May 10-11, 2003
May 10, 2003 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
May 11, 2003 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Detailed schedule available here.

Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th floor, UC Berkeley campus
Sponsor: Center for South Asia Studies, International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley

Violence, Community, Nation, Empire

In light of the violence in Gujarat last year, the protracted threat and then war against Iraq, and of the relation of these and other variations of the current state of emergency to critical events and formations across South Asia in relation to the world, violence and war are the conference's thematic focus - violence of empire and the state system, violence of spatial and categorical purification, violence of left and right melancholy, violence articulated as passionate attachment for and through sex/gendered bodies of nation, caste, community.

Girish Agarwal (Campaign to Stop Funding Hate), Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz), Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley), Srimati Basu (DePauw University), Amita Baviskar (UC-Berkeley), Paula Chakravartty (UC-San Diego), Angana Chatterjee (California Institute of Integral Studies), Lawrence Cohen (UC-Berkeley), Rosemary George (UC-San Diego), Shalini Gera (Campaign to Stop Funding Hate), Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC-Davis), Gayatri Gopinath (UC-Davis), Radhika Mongia (UC-Santa Cruz), Arvind Rajagopal (NYU), Anupama Rao (Barnard College), Raka Ray (UC-Berkeley), Parama Roy (UC-Riverside), Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota), Kamala Visweswaran (UT-Austin)