Crafting Modern Bodies,
Mediating Medical Pluralism in Nepal
Chair: Mary Cameron, Florida Atlantic University
Location: Assembly Room
Re-examining the Fit Between Global Health Policies and Local
Realities
Judith Justice, University of California at San Francisco
Lost in Translation? Knowing, Naming, and Legitimating Amchi Medicine
in Nepal
Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College
Modernizing Ayurvedic Medicine in Nepal : Regulation, Controversy
and Healthcare Impact
Mary Cameron, Florida Atlantic University
Understanding the Pharmaceutical Industry in
Nepal : Methodological Issues and Early Research Findings
Samita Bhattarai, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Intimacies of History and Situated Ethnography: Papers in
Honor of Sylvia Vatuk, Part II
Chair: Pauline Kolenda, University of California
Location: Capitol Ballroom A
The Legal Structures of Kinship: Re-Working Affinity, Residence
and Entitlement in the Kolkata Family Court
Srimati Basu, Depauw University
Six Degrees of Separation: India 's Hyderabadis Abroad
Karen Leonard,
University of California-Irvine
“Courage” in the Next Generation:
Shifts in Gender Expectations and Performance in a Hyderabadi Sufi
Healing Tradition
Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University
Discussant
Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Colonial Knowledge Production,
Policy Making and Historiography in British India: The Work of
H.H. Wilson
Chair: Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan
Location: Capitol Ballroom B
Horace Hayman Wilson and the Debate Over Sati
(Suttee)
Paul Courtright,
Emory University
Hindu Sects from H. H. Wilson to R. G. Bhandarkar
David Lorenzen,
El Colegio de Mexico
H.H. Wilson on History, Indian History and Indian
Historical Consciousness
Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan
Struggles and Representations of Women in India
Chair: Kay K. Jordan, Radford University
Location: Caucus
Room
De-romanticizing the ‘new Indian woman’: Narratives
of the ‘new Indian woman’ Negotiating the Traditional-modern
Dichotomy in an Eastern Metropolis City of India
Jaita Talukdar, University
of Cincinnati
India 's Excluded Groups: What Are Their Girls Learning?
Bharati
Holtzman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dalit Patriarchy Disinterred
Shailaja Paik,
University of Warwick-Emory University
Muthulakshmi Reddy and the Struggle for Womean's
Suffrage and Indian Independence
Kay K. Jordan, Radford University
Indigenous Feminist Pathways: Gogi Saroj Pal’s
and Vaasanthi’s
Images of Transformation
Bonnie Zare, University of Wyoming
Material and Performative Culture in South Asian Religions
Chair: Harshita Mruthinti, Emory University
Location: Conference
Room 1
Variations in Hindu Calendars: Conceptual and Visual Frames
Bradley
Hertel, Virginia Tech
Decorating and Donating Indra: the Centering of a Peripheral Nepalese
Festival
Michael Baltutis, University of Iowa
Crossroads of Religions: Shrines, Mobility and
Uurban Space in Goa
Alexander Henn, Arizona State University
Constructing Bodied, Embodied, and De-Embodied
Selves: A Theory of Performative Selfhood in the Context of South Indian
Performance
Harshita Mruthinti, Emory University
Roundtable
Current Techniques and Future Avenues
for Teaching
Hindi
Chair: Premlata Vaishnava, Duke University
Location: Conference Room 2
1- Herman van Olphen, University of Texas-Austin
2- Mahendra Verma, University of York
3- Mahajan Gyanam, University of California - Los Angeles
4- Premlata Vaishnava, Duke University
New Horizons in Political
Cinema: ‘Designer’ Discontent,
Globalized Advocacy,
and the Management of Ittafaq
Chair: Farah Godrej, University of
California-Riverside
Location: Conference Room 3
Designer Discontent and Political Violence in
Rang de Basanti
Christopher
Pinney, University College London
Bollywood’s “ NGO Flicks” Governing
the Global Public
Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon
The Ittafaq-image in India’s New Media
Assemblage
Amit Rai, Florida State University
Discussant
Lalitha Gopalan, University of Texas-Austin
Textual Representations of Hinduism
Chair: Steven Lindquist, Southern Methodist University
Location: Conference
Room 4
Rethinking Sakalya's Shattered Head (BAU 3)
Steven Lindquist, Southern
Methodist University
Juggernaut: A Victorian Myth
Siddharth Satpathy, University of Chicago
Ardhanarisvara and Samkhya Philosophy at the
Virupaksa Temple, Pattadakal
Cathleen Cummings, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Was Patanjali a Dualist
Hugh Flick, Yale University
Gender and Medicine in Early Twentieth Century India
Chair: Ishita Pande, Queen's University
Location: Conference Room 5
Consuming Hygiene: Medicine and the Marketplace
in Late Colonial
Srirupa Prasad, University of Missouri-Columbia
Selling Masculinity: Advertising Sex Potions and Tonics in Late
Colonial Western India
Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College
Embodying Independence : Gender and Indigenous Medicine in early
post-colonial India
Rachel Berger, Concordia University
Discussant
Ishita Pande, Queen's University
The Classical and the Popular: The Politics of Post-Independence
Indian Performance
Chair: Kirin Narayan, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Senate Room A
Classical Indian Dance: Inventions, Significations, and Performative
Values
Anurima Banerji , New York University
Ethics of Ensemble: Theatre Union and the Possibilities of a Popular
Aesthetics
Shayoni Mitra , New York University
Text and Popular Play: Adaptation in Contemporary South Asian
Political Performance
Neil Doshi, University of Michigan
Globalization in India
: Multiple Perspectives
Chair: Baldev Raj Nayar, McGill University
Location: Senate
Room B
“Tracing the Neoliberal Subject: Citizenship in the New
India
Kanishka Chowdhury, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul
Transparency and Technology : Examining e-Governance
in Andhra Pradesh, India Natasha Menon, Fordham University
Indian, Citizen, Consumer: Media, Economic
Reform, and Consumer Protection Law in Contemporary India
Victoria
Farmer, SUNY-Geneseo
Social Stability in India under Globalization
and Liberalization
Baldev Raj Nayar, McGill University
Globalization and Indian Women’s Autonomy
Selva J. Raj, Albion College and Bindu Madhok,
Albion College
