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Ireland India Institute
South Asia Conference 2026

9th Annual South Asia Conference 2026

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10:00 - 12:00

Registration takes place in the library foyer, St Pats Campus

12:00 - 13:00

Light lunch in the main canteen

14:00 - 15:30

Four Parallel Sessions

Room SPC.D203

Panel 1: Domestic Politics Chair: Dr. Jivanta Schottli

Panel Administrator: Marcel Schwarz

 

  1. Thiruppathi P – Dravidian Populism and Political Communication: Subnational Resistance and Resilience in Contemporary Politics
  2. Prarthana Puthran – Modified era: Understanding polarisation through support for Modi
  3. Nora Warmer – Narendra Modi’s New India – Telling the tale of economic prosperity
  4. Aarush Agarwal – Hindu Think-tanks in the service of long-distance nationalism in the UK: Case Study of Insight UK

Room SPC.D204

Panel 2: Caste, Gender, and the Politics of Space in Higher Education Chair: Dr. Kiruba Munusamy

Panel Administrator: Nithya Kothenmaril

 

  1. Chanda Yadav and Chandan Sagar – Discrimination, Exclusion and Everyday Negotiation: Analysis of Subaltern Women Scholars in Indian Academia (onl
  2. Meenakshi Ravivanshi – Spatialising Caste in the University: Gendered Power, Institutional Exclusion, and Dalit Women’s Resistance in Delhi and Patna
  3. Suresh Shaktiram Gaikwad – Claiming Campuses: Caste and Spaces in Indian Universities (Online)
  4. Kavya Harshitha Jidugu – Rethinking Solidarity and Pedagogy: A Dalit Autoethnography of Anti-Caste Student Activism in Canadian Higher Education

Room SPC.D205

Panel 3 : Trauma, Fiction, Memory Chair: Dr. Eugene McNulty

Panel Administrator: Toshali Chattopadhyay

 

  1. Nida – Trauma, Memory and Everyday Resilience in Shahnaz Bashir's The Half Mother and Scattered Souls.
  2. Pratyusha Dhar – Narrating Ends, Not Emancipation: A Revival of Old-school Class Struggle in the Face of Journalistic Voyeurism by the Oppressive ‘State’ in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess.
  3. Srinivasan R – Prison Archipelago and Prosopopoeia: An Autotheoretical Approach on Indian Prison Writing.
  4. Kamna Singh – How Caste Travels Through English: Dalit Women’s Life Writing

and Counter- Aesthetic Forms.(Online)

Room SPC.D325

Panel 4 : The Cinematic Public Sphere Chair: Dr. Giovanna Rampazzo

Panel Administrator: Shreyashi Das

 

  1. Puneet Yadav – Democratic Transformation as Reflected in Hindi Cinema: A Cinematic Exploration of Power, Resistance, and Social Change.
  2. Ankita Das – Genres of Disruptiocinen: The Feminist Fantastic in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul and Qala (Online)
  3. Hayaat Fatemah – My Name is Khan/Syed/Shaikh: The Optics of Muslim Caste in Bollywood
  4. Nandana Anand – The Turbulence of the Everyday: Kitchen Spaces and Shifting Masculinities in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema (Online)

15:30 - 16:30

Tea/Coffee in the corridor of D Block, St Pats.

16:30 - 18:00

Four Panel Sessions

Room SPC.D203

Panel 5 : Economy Chair: Dr. Sandeep Rao

Panel Administrator: Lily Girme

 

  1. Nishan de Mel & Raj Rajakulendran – "Crisis Fiscalism" in South Asia: Lessons from Sri Lanka.
  2. Raj Rajakulendran & Nishan de Mel – The Governance Linked Bond, as a financial instrument for reducing risk and expanding democracy
  3. Vikrant Pande – One Party, Two Stories: Decoding Divergent Trajectories of Economic Reforms (Online)
  4. Amruthraj Vadakkepurakkal Gopinathan – Welfare Induced Dispossession, Economic Crisis and Everyday Politics of Dalits in Kerala, India

Room SPC.D204

Panel 6 Borders and Neighbours Chair: Dr. Kenneth McDonagh

Panel Administrator: Mahesh Kushwaha

 

  1. Mahesh Kumar Kushwaha Securitization of Nepal’s Borders with India and China: Implications on the Borderland Madhesi and Tibetan Borderland Communities’ Identity, Nationalism, and Citizenship.
  2. Luntinthang Khongsai – Navigating Conflict in Myanmar through India’s Act East Policy
  3. Aravind Balakrishnan – Influence in Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Role of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Liberation Panther Party) in Indian Foreign Policy (Online)
  4. Shubhanginee Singh – Between Geopolitical Turbulence and Resilience: The Shifting Spectrum of Peaceful Borders in Arunachal Pradesh

Room SPC.D205

Panel 7: Governance amidst Turbulence Chair: Dr. Vidushi Kaushik

Panel Administrator: Gayanthi Ranatunga

  1. Subashini Samuel Raj Suganthi – Producing the Educated Underclass: Educational Attainment and Occupational Containment in Asia's Non-Signatory Refugee Regimes (online)
  2. Yashaswani Sehrawat – Women, War and Agency: Gendered Ruptures and Post-Conflict Governance in Nepal and Sri Lanka
  3. Ecem Gacener – When Green Turns Authoritarian: Rethinking Climate Governance in China and India
  4. Jasveer Singh – Re-Examining Development Partnerships: Tracing India’s Evolving Role In South Asia.

Room SPC.D325

Panel 8: Listening, Spectatorship and Performance Chair: Yameema Mitha

Panel Administrator: Pritha K.

  1. Prarthana Saikia – Srimanta Shankar Sangha: Formation, Reformation, Negotiations of Transformation and a Quest for an Inclusive Society in Assam
  2. Soumya Mohan – Gender, spectatorship and post-colonial transformation of football in Kerala, India
  3. Shruthy Harilal – Between Ritual Obligation and Social Mobility: Intergenerational Perspectives on Theyyam among the Vannan Community
  4. Deivendrakumar A – Film songs, caste and the politics of listening in Southern Tamil Nadu. (online)

18:00 - 18:30

Break

18:30 -19:30

Seamus Heaney Theatre

(entrance through the library foyer)

Official opening of the conference

Welcome by Dr. Jivanta Schottli, Director DCU Ireland India Institute Keynote Lecture

Professor Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UC Chaired by Professor John Doyle, Vice President for Research, Dublin City University

Renegotiating patriarchy: gender, agency and stories of change from Bangladesh.

Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of International Development. Naila is also a Faculty Associate at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and on the governing board of the Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity. She has done extensive advisory work with international agencies (World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UN Women), bilateral agencies (DFID, SIDA, CIDA, IDRC) and NGOs (Oxfam, Action Aid, BRAC, PRADAN and Nijera Kori). Her most recent projects were supported by ERSC-DIFD Funded Research on Poverty Alleviation: Gender and Labour Market dynamics in Bangladesh and West Bengal. She is on the editorial boards of Feminist Economics and Gender and Development and on the international advisory board of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies She is also a member of the Inequalities Advisory Group, Bosch Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations University Institute for Global Health.

 

9:30 - 11:00

Three Parallel Panels

Room SPC.D203

Panel 9: Multiscalar Temporalities Chair: Dr. Diarmuid Torney

Panel Administrator: Mahesh Kushwaha

 

  1. Shreyashi Das – Harvesting Seeds of Violence : A Study of Ecological Time in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
  2. Kiran Sollepura Nanundegowda – Mountains and Ecofeminism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain : A Fable of Our Times (2022) (Online)
  3. Dhammaratna Jawale – Sacred Geographies in Crisis: Contesting Religious Infrastructures through Ecological Citizenship in India (Online)
  4. Somedutta Mallik – Weaving Time out: Master weaver Ali Ahmed’s archive of Awadh Jamdani Textiles of Uttar Pradesh, India (Online)

