FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Chandrima Sen

  • Associate Professor

  • Department of Geography

  • M.Sc., Ph.D.

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  • Research guidance
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  • Research publications
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  • Book publications
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  •  Fellowships/Awards/Honours/Achievements
    NET [JRF], SET

  • Total number of attending Conference/Seminar/Webinar/Symposium etc.
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    • SEN, C AND S. BANDYOPADHYAY, 2014. ‘WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN MICROFINANCE PROGRAMMES: A CASE STUDY FROM RURAL WEST BENGAL’, INDIAN JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE XLVI (1): 99-104. ISSN-0046-9017.
    • SEN, C. 2015. ‘SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC SPACE: FOELD EXPERIENCE FROM LOWER GANGETIC PLAINS, WEST BENGAL’ IN A.DUTTA(ED) REORIENTING GENDER GEOGRAPHIES OF RESISTANCE, AGENCY, VIOLENCE AND DESIRE IN ASIA,19-21 NOVEMBER 2014, PP 68-75, NEW DELHI: R.K.BOOKS. ISBN 978-93-82847-41-0.
    • SEN, C. 2013. ‘GENDER ROLES IN AGRICULTURE AND THE BINARIES OF SPACE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT IN S.CHAUDHURI AND P.CHOUHAN (ED), GENDER ROLES AND CASTE EFFECTS IN INDIAN SOCIAL SET UP, PP 55-63, KOLKATA: BOOK BAJAR. ISBN 978-81-921015-7-6.

Additional Professional Activities:
Life Member Geographical Society of India
Life Member Regional Science Association of India
Life Member Institute of Indian Geographers

Conferences and Lectures:

  1. UGC sponsored seminar on “Problems of higher education in rural areas : How far are they rooted in Primary Education” 1st February 2003 to 2nd February 2003 held at and organized by Raja Rammohun Roy Mahavidyalaya Radhanagar, Hooghly, West Bengal. Paper Title: Approaching problems of Higher Education in Rural Areas: Participatory Learning (Paper published in proceedings).

  2. International Conference on “Mountain Environment and Natural Hazard Management” and XXIV Institute of Indian Geographers Meet 2003, held on 27th to 29th March 2003, Department of Geography, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. Paper Title: In search of Alternatives in livelihood of Tea Plantation Workers- Himalayan foothills, West Bengal.

  3. International Symposium and 37th Annual Regional Science Conference held at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore 6th to 9th January 2006. Paper Title: Integrating Gender Issues in Participatory Rural Development Planning (Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  4. International Seminar on Poverty and Development in South Asia organized by Department of Geography University of Calcutta 11th to 13th January 2007                           
    Paper Title: Women’s Empowerment through Participation in Microfinance Programmes: A case study from Rural West Bengal.(Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  5. International Symposium on “New Frontiers in Regional Sciences” organized by Regional Science Association India 6th to 7th August 2007 Kolkata. Paper Title: Participatory Planning for Regional Development: The role of women (Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  6. International Regional Science Symposium and 40th Annual Conference of the Indian Regional Science Association on “Global Issues and Regional Priorities” held at The Institute of Management, Nirma University of Science and Technology, Ahmedabad 16th to 18th January 2009 Paper Title: Participation of women in rural governance: A Micro level study.

  7. National Seminar on “Ganga Delta: Planning Perspectives” organized by Department of Geography, University of Calcutta in collaboration with NATMO, ILEE and GSI. 12th to 13th March 2010                                                                
    Paper Title: Perspectives on household Food Security and Women in West Bengal.

  8. XXXII Indian Geographers’ Meet and International Conference on Climate Change, Geo Hazards and Disaster Management- Department of Geography, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 17th to 19thJanuary 2011 Paper Title: Disaster Management in Flood prone zones: Strategies from West Bengal.

  9. 42nd Regional Science Conference on Glocalization and Regional Performance hosted by Department of Business Economics, Faculty of Commerce, The Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda, Vadodra, Gujarat in collaboration with Regional Science Association 21st to 22nd January 2011 Paper Title: Pesticides and Women: A critical environmental issue (Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  10. National Seminar on Natural Resource Management organized by Department of Geography, University of Calcutta in collaboration with CSIR, ICSSR,NATMO, ILEE and GSI 10th to 11th March 2011.
                                                                                                                                         
    Paper Title: Study of Selected Aspects of Material Culture among Agricultural Communities: Impressions from Hooghly District.

