ‘altered-ness’” (29th to 31st January 2014) organised by Department of Sociology, Mumbai University.
3. Participated and presented paper on ‘Re-inventing Public and Private: Mapping Family, Kinship and Marriage in Social Experience of Movements – A case of Magowa group in National Seminar on “Gender, Feminisms and Sociology: Towards a state of ‘altered-ness’” (29th to 31st January 2014) organised by Department of Sociology, Mumbai University.
4. Participated in a National Conference on “Sociologists and Sociology: Autobiographies and Biographies” (September 15th and 16th 2014) organised by Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University.
5. Participated and presented paper ‘Dalit Feminism Revisited: A Methodological Reappraisal Lessons from Khairlanji in XXXIX All India Sociological Conference on “Inequality, Social Justice and Empowerment” (December 27th -29th, 2013) organised by Karnataka State Open University, Mysore.
6. Participated and Paper Presented on ‘Dalit Feminism Revisited: A Methodological Reappraisal Lessons from Khairlanji in XIII IAWS National Conference on Women's Studies Resisting Marginalizations, Challenging Hegemonies: Re-visioning Gender Politics (21-24 January, 2011) in collaboration with Department of Women's Studies Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV), Wardha .
7. Participated and presented paper on ‘Dalit Politics in Maharashtra: Debates over caste, gender and Religion’ in XXXVII All India Sociological Conference (December 10-13, 2011) Organized by: Centre for the Study of Social Systems School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (Awarded Third Prize for ‘Best Paper Presentation’ among young Sociologists in RC – 09, Dalits and Backward Classes.)

Mr.Nagnath Shelke : Ph.D.Student

1. Presented research paper on “Political Economy of Marriage Practices” in Indian Sociological conference at JNU,New Delhi , 2012.
2. Presented research paper on “Political Economy of Landholding” in Indian Sociological conference at Udaypur ,Rajasthan , 2013.
3. Presented paper on “Vivah Vywaranche Rajkiy Arthakaran : Jat¸ Varg¸ Lingbhav Vishleshan” in Marathi Samajshastra Parishad,Pune(Nigadi) ,2014.

Sumati Unkule : Ph.D.Student

1. Presented a paper titled ‘Issues of Access to Elementary Education’, at All India Sociological Conference, Mysore, December, 2013.
2. Presented a paper titled ‘Teaching Sociology and Gender: My Experiments and Experience’ at Indian Sociological Society’s midterm conference on Gender on September 28, 2013.
3. Presented a paper at National level conference at Modern College, Pune on ‘Women’s Empowerment’ on September 27, 2013.