New Directions in Modern South Asian Studies
An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
in South Asian Studies
April 5, 2008
Rabb Room, Lincoln-Filene Hall

Schedule:

9:00 a.m.
Welcome, Introductions, Breakfast

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Angma Jhala, Keynote Speech

9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Panel 1, Post-Colonialism and Knowledge

• Kris Manjapra, "Postcolonial Gadamer: Language, Tradition, Truth"
• Oishik Sircar, "Museumizing the 3rd World Woman: Gender and Representation in Int'l Human Rights"
• Ashish Chadha, "Indus Script and the Project of Scientific Decipherment"

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Break
 
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Panel 2, Modernity and Liberalism

• Siva Arumugam, "Towards Heterotopia: Political Society and Neoliberalism"
• Poornima Paidapaty, "Tribal Spaces/Tribal Identities: Anthropology and Tribal Policy in the Elwin Ghurye Debate"

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch
 
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Panel 3, Re-Visioning Modern Bengal

• Neilesh Bose, "The Wide World of Identity Politics: Bengali Muslim Oppositional Intellectuals, 1920-1926"
• Varuni Bhatia, "Institutions and Literary Modernities: Chandidas in the BSP"
• Rajarshi Ghose, "Debating Histories: Bengal Muslims and the Politics of the Colonial Era"

4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Break
 
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Panel 4, Perspectives on Princely States and Colonialism

• Johan Mathew, "Imperial Cosmopolitanism"
• Julie Hughes, "A 'wretched island' and 'some good tiger ground': Maharaja of Orchha, sportsmanship, sovereignty..."

5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Break
 
5:30 – 6:15 p.m.
Conclusions

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