FLAME to host 2010 LASSnet international conference in Pune

(Free Press Release) In a bid to strengthen the understanding of issues related to law and public life in contemporary South Asia, the Centre for South Asia at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education (FLAME) will be hosting the LASSnet conference from December 27 to 30, 2010 at the FLAME campus. LASSnet (Law and Social Sciences Network) began in 2007 and is a unique network that unites academics, lawyers and activists. Since the first conference in Delhi in 2009 LASSnet has focused on creating a common forum between activists and academic work. Along with FLAME, the 2010 conference is co-organized by the Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore), the Centre for the Study of Society and Culture (Bangalore) and the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (JNU).
The four days in Pune will see 49 panels along with three plenary sessions and two keynote addresses taking place at the FLAME campus. Leading names from different fields, including Flavia Agnes (lawyer), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Director-Centre for Policy Research, Delhi), Ashwini Sukthankar (International Commission for Labour Rights), Sally Merry (Head of Anthropology, New York University), Upendra Baxi (Warwick University), Niraja Jayal (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Marc Galenter (University of Wisconsin) will lead plenary panels at this conference. Papers are being presented by delegates from Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University and attendees will also come from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. There will be also be two memorial panels to salute the life and work of human rights activists K. Balagopal and Chattrapati Singh.
We also have two book launches
1. Dec 28, 2010 - 6.30 - 7.30 pm Oxford University Press Flavia Agnes, Family Law Volume I: Family Laws and Constitutional Claims
2. Dec 29, 2010 - 6.30 - 7.30 pm - Yoda Press Arvind Narrain, Alok Gupta, Akshay Khanna, Mayur Suresh, Ponni Arasu and Siddharth Narrain, eds., Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law
Speaking on the occasion Dr. Maya Dodd Director of FLAME Centre for South Asia said “It is our endeavor to generate a historic intellectual meeting by hosting the LASSnet conference this year. FLAME will definitely prove to be the right institution to hold the LASSnet conference as our focus has always been on organizing symposiums, conferences, lectures, and screenings for educational purposes.”
The Law and Social Science Research Network (LASSnet) was established to bring together scholars, lawyers and doctoral researchers engaged in the research and analysis of issues connected with the law and social sciences in contemporary South Asia. The idea was to create a common forum for the exchange of ideas, work, materials, pedagogies and aspirations from a range of different institutional locations and theoretical frameworks. The Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) anchors the Law and Social Sciences Research Network. For more details on the daily schedule of conference events and bus timings log onto www.lassnet.org
About FLAME (Foundation for Liberal And Management Education):
FLAME, a non-profit organization was established in 2004 with an objective to create and build an excellent institution of higher learning that is grounded in Indian values. Foundation for Liberal And Management Education, better known as FLAME is founded by Mr. Nemish Shah of Enam Financial Consultants Pvt. Limited and Mr. Parag Shah. FLAME, nestled in the hills of Pune, currently has about 500 students and more than 45 full time faculty from renowned Universities like Stanford, Yale, Rice, Brown, Chicago and Oxford.

FLAME (www.flame.edu.in) has evolved a system of liberal education that seeks to push away from the dominant logic of early specialization and rote learning to instead encouraging a breadth of exposure through experiential learning and inter-disciplinarity. FLAME is India's first truly liberal arts college.

For further information please contact:
Ms. Sandhya Potdar, Chief Consultant, Corporate Communications, FLAME
[email protected].
Cell no. 98221 10065
Or
Anu Soman. Hanmer MSL
[email protected] - Cell no. 9850837393