Provisional Programme as a Word document

 

BASAS Annual Conference 2010

Provisional Programme

 

Monday 29th March

 

Conference begins 12noon

 

Registration from 12noon onwards

 

Lunch 1.00pm-2.00pm

including

Welcome by Professor David Arnold (History, Warwick)

Conference Co-convenor

1.50pm

Panel 1: Sexuality and Subjectivity in South Asia

Chair: Emma Tomalin (Leeds)

1. Paul Boyce (IoE): Do you feel somewhere in the light that your body has no existence? Photographic research with transgendered people and men who have sex with men in West Bengal, India
2. Akhil Katyal (SOAS): Love and Longing in South Asia: The Case of Planet Romeo
3. Pradip Kumar Pandey (Sheffield/Rajshahi): Exposure Outcome of Communication Channels and Messages of PIACT, B on Knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the Use of Condoms for HIV Prevention among Street-Based Sex-Workers in Bangladesh

Panel 2: Land and Livelihood in South Asia

Chair: Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford)

1. Rebecca Williams (Warwick): ‘Crowded Lands’: Indian Demography in the Post-Colonial Period
2. Padmini Pani (JNU): Land Degradation and Livelihoods in Fragile Environments: A Study on Chambal Valley, India
3. Deepak K Mishra (JNU): Invisible Chains?: Crisis in Tea Industry and ‘Unfreedom’ of Labour in Assam Plantations

 

Panel 3: The Modern Life of Hindu Temples

Convenor: Deborah Sutton (Lancaster)

Chair: Adam Hardy (Cardiff)

1. Deborah Stein (California, Santa Cruz): Tenth-century Stone and 21^st century Metallic Paint: The Aesthetic Legislation of Authority
2. Deborah Sutton (Lancaster): Aesthetic Codes and Material Practices: Hindu Temple Custody in British India
3. Adam Hardy (Cardiff): Designing a new Hoysala temple

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Refreshments: 3.30pm-4.00pm

 

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Panel 1: Development, identity, and transformation in contemporary landscapes of South Asia

Chair: Kunal Sen (Manchester)

1. Staffan Lindberg (Lund): A Silent ‘Revolution’?: Women’s Empowerment through Micro-Credit and Reserved Seats in Local Government in Rural Tamil Nadu
2. Paul Ghuman (Aberystwyth): Class a new Avatar of Caste: a case study of Untouchables in a Punjabi village 1950s and 2006
3. Alice Tilche (SOAS): Bhagat landscapes
4. Brendan Donegan (SOAS): Of bhaghats, bhutalis and health rights activism: a study of collaboration between a people’s movement and an NGO in tribal Maharashtra

Panel 2: Landscapes of Identity in South Asia

Chair: David Hardiman (Warwick)

1. Robin Jones (Southampton Solent): Memory, modernity and tradition: the landscapes of Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka, c. 1950-1980
2. Ruksana Majid (Sheffield): ‘India, for the plain hell of it!’: G.V. Desani’s The Indian Journal
3. Clare Anderson (Warwick): Memory and meaning at two Andaman mazars

 

BASAS Postgraduate Skills Training Workshops

Workshop 1: How to review articles for a peer-reviewed journal

Convenor & Chair: Deepta Chopra (Cambridge)

Speakers: John Zavos (Manchester), Editor of Contemporary South Asia; Adam Hardy (Cardiff), Editor of South Asian Studies, Kanchana N Ruwanpura (Southampton)

Meeting of the BASAS Postgraduate Network

Convenor: Deepta Chopra (Cambridge)

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Evening Reception

Sponsored by Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick

6pm-7pm

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Conference Dinner

7pm

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Tuesday 30^th March

 

 

Panel 1: Shaping Identity, Security and Politics in South Asia

Chair: Dr Monika Barthwal-Datta (Surrey)

1. Antara Datta (Harvard): The subcontinental repatriation of 1973-74 and the re-making of Modern South Asia
2. Chris Ogden (Edinburgh): Identity, Norms and National Security in India
3. Yaqoob Bangash (Oxford): Escaping the Raj: Pakistan’s identity issue during its first few years

Panel 2: Social Networks and Organisations: Continuities, Dislocations and Transformation in Sri Lanka

Convenor: Kanchana N Ruwanpura (Southampton)

Chair: Lawrence Saez (SOAS)

1. Kamakshi Mubarak (Oxford): Informal social networks and post-tsunami livelihoods recovery in Sri Lanka: fisher households in the Hambantota District
2. Kanchana N Ruwanpura (Southampton) and Pia Hollenbach (Zurich): Symbolic Gestures: The Development Terrain of Post-Tsunami Villages in (Southern) Sri Lanka
3. Rebecca Walker (Edinburgh): Unfinished Pasts and Small Beginnings: Exploring Strategies of Endurance and Networks of Support in Eastern Sri Lanka

Panel 3: Indo-African identity in the post-colonial age

Chair: Carole Spary (Warwick)

1. Margret Frenz (Leicester): The Involvement of Goans in Kenyan Politics, 1949-1965
2. Iqbal Akhtar (Edinburgh): Postcolonial Indo-African Identity: the Case of the Khoja

Special panel (double session 9.30am – 1pm): Histories from the Sea

Convenor: Clare Anderson (Warwick)

This session will present the multi-media outcomes of a recently completed EU-Asia Link project called ‘Histories from the Sea’, led by JNU. The following project partners will introduce documentary films on the history of maritime between Europe and South Asia:

1. Clare Anderson (Warwick)
2. Prof. Abdul Momin Chowdhury (University of Dhaka)
3. Alexandra Curvelo (New University of Lisbon and Museo Nacional de Azulejo)
4. Kévin Le Doudic (Bretagne Sud)

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Refreshments: 11.00am-11.30am

 

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Panel 1: The New History of Partition: Fresh Research Agendas and Reflections

Convenor: Ian Talbot (Southampton)

Chair: Andrea Major (Leeds)

1. Pippa Virdee (DMU): Female Migrants to West Punjab: Public and Private Discourses on Partition’s impact on gender relations
2. Ilyas Chattha (Southampton): Locals and Refugees in the post-independence development of Gujranwala and Sialkot
3. Ian Talbot (Southampton): Punjabi Refugee Resettlement in India: The State, History, Memory

Panel 2: Gender and Politics in South Asia

Chair: Shirin Rai (Warwick)

1. Shaheen Sardar Ali (Warwick): Gender and Law in Pakistan
2. Sumi Madhok (LSE): Agency, developmentalism and rights talk in North West India
3. Carole Spary (Warwick): Women candidates and the Indian General Election 2009
4. Manuela Ciotti (Edinburgh/IIAS): Political agency and gender in north India: women, dalits and subalterns between the nation and its others

Special panel (double session 9.30am – 1pm): Histories from the Sea

Convenor: Clare Anderson (Warwick)

This session will present the multi-media outcomes of a recently completed EU-Asia Link project called ‘Histories from the Sea’, led by JNU. The following project partners will introduce documentary films on the history of maritime between Europe and South Asia:

5. Clare Anderson (Warwick)
6. Prof. Abdul Momin Chowdhury (University of Dhaka)
7. Alexandra Curvelo (New University of Lisbon and Museo Nacional de Azulejo)
8. Kévin Le Doudic (Bretagne Sud)

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Lunch 1.00pm – 2.00pm

 

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Panel 1: Global value chains, garment production and labour in Tiruppur, south India

Convenor and Chair: Judith Heyer (Oxford)

1. Geert De Neve (Sussex): ‘The role of contractors in the organisation of labour in garment production’
2. Grace Carswell (Sussex)’ The impact of the growth of the garment production sector on agricultural labour in the surrounding region’
3. Judith Heyer (Oxford): ‘The differential impact of the tightening of the labour market in the rural areas by gender, caste and age.’

Panel 2: Shaping Landscapes Through Rights

Convenor: Ruth Marsden (Edinburgh)

Chair: Deepta Chopra (Cambridge)

1. Harini Amarasuriya (Edinburgh): Contradictions and tensions of Child Rights discourse in Sri Lanka
2. Suryakant Waghmore (Edinburgh): Dalit movements and ‘new’ human rights technologies in Marathwada: politics, processes and outcomes
3. Ruth Marsden (Edinburgh): International human rights in the local: enlarging landscapes of possibility

Panel 3: Mediaeval Ritual, Kinship and Governance in South Asia

Chair: Adam Hardy (Cardiff)

1. Bihani Sarkar (Oxford): Goddess-Worship and the Mediaeval Indian State
2. Sara Mondini (Ca’ Foscari): The Last Bahmani funerary Complex and the Case of the Ahmad Shah Mausoleum between Political and Religious Interpretations
3. Balkrishnan Shivram (Rampur): Milk Kinship Allegiance in the Early Mughal Dynasty

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Refreshments: 3.30pm-4.00pm

 

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BASAS Executive Council meeting 3.30pm – 5.30pm

 

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Panel 1: Commodities in South Asia

Convenor: Stefan Tetzlaff (Göttingen)

Chair: Deborah Sutton (Lancaster)

1. Andrea Major (Leeds): ‘Reasons for Using East India Sugar’: Indian Commodity and Ethical Consumerism in Britain, 1791-1833
2. Jagjeet Lally (Independent): The Changing Dynamics of the Indo-Central Asian Horse Trade, 17^th-19^th centuries
3. Kévin Le Doudic (Bretagne-Sud): Society and Material
   Culture : the French in Pondicherry in the 18th Century
4. Stefan Tetzlaff (Göttingen): Companies, Compradors, Consumers: a Commodity History of Oil, 1880s-1950s

Panel 2: Law and Society in South Asia

Convenor: Nandini Chatterjee (Plymouth)

Chair: Shaheen Sardar Ali (Warwick)

1. Nandini Chatterjee (Plymouth): Religious diagnosis: a case in the Privy Council, 1872
2. Sylvie Guichard (Geneva): The Indian Supreme Court, the judicialization of politics, and the politics of education
3. Marge O’Leary (Warwick): Applying strategic techniques on reviewing the Draft Afghan Family Law

Panel 3: Urban landscapes of South Asia

Chair: Frank Conlon (Washington)

1. Caroline Herbert (Leeds Metropolitan): Landscapes of Urban Poverty and Dispossession in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay
2. Sheba Saeed (Birmingham): Child Beggars of Mumbai
3. Sundari Anitha (Leeds): Passive women, brutal men and determinate culture: the imagined landscapes of migration and the experiences of marriage migrants facing domestic violence in the UK [waiting to hear from Anitha that she can attend Tuesday]

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Keynote lecture

Professor Catherine Hall (University College London)

‘Macaulay: writing history, writing India’

6.00pm – 7.00pm

 

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Reception sponsored by the journal Contemporary South Asia

7pm onwards

 

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Conference dinner

7.30pm

 

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Wednesday 31^st March

Panel 1: Social transformations in Bengali landscape(s)

Chair: David Arnold (Warwick)

1. Sanjukta Sunderason (UCL): Framing Ruptures, Portraying People: Social Realism and Pictorial Arts in Bengal in the 1940s
2. Sahana Ghosh (Oxford): Cultures and commodities in cross-border interactions in everyday life in the Bengal borderland
3. Peter Custers (Leiden): Maulana Bhashani and the Transition to Secular Politics in East Bengal

Panel 2: Ceremony and Ritual in the Indian parliament

Chair: Clare Anderson (Warwick)

1. Shirin Rai (Warwick): Analyzing Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament
2. Bairavee Balasubramaniam (Warwick): Obstructing rituals of legislation: the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Indian parliament
3. Carole Spary (Warwick): Performing ethno-linguistic representation in the Indian parliament

Panel 3: Colonialism and its legacies

Chair: Frank Conlon (Washington)

1. Luke Gibbon (Strathclyde): The cultivation of poppy and the British Indian Opium Industry in the United Provinces 1911-1947
2. Paramita Maharatna (Presidency College): The Zamindars of Bihar: Their Resistance to Colonial Rule with Special Reference to the Revolt of Chait Singh 1765-1781
3. Prashant Kidambi (Leicester): Hero, Celebrity and Icon: Sachin Tendulkar and Indian Public Culture
4. Samaya Farooq (Warwick): ‘Shooting Hoops for Britain’: Post-Coloniality, (Post-Colonial) Identities and Muslim Women’s Basketball

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Refreshment break: 11.00am-11.30am

 

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Plenary session:

Feedback from the British Academy panel’s meeting on

‘Poverty and South Asia’

Open to BASAS conference delegates

 

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BASAS Postgraduate Skills Training Workshops

Workshop 2: How to write effective CVs for academic jobs?

Convenor & Chair: Deepta Chopra (Cambridge)

Speaker: Shirin Rai (Warwick); Frank Conlon (Washington), and Neelam Raina