Agenda for Third Annual Conference on South Asia 2019
Ireland India Institute Conference on South Asia
24th, 25th& 26thApril 2019
All Hallows Campus,
Dublin City University, Drumcondra, Dublin
Day One: Wednesday, 24th April 2019
13:00 – 14:00
Purcell House |
Registration |
14:00 – 15:30 | Parallel Sessions (two parallel panels) |
Room:
AHCPG02 (Purcell House) |
Panel One: Gendered Rights & Resistance – Manipur & Kashmir: Towards an experiential theorisation of contemporary forms of decoloniality
Uzma Falak Mehraj, University of Heidelberg Women’s Intimate Worlds, Affective Female Alliance and Companionship of Resistance in Kashmir
Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics and Political Science Vernacular rights cultures and the gendered politics of protest in a state of exception
Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick & Uzma Falak Mehraj, University of Heidelberg ‘knew nothing about #kashmir . . . but admire its resistance against colonialism’: Shifting (de)coloniality at the Tate
Chair: Dr. Mohd Tahir Ganie
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Room:
AHCPG11 (Purcell House) |
Panel Two: ‘Labours’ of Love
Salomi Jacob, Jyoti Nivas College Sex Worker: Antithesis to the Ideal Aspirant
Nasrin Khandoker, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Spiritual vs. Sensual: Subversive female voices in Bhawaiya folk songs of North Bengal to challenge the hierarchy of love
Shanthalembi Lisham, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Marginality and the Politics of Protest: Reflection on Conversation with Female Sex Workers
Prateek Srivastava, University of Cincinnati War and Violence against Women in Kashmir: The Creation and Neglect of Kashmiri Half-Widows
Ved Prakash, Central University of Rajasthan Performing Gender, Inviting Abhorrence: A Study of Suffering and Violence through Hijras of Kashmir
Chair: Dr. Charu Gupta
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15:30 – 16:00
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Tea break
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16:00 -17:30
Room: AHCSG05 (Senior House) |
Welcome and Opening Address by Prof. Eileen Connolly, Director, Ireland India Institute
Keynote Address:
Romance and Religion: Illicit Intimacies in Modern India
Dr. Charu Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi
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Day Two: Thursday, 25thApril 2019
10:00 – 10:15 AHCSG05 (Senior House)
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Welcome by Dr. Jivanta Schottli, Ireland India Institute, DCU |
10:15- 11:15 AHCSG05 (Senior House)
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Keynote Lecture:
Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka and Beyond
Prof. Jonathan Spencer, Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
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11:15 – 11:30 | Tea and Coffee Break |
11:30 – 13:00 | Morning Session One (four parallel panels) |
Room:
AHCPG01 (Purcell House) |
Panel Three: Dynamics of State Formation in South Asia
Aafreen Mustafa, Jawaharlal Nehru University Understanding the Changing Dynamic of Muslim Identity in Kolkata
Xenia Rasul, University of Cambridge The Racialized Other: Pashtun Identity, and the Pakistan State
Chandra Upadhyay, Gauhati University & Tribhuvan University, Nepal Muslim Minority Identity in Contemporary Nepal
Rajarshi Chakraborty, Jawaharlal Nehru University Politicization of Foreign Aid and its Effect on Afghanistan, 2001-2016
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Spencer
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Room:
AHCPG02 (Purcell House) |
Panel Four: Literature and Cinema in Politics
Thea Buckley, Queen’s University Belfast Recolonising the Nation: India’s indigenous filmic Titus (The Hungry) and Lear (Iyobinte Pusthakam)
Rosa Maria Garcia, Queen’s University Belfast Localizing Romeo and Juliet: Ram-Leela and Indian Politics
