With the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the University of Edinburgh, the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CNRS/CEH) and the Centre for South Asian Studies (CNRS/EHESS)
St Trinnean’s Room, Pollock Halls, Edinburgh
Thursday, 15 June
09.30-10.00 Opening Remarks, Daniela Berti and Anthony Good
10.00-10.50 Domenico Amirante, University of Campania
The National Green Tribunal of India : a legal forum at the crossroads between science, environment and society
Discussant : Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh
11.20-12.10 Sudha Vasan, University of Delhi
Green courts and the production of socio-ecological assemblages in India
Discussant : Jamie Cross
12.10-13.00 Anuj Bhuwania, South Asian University, New Delhi
On the ‘misuse’ of law in India : The case of anti-cow slaughter statutes
Discussant : Gilles Tarabout, CNRS/LESC
14.00-14.50 Rohit De, Yale
Cows and constitutionalism : from religious rites to economic rights
Discussant : Gilles Tarabout
14.50-15.40 Nayanika Mathur, University of Sussex
The government of crooked big cats in India, 1972-2017
Discussant : Heid Jerstad, University of Edinburgh
16.00-16.50 Diane Philiponet, University of Toulouse - Jean-Jaurès
‘Monkeys come from the forest.’ State management of problems linked to monkeys in North Indian cities
Discussant : Heid Jerstad
16.50-17.30 Synthesising discussion : Sally Engle Merry (New York University)
Friday, 16 June
09.10-10.00 Anthony Good, University of Edinburgh
Animal sacrifice and the law in Tamil Nadu, South India
Discussant : Filippo Osella, University of Sussex
10.00-10.50 Daniela Berti, CNRS/CEH
Animal sacrifice under judicial scrutiny. Moral reforms and religious freedom in India
Discussant : Filippo Osella
11.20-12.10 Raphaël Voix, CNRS/CEIAS
Animal sacrifice in West Bengal ; practice, contestation and the state
Discussant : Véronique Bouillier, CNRS/CEIAS
12.10-13.00 Chiara Letizia, University of Quebec, Montreal
& Blandine Ripert, CNRS Paris/CSH Delhi
“Not in the name of religion.” A Supreme Court verdict on animal sacrifice in Nepal
Discussant : Véronique Bouillier
14.00-14.50 Joëlle Smadja, CNRS/CEH
A chronicle of law implementation in environmental conflicts : the case of Kaziranga National Park in Assam (North-East India)
Discussant : Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh
14.50-15.40 Kelly D. Alley & Tarini Mehta, Auburn University, USA
Draining activism : delay and persistence in India’s legal discourse
Discussant : Tobias Kelly
16.10-17.15 Synthesising discussion : K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale
