3rd New Directions in South Asia Studies Conference:

Violence, Community, Nation, Empire

May 10, 2003 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM

May 11, 2003 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

 

Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th floor, UC Berkeley campus

 

Saturday, May 10th: 9am-5pm

8:30-9:15

Greetings and Coffee

 

9:15-10:30

Panel 1: Imagining Justice

Anupama Rao, Postcolonial Damage: Hurt, Injury, and Restitution from a

Constitutional Perspective

Ajay Skaria, Justice and the Question of Minority

Discussants: Lawrence Cohen and Radhika Mongia

 

11:00-12.15

Panel 2: New Subjects/New Subjections

Srimati Basu, Regulating Domestic Order: Family Courts

Amita Baviskar, Blood and Soil ­ Violence and the Environment

Discussants: Parama Roy and Bishnupriya Ghosh

 

12:15-1:45 LUNCH

1.45-3:00

Panel 3:  Sexual Deployments and Excisions

Anjali Arondekar, Hey Ram: The Sex of Partition

Paola Bacchetta, Deployments of Sexuality in Hindu Nationalism

Discussants: Rosemary George and Gayatri Gopinath

3:30-4:45

Panel 4:  Spectacular Violence

Arvind Rajagopal, Gujarat as an Experiment in Hindu National Realism

Kamala Visweswaran, A Thousand Genocides Now: On post 9/11 South Asian

Ethnography

Discussants: Paula Chakravartty and Raka Ray

 

Sunday, May 11th: 9-11am

Roundtable Discussion on "Gujarat and Beyond"

Angana Chatterjee, Shalini Gera, Girish Agarwal, Kamala Visweswaran and

others.