Friday, February 1
12:00pm-2:00 pm Panel 1: Spaces of Performance
Discussant: Deepak Mehta, Ashoka University
Arun Kumar: Nights of the Bombay Worker: Neighborhood Night Schools & Emancipatory Dreams in Colonial India
William F. Stafford, Jr: Origins, Destinations, and the Locus of the Continuous Hail: The Segmentation and Integration of Space, Place, Time, and Distance
Mohammad Waqas Sajjad: Bringing the Debate Online: Social Media and the Deobandi-Barelvi Polemics
2:45 pm-4:45 pm Panel 2: Science and the State
Discussant: Aparna Vaidik, Ashoka University
Yogesh Joshi: The Soldier and the Scientist in Modern India: Naval Engineers, Nuclear Scientists and India’s Nuclear Submarine Program
Pooja Nayak: Taming of the Iron Horse”: Science, State, and Value in South India’s Western Ghats
Jawhar Cholakkathodi: Biotechnology as a Sociotechnical Assemblage: Public Engagement and Collective Action in Governance of Biotechnology in India
5:00 pm-7:00 pm Panel 3: Law and Legalities
Discussant: Rohit De, Yale University
Maira Hayat: Empire’s Accidents: Law, Lies and Sovereignty in the ‘War on Terror’ in Pakistan
Meenakshi Sinha: Land, Law and Courts in India: Tracing Land Rights Debates through Processes of Judicial Decision Making
Subhadeep Chowdhury: The First Rule of Inventing in South Asia: A study of First Patent Act in India – Act VI of 1856
Saturday, February 2
9:00 am- 11:00pm Panel 4: On Stage, Off Screen
Discussant: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Yale University
Koyel Khan: Between Nationalism and Neoliberal Globalization: The Practices of Indian Classical Dance
Aju James: Caste, Gender, and ‘Global Indian-ness’: Consuming Identity in Global Mumbai
Vibhushan Subba: Cultural Rejects: The Bombay Cult Films
11:20 am-2:00 pm Panel 5: Protest, Uprising and Counterinsurgency
Discussants: Naveena Naqvi, Yale University
Nishita Trisal: Rules, Routine, and Recognition in Indian-Administered Kashmir
Roulahpuia: Whose ‘Success’ Whose ‘Model’: Contested Narratives of Violence and Counter-Insurgency in Mizoram, Northeast India
Mohd Tahir Ganie: Youth and Stone-throwing Protests in Kashmir
Heena Ansari: Making of an Alternative Government: The Rebel’s Dastur-ul Amal (Constitution) and the Administration of Delhi, 1857
Final Comments