Center for South Asia Studies, 18th Annual Conference
PANEL DESCRIPTIONS
Friday, February 14, 2003
9.00 AM
Panel 1:
Managing Pressures of Globalization: Local, National, and International Dimensions of India's Attempts to Engage the Global Economy
Tom Brister
Government and International Relations, Sweet Briar College
The BJP and the World Trade Organization: From Swadeshi to Globalization
Caroline Arnold
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Global as Local: Market Segmentation, Business Associations and the "Business" of Service Provision in Tirupur
Praveen Chaudry
Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College
Economic Reform in India and the International Monetary Fund
Chair: Vikash Yadav, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Tom Brister, Sweet Briar College
Panel 2:
Identity Formation in Colonial South India
Benjamin Cohen
Department of History, University of Utah
The "Great Generation" in South India:Velama Nobility in Hyderabad State and the Madras Presidency, 1830-1930
Chandra Mallampalli
Department of History, Westmont College
Faith, Blood and Communal Boundaries in a South Indian District: Abraham vs. Abraham (1863)
Rajagopal Vakulabharanam
Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
All’s Well That Ends Well:Reading Minaksi’s Telugu Autobiography
Chair: Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Rajagopall Vakulabharanam, Dept. of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Friday, February 14, 2003
10:45 AM
Panel 1:
Cultural Inferences in the Urban Landscape: Some South Asian Examples
Arijit H. Sen
School of Architecture, Ball State University
Recasting the Ethnic Ghetto: Different Perceptions of the South Asian Retail Strip in Berkeley, California
Nisha Fernando
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Exploring Vernacular Places: A Case study on Urban Streets of Sri Lanka
Kapila Dharmasena Silva
School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mapping Vernacular Urban Landscape in Sri Lanka: Identifying Unique Spatial Characteristics in Southern Small Towns
Chair: Nisha Fernando, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Discussant: Sanjoy Mazumdar, University of California, Irvine
Panel 2:
Spaces of Belonging: Governing Race in Metropole, Colony and Postcolony
Anand Pandian
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
When the Fence Preys on the Crop: The Anti-Kallar Riots of 1896
Maya Dodd
Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Race Travels: Legal Modernity, Incomplete citizenship and the Indian Comprador Bourgeoisie in 1890’s England
Falu Bakrania
Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
Policing "Violent Bhangra Boys" and "Wayward Asian Girls": Revisiting Race, Identity, and Inequality in the South Asian Diaspora in Britain
Co-Chair: Anand Pandian, University of California, Berkeley
Co-Chair: Falu Bakrania, Stanford University
Discussant: Rakesh Bhandari, University of California, Berkeley
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Friday, February 14, 2003
12:30 PM
This panel will start at 12:30 PM
South Asian Film and Filmmakers
Juveria Aleem
Director & Producer of iExpressions (local access TV show) and Director of Islamic Film Festival
Hijab: An Expression of My Soul (18 Minutes)
Sonya Mehta & Anmol Chaddha
University of California,
Berkeley Yellow Apparel: When Coolie Becomes Cool (30 Minutes)
Ivan Jaigirdar
ThirdI South Asian Independent Cinema
The Hate Man, Street Philosopher, Sage and Sanyasi (27 minutes)
Chair: Juveria Aleem, iExpressions
Discussant: Ivan Jaigirdar, ThirdI
Friday, February 14, 2003
1:30 PM
This panel will start at 1:30 PM:
Bodies, Histories, and Attachments: Fragments toward a history of modern subjects in Colonial and Post-colonial India
Rachel Sturman
Department of History, University of Michigan
Subjects and Objects: Inheritance and Moderrnity in Colonial Western India
Anjali Arondekar
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Intimate Subjects: Secular Sodometries and the Indian Penal Code
Akhil Gupta
Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
Bodily Practices and Rebirth
Chair: Durba Ghosh, Wellesley College
Discussant: Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, February 14, 2003
3:15 PM
Panel 1:
Streets, Pathways, Passages and Highways: The Cultural and Spatial Logics of Modernity and Religiosity
A. Srivathsan
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Building Hindu Temples in the US - Architecture and Identity
Mary Hancock
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Everyday Religiosity in a Global City
Bhaskar Sarkar
Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Transnational Nationalism, or the Predicament of the Cosmopolitan Indian
Chair: Smriti Srinivas, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture, University of California Santa Barbara
Panel 2:
Democratization or Corporation: The Dynamics of Political Change Under Musharraf Regime
Mustapha K. Pasha
School of International Studies, American University
The Military and Political Economy in Pakistan
Charles H. Kennedy
Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University
The Creation and Development of Pakistan’s "Anti-Terrorism Regime"
Aurangzeb Syed
Dept. of Political Science, Northern Michigan University
Procedural Democracy, Politics, and the Hegemonic Bloc
Chair: Nasim Jawed, Department of History, California State University, Chico
Discussant: Cynthia Botteron, University of Shippensburg
This year, the Center for South Asia is proud to welcome director Aparna Sen to Berkeley. Sen has been a prominent name in the Indian film industry right from her phenomenal acting debut in Satyajit Ray's 1961 film, Teen Kanya. With films like Akash Kusum, Jay Jayanti, Basanta Bilap and Memsaheb, Sen rose quickly to being one of the biggest stars in the Bengali film industry. In 1981 she directed her first film, 36 Chowringhee Lane, which won a series of international awards and went on to become one of the landmark achievements in modern Indian cinema. Since then, she has directed several award-winning films, been a prominent television personality and edited a magazine of her own. Her most recent film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer is being screened starting at 6:00 PM sharp
Friday, February 14, 2003
6:00 PM
Location: The International House Auditorium
Film Screening: Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
A question and answer session with Aparna Sen will follow the screening
This film screening is free and open to the public. To attend any of the daytime panels, participants are required to register.
Saturday, February 15, 2003
9:00 AM
Panel 1:
Critical Perspectives on South Asian Architecture Historiography
Sonit Bafna
College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
History and Classification: The Role of James Fergusson in the Conceptualization of Indian Architecture
Ritu Bhatt
University of California, Berkeley
Everyday Monuments in India: Issues of Religious Classifications and ASI Protection
Arindam Dutta
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Unmaking Beauty: Aesthetics in the Shadow of History
Chair: Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 2:
Muslim Women of South Asia: Locus of Resistance-Within and Without
Huma Dar
Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Umra’o Jan Ada: Partitioned, Nationalized, Fetishized and Sanctified
Shahnaz Khan
Wilfrid Laurier University
Zina and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women
Anita Anantharam
Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Body Lacerated: The Poems of Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed
Chair: Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Saturday, February 15, 2003
10:30 AM
Panel 1:
Human Rights and Political Culture in Contemporary South Asia
Nani Mahanta
Rotary World Peace Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
State, Identity, and the Politics of Violence: The Case of ULFA
Devaraj Nagarjun
Rotary World Peace Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
The Rule of Law and the Indian Judicial System
Tenzin Bhuchung
Rotary World Peace Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Universal Human Rights and "Asian Values": The View from South Asia
Chair: Darren C. Zook, University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, February 15, 2003
1:30 PM
Panel 1:
Creative Contestations in the South Asian City
Tulasi Srinivas
Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
Boomtown Hinduism- Enterprise, Hierarchy, and Change, in the Sacred Space of Bangalore
Rashmi Varma
Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Provincializing the Global City: Small Town Narratives in Indian Writing in English
Monolina Bhattacharyya
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
Architectural Appropriation and Political Negotiation: Case Studies of Indigenous Domestic Architecture in 19th Century Calcutta
Aparajita Sagar
Department of English, Purdue University
Memory in the City and the Indian Fiction of the 40’s
Chair: Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Smriti Srinivas, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Panel 2:
Exploring Islamic Militancy in Pakistan: Origins, Structure, and Ideology
S. Khurram Husain
Dept. of Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences
The Roots of Inspired Militancy in Pakistan
Azmat Abbas
Herald Bureau Chief, Lahore
Jihad - The Players and the State
Faiza Mushtaq
Dept. of Sociology, Northwestern University
Virtue and Violence in Late- Twentieth Century Jihadi Pamphlets
Chair: S. Khurram Husain, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Discussant: Ahmad Faruqui, Daily Times (Lahore) & Asia Times (Hong Kong)
Saturday, February 15, 2003
3:15 PM
Panel 1:
Genre, History, and Text in Pre-Modern Hindi Literature
Heidi Pauwels
Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington
Songs and Stories: Mira as Portrayed by an 18th Century Hagiographer and a Contemporary Film Director
Imre Bangha
The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
The Idea of "Ritimukt" Poetry
Allison Busch
Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Literary Responses to the Mughal Imperium: The Historical Poems of Keshavdas
Rupert Snell
SOAS, University of London
The Jain Merchant who thought he was a camel’s fart: Banarasidas and ‘India’s first autobiography’
Chair: Rupert Snell, University of London
Discussant: Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley
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