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Also on Friday, February 11 5:00 pm 6:30 pm
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Location: Homeroom Speculum of the Other Nation:
Space, Place and Gender in Indian Film and Literature “Cinema and the Disjuncture of Modernity:
Shantaram’s ‘Aadmi’” “How Maps Lie: A Reading of ‘The Shadow
Lines’” “Bombay Cinema and the Production of the
Transnational Family” Discussant: Lawrence Cohen, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room Colonial Knowledge and the
Interpretation of Identities in South Asia “Negotiating Christianity, Caste and Colonialism:
Vedanayaka Sastriar’s Critique of Christian Mission in Tamil Nadu” “Managing Sex for ‘Public Health’:
Colonial Medicine and Racial Identities in Colonial Bengal, 1860s to 1890s” “Parsi Identity, Intermarriage and the Law:
From Ghandy v. Wadia (1903) to Dinbal v. Erachshaw D. Todyvala (1916)” Discussant: Ishita Pande
Panel Session 2 Location: Homeroom Religion and Political Culture
in Modern South Asia “Constituting 'Freedom': Strategies of Religious
Controversy in Colonial North India” “Sab ka malik ek? Mandirs and the Production
of Locality on Mumbai's Streets” “Contentious Duties: On the Origins of Militancy
in Gujarat” Discussant: Raka Ray, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room The Princely States of South
India: From the Agrarian Perspectives “British Intervention in Hyderabad State:
The Changes in Agrarian Socio-Economic Structure” “Expansion of Wet Agriculture and the Rise
of Vokkaligas in the Princely State of Mysore” “Plantation Agriculture and it's Socio-Economic
Impact in the Princely State of Mysore” Discussant: K. S. Shivanna
Panel Session 3 Location: Homeroom Trends in Computing for Human
Development in India “Akshaya: India's First District-wide E-literacy
Infrastructure” “Bringing Devices to the Masses: A Comparative
Study of the Brazilian Computador Popular and the Indian Simputer” “Traders and Farmers in a Site of Contested
Power: India's eChoupals” Discussant: Richa Kumar *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room Crossing Over: Literary Transformations
of Historical Narratives in Medieval Texts “Indic Buddhist Textual Practice and History:
The Composition of Mahayana Texts in Medieval Khotan” “What is Rajput? The Muslim as Exemplary
Rajput in Three Fifteenth-Century Texts” Discussant: Ramya Sreenivasan, History, University of Buffalo
Panel Session 4 Location: Homeroom Experts and the History of
Science and Technology in India “Amateurs, Professionals and Itinerants:
The Consolidation of the Photographic Business in Colonial India” “The Professional Authority of a Chemist:
William Popplewell Bloxam at Dalsingserai and the University of Leeds,
1902-1908” “Translating Expertise Across Disciplines
and Institutions: An Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research
in India” Discussant: Kavita Philip, Women Studies Program, UC Irvine *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room (Re)Defining Boundaries: Power,
Resistance and the Nation in Public Space “(Re)Imagining the Nation: Women's Organizations
in Gujarat, India” “Memoralizing the Partition in Punjab: Landscapes
of Contentious Memory” “Indigenous Philanthropy, Citizenship, and
the Public Sphere in Colonial Western India” Discussant: Jennifer Fluri, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University Location: Homeroom Mourning Becomes the Nation?
Death, Loss, Spectrality, and (Im)Possible Narratives of Nationhood “Recovering Masculinity: Mourning, Melancholia,
and Scripts of Nation” “'Mourn the Living': Anglo-Indians in Midnight's
Children” “Plantation Women Speak Trauma/History:
Tea, Starvation and 'India Shining'” Discussant: Parama Roy, Department of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room Colonial Knowledge and Empire “Knowledge, Tradition and Modernity in Hali's
Musaddas” “Reformulating Indian Religion: Missionaries
and Indian Religions in Nineteeth-Century Bombay” Discussant: Vasudha Dalmia, UC Berkeley Location: Homeroom Writing History, Creating Pasts “Imagined Sindh: Orientalist, Nationalist
and post-Nationalist Constructions of Sindhi Nation” “'We have here a new country and a new people...':
Colonial History in India and the English National Interest” “India: An Ancient Hindu Civilization of
Aryan Races. French Histories of India in the 19th Century” Discussant: Ronald Inden, University of Chicago *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room Home, Hometown, Homeland: The
Narratives of Belonging “Where Are You From? Networks of Affinity
in 'Local' and 'Global'” “Hometown and Homeland: The Contingent Nature
of Affiliations” “A Topography of Hometown” Discussant: Priya Joshi, Department of English, UC Berkeley Location: Homeroom Talking Back: Meditations and
Modifications of Bollywood in the Diaspora “Relocating the 'Family' in the Diaspora:
The Politics of Social Hierarchies in post-Golbalization Bollywood” “Bollywood Cosmoplastics” Discussant: Amit Rai, Florida State University *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room Framing Tamil-ness: Studies
in Self-Identification “Transformation of Politics and Linguistic
Culture in Modern Tamil Nadu” “The INs and OUTs of Political Theory: On
Comparing Tamil and Greek Sources” “Interpreting the Flawless Story: The Commentarial
Tradition in Tamil Literary History” Discussant: Padma Rangarajan, Department of English, UC Berkeley Location: Homeroom Who is Muslim? Religion and
Politics in Pakistan Fifty Years after the Munir Report (1954) “Making Muslims: Madrasas and the Meaning
of a 'Modern' Education in Pakistan” “Of Momins and Kafirs: Legislative Exorcism
and the Deoband Anti-Ahmediyya Movement” “Narrating Tragedy: The Politics of Sufism
in Pakistan” Discussant: Erik Jensen, Co-Director, Rule of Law Program, Stanford Law School *************************** Location: Ida & Robert Sproul Room Gendered Violence: Notes from
the Postcolonial Present “Remembering Gujarat” “Scripting Violence, Manufacturing Order:
Hindu/Muslim Conflict in Kerala” “The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism” Discussant: Lubna Nazir Chaudhry, State University of New York at Binghamton |
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