Ankita Sethi, University of Delhi Literature as an Alternative Site of Knowledge Construction: A Study of Punjab Crisis of 1980’s through selected Short Stories
Yasmin Ansari, Aligarh Muslim University Representation of Widows in Select Bollywood Films
Chair: Dr. Giovanna Rampazzo
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Room:
AHCPG10 (Purcell House) |
Panel Five: Dalit Literature
Neelima B, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras The Affect, Space and Caste in Dalit Literature from India
Pratibha Biswas, Jamia Millia Islamia Victims or Agents: Self-perception of Dalit Women in Pan on Fire
Chandna Singh Nirwan, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Dalit Identity in Bama’s Karukku, Sangati, and Just One Word
Chair: Dr. Charu Gupta
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Room:
AHCPG09 (Purcell House) |
Panel Six: Colonialism and Culture
Ghulam Ali Shair, University of Warwick The Case of Classical Music in Pakistan: A Post-Colonial Betrayal
Theertha Raj, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Imperial is In: Postcolonial constructs of heritage and nationhood in Indian haute couture
Shreyasi Pathak, National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar Martial Music and Photography
Chair: Dr. Paola Rivetti
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13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Session (four parallel panels) |
Room: AHCPG01 (Purcell House) |
Panel Seven: War and Partition Literature
Rimi Nath, North-Eastern Hill University The “Long Shadow” of Bangladeshi Liberation War and the National Question: A Reading of Tahmima Anam’s Bengal Trilogy
Yogesh Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Thus I speak : Between real, real and rhetoric in Kashmir
Rajarshi Kalita, Dept. of English, University of Delhi “Imagined” Fear: Contemporary Assamese Literature, Memory, and the Politics of Sub-National Identity
Simranjeet Kaur, Pondicherry University Marginalization of Kashmiri Sikhs in Historical and Contemporary discourse
Chair: Dr. Sharon Murphy
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Room: AHCPG02 (Purcell House) |
Panel Eight: Environmental Policies and Politics
Dhanasree Jayaram, University of Lausanne A Divided South Asia at Climate Change Negotiations: Is there Room for Future Cooperation?
Jameson Karns, University of California Die Indischen Wälder: Germany and the birth of the Indian Forest Department (1855-1910)
A. P. Payal, University of Delhi Graphic storytelling and the Sundarbans– ecology, folklore, and equity
Ranjith Kallyani, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay The Politics of Environment and Politics against Environment: The Electoral Interests and Formation of an Anti-environment Populism.
Chair: Dr. Diarmuid Torney
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Room:
AHCPG09 (Purcell House) |
Panel Nine: Left, Right, Centre: Electoral Transformations
Smitana Saikia, FLAME University Saffronizing the periphery: Examining shifting electoral dynamics in India’s northeast
Maria Amjad, University of Bologna PTI in Power and the Limits of Populism
Steven Mace, University of Michigan Voices on Walls: The Public Political Artwork of JNU Delhi
Samaira Khan, Independent Researcher The First Systematic Study of Electoral System in Pakistan: The case of PTI
Chair: Prof. Subrata K. Mitra
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Room:
AHCPG10 (Purcell House) |
Panel Ten: Symbols and Objects in Nation Making
Samayita Banerjee, Ashoka University The Anxiety of Antiquities: Role of Archaeology, Museums and Objects in building a nation
Chitra Adkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University Hindutva and the Political Economy of the Indian Beef
Bhargabi Das, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Miya Poetry Movement and the NRC: Questioning Borders?
