SAGSC: South Asia Graduate Student Conference

The following is a list of the graduate students participating in our conference, in the order of presentation:

1. Sravanthi Kollu, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
2. Malarvizhi Jayanth, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
3. Shiv Subramaniam, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
4. Luther Obrock, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
5. Leila El-Murr, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
6. Hajnalka Kovacs, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
7. Hasan Siddiqui, Department of History, University of Chicago
8. Usman Hamid, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
9. Debjani Bhattacharyya, Department of History, Emory University
10. Ahona Panda, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
11. Sravani Biswas, Department of History, Syracuse University
12. Davey Tomlinson, Divinity School, University of Chicago
13. Justin Fifield, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University
14. Alexander Jabbari, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
15. M.A. Ahmad Khan, Girton College, Cambridge University
16. Francesca Chubb-Confer, Divinity School, University of Chicago
17. Taimoor Shahid, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

The following is a list of the keynote speakers participating in our conference, in the order of presentation:

1. Whitney Cox, Senior Lecturer, Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS, University of London
2. A. Azfar Moin, Assistant Professor, William P. Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University
3. Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School
4. Frances W. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

The following is a list of those chairing panels at our conference, in the order of presentation:

1. Rajagopal Vakulabharanam, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
2. Gary Tubb, Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
3. Franklin D. Lewis, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
4. Thibaut d’Hubert, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
5. Rochona Majumdar, Associate Professor, Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
6. Steven Collins, Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
7. Elena Bashir, Senior Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
8. C.M. Naim, Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago