Roundtable in Honor of James Nye:
Cultivating Intellectual, Financial, and Human Resources to Facilitate the Study of South Asia
Co-chairs: Bronwen Bledsoe, Cornell University and Mary Rader, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Location: Assembly Room
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University
James Simon, Center for Research Libraries
Tony Stewart, North Carolina State University
Gandhi and Culture - Part 2
Chair: Thomas Metcalf, University of California Berkeley
Location: Capitol Ballroom A
The Coffee House and the Ashram: from Habermas to Gandhi
Susanne Rudolph, University of Chicago
Gandhi's Socratic ignorance of the arts
Anthony Parel, University of Calgary
Gandhi, John Haynes Holmes, and American Liberal Religion
David Robinson., Oregon State University
Gandhi and Contemporary Indian Social Imaginary
Sudarshan Padmanabhan, Kenyon College
The Politics of Post-Colonial Indian Theater
Chair: Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Capitol Ballroom B
The Resistible Rise of Ghashiram Kotwal
Sudipto Chatterjee, University of California, Berkeley
Comedic Exclusions: Tamil Political Satire and "Serious" Indian Drama
Kristen Rudisill, University of Texas-Austin
Theatre of Roots and the Politics of Aesthetics
Erin Mee, Swarthmore College
Discussant
Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Community Management of Natural Resources in Nepal and Sri Lanka
Chair: John Metz, Northern Kentucky University
Location: Caucus Room
Dynamic Forest Relationships And Livelihood Stability As Obstacles To Co-Management:
A Sri Lankan Case
Roshni Nuggehalli, Purdue University
Integrated Land -Use History and Land-Use/Cover Change in Lamjung Nepal
Milan Shrestha, University of Georgia
Community Management of Water Resources in Sri Lanka : The Case Study of the Ridi Bendi Ela Farmer Company
Namika Raby, California State University Long Beach
Discussant
John Metz, Northern Kentucky University
The Ongoing Mahfil: New Work on 20th century Hindi-Urdu Literary Categories - Part 1
Chair: Ali Mir, William Paterson University
Location: Conference Room 1
Ismat Chughtai and Krishna Sobti: The Politics of Fiction
Simona Sawhney, University of Minnesota
Manifest Reality: Reading the Future Perfect against the Past Progressive
Christi Merrill, University of Michigan
Beyond ‘All-India’: Contemporary Progressive Ideology and the Politics of Hindi Street Theater
Neil Doshi, University of Michigan
Discussant
Syed Akbar Hyder, University of Texas
Longing and Belonging in Film Music
Chair: Natalie Sarrazin, Stanford University
Location: Conference Room 2
Evergreen Songs from a Golden Age: Nostalgia and Hindi Film Songs
Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa
The Music of A. R. Rahman
Natalie Sarrazin, Stanford University
The Sound of Dharthi: The Musical Construction of Land, Nature, and Nation in Lagaan
Pavitra Sundar, University of Michigan
Ad Hoc Panel
Violence, Nationalism and Rhetorical Strategies
Chair: David Campion, Lewis & Clark College
Location: Conference Room 3
Convicts and Crime in Karachi – an Exploratory Analysis
Zainab Latif, Graduate Center , CUNY
Practicing Prajaniti: Public Action in Early Twentieth Century Orissa. (1903-1920)
Pritipuspa Mishra, University of Minnesota
Federalism, Oversight, and Accountability in Indian Antiterrorism Laws
Anil Kalhan, Fordham Law School
Predatory State, Caste Majoritarianism and Democracy in India
Ashwani Kumar, Deshbandhu College , University of Delhi
War, Patriotism, and the Romanticism of Patrick Pearse and Subhas Chandra Bose
David Campion, Lewis & Clark College
Word and Image in South Asia : Reframing South Asian Manuscript Paintings
Chair: Joanna Williams, University of California-Berkeley
Location: Conference Room 4
Performing the Perfection of Wisdom: a Phenomenological Approach to the Text-image Relationship in the Illustrated Buddhist Manuscripts of South Asia
Jinah Kim, Vanderbilt University
Identifying ‘Mughal’ in Mughal Manuscipts
Saleema Waraich, University of California-Los Angeles
Format, Text, and Illustration in 16th-18th century Indian Manuscript
Daniel Ehnbom, University of Virginia
Discussant
Joanna Williams, University of California-Berkeley
Film Screening
No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope & Betrayal (2004)
by Helene Klodawsky (74 min)
Location: Conference Room 5
Screening and discussion moderated by Sharika Thiranagama
Writing From Within the Diaspora: “Indian” Negotiations of Self and Community
Chair: Piya Chatterjee, University of California-Riverside
Location: Senate Room A
The Story of an Invisible South Asian Diaspora Community
Himanee Gupta-Carlson, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Ethnography in The War on Terror: Intimacy and the Imperial State
Sunaina Maira, University of California-Davis
On Being Brunei Indian: Ethnographic Notes on Memory and Community
Sridevi Menon, Bowling Green State University
'South Asian Like Me?': Possibilities and Predicaments in Diasporic Ethnography
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
Reframing Devadasis and Courtesans: Sexuality, Religiosity, and Histories of the Nation
Chair: Lucinda Ramberg, Cornell University
Location: Senate Room B
The Mother and the Tawa'if: Questioning Indian Nationalism in Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957)
Huma Dar, University of California-Berkeley
Legislating Belief
Hester Betlem, John's Hopkins University
Devadasis, Ex-Devadasis, Faux Devadasis
Lucinda Ramberg, Cornell University
Discussant
Veena Oldenburg , City University of New York
