Urban India: Historical Processes and Contemporary Experience
Schedule
Friday, April 29
11:30 am : REGISTRATION
1:00 pm : WELCOME REMARKS
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan,Yale University
Ramesh RamanathanJanaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm : URBAN UTOPIAS
Jyoti Hosagrahar,Columbia University
Techno-Topias and Ethno-topias: Urban India in the Age of Global Modernities
Swati Ramanathan,Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
Jaipur Master Plan 2025: A Case-Study
Moderator & Discussant: Vikramãditya Prakãsh,University of Washington, Seattle
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm : INFRASTRUCTURE AND LAND
Véronique Dupont,Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Access to Land and Housing for Slum Dwellers in Delhi: The Impact of Infrastructure Projects and Real Estate Development
Malini Ranganathan,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A Spatial History of Water at Bangalore’s Frontier: State Formation, Extra-Legalities, and the Peripheralized Middle Class
Moderator & Discussant: Karen Seto,Yale University
Saturday, April 30
9:00 am – 10:30 am: THE CITY IN PUBLIC CULTURE
Rebecca M. Brown,Johns Hopkins University
The City, From a Different Angle: Revisioning the Urban in Post-1947 Indian Art
Ranjani Mazumdar,Jawaharlal Nehru University
Terrorism, Conspiracy and Surveillance in Bombay’s Urban Cinema
Moderator & Discussant: Mrinalini Rajagopalan,Yale University
11:00 am –12:30 pm: DESIRE AND BELONGING IN THE CITY
Lisa Mitchell,University of Pennsylvania
Public Space and Repertoires of Political Action
Rashmi Sadana,Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
On the Delhi Metro: An Ethnographic View
Moderator & Discussant: Tejaswini Ganti,New York University
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm : LIVELIHOODS, MOBILITY AND URBAN INFORMALITY
Nandini Gooptu,University of Oxford
Sentinels of the City: Private Security Guards, Urban Work Culture and Informality in India
Anirudh Krishna,Duke University
Living in the Slums of Bangalore: Activities, Aspirations and Achievements of 1,481 Households in 14 Slum Communities
Moderator & Discussant: Vyajyanthi Rao,New School for Social Research
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm : GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENSHIP
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria,Bard College
Illegal Landscapes: Governance and Citizenship on Mumbai’s Streets
Unna Govindarajan,Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
Quality of Citizenship in Bangalore: Understanding the Role of Civic Literacy and Civic Engagement
Moderator & Discussant: Vinay Gidwani,University of Minnesotaand City University of New York
7:00 p.m. CONCERT BY PANDIT VIDHYADHAR VYAS
(Luce Hall Auditorium)
Sunday, May 1
9:30 am - 12:00 pm : CONCLUDING PLENARY SESSION
Purnima Mankekar,University of California, Los Angeles
Aromar Revi,Indian Institute of Human Settlements
Helen Siu,Yale University
Moderators: Ramesh Ramanathan,Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy; and Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan,Yale University