Room SPC.D204

Panel 10 : Resilience & Identity Chair: Dr. Jivanta Schottli

Panel Administrator: Jivanta Schottli

 

  1. Divyanshu Sahay – Practices of Resilience: The Thanksgiving Ritual of Tawaifs
  2. Basundhara Dahal – Reclaiming Identity through Festivals and Rituals: A

Socio-anthropological Analysis of the Revival of Tendong Lho-Rum-Faat Festival of the Lepcha Tribe of Sikkim, India (Online)

  1. Apoorv Katoch – Photographic Intimacies: Memory, Belonging and Religious Transformation In South Asia (Online)
  2. Jitender Kumar– Digital Intimacies, Relationships and Experiences (Online)

Room SPC.D205

Panel 11 : Digitalisation, Terror and Resilience Chair: Professor Maura Conway

Panel Administrator: Jessica Braganza

 

  1. Satya Oza – Driving through a Bumpy Road: Disaggregated Agency and the Politics of Resistance among Ahmedabad’s Gig Autorickshaw drivers
  2. Ananthu Rajagopal Asha – Turbulent Information, Digitalities and the Offline: Media and Information Literacies Securitising Risk
  3. Syeda Sana Batool– Memory as Resistance - AI and Digital Archives Against Sectarian Erasure in Pakistan.
  4. Revathy Krishnan – Narrating Uneven Paths to Repair: Memories of Terror and

Patterns of Resilience in Select 26/11 Witness Narratives.

11:00 - 11:30

Tea/Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Four Parallel Sessions

Room SPC.D203

Panel 12 Struggles of Resistance Chair: Professor Eileen Connolly

Panel Administrator: Gayanthi Ranatunga

 

  1. Kusumika Ghosh & Yael Lopez Torres – Art and resistance: Space-making as an Act of Care in Contentious Politics
  2. Aiman Haque–Feminism in India : Did we jump the gun with the fourth wave?
  3. Rebecca Bricchi–Women Tea Workers and Localised Struggles of Resistance: Fighting for Fairness and Equality on Darjeeling Tea Plantations.
  4. Shailza Sharma– “We came for the Songs and stayed for the Politics”: Women, Memory, and Maoist Histories. (Online)

Room SPC.D204

Panel 13 : Subverting Structures: Hermeneutics, Performance, and the Social Order Chair: Professor Joseph Rivera

Panel Administrator: Somya Dixit

  1. Ms Geetha Kaimathuruthil Wilson – Palimpsests of Propaganda: An analysis of the Kāṟaḷmān, Charlemagne, manuscripts of the Caviṭṭunāṭakam Musical Theater of Kerala, India
  2. Sharvi Maheshwari – From Local Goddesses to Sanskritic Icons: Ritual, Text, and Lived Religious Worlds in Bhaktapur, Nepal
  3. Shradhanjali Mahapatra – Subverting Hierarchies: A Socio-Cultural and Hermeneutical Study of Lakshmi Purāna
  4. Mani Kaliyaperumal – Sacred Guardians of Social Order: Folk Deities and the Reproduction of Caste Hierarchy in Rural Tamil Nadu (online)

 

Room SPC.D205

Panel 14: Culture, Contestation & Identity Chair: Professor Nathan Hill

Panel Administrator: Dhruv Matade

 

  1. Prateek Talukdar – Hindu Identity and Cultural Production of Sanatani Rap in the Digital Age
  2. Wahida Tasnim – Bharat Mata in the Public Sphere: Contemporary Contestations and Savarkar (Online)
  3. Deva Nandan Harikrishna – Hindutva’s Sonic Morality: Ritual Change in Bharanippattu Song Cultures in Kerala, India
  4. Vincent Hasselbach – Gonotontro mukti pak (let democracy be free): continuities and transformations in the visual and material cultures of political resistance in contemporary Bangladesh

 

Room SPC.D325

Panel 15: Art of Witness Chair: Dr. Aashima Rana Panel Administrator: Pritha K.