  11. 33rd Indian Geography Congress held at Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal 11th to 13th November 2011 Paper Title: Conceptual Issues in Understanding Rural Women’s Work.

  12. 43rd Annual Regional Science Conference on “Emerging Issues in Regional Development” organized by the Department of Geography, University of Mumbai 13th to 14th January 2012 Paper Title: Agro Biodiversity for Food Security: Perspectives of Rural Women (Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  13. 33rd Annual Conference of the Institute of Indian Geographers and International Seminar on Population, Development and Disaster Management organized by Department of Geography and Disaster Management, Tripura University 8th to 11th February 2012         
    Paper Title: Methodological Issues in Geography of Gender: Reflections and Practices.

  14. International Conference on Dimensions of Development and Resource Conservations, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta 10th to 12th March 2012.                               
    Paper Title: Gendered Management of Livestock in Agrarian Households: Observations from Rural West Bengal.

  15. 34th Institute of Indian Geographers’ Meet and National Conference on Natural Resource Management and Decentralized Planning held at the Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 13th to 15th December 2012                                             
    Paper Title: Gender and Livestock: A case study from Gangetic Bengal (Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  16. Women’s Worlds Congress on Gender in a Changing World hosted by University of Hyderabad India 17th to 22nd August 2014 Paper Title: Understanding Gender and Work in Rural West Bengal (Joint paper with Sumana Bandyopadhyay).

  17. International Conference “Re Orienting Gender: Geographies of Resistance, Agency, Violence and Desire in Asia” organized by Department of Geography University of Delhi in collaboration with the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. 19th to 21st November 2014                 Paper Title: Social Construction of Domestic Space: Field Experiences from Lower Gangetic Plains, West Bengal. 

  18. National Seminar on Perspectives on Land, Water and Population: Issues and Challenges 26th to 28th February 2018. Banaras Hindu University

Paper Title: Land Gender Interface: Themes revisited.    
                                                                                                                           

Lectures:

  1. Resource person for one day seminar cum workshop on “Contemporary Issues of Human Geography” organized by Department of Geography, Nistarini College, Purulia, West Bengal on 10th December 2014 Topic: Recent trends in Feminist Geography

  2. Resource person for one day seminar on “Dimensions of Research in Geography” organized by the Advanced Research Centre in Human Geography, Lady Brabourne College on 17th Sepetember 2015                                                            Topic: Gender Roles in Agriculture with Special Reference to Hooghly District, West Bengal.

Resource Person

1.In the workshop on “ Implementation of CBCS system in UG Studies in Geography” Shri Shikshayatan College in collaboration with the Faculty Council for Undergraduate Studies and Board of undergraduate studies in Geography, University of Calcutta on 8th May 2018.

  1. In the Two Day Workshop on “ Implementation of CBCS in UG Studies in Geography ( Semesters 3 and 4)Shri Shikshayatan College , in collaboration with the Faculty Council for Undergraduate Studies and Board of Undergraduate Studies in Geography, University of Calcutta on 26th and 27th April,2019.

  2. In one day workshop on Geography (Hons) Practical CBCS syllabus ( SemesterII) organized by Department of Geography, Raidighi College in collaboration with Faculty Council for PG Studies in Geograhy, University of Calcutta and Undergraduate Board of Studies in Geography, University of Calcutta on 11th May 2019 at Department of Geography, University of Calcutta.

  3. In One Day Workshop on “CBCS in Undergraduate Geography Honours Course: Semesters5 and 6 held at Shri Shikshayatan College , in collaboration with the Faculty Council for Undergraduate Studies and Board of Undergraduate Studies in Geography, University of Calcutta on 10th September 2022.

Chair

  1. Technical Session in International Seminar on Global Environmental Challenges : Environment, Society and Development in the Anthropocene 7th March 2020 organized by Women’s Christian College, Kolkata

  2. Technical Session V : Ecology, Gender and Culture in the International Conference and 52nd Annual Meet of the Regional Science Association India on December 10,2021 ( in person) IDSK kolkata

 

Overseas Conference:

 

Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting San Francisco, 29 March- 2 April, 2016

Paper Title: Gender and generation in kitchens in Kolkata