4th February, 2026 – DDC Pre-Events
Time Session Facilitators / Speakers Venue Audience
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Field & Notes Workshop
Gender Positionality in Ethnography: Reflexivity and Field Dynamics 		Anindita Majumdar (IITH)
Rukmini Sen (AUD)
Rituparna Patgiri (IITG)
Soibam Harpriya (IIIT-Delhi) 		Board Room, 7th Floor
R&D Building		 Selected Participants Only
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Movie Screening
Humans in the Loop		 Speakers: Karishma Mehrotra, Biju Toppo
Discussant: Gayatri Nair 		B-003, R&D Building Open to All
5th February, 2026 – DDC Pre-Events
Time Session Facilitators / Speakers Venue Audience
9:00 am – 3:00 pm Field & Notes Workshop
Gender Positionality in Ethnography: Reflexivity and Field Dynamics 		Mohammad Sayeed (JGU)
Dipti Tamang (Government Degree College, Pedong) 		Board Room, 7th Floor
R&D Building		 Selected Participants Only
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Movie Screening
Working Girls		 Speaker: Paromita Vohra
Discussant: Uma Chakravarty 		B-003, R&D Building Open to All
6th February, 2026 – DDC Main Event
Venue: A007, R&D Block
Audience: Open to All
Time Session Speakers
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Registrations and Breakfast
9:30 am - 10:00 am Inaugural Session Welcome Address – DDC Organisers
Dean’s Address – Dr. Arani Bhattacharya
10:00 am – 11:30 am Plenary 1
Gender Matters: Mainstreaming Gender in Public Spaces		 1. Ravinder Kaur, Professor Emerita, IIT Delhi
2. Paromita Vohra, Independent Filmmaker and Journalist
3. Ravi Verma, Executive Director and Board Member, ICRW Asia
4. Shahrukh Alam, Lawyer, Supreme Court of India
11:30 am – 11:45 am
Tea Break
11:45 am – 1:30 pm Plenary 2
Towards Equality: Building Gender Responsive Policies and Ecosystems		 1. Ramgopal Rao, Vice Chancellor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
2. Vandana Prasad, Principal Technical Advisor, Public Health Resource Society
3. Saumya Kalia, Associate Editor, Behanbox
4. Ishita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, OP Jindal University
5. Navneet Kaur, Founder, FemTech India
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Plenary 3
Personal is Political: Gender in Intimate Spaces		 1. Rajni Palriwala, Retired Professor, University of Delhi
2. Nileena Suresh, Data Journalist, Data for India
3. Shreya, Labour Rights Activist, Sangrami Gharelu-Kamgar Union
4. Sreerupa, Research Fellow and Program Lead Institute of Social Studies Trust
4:00 pm
Networking High-tea