  1. Kavya Mitchi D – Spectral Witnessing and Haunting as Resilience in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
  2. Kiara Wickremasinghe - ‘Open to Opera’: Opera as ethnographic method in exploring young people’s experiences of emotional distress in Sri Lanka
  3. Niyati Pavithran – The Art of Witnessing and the Self in Resistance: Literary and Visual Dimensions in “Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham”
  4. Pournimaa Gaikwad- Rap as Witness: Marginalised Youth and Anti-Caste Turbulence in India

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Four Parallel Sessions

 

Room SPC.D203

Panel 16: Violence

Chair: Professor William Murphy Panel Administrator: Jessica Braganza

 

  1. Abdul Mateen – The Gendered Architecture of Punishment: Navigating Structures of Inequality and Resilience in India’s Prisons
  2. Jimi Bora – The Politics of ‘Not Yet’: Caste, Recursive Violence, and Asserting Dalit Futurity in South Asia (Online)
  3. Anagha Nair- “And soon the free radio will arrive”: Reading Radio as an Instrument of the State Soft Power in “The Free Radio” and “Transistor”
  4. Pranay Somayajula – The Exception Proves the Rule: Preventive Detention and the Logic of Permanent Exception in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Room SPC.D204

Panel 17 Negotiating Modernity and the Sacred in Ritual Practice Chair: Professor Peter Admirand

Panel Administrator: Somya Dixit

  1. Veilou Paotei H – Indigenous Beliefs in Celestial Beings: Negotiating Modernity among the Poumai Naga (online)
  2. Brindha Balasubramanian – Serpent Worship as Lived Religion: Posthuman Agency and Sacred Ecologies in Kerala’s Sarpa Kāvu
  3. Gunjan Shekhawat – Violence as Tradition: Sati Worship and the Cultural Negotiation of Modernity
  4. Akhil Unnikrishnan – Matrilineal Tharavadus: A comparative study of Kinship, identity and Gender among the Thiyya communities in contemporary Kerala (online)

Room SPC.D205

Panel 18 : Development Chair: Dr. Naila Kabeer

Panel Administrator: Priyanka Borpujari

  1. Anagha Pradeep – Pandemic Disruptions and Shifting Mobilities: Reimagining the Kerala-Gulf Migration Corridor (Online)
  2. Alfisha Sabri – Landscapes of Toil: Colonial Settlements and the Postcolonial Arc of Labour in a Himalayan Hill Station
  3. Jasper Subba – Contours of Change: Colonial Development Policies and Their Impact in the Sub-Himalayan Eastern Himalayas.
  4. Tahzeeb Mahreen – Leading for Climate Justice and Sustainable Development: Educational Leadership Practices in Marginalized Regions of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

Room SPC.D325

Panel 19 : Narrating / Writing from the Margins Chair: Dr. Anindita Bhattacharya

Panel Administrator: Shreyashi Das

 

  1. Mohamed Wadhoodh M – Witnessing and Narrating Turbulence: Revisiting past violence and the Negotiated future of Tamil Muslims
  2. Angira Dhar – Singing Caste in a Casteless Land: Selective Protest and the Making of Bengal from Congress to the Left to TMC
  3. Ali Afrina Shaheen – Dressing the Margins: On the Making of Borders and Aesthetic Objects in North East of India
  4. Feryal Banday- The Public and the Private Page: Pedagogy as Poetic Practice in the work of Koshur Female Poets (Online)

15:30 - 16:00

Tea/Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Three Parallel Sessions

Room SPC.D204

Panel 21: Spacemaking as Resistance Chair: Dr. Kusumika Ghosh

Panel Administrator: Ashly Isaac

 

  1. Taha Firdous Shah– Sanctuaries of Endurance: Gendered Devotion and Everyday Ethics in a Kashmiri Sufi Shrine. (online)
  2. Patrick Killian O’Brien – Democracy Beyond Elections: Protest Movements and Embodied Social Practices - The Case of Shaheen Bagh
  3. Hanzala Mojibi- Prayer on the Public Pavement: The Everyday as Resilience for Muslims in India
  4. Atufah Nishat – Imagining Safety Amid Hate: Muslim Women’s Everyday Public Space Negotiations in Kolkata, India

