Urban Charisma

Breakfast & Registration

Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall

8:30-9:15am

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Introduction & Opening Comments

Luce Hall Auditorium

9:15-10:30am

Thomas Hansen, Yale University
”The Hustler and the Anthropologist: Introductory Notes on Infra power and Legibility in the City”

Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam
“Charisma & Taboo: Introductory Notes on Non-Bureaucratic Forms of Urban Authority”

Discussion & Coffee

Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall

10:30-11:00am

Panel 1

Luce Hall Auditorium

11:00am-1:00pm

Thijl Sunier, University of Amsterdam
“Muslim Women take Issue: Islam and the Public Sphere in Western Europe”

Discussant
Faisal Devji, New School University

Eric Worby, Yale University
”The Play of Race in a Field of Urban Desire: Soccer and Spontaneity in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg”

Discussant
Abdoumaliq Simone, New School University

Lunch

Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall

1:00-2:00pm

Panel 2

Room 202, Luce Hall

2:00-4:00pm

Dhooleka Raj, Yale University
”The neo-Hindu Hustler and the Department of the Environment” (pdf)

Discussant
Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam

Commentary

Ahmed Afzal, Colgate University
“Rumors, Tales, Gossip and the Pakistan-American Association of Greater Houston: Specters of Power and Contemporary Ethnic Organizations in the United States”

Discussant
Véronique Benëi, Yale University

Commentary & discussion

Coffee

4:00-4:30pm

Panel 3

Room 202, Luce Hall

4:30-6:30pm

Wilson Chacko Jacob, Cornell University
”Between Strongman and Thug: Diagnosing the Futuwwa in Interwar Cairo”

Discussant
Saba Mahmood, University of Berkeley

Steffen Jensen, Roskilde University
”Back Street Blues: Imaginaries and Practices of Street Gangs in Cape Town”

Discussant
Ajay Gandhi, Yale University