Lourens Wouter van Haaften, KU Leuven Management Education and Nation Building; Locating IIM-Ahmedabad in India’s Social Imaginaries of Progress since 1961
Vadivel Raj, Trinity College Dublin The Rise and Importance of Tamil Nationalism in India
Chair: Prof. John Doyle
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16:00 – 16:15 | Tea and Coffee Break |
16:15 – 17:45 | Evening Session (four parallel panels) |
Room:
AHCPG01 (Purcell House) |
Panel Eleven: Rhetoric of ‘Identity’
Diana Dimitrova, University of Montreal Constructing Radhasoami Cultural Identity – Discourses and Ideologies
Shafiq Qurban, International Islamic University Discourse of Pakistan Identity under Strand of Neo Liberal Citizenship: A Case Study of Musharraf Regime
Livika, Tata Institute of Social Science Construction of knowledge and identity: The politics of exclusion of Naga culture from social sciences textbooks of SCERT Nagaland
Richa Rana, Jawaharlal Nehru University Neoliberalism, Caste, and Class: The Moderators of Achievement Motivation Process of Women Research Scholars in India
Chair: Prof. Mondira Dutta
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Room:
AHCPG10 (Purcell House) |
Panel Twelve: Revisiting colonialism
Lily Tekseng, Jawaharlal Nehru University The Tribal Learns to Write: ‘Written-Orality’ as a Mode of Interrogating the Archival Narrative of the Indian Northeast
Jinan Ashraf, University of Hyderabad Toward Critical Pedagogies of Reading: James Joyce and the English Classroom in India
Anisha Bordoloi, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development Recruiting ‘Junglees’ for a ‘Jungle’: A Historical Study of the Homogenisation of Lands and Populations Through the Recruitment of Tea Plantation Labour to Assam
Chair: Dr. Michael Hinds
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Room:
AHCPG09 (Purcell House) |
Panel Thirteen: Politics of Cyberspace
Praveena Kannangattukuzhiyil Prabhakaran, University of Hyderabad Unheard Voices: Narrativising #Hetoo campaign in the Cyberspace
Shikhar Goel, Ambedkar University Shutting the Net Down
Chair: Dr. Eugenia Siapera
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Room: AHCPG02
(Purcell House) |
Panel Fourteen: Dalit Literature in Contemporary Karnataka: Continuity with Change
Dhammadeep Wankhede, Gulbarga University Buddha; A Ray of Hope in Modern Dalit Literature
Hanamant Pote, Gulbarga University Dalit Consciousness In The Stories Of Devanooru Mahadeva
Vikram Visaji, Central University of Karnataka The Poetry Of K.B. Siddhaiah: A Study In Dalit Puranas And Dalit Cultural Discourses
Somashekara D, Central University of Karnataka Songs Of Protest: A Socio-Cultural Identity of The Dalits
Shrishail Nagaraj, Gulbarga University Reflection of Dalit Identity and Grievances in Prof. Pote’s Short Stories
Chair: Tapasya Narang
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Day Three: Friday, 26thApril 2019
10:00 – 11:30 | Morning Session (three parallel panels) |
Room: AHCPG02 Purcell House |
Panel Fifteen: Representations: Identity and Literature
Debarati Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University Locating Myths in Mahasweta Devi’s Literary Works
Nisha Kommattam, University of Chicago The Public Secret: Narratives of Transgression from South India
Amit Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University Dalit’s in Hindi Cinema: A Binary of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’
Akshat Seth, Jawaharlal Nehru University Representations of the Nation in Postmillennial Indian English Commercial Fiction
Chair: Prof. Eileen Connolly
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Room:
AHCPG09 Purcell House |
Panel Sixteen: Dalit Sub-alternity
Mousumi Mandal, Presidency University Banabibi and the Forest Workers of Sundarbans – A Study of their ‘Unresolved Antagonism’ with the Normative Religions
Kalyan Kumar Das, Presidency University The Doms of West Bengal and a Contemporary ‘Career of the Anti-God’
Vincent Kelley , King’s College London Ambedkarites After Conversion: Contested Sacred Space, Conflicting Buddhisms, and Dalit Popular Culture in Delhi’s Urban Periphery
Florian Schybilski, University of Potsdam ‘Modernity as Salvation’ – Narendra Jadhav’s Outcaste and Dalit Human Rights
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Spencer
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Room: AHCPG11 Purcell House |
Panel Seventeen: Contested Beliefs in Nationalism
Yasir Bashir, Jamia Millia Islamia Beyond 1947 and Accession: Mapping Contested Histories of the Kashmir Conflict
Nandini Gupta, Trinity College Dublin Can Words Speak Louder than Bullets? : Tracing the Role of Feminist Nationalism in Kashmiri Women’s Struggle for Freedom and Peace
