Modern South Asia Workshop
March 30, 2013
Welcome and Opening Remarks (9.15 – 9.30 AM)
K. Sivaramakrishnan, Chair, South Asian Studies Council, Yale University
Panel I: Writing Agency (9.30 - 10.45 AM)
Chair: Shailaja Paik, Yale University
Encompassing the Totality of Women’s Experiences: Indian Feminist Publishing, 1984-Present
Elen Turner, Australian National Univers
Gender Equity and Inheritance Reform: Evidence from Rural India
Rachel Brulé, Stanford University
Discussant: Tanika Sarkar, Yale University
Panel II: Technologies of Development (11.00 AM – 1.00 PM)
Chair: Sadia Saeed, Yale University
In Quest of Plenty: Hunger and Agricultural Technology in India, 1955-67
Madhumita Saha, Iowa State University
Standards of Living: National Design of Small Industries (1958—1975)
Anthony Acciavatti, Princeton University
‘Developing’ a Borderland: Geopolitical Implications in India’s Northeast
Babyrani Yumnam, SUNY Binghamton
Discussant: Nicholas Wilson, Yale University
Panel III: Claims-Making and Governmentality (2.30 – 4.30 PM)
Chair: Jennifer Bussell, Yale University
A Bottom-Up View of the State: Investigating Citizen Claim-Making Strategies in Rural India
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Harvard University
State Histories and Community Ethnographies: Shifting Agriculturalists, Regional States and the East India Company in Darjeeling, 1800 to 1850s
Catherine Warner, University of Washington
Love in the Time of PTSD: Loss, Longing, and Addiction in Kashmir
Saiba Varma, Cornell University
Discussant: Sara Shneiderman, Yale University
March 31, 2013
Panel IV: Negotiating Marginality (9.00 - 11.00 AM)
Chair: Sadia Saeed, Yale University
The Theatre of the Check Post in South Asia: Humiliation, Harassment and Resistance: Afghans in Pakistan & Kashmiris in India
Sanaa Alimia, School of Oriental and African Studies
Choreographing Inclusivity: The Tree, the Dancer, and the Nation
Feriyal Aslam, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Negotiating Collective Identity for Differentiated Citizenship: Processes of Articulation and Positioning in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Nausheen Quayyum, York University
Discussant: Julia Stephens, Harvard University
Panel V: Spaces and Places of Belonging (12.00 – 2.30 PM)
Chair: K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
City of Edges
Aneesha Dharwadker, Harvard University
Hubs and Hinterlands: Tracing a Lamenting Urbanity along a Rural-Urban Corridor
Atreyee Majumder, Yale University
The One Who Speaks: Possession, Healing, and the Poetics of Place Making
Aftab Singh Jassal, Emory University
The Ground Beneath their Feet: Articulating Property Regime to the Social Life of an Urban Neighbourhood
Madhura Lohokare, Syracuse University
Discussant: Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College
Closing Discussion (2.45 – 4.00 PM)
Chair: K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
Sadia Saeed, Yale University
Shailaja Paik, Yale University
Jennifer Bussell, Yale University