School of Humanities and Social Sciences
GITAM University
Workshop: “Doing Vulnerability Studies”
Pramod K Nayar & Anna Kurian
21 July 2023
The workshop organised in collaboration with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GITAM University, Hyderabad, examined two domains/sites of
vulnerability: the environment (specifically, extinction) and child rights.
Building on the talk delivered at GITAM in April, and demonstrating how a
vulnerability-studies approach works, the workshop read a set of texts with the participants. The 22 registered participants from English, Economics, Political
Science had come to the workshop having read the materials supplied.
Theme 1: Extinction and Species Vulnerability
Excerpts from Joel Greenberg, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The
Passenger Pigeon’s Flight Into Extinction.
Jeff Corwin, 100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth’s Most Endangered
Species.
Beatrice Forshall, The Book of Vanishing Species: Illustrated Lives.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
Diane Ackerman, The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds.
Theme 2: The Rights of the Child
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Chapters 1 and 4
To be read alongside the Declaration of the Rights of the Child
(http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/instree/k1drc.htm), which rights does Jane not enjoy?