Prominent experts of social science would participate in the Third Northern Regional Social Science Congress. The congress is being hosted by the Doon University which incidentally is the first university to organise this conference.
Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday the convener of the Congress and Head of department of environment science Professor Kusum Arunachalam said that the themes of the three-day event include caste, social structure and village communities, gender and hierarchy, environment, climate change and natural disasters, social rights and public policy, locals self governance, understanding regional disparities, media, politics and cyber activism.
She said that scholars from Northern region, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan would participate in the Congress. The event would have 12 sessions in which 75 research scholars would be presenting their papers.
Arunachalam said that eminent professor of political science and coordinator of Department of Special Assistance for political studies Gurpreet Mahajan would deliver keynote address on ‘Distinctiveness of Indian Multiculturalism’ in the inaugural session.
The Congress would have special lectures on all three days, on day one Financial adviser to Government of Uttarakhand Professor TS Tolia would deliver his lecture on ‘India’s economic growth in last two decades, how inclusive and sustainable’ on the first day.
Professor Shiv Vishwanathan would deliver his special lecture on ‘Media: A sociological view’ on second day while Professor Martin Giesemann of South Asia Institute, Heidelberg Germany would address on the culminating day. The governor of Uttarakhand KK Paul would be chief guest on the valedictory session.