Re-Mapping South Asia: Space, Time, Method

Friday, December 3 - Saturday, December 4, 2010
Cabot 7th Floor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
 

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010

4:00-4:15pm Opening Remarks

Jamshed Bharucha, Provost, Tufts University
Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University

SPACE
4:15 - 6:15pm: Panel I

Paper Presenters:

Seema Alavi (Delhi University)
"Little Men between Big Empires:
Creating a Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the 19th century"

Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck College, London)
"Bay of Bengal: Histories and Ecologies of Migration"

Iftekhar Iqbal (University of Dhaka)
"The Space between the Nation and the Empire:
1905 and Trans-regional Trajectories in
Northeastern India, Burma and Southwestern China"

Discussant: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Bard College)
Moderator: Sugata Bose (Harvard University)
Followed by reception

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2010

TIME
10am - Noon: Panel II

Paper Presenters:

Farina Mir (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
"The Making of a Regional Literature:
The Early Modern Foundations
of Modern Punjabi Literary Culture"

Chitralekha Zutshi (College of William and Mary)
"Of Water Born: Landscape and History
in Kashmiri Hagiographical Narratives"

Mridu Rai (Trinity College, Dublin)
"When God Chastises: The Bihar Earthquake of 1934
and the Remaking of a Social Order"

Discussants:
A.R. Venkatachalapathy (Madras Institute of Development Studies)
Neilesh Bose (University of Northern Texas)
Moderator: Ayesha Jalal (Tufts University)

12-2pm Lunch

METHOD
2 - 4pm: Panel III

Paper Presenters:

Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis University)
"Spectacle and the Synchronicity of
Time in the Historical Novel"

Amrita Basu (Amherst College)
"UnBounding Disciplinary Knowledge on Ethnic Conflict"

Saranindranath Tagore (National University of Singapore)
"Space and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan History"

Discussants:
Andrew Sartori (New York University)
Syed Akbar Hyder (University of Texas at Austin)
Moderator: Kris Manjapra (Tufts University)

4-5pm Concluding Discussion

Co-Sponsored by: Tufts University AS&E Diversity Fund, Tufts University Provostʼs Office, Tufts History Department, The South Asia Initiative at Harvard

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