Room SPC.D205

Panel 22: Segregation in Neoliberal Terms Chair: Dr. Valesca Lima

Panel Administrator: Mahesh Kushwaha

 

  1. Mayurakshi Das – Everyday Turbulence in the Gated Home: Neoliberal Order, Majoritarian Politics, and Fractured Belonging in New Town–Rajarhat, Kolkata. (Online)
  2. Sweta Ghosh – Silent Suffering, Intimate Boundaries: Everyday Exploitation and Humiliation among Live-out Domestic Workers in Kolkata
  3. Priyanka Mokale – Understanding the Environmental Justice Struggle of Marginalised Communities through Housing Rights Movements: A Study of Mumbai’s Slum Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy
  4. Kavya RK - The Affective Engineering of Exclusion: Everyday Crisis in Select Indian Waste Narratives

Room SPC.D325

Panel 23: Negotiating Malayali Identity: Material Practices, Transnational Networks, and the Politics of Tradition.

Chair: Dr. Harikrishnan Sasikumar

Panel Administrator: Revathy Kuttykrishnan Jayakumari

  1. Manoj Thekkepattath Parameswaran – Amritanandamayi’s spirituality using the Material Religion paradigm
  2. Rajashree Raju – Youth Festivals and the Making of Malayali Identity in the Diaspora (Online)
  3. Mukul Menon – Poiesis of a Region: Social Contexts of the Addhyātmarāmāyaṇam Kiḷippāṭṭ Recitations of Kerala
  4. Gargi Thilak – Collective Memory and Moral Contradiction: Reading the Vedan Controversy in Kerala’s Public Sphere (Online)

17:30-18:30

Tea / Coffee break: High Tea in the Library Foyer

18:30 - 19:30

Seamus Heaney Theatre

(entrance through the library foyer)

Evening Panel on Caste

Dr. Kiruba Munusamy and Dr. David Keane

Dr. David Keane is Associate Professor in Law at the School of Law and Government, DCU. He has acted previously as Lecturer in Law at Brunel University, London, and Associate Professor in Law at Middlesex University, London. He holds a BCL (Law and French) from University College Cork, Ireland, and an LLM and PhD from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, where he was awarded a Government of Ireland scholarship. Dr. Keane's research is in international human rights law, with a particular focus on the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and related aspects of the UN human rights system.

Dr. Kiruba Munusamy is a critical legal scholar whose research lies in caste and law, with a focus on legal institutions, access to justice, and justice delivery. She currently leads legal research with India Labour Solidarity, a UK-based collective, examining the designation of India as a 'safe country' and the institutional and legal challenges faced by Indian asylum seekers.

10:00 - 11:30

Four Parallel Sessions

Room SPC.D203

Panel 24 : Statecraft and State-Building Chair: Dr. Marnie Hay

Panel Administrator: Toshali Chattopadhyay

 

  1. Navnath Phadatare – From Guided Diplomacy to Sovereign Membership: India’s Himalayan Statecraft and Bhutan’s Emergence as an Independent Actor, 1947–1971
  2. Stefano Glenn Torrigiotti – The Translator’s Dilemma: Jawaharlal Nehru’s Search for a “Third Vocabulary” in a Polarised World (1947–1961)
  3. Martin O'Donoghue – Imagining an independent parliament in India and Ireland
  4. Iffat Rashid – Provincializing Hindustan: Sheikh Abdullah and the Recentring of the ‘Region’ in the Procedures of Nation-Making in South Asia, c.

1930s-1950s.(Online)

Room SPC.D204

Panel 25 : Documenting Inequality: Caste, Citizenship, and Lived Realities Chair: Dr. David Keane

Panel Administrator: Nithya Kothenmaril

 

  1. Shalini Nair – Theorising from the Margins: A Decolonial Standpoint Framework
  2. Abhishek Saha – Who Is an Indian? Structural Inequalities, Documents, and Citizenship
  3. Rajesh Gopinathan – Remembering Violence from the Margins: How a Dalit-Led Political Party Remembers, Reconstructs, and Reports Caste-Based Violence (2001–2021) (online)
  4. Sailaja V Krishnamurti, Kavya Harshitha Jidugu, and Jatin Jatin – Surveying Caste-Based Discrimination in Ontario: A Community Partnership

Room SPC.D205

Panel 26: Gendered Negotiation and Legal Frameworks Chair: Professor Tanya Ni Mhuirthile (TBC)

Panel Administrator: Somya Dixit

  1. Mr Mudassar Ahmad – Legality and Prostitution: A Foucauldian Perspective
  2. Pratyasha Sahoo – ‘The Sacred Status’, ‘Silenced Voices’ and ‘Lowered Gazes’: Women’s Bodies, Power Politics and the Dynamics of ‘Altruistic’ Surrogacy in India Today.
  3. Gayanthi Ranatunga – Legal Pluralism and Women’s Rights: How Ethnic and Religious Personal Laws Constrain Women’s Autonomy in Post-War Sri Lanka .
  4. Vishnupriyaa Pulickel Sajeevu – Behind the Curtain: Informal Economies and Gendered Labour in Naṅṅyārkūttŭ

Room SPC.D325

Panel 27 : Migration, Trauma, and Forced Displacement Chair: Dr. Alicia Castillo Villanueva

Panel Administrator: Prateek Talukdar

 

  1. Tongkhohao Touthang – Forced Displacement in the Indo-Myanmar Borderland: A Study of Zo Indigenous Communities (online)
  2. Avanti Lele – Without a State: The Trauma of the Undocumented
  3. Aazib Ahmad – Leftover of Partition : Ambiguity and Identity of the People of Jammu & Kashmir.
  4. Jagdish Wamanaro Khobragade – The Social and Cultural Transformation of Neo-Buddhists in Maharashtra: A Post-Ambedkarite Analysis

11:30 - 12:00

Tea/Coffee

12:00 - 12:30

Room: SPC.D325

Getting Published: Advice for Early Career Researchers

by Professor Thomas Chambers, Editor-in-Chief, Contemporary South Asia.

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00

Four Parallel Sessions

Room SPC.D325

Panel 20 : Digital Transformation Chair: Professor Trudy Corrigan

Panel Administrator: Priyanka Borpujari

 

  1. Geethapriya C – “On the Way to Unproductivity”: AI Governance and Posthuman Subjects in Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future (Online)
  2. Ajith K – Turbulent Infrastructures: Digital Identification and the Everyday Politics of Data in South Asia through Actor–Network Theory (Online)
  3. Jessica Braganza – An Assessment of Community Notes in the 2025 India–Pakistan Conflict: Challenges and Possibilities
  4. Anna Maria Abraham – Tracing Differential Usage and Outcomes in a Digitally Unequal Society through the lens of peer groups

Room SPC.D203

Panel 28 : Society and Systems of Meaning Chair: Dr. Ross Carroll

Panel Administrator: Revathy Kuttykrishnan Jayakumari

  1. Aarshi Jahan – The Politics behind Mass Weddings in India : Understanding its performative nature and religious propaganda. (Online)
  2. Krishti Kumar – Reinstating material culture through a festival economy of ephemera, objects and motifs of sex workers of colonial and post-colonial Calcutta. (Online)
  3. Dania Siddiq – Against a Fractured Past, Polarised Present and a Factitious Future: Semiotics of a People’s History and Archive (Online)
  4. Nafis Haider – Beyond the Nation-State: Madani’s sacred translations of Zillat and Izzah as decolonial imaginaries of political belonging

Room SPC.D204

Panel 29 : Challenges to Sovereignty Chair: Dr. Markus Pauli

Panel Administrator: Prateek Talukdar

  1. Siddhi Wadekar- Data Diplomacy: The New Frontier of India’s Digital Strategic Outlook amidst the geopolitics on digital sovereignty (Online)
  2. Zuzanna Ptaszyńska- A Sovereign Without Land? The Maldives and the Reinvention of Statehood During Climate Collapse
  3. Akansha- Internal Contestation and External Orientation: Pakistan in a Changing International Order
  4. Annapurna Menon and Arshita Nandan- “Defender of Frontiers & Guardians of Happiness”: An Investigation of the Indian Army’s Social Media Campaign on Kashmir

