Thursday Schedule
| Room | Session 1: 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 2: 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Session 3: 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM | Session 4: 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||
| Assembly Room |
Coffee Break -- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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Current Perspectives on Indus Seals and Writing: Multifaceted Approaches to Context, Function, and Meaning |
Coffee Break -- 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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Everyday MohenjoDaro |
Lunch On Your Own -- 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
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Contemporary Archaeological Approaches to Survey, Excavation, Documentation and Conservation in South Asia |
Coffee Break -- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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| Capitol Ballroom A | Mapping Bodies as Sites of Feminist Methods, Archives and Techno-Politics in India: An Interdisciplinary Interrogation | Youth Activism in South Asia and in the Diaspora | Reframing Inequality: Caste, Race, and Visual Politics Across Borders | |||||
| Capitol Ballroom B | ||||||||
| Caucus Room | Strange: the Gift of a Broken World and the Poetics of the Uncertain | Marginality, Migration, and Everyday Impacts of State Policy | Unsettled Futures of the Land Across Resource Frontiers in South Asia | |||||
| Conference Room 1 | Claiming Space: Legal Authority, Political Participation, and Gendered Resistance | Recalibrating US-South Asia Policy under Donald Trump: Strategic Competition, Regional Alignments, and Policy Trade-offs | Epistemological Border-Crossings: Problematizing South-Asian Hegemonic Identity-Formations through Studies in Education | |||||
| Conference Room 2 | Transcending Borders: South Asian Emerging Scholars’ Navigating Challenges and Claiming Space | From Experience to Action: Embedding South Asia Professional Development into Teaching and Institutional Outcomes | Philosophy, Poetics, and Paths of Knowing in Indo-Persian Sufism | |||||
| Conference Room 3 | Rethinking New Frontiers in Kerala Migration: Nature, Infrastructure, and Imaginaries | Sharing Sovereignty in South Asia: Ecological Vulnerabilities, Digital Connectivity and Environmental Peacebuilding | Roundtable on The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India | |||||
| Conference Room 4 | Rajasthan and Rajasthani: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Region, Language, History and Culture | Rajasthan and Rajasthani: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Region, Language, History and Culture | Layered Affects: Performing Diasporic, Hindu, Regional, and Caste Identities Through Music and Theater | |||||
| Conference Room 5 | Modes of Unbelonging: Region and Intersectionality in The Cinemas of India | South Asian Feelings in Literature and Cinema | Reel Men, Recent Troubles: Masculinity and the Contemporary Hindi Film | |||