DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY

Young Scholars’ Conference

16th and 17th October 2014

 Manoj Dhakal, South Asian University, Contemporary Visual Arts in Registration: 9 am Thursday, 16th October : An Identity in flux 9.30-10 am: Welcome address  Abdul Matin, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sufism and the Prof. Rajiv K.Saxena, Acting President, SAU construction of Bengali-Muslim Identity: A study of Pir Abu Bakr of Furfura Sharif, West Bengal. Prof. Sasanka Perera, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences , SAU

Panel 1: 10-11:30 am Panel 5: 9:30-11 am Friday, 17th October Chair/Discussant: Dr Ravi Kumar, Associate Professor, SAU Chair/Discussant: Dr Akhil Katyal, Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University  Tania Sultana, South Asian University: Minority Identity under Nationalism:  Saayan Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, The Unbearable The Case of Urdu speaking Bihari Community in . Lightness of Being Bhadralok: Representing Bengali Masculinity in9  Omar Sadr, South Asian University: State Building in and Ques- Journalistic Writings tion of Multiculturalism.  H. Unnathi S. Samaraweera, University of Colombo, ‘Unseen Lives:  Ratan Roy, South Asian University: New Trend of Migration and Displace- Making Transgender Identity Visible’ -: Self Perceptions of ment of Minorities, Communal Politics and Identity Crisis in Bangladesh. Transgender Community based on their Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in Urban .

 Kasun Gajasinghe, University of Peradeniya, From Shared Shame Panel 2: 11:45-1.15 pm to Public Secrecy: A Critical Study of Pornography in University Chair/Discussant: Dr Farhana Ibrahim, Associate Professor, IIT Discourse.

 Krishna P Pandey, South Asian University: Narrative: How useful in socio- logical research on ethnic identity? Panel 6: 11:30-1 pm

 Khatija Khader, Jawaharlal Nehru University: Interrogating Identity: Un- Chair/Discussant: Dr Ankur Datta, Assistant Professor, SAU derstanding Processes of Assimilation and Marginalization through a study of Siddi and Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad.  Bhavneet Kaur, , The Poetics of Resistance: Unfinished Narratives of Memory from Indian Administered Kashmir  R. Lalrinkima, : Scattered by geographical boundaries and the search for common identity: The Mizos of South Asia  Chirag Thakkar, Delhi University, Bearing witness and the protest culture of Kashmir

Panel 3: 2 pm- 3:30 pm  Nafisul Quamar Jilani, Delhi University, Understanding the Identity(s) of Indian Muslims: Countering the “Stereotype” Chair/Discussant: Dr Chudamani Basnet, Assistant Professor, SAU

 Garima Rai, Delhi University: Notes on language, homeland and “identity crisis” in Indian Nepalis from Darjeeling Hills in the twentieth century Panel 7: 2pm-3:30 pm

 Abdullah al Mahdee, Independent Scholar: National identity of Indo-Bangla Chair/Discussant: Dr Rinku Lamba, Assistant Professor, JNU enclave people: Interrogating South Asian nationalism.  Samra Irfan, & Sandhya A.S, South Asian  Umesh Joshi, Independent Scholar: Cultural hegemony, conflict and University: Customised Invisibility: no laces no frills , a narrative identities: Locating the identities of migrants and displaced people of the Interview on identity and female ‘ghummakari’ Kumaon region.  Kumud Bhansali, South Asian University: Clothes, Games and Happy Meals: Commodification of Childhood through Consumption Panel 4: 3:45-5:15 pm  Dinushka Peiris, Centre for Women’s Research, Colombo: Home Chair/Discussant: Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Assistant Professor, Ambedkar makers to breadwinners and breadwinners to home makers: University Delhi Transformation of ideals and identity of migrant women domestic workers and their spouses  Manjusha Madhu, Ambedkar University: Colonialism, Reform and ‘Women’: A Select Study of Travancore and Cochin’s Early Magazines (1885-1930) All are invited!