Alex Paul O’Connell, Independent researcher Saffron Secularism: Religious Nationalism in India
Krishanu Adhikari, K.R.K.K. College Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction and the Question of Margin: A Select Study
Chandrima Das, Durgapur Women’s College The Reluctant Administrator: A Reading of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s IAS Novels
Chair: Dr. Kenneth McDonagh
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11:30 – 11:45 | Tea and Coffee Break |
11:45 – 13:15 | Morning Session (three parallel panels) |
Room:
AHCPG02 Purcell House |
Panel Eighteen: Adivasi Identity
Dalel Benbabaali, University of Oxford ‘Hill and plain land Adivasis of Bangladesh: A comparative study of indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and in Northern Bangladesh’
Bishnu Satapathy, University of Delhi Hinduization and Tribal Mobilization
Chandreyi Sengupta, Jadavpur University Co-existence of cooperation and conflict: Reconstructing identities in the Koch-Rajbanshi sovereignty politics of India
Nupur Tiwary, KU Leuven From Christian missionary schools to Ashram schools: deciphering the concept of education for Adivasis in Jharkhand, India
Chair: Prof. John Doyle
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Room:
AHCPG09 Purcell House |
Panel Nineteen: Identity Formation in the North- East
Rinzing Ongmu Sherpa, Jawaharlal Nehru University Politics of Ethnicity and Identity Formation: A Study of the Sherpas of Sikkim Post 1975
Mukuta Borah, Sharda University Narrating Conflict: Representations of Women Caught in Conflict Zones in Contemporary Assamese Literature
Violina Borah, University of Delhi Felanee: Framing identities of women during the socio-political movements in Assam in the 1970s
Antora Borah, University of Delhi Semiya as Hybrid Identity: Immigrant Bangladeshi in an Emergent Collectivity in a foothill village of Assam-Nagaland
Chair: Dr. Jivanta Schottli
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Room:
AHCPG02 Purcell House |
Panel Twenty: Interpreting the Past
Rukma Prince, University of Hyderabad Beyond the Secular: Religion in Contemporary Pakistani Novels in English
Averi Saha, Kanchrapara College Narration and Interpretation: Oral and Written Retelling of Indian Myths
Anindita Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi Reflecting the Real: Class to Caste Conflict in India
Anuroop Kaur Sandhu, University of Delhi Mother Tongue and Identity Politics: A Comparative Study of the Role of Singh Sabha Movement and Gaelic League in the Creation of a Political and Literary Identity of Punjab and Ireland
Chair: Dr. Arpita Chakraborty
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13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon Session (two parallel panels) |
Room:
AHCPG09 Purcell House |
Panel Twenty One: Colours of Desire: Queer Politics
Ina Goel, The Chinese University of Hong Kong The queer paradox of being ‘third’ gender – constructions and contradictions in framing the hijra identity in India
Beauty Thounaojam, Jawaharlal Nehru University Transgender Idenan Experience: A Case Study of the Nupi-Maanbi of Manipur
Agaja P, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Home away from Natal Home : A Study of Migrant transmen in Bangalore city
Priya Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Whose “ethos”?: A critique of the heteronormative policy-making around Indian Surrogacy
Madhuparna Karmakar, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University Identity Politics, ‘Difference’ and Feminisms in India
Chair: Dr. Jean-Phillipe Imbert
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Room:
AHCPG11 Purcell House |
Panel Twenty Two: Reading Identity, Resistance and Desire in South-Asia
Dhananjay Kumar Rai, Central University of Gujarat Irreconcilable Reconciliation and Recovering the Political: A Quest for De-Identitarianism in South Asia
Rityusha Tiwary, Delhi University The Nation and the Other: Tales of Subversion and Convalescence in Contemporary Hindi Cinema
Gourab Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University Love in the time of Smart-phones: Reading Caste and Masculinity in Gay Cruising and Tourism in India
Chair: Prof. Mondira Dutta
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15:30 – 16:30 AHCPG02 Purcell House
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Closing Lecture by Prof. Subrata K Mitra, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University on
Political Science in an Age of Uncertainty: The ‘Rational’ Voter in Indian Elections
Welcome and Vote of Thanks by Prof. John Doyle, Director, IICRR, Dublin City University |
17:00 – 18:00 |
Cultural Event and Wine Reception (Dining Hall) Concert by DCU Trad Society
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