SAGSC II: Program
Feb 18th, 2008 by admin
Day One Program
Day 1, 25 February 2005
New Perspectives on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Coordinator: Sharmistha Gooptu
9.00-9.30-Introductions
9.30-10.30
Panel 1
“Imagining” the land and public spaces in nineteenth and twentieth century India
Chair: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dept. South Asian Lang. & Civ. & Dept. of History, University of Chicago
Aishwarya Lakshmi
Department of English, University of Chicago
“The Image and the Sacred: Early Nineteenth Century Indian Imaginations of the Land”
Jenny Huberman
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
“Transitional Objects, Transitional Spaces: Tourists and Children on the Riverfront of Banaras”
10.30-10.45-coffee break
10.45-12.30
Panel 2
Popular cultures, politics and identities: making meaning in film and popular media
Chair: William Mazarella
Dept. Anthropology, University of Chicago
Babli Sinha
Department of English
University of Chicago
“Fearing the close-up: the threat of spatial intimacy in cinema in India during the 1920s”
Sreeyash Palshikar
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
“Jai Jai Maharashtra: Re-Relating Regional and National Identities in MTV India”
Sharmistha Gooptu
Department of History
University of Chicago*
Aswin Punathambekar
Media & Cultural Studies division, Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Film Music, Fan Collectives & Cultural Citizenship in an Age of Convergence”
12.30-1.30-Break for lunch
1.30-3.00
Panel 3
Democracy and National Life in India, 1930-2004
Chair: TBA
Poornima Paidipaty
Columbia University
“Tribal Nation: Politics and the Making of Anthropology in India, 1930-1962”
Devin Joshi
University of Washington
“Local Political Parties, Governance and the Quality of Life (QOL):
A Comparative Study of Indian States 1971-2001”
Kaushiki Rao
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
“Citizen as Refugee: Ideas of Belonging in Manipur”
3.00-3.15 –Coffee break
3.15-4.45
“Gendered” perspectives and their histories: Politics of Gender in South and South East Asia
Chair: Rochona Majumdar
Asst. Prof., Soc. Sci. Collegiate Div, University of Chicago
Gautam Bhan
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
“Re-appropriating Desire: The Rise of Queer Politics in India”
Rohit Shetty
Center for South Asian Studies
University of Michigan
“The Gendering of Occupation Roles through Vocational Education Practices and Academic Discourse”
Rachel Rinaldo
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“The Struggle over Women: Gender Ideology in Two Indonesian Islamic Organizations”
4.45-5.00-Coffee break
5.00-6.00-Address by guest speaker-Stephen Hughes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, followed by general interactive session
For questions and comments contact Sharmistha Gooptu, sgooptu@uchicago.edu
Day Two Program
Reorientations
8:30 a.m. Welcome & Coffee
Keynote Address
9 a.m. – 10 a.m. Tom Trautmann, Marshall Sahlins Professor of Anthropology and History, University of Michigan: The Case Against Ancient Indian History
Criticism Panel
Discussant: Professor Farina Mir, The University of Michigan
10:15 a.m – 12:00 p.m. Bali Sahota, The University of Chicago: Notes on Identity and Authority in Readings of Iqbal
Spencer Leonard, The University of Chicago: British Indian Antiquarianism and the Limitations of the Saidian Framework
Ben Baer, Columbia Univeristy: Peasant Machine: Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and the Uncanny
Lunch: 12:00-12:50
Islam Panel
Discussant: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
1:00 p.m. – 2: 45 p.m. Manan Ahmed, The University of Chicago: Orientalism in the Local: Writing the History of Sindh from the Colonial to the Qaumi
Ovamir Anjum, The University of Wisconsin, Madison: Tradition and Modernity in the Interpretation of Islam
Rajeev Kinra, The University of Chicago: Meet the New Orientalism: Same as the Old Orientalism?
Coffee Break: 2:45 – 3:15
Indology Panel
Discussant: Professor Sheldon Pollock, The University of Chicago
3:15 p.m. – 5 p.m. Jesse Knutson, The University of Chicago: The Birth of the Anthology and the Social Life of Sanskrit Kavya
Ethan Kroll, The University of Chicago: The Failure of Analogy: Why Dharmashastra is not “just like” Other Systems of Law . . .
Travis Smith, Columbia University: A Philologist’s Fieldnotes, or, Theoretical Issues in the Study of the Varanasi Sthalapuranas
Retire to the Pub after 5