Activities of Department of Political Science

Title: - National Webinar on Politics of Identity and Nationality in North East India.
Start Date - 2020-07-12   End Date - 2020-07-12   Duration - 1 days.
Nature of the Activity: - Academic Activity
Summary: -
ON 12th July 2020,The Department of Political Science colaboration with Department of History,CKB College,Teok Organised A  National Webinar on the topic Politics  and of Identity and Nationality in North East India ,In that webiner , three resource persons were invited from different parts of the state as well as beyond the state . The first resource person was Professor Meeta Deka, former head of the department of History, at Gauhati University had been expertise in the field of social movements, peasant struggles, gender studies and border communities.  Prof. Deka has taught at St.Anthonys College ,Shillong for 12 years and she has been in the department of History,Gauhati University since 1997 . She is the author of two books ‘Students Movements in Assam’ (Vikas Publications , New Delhi -1996)  and ‘Women and Social Change : Assam and Beyond’ is published by the Sage, New Delhi-2013 .Prof.Deka’s contributions to the field of research includes 15 Ph.D and three M.Phil scholars till date .She was President of the Oral History Association of India ,Bengaluru (2016-17). Prof.Deka has delivered lectures in the department of Political Science and International Relations , University of San Diego ,United States of America 2011, at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa , University of Witwatersand ,Johannesburg ,2018 as well as at universities and colleges of Bangalore , Mumbai , Sikkim ,Hyderabad and the North East . Prof. Deka had observed the topic ‘Politics of Identity and Nationality in the North East India’ particularly from the historical genesis of the problem which had been creating troubles and ill conceived notion of identity as the departure from the hegemonic mainstream political society.