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 Nepal: 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 Bangladesh. Lightness of Being Bhadralok: Representing Bengali Masculinity in9 Omar Sadr, South Asian University: State Building in Afghanistan 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 Sri Lanka.
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 Delhi 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, Delhi University, The Poetics of Resistance: Unfinished Narratives of Memory from Indian Administered Kashmir R. Lalrinkima, Mizoram University: 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, Jamia Millia Islamia & 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!