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SOUTH ASIAN LITERARY ASSOCIATION 2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ______
South Asia in the Academy: Classroom Practices, Professional Citizenship, and Intellectual Agency January 7-9, 2020 Seattle Thompson 110 Stewart Street Seattle, Washington 98101-1019 United States
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Conference Co-Chairs: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX Pennie Ticen, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2020
5:00-7:30 PM: Executive Committee Meeting Flybaby
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020
7:30 AM: REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
8:00-8:45 AM: BREAKFAST The Nest
8:45-9:00 AM: CONFERENCE COMMENCEMENT Blackbird ● Cynthia Leenerts, SALA President ● Statement from Conference Co-chairs
SESSION 1: 9:15-10:15 AM 1A Grasshopper South Asia and Alternative Pedagogies Chair: John Hawley, Santa Clara University
● Prabhjot Parmar, University of the Fraser Valley, “‘particular problems’ and ‘startling opportunities’ of Teaching South Asian and Postcolonial literature” ● Surojit Kayal, University of California, Santa Barbara, “In Search of a South Asian Education: Visva-Bharati University and the Pedagogical Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore” ● Jason Sandhar, Western University, “‘If Bones Are Not More Than Bones, What Are They Good For?’ Radicalizing Edward H. Aitken’s Animals” SALA Conference Schedule/2
1B Dreamliner Teaching with a Difference Chair: Masood Raja, University of North Texas ● Josna Rege, Worcester State University, “Teaching about Caste Differently: Githa Hariharan’s I Have Become the Tide” ● Summer Pervez, University Canada West, “On the Pedagogical Value of Pakistani ‘New’ Cinema: Questions of Nationalism, Gender, and Class” ● Feroza Jussawalla, University of New Mexico, “South Asian Literatures in the Academy: A Personal Journey”
SESSION 2: 10:30-11:30 AM 2A Grasshopper Teaching the Vernacular Chair: Sukanya Gupta, University of Southern Indiana
● Matthew Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Teaching Translation as Vehicle of Cultural Memory: The Case of Bhakti” ● Arka Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, “Travelling on: Bengali and English Literatures of Worlding” ● Waqas Halim, Information Technology University, Lahore, and Asad Ahmad Khan, Heidelberg University, “Can the Khawaja-Sara Speak?”
2B Dreamliner Transnational Pedagogies Chair: Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
● Abdollah Zahiri, Seneca College, Toronto, “Teaching Intersectionality: Southasian/Postcolonial Possibilities” ● Waseem Anwar, Forman Christian College, and Khurshid Alam, Punjab University, Lahore, “Teaching Transnational Poetics Interactively through the South Asian National Poets” ● Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, “A Question of Audience: Teaching South Asian and Chinese Texts in Two Universities”
2C Blackbird Teaching South Asia in the American Classroom Chair: Pennie Ticen, Virginia Military Institute
● Suhaan Kiran Mehta, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, “History and Authority in a ‘Global Anglophone’ Survey Class” ● Pennie Ticen, Virginia Military Institute, “Trained in Post-Coloniality, Hired in World Literature, Revised into Cultural Rhetorics: Situating South Asian Literature within a Changing Curriculum” SALA Conference Schedule/3
● Sreerupa Sengupta, University of Central Missouri, “Underrepresented!: Promoting South Asian Literature in Undergraduate and Graduate Courses”
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM—LUNCH The Nest
SESSION 3: 1:00-2:15 PM 3A Grasshopper Workshop 1: Teaching South Asia NOW Chair: Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University
3B Dreamliner Workshop 2: Strategies for Engagement: Time Travel and the Art of Reading Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University
3C Blackbird Workshop 3: Writing for the Job: Strategies for the Cover Letter and CV Chair: Meghan Gorman-Darif, San Jose State University, and Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
SESSION 4: 2:30-3:45 PM 4A Grasshopper Teaching South Asia in Precarious Times Chair: Masood Raja, University of North Texas
● Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch University, “Teaching Amidst Terrorism: Hermeneutical Tensions in the Expository Writing Classroom During the ‘New War’” ● Masood Raja, University of North Texas, “Teaching Precarity in the era of Neoliberal Globalization” ● Asma Sayed, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, “Teaching South Asia in an Interdisciplinary Social Justice Context” ● Upasana Dutta, University of Chicago, “The Ethics of Reading Crises: Working on Kashmir after the Abrogation of Article 370”
4B Dreamliner The Diverse Desi: Readings in Poetry and Memoir Chair: Samina Najmi, California State University, Fresno
● Dilruba Ahmed, Author ● Kazim Ali, Author ● Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Author ● Prageeta Sharma, Author
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4C Room Challenging the Canon Chair: John Hawley, Santa Clara University
● Muhammad Hassan Qadeer Butt, Purdue University, “State and the Marginal Place of South Asian Literature in English in Pakistan's English Departments” ● Pratusha Bhowmik, Bodoland University, “Teaching Contemporary South Asian Fiction: Classroom as a Site of Contention” ● Amrita Mishra, University of Texas at Austin, “‘Leave South Asia to South Asianists:’ Epistemic Violence and the Preservation of Global North Canons”
SESSION 5: 4:00-5:00 PM 5A Blackbird Explorations of New Pedagogical Possibilities Chair: Waseem Anwar, Forman Christian College
● Zulfqar Hyder Awan, University College of the North, Thompson, Manitoba, “Creative Literature, Literary Criticism, and Religious Extremism: Debates in Postgraduate Literature Seminars in Pakistan” ● Nagalapalli Nagaraju, Central University of Karnataka, India, “Classroom Dynamics and Pedagogical Possibilities: An Analysis of Two South Asian Fictional Texts” ● Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Information Technology Delhi, and Kara Loy, Thompson Rivers University, “At Home with the Other: Exploring Intercultural Empathy through Critical Literacies”
5B Dreamliner Pedagogies of Migration Chair: Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
● Sara Ali, University of Waikato, New Zealand, “Representations of Diasporic Pakistani-Muslim Masculinities in Maps for Lost Lovers” ● Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Fairleigh Dickinson University, “The Door of No Return: Mimicry and Heterotopia in the Classroom”
5:00-6:00 PM: GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING, Blackbird
6:00-8:00 PM: DINNER ON YOUR OWN [POSSIBLE RECEPTION]
8:00 – 10:00 PM: HAMARA MUSHAIRA Blackbird Chair: Amritjit Singh, Ohio University Invited Guest Speakers: Charles Johnson and Bharti Kirchner SALA Conference Schedule/5
DAY 2: THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2020
7:30 AM: REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
8:00-8:45 AM: BREAKFAST BUFFET The Nest
SESSION 6: 9:00-10:15 AM Blackbird Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh (Roundtable) Opening Remarks: Nalini Iyer, Seattle University ● Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan ● John Hawley, Santa Clara University ● Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University
Discussant/Respondent: Ambreen Hai, Smith College
SESSION 7: 10:30-11:30 AM 7A Grasshopper Teaching South Asia and Feminism Chair: Meghan Gorman-DaRif, San Jose State University
● Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, James Madison University, “Woman-Speak: Poetic Ventriloquism, and the Quest for the Authentic Feminine” ● Hena Ahmad, Truman State University, “Teaching South Asian Literature and Third World Feminism in Undergraduate and Graduate American Classes” ● Sabyn Javeri-Jillani, New York University, Abu Dhabi, “Teaching Feminist Fiction in the Postcolonial Classroom”
7B Dreamliner Teaching Caste Chair: S. Charusheela, University of Washington-Bothell
● ● K. Satyanarayana, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, “Teaching Caste and DalitS. Shankar, Studies” University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, “Teaching Caste in the USA” ● Charu Gupta, University of Delhi, “Teaching Gender-Caste in India: Perils and Pleasures”
7C Blackbird South Asian in the Writing Classroom Chair: Sukanya Gupta, University of Southern Indiana
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● Sukanya Gupta, University of Southern Indiana, “Incorporating South Asian Literatures in the Composition Classroom” ● Manju Dhariwal, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, “Teaching Indian Literature to Engineering Students: Challenges and Opportunities” ● Palak Taneja, Emory University, “Teaching South Asian FYW Courses: Approaches and Considerations”
11:30 -1:00 PM—LUNCH The Nest
SESSION 8: 1:00-2:15 PM 8A Grasshopper Graduate Professionalization Panel (Roundtable) Chair: Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University ● Cynthia Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University ● Pennie Ticen, Virginia Military Institute ● Meghan Gorman-Darif, San Jose State University
8B Dreamliner Mid-career Faculty Professionalization Panel: Tenure, Promotion, and Post-tenure (Roundtable) Chair: Feroza Jussawalla, University of New Mexico ● Nalini Iyer, Seattle University ● Prabhjot Parmar, University of the Fraser Valley ● Feroza Jussawalla, University of New Mexico ● Hena Ahmad, Truman State University
SESSION 9: 2:30- 3:45 PM 9A Grasshopper Home in the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Courses on South Asia Chair: Sayanti Mondal, Illinois State University
● Binod Paudyal, Northern Arizona University, “Teaching South Asia and its Diaspora in Ethnic Studies Courses” ● Asif Iqbal, Michigan State University, “Teaching ‘South Asia’ in the Classroom” ● Titas De Sarkar, University of Chicago, “Provincializing Youth Culture: Teaching Students about Themselves” ● Sayanti Mondal, Illinois State University, “Picturing Literary Concepts: Pedagogical Engagement of South Asian Picturebooks in an American Classroom”
9B Dreamliner The Diverse Desi: Readings by Three Creative Writers Chair: Samina Najmi, California State University, Fresno SALA Conference Schedule/7
● Steve Adisasmito-Smith, California State University, Fresno ● Samina Najmi, California State University, Fresno ● SJ Sindu, University of Toronto, Canada
9C Grasshopper Pedagogical Meditations: Teaching Contemporary South Asian Literature in the American College Classroom Chair: Sean A. Weaver, Louisiana State University
● Sean A. Weaver, Louisiana State University, “Teaching The City of Devi: Challenging the Apathetic Audience” ● Colleen Lutz Clemens, Kutztown University, “Teaching Sri Lankan Literature Under the Shadow of the Easter Bombings” ● Zachary Bordas, Louisiana State University, “Literature and Undergraduate Composition: Sajad’s Munnu, a Proposal of Purpose” ● Gisele Cardoso de Lemos, Texas A&M University, “South Asian Literature and the Expansion of Disability Studies”
4:00-5:00 PM Blackbird Graduate Student Caucus
5:00-6:30 PM: CONFERENCE KEYNOTE & AWARDS CEREMONY 2nd Floor ● R. Radhakrishnan, University of California at Irvine, “Coexistence: Towards an Exilic Humanism”
6:30-8:00 PM: RECEPTION The Nest
SPECIAL THANKS TO Dr. Dolores Guerrero, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M University- Kingsville; Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA; and Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX FOR SUPPORT OF THE SALA CONFERENCE
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