EMS Smriti 2016 PROG SCHEDULE.Pmd

17-45 -20.00CULTURAL PROGRAMME

Poetry Short Films Songs of Azadi Oorali-Music band

June 2016 Tuesday 14 EMS SMRITHI 2016 09.30-13.30 PARALLEL GROUP SESSIONS (CONTD) NATIONAL DISCOURSE 13.30-14.30 Lunch Idea of India: A New Agenda 14.30 -17.30 CONCLUDING PLENARY for reclaiming Social, and Chair Prakash Karat Economic Environmental Report back of Recommendations of Justice various Groups

Discussion and consolidation Political leaders\ writers\ artists\film EMS SMRITHI 2016 makers\public intellectuals\scientists NATIONAL DISCOURSE 18.00-20.00 PUBLIC MEETING \environmentalists\Dalit and women- activists\ student leaders and Idea of Pinarayi Vijayan pioneers of youth movements\ civil India: Kanam Rajendran society movements and mass A New Agenda K Satchidanandan organisations analyse the for reclaiming Social, contemporary challenges to India’s and democratic polity\ cultural diversity\ Economic Environmental Academic Committee- economy\ environment and society Coordination from hegemonic forces\ explore the Justice EMS Smrithi 201 K Satchidanandan possibilities of forging a broad-based Chairman K Radhakrishnan A M Jigeesh platform to combat communal \ General Convener M Muralidharan Benny Kuruvilla 13-14 Monday-Tuesday June 2016 casteist, patriarchal and neo-liberal Organization Committee A Siyavudeen Regional Theatre Thrissur Keralam Chairman P K Biju 9447032239 forces and propagating alternative Convener U P Joseph T R Chandra Dutt development trajectories\ cultural 9400565555) paradigms\ and models of socio- political re-organisation. PROGRAMME13 June 2016 Monday 10.00 -13.30 Panelists Prabir Purkayastha V INAUGURAL PLENARY Marx-Gandhi-Ambedkar: D Raghunandan Chair Towards a new praxis Kodiyeri Balakrishnan R Ramakumar Surajit GROUP Muzumdar | Dinesh Abrol Keynote Address Sitaram Yechury KN Harilal |PS Shaheena To debate on the fusion of ideas of Marx, Gandhi and Ambedkar to end social oppression and exclusion Speakers S Sudhakar Reddy K Praveenlal | P Indira Devi Medha Patkar & others Chair Meera Velayudhan Prabhat Patnaik III K. Satchidanandan Combating Communalism: Keynote Address Sanal Mohan Search for New Paths of Resistance KN Ganesh | Laxmaiah 13.30-14.30 Lunch Panelists

GROUP Mallepalli | KS Madhavan | 14.30-17.30 PARALLEL GROUP SESSIONS How to link the struggle against communalism and Siyar Manuraj | KD authoritarianism and for democracy with the struggle Bahuleyan PK Biju | Soma I Re-claiming a pluralist Idea of India: against neo-liberalism prasad | K Radhakrishnan| D Shaijan | CR Pramod the role of writers, artists and intellectuals Chair Subhashini Ali & others GROUP

How to mobilise democratic intellectuals and prominent Keynote Address Prakash Karat VI personalities to produce ideological materials for the Forging United Alliances: campaign against communalism, neo-liberalism and Panelists NS Madhavan | P Rajeev | Mass organisations and Social movements authoritarianism

Sunil P Elayidam | Seema GROUP Exploring the possibilities to set up and promote broad based cultural platforms for protection of progressive and Mustafa | Veena George | To explore the ways to forge alliances of mass organizations and secular values and cultural productions Rafeeq Ibrahim | MV social movements to include the excluded in the democratic process Chair M A Baby Narayanan |TK Rama krishnan | VD Dimpi |KT Chair Amarjeet Kaur Keynote Address K Satchidanandan Kunhikannan |TV Madhu | KA Venugopalan |B Suhra | Keynote Address KN Ravidranath Panelists Gita Hariharan | Leena & others Panelists Medha Patkar | A Latha | Manimekalai | Shiva Reddy Meena MenonAK | Gopal Guru | Riyaz Komu | IV Gender Justice and the role of Ramakrishnan| TP Kunhi NS Madhavan | Gulam women’s collectives kanan | Kavumbai Mohammed Sheikh| Bina Balakrishnan |VS Vijayan | Paul Chandrakanth Patil | GROUP MM Varghese|Fredy How to strengthen the women’s movement and forge joint Tazhath | T Narendran | Savithri Rajeevan | & others struggles against the impact of neo-liberal policies on the lives and livelihood of women Yamini Parameshwaran II Resisting Neo- liberalism : & others Chair Left Alternatives for Economic and Annie Raja Social Transformation VII GROUP Keynote Address TN Seema Rise of Student Activism: in defence of Azadi To discuss and debate on alternate development trajectories Archana Prasad | SainabaP

to protect national sovereignty, social, economic and Panelists GROUP environmental justice Sathi Devi | Sheela Vijay kumar |B Arundhati | Suja To debate on the strategies for bringing together the progressive and secular students and youth movements for facing the new Chair Brinda Karat Susan George |PS Geetha challenges. kutty | A Prema |TK Anandi Keynote Address Prabhat Patnaik R Bindu | D Sheela & others Chair Binoy Vishwam