The First Annual Graduate Student Conference on South Asia

Schedule

Friday, March 12, 2004

11:00- 11:15	Welcome and opening remarks
11:30 - 1:30	Confronting the State: Negotiating Identity, Agency and History Chair and Discussant: Nosheen Ali, Development Sociology, Cornell University (nka4@cornell.edu) Panelists: Namita Datta, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University Gender and Property Rights in Urban Informal Settlements in Chandigarh, India Roger Begrich, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University Don't Drink and Tribe. Conspiracy and Stigma in Jharkhand Anoop Mirpuri, English, University of Washington A Postcolonial Impasse? Subaltern Studies and the Critique of Colonial Discourse Anila Daulatzai, Anthropology, John Hopkins University The Silent Residue of Politics
1:30 - 2:30	Lunch
2:30 - 4:00	History, Culture, and Power in the Construction of Globalization Chair and Discussant: Karuna Morarji, Development Sociology, Cornell University (km265@cornell.edu) Panelists: Matthew A. Cook, Anthropology, Columbia University Localizing the Global: British Imperialism and the Annexation of Sindh Angela C. Rudert, Asian Studies, Cornell University The Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS): A Case study of Globalization and Religion Karthika Sasikumar, Government, Cornell University Structure and agency in the ‘Coalition of the willing’: India and the evolving international counter-terrorism regime
4:00 - 4:30	Tea
4:30	Keynote Address Amita Baviskar is a sociologist whose research interests are environmental politics, with a focus on social inequality and natural resource conflicts, environmental and indigenous social movements, anthropology of development, urban sociology, state formation and the environment in south Asia. After teaching at the University of Delhi for over a decade, Amita is currently a S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Her publications include the edited volume Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings; In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts Over Development in the Narmada Valley, and a forthcoming edited volume titled Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
9:00 – 11:00	Locating Violence: Politics, Institutions and Disciplines Chair and Discussant: Shital Pravinchandra, Comparative Literature, Cornell University (sp298@cornell.edu) Panelists: Francesca Bremner, Sociology, Columbia University Bonds and Boundaries: The Spatial Dynamics of a Riot. Jessica Falcone, Anthropology, Cornell University "I Spy…": The (Im)possibilities of Ethical Participant Observation with Religious Fundamentalists Niveditha Menon, Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University/ Michael P. Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and African and African American Studies, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University A Feminist Study of Domestic Violence in Rural India Samarpita Mitra, Syracuse University. Violence against Verse: Colonial Censorship and the Rebel Poet of Bengal.
11:30 – 1:30	Unsettling Frontiers: Border, State, and Identity Formations Chair and Discussant: Jason Cons, Development Sociology, Cornell University (jc162@cornell.edu) Panelists: Mark Flummerfelt, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago National borders, transnational literatures: Poetry and Place in Bhanubhakta’s Nepali Ramayan Haimanti Roy, History, University of Cincinnati Partition and Making of National Borders, 1947-65 Lim Tai Wei, History, Cornell University Wartime Permeability: The Indian-Chinese-Burmese Supply Front in WWII Sara Shneiderman, Anthropology, Cornell University Migrating Identities: The Case of the Darjeeling Thangmi
1:30 – 2:30	Lunch
2:30 – 4:30	Methods, Tactics, and Postcolonial Historiographies Chair and Discussant: Farhana Ibrahim, Anthropology, Cornell University (fi22@cornell.edu) Panelists: Teresa Raczek, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania The Impossibility and Possibility of a Subaltern Archaeology Sarah Khokhar, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University The Partition and Punjabi Identity in Pakistan Rupali Gupte, Architecture, Cornell University Tactical City, Tenali Rama and Other Stories of Mumbai’s Urbanism Maya Dodd, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University Political Mediations: "Trying" Technologies of Witness Yuthika Sharma, Harvard Graduate School of Design Reconstructing the ‘Self: The landscape of (post) colonial monument parks in Delhi