Digital Humanities for South Asia
Chair: A. Sean Pue, University of Chicago
Location: Assembly Room
From Diwan to Database: Digital Archives of South Asia
Manan Ahmed, University of Chicago
Digital Humanities and the Vernacular
Prithvi Datta
Chandra Shobhi, San Francisco State University
Tamil Language Technologies: A Case Study
Vasu Renganathan, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant
Manan Ahmed, University of Chicago
Ad Hoc Panel
Recent Studies in South Asian Archaeology
Chair: Heather M.-L. Miller, University of Toronto
Location: Capitol Ballroom A
Technology Among Neighbors: Lithics at Bagor and Gilund
Teresa Raczek, University of Pennsylvania
Tekkalakota Through the Ages: Recent Research and Perspectives
Namita Sugandhi, University of Chicago
Foundations and Networks: Investigating Bodhgaya and Other Buddhist Monastic sites in Early Historic Gaya
Abhishek Singh Amar, School of Oriental & African Studies, London
Nodes and Networks: Travel Amenities of the Mughal Period in Northern Pakistan
Heather M.-L. Miller, University of Toronto
Architectural Interpretation and Change: Using Photo Documentation to Explore Use and Reuse of Vernacular Structures in Northwest Pakistan
Jennifer L. Campbell, University of Toronto
The Research-Policy Nexus for South Asian Americans:
Community-based Research for Policy Initiatives
Chair: Ralph Nicholas, University of Chicago
Location: Capitol Ballroom B
Barriers Asian Americans Face in Accessing Health Care
K. Sujata, South Asian American Policy and Research Institute
Our Immigrant Story: Asian Indians in Illinois, 1945-1965
Padma Rangaswamy, South Asian American Policy and Research Institute
Devon Avenue : Challenges Posed to this International Marketplace?
Ann Kalayil, South Asian American Policy
Discussant
Ralph Nicholas, University of Chicago
Ad Hoc Panel
Performing Religious Identities
Chair: Davesh Soneji, McGill University
Location: Caucus Room
"Oh My Lovely Lalana": Devadasi Performance and the English Language in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century South India
Davesh Soneji, McGill University
Charity’s Venue: Religious Merit and State Ideology in the Royal Pilgrim Rest Houses of Raja Serfoji II of Tanjore, South India, 1798-1832
Michael Linderman, University of Pennsylvania
Blurring Boundaries: The Three (Intertwined) Careers of Yusuf Ludhianvi
Faiza Mushtaq, Northwestern University
Zero Tolerance? Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec
Valerie Stoker, Wright State University
Reconsidering the Nation: Indian English Writing in Transnational/Cosmopolitan Contexts
Chair: TBA
Location: Conference Room 1
The Politics of Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul
Nyla Khan, University of Nebraska-Kearney
Naipaul, the Emergency, and the Periodization of Indian Writing in English
Gautam Premnath, University of California-Berkeley
Nayantara Sahgal’s Nationalist Cosmopolitanism
Pranav Jani, Ohio State University
Spaces: Insurgent, Interstitial and Imagined
Chair: Priya Joshi, Temple University
Location: Conference Room 2
Asceticism and the Spaces of Discontent
Kazi Ashraf, University of Hawaii
Queering States and Spaces
Jyoti Puri, Simmons College
Footpaths, Bridges, Highrises: "Deewar", the Migrant, and the Metropolis
Priya Joshi, Temple University
Discussant
Harleen Singh, Brandeis University
The US and South Asia after the President Bush’s Visit
Chair: Timothy Hoyt, US Naval War College
Location: Conference Room 3
India and the Global Balance of Power
Devin Hagerty, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia
S. Paul Kapur, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Discussant
Christine Fair, U.S. Institute for Peace
Journalism, Violence and Press Freedom in Sri Lanka : A Panel in Honor of Sivaram Dharmeratnam
Chair: Mark Whitaker, University of South Carolina-Aiken
Location: Conference Room 4
Making the film: ‘Taraki: Media Under threat in Sri Lanka ’
Arthur Rhodes, SK/AR productions and UCLA
Woman, Men, and Violence in Sri lankan journalism
Ramani and Lucksman Hettiarachchi, University of Peradeniya and University of Kelaniya
Going back to (S) Words: Freedom and Liberation in the Tamil National Struggle
Cheran Rudhramoorthy, University of Windsor
Sivaram: State, Class and Power
Jude Fernando, Clark University
Ad Hoc Panel
Women and Work
Chair: S. Charusheela, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Location: Conference Room 5
Globalization, Women, Work and Agency in India
Annapurna Pandey, University of California-Santa Cruz
Engendering Feudalism: Modes of Production Debates Revisited
S. Charusheela, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Indian Professionals in Singapore
Arunajeet Kaur, Nanyang Technological University/ National Institute of Education
Films from the Margins: Indian Feminist Documentary Film and its Radical Project
Swati Bandi, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Ad Hoc Panel
Interfaces of Religion and Literature
Chair: Richard Cohen, University of Pittsburgh
Location: Senate Room A
Janabai's Harischandra Akhyana and the Radical Feminine in Maharashtrian Bhakti
Madhuri Deshmukh, Oakton Community College
Not Just Another Local Purana: The Unparalleled Success of the Svasthani Vrata Katha in Nepal ’s Religio-Cultural Literary Traditions
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, University of Chicago
The Horror of a Suffering King: A Sanskrit Dramatic Adaptation of the Puranic Legend of Harishcandra
Adheesh Sathaye, University of British Columbia
Medieval Modalities: Formal Continuities in the Apabhramsha Cariu and the Avadhi Masnavi
Richard Cohen, University of Pittsburgh
The Cultural Politics of Representation:
Constructing the Regional and the National Through the Media
Chair: Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of Chicago
Location: Senate Room B
Picturing Religion: Photography and the Production of Religion in Himachal Pradesh
Mark Elmore, University of North Florida
Viewing the Urban Other: Rural Indian responses to regional and national TV programming
Sally Steindorf, Syracuse University
Locating the Regional: Music Retail Chains and the Construction of National Music Categories
Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of Chicago
Brand ‘Bollywood’: Hindi Cinema After Liberalization
Richard Delacy, University of Chicago