Room SPC.D205

Panel 30: Health, Education & Caregiving Chair: Professor Matthias Urban

Panel Administrator: Kusumika Ghosh

 

  1. Pratyay Malakar – Teaching Through Turbulence: Care, Courage, and Criticality in the Everyday Lives of Kolkata’s Low-Income School Teachers
  2. Hilal Tantray – Contested Birth in Kashmir and the Politics of Midwifery and Marginality (Online)
  3. Debanshu Panwar – Caste, Class and Coaching in the Mecca of Aspirants : (Comparative) Ethnographic Vignettes from Karol Bagh and Rajinder Nagar in Delhi
  4. Pariz Pikul Gogoi – Building Resilience and Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities. (Online)

15:00 - 15:30

Tea/ Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00

Four Parallel Sessions

Room SPC.D203

Panel 31 : Narrating Crisis and Resilience Through Literature Chair: Dr. Tapasya Narang

Panel Administrator: Ashly Isaac

  1. Vandana Saxena- Neoliberal Bhayānaka: Fear, Precarity, and the Everyday in Uday Prakash’s fiction (Online)
  2. Vedika Kaushal – Becoming Novelists: Recovering transnational conditions and mobility networks of the early Indian English novel (Online)
  3. Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe – Turbulence and Resilience in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  4. Ibra Zahoor – Temporal Textures in the Ghazal: Lyric Form Navigating Crisis Through Political Upheaval and Diasporic Experience.

Room SPC.D204

Panel 32 : Rivers of Resilience Chair: Dr. Jimmy O’Keefe

Panel Administrator: Shreyashi Das

 

  1. Rita Brara Mukhopadhyay – The Everyday Water Crisis and Narratives of Gendered Resilience in a Delhi Slum
  2. Asma Yaqoob – Pedagogies of survival: Feminist political ecology of flooding in Karachi
  3. Divya Chopra – Ecology, Development, and Vulnerabilities: Analysing Gendered Impact of Kosi River Floods in Nepal and India
  4. Sayantan Samui- Navigating Transformation: The Interplay of Governance and Generational Livelihoods in the Bengal Delta (Online)

Room SPC.D205

Panel 33 : Shifting Religious and Institutional Landscapes Chair: Ambassador Philip McDonagh

Panel Administrator: Tim Mayo

  1. Vennela Mocherla – Changing Religious Landscapes: A study on the rise of Independent Churches in India
  2. Sreeparvathy S – Negotiating Tradition: Christian Vaidyas, Ancestral Authority and Ayurvedic Practice in Contemporary Kerala
  3. Maleeha Fatima – What’s in a Veil? – Black Burqa in Hyderabad (mid to late-20th century) (Online)
  4. Binesh Balan – Ritual Figure (Kōla), Not God (Daiva): Māvilan Epistemic Practices and the Making of Anaṅṅu Teyyam (Online)

Room SPC.D325

Panel 34 : Interrogating Caste: Labour, Language, and Spatial Resistance Chair: Professor Thomas Chambers

Panel Administrator: Marcel Schwarz

  1. Maya K S- Beyond Cosmopolitan Kochi: Reclaiming the Marginalised Labour Histories of Dhoby Khana
  2. Anandu Raj – Community as Counter-space: PRDS, V. Janamma and the Spatial Politics of Anti-Caste Resistance
  3. Pankaj Kumar – Caste as a Grammar of Inequality: The Distinctiveness of Rammanohar Lohia’s Theorisation of Caste.
  4. Chandrasekhar Venkata Durga Sepuri – The Grammar of Caste and the Specter of Brahmanical Governmentality: Trans Citizenship and the Limits of Recognition in Contemporary India

17:00 - 18:00

Break

18:00 Onwards

Staff Room / Courtyard ground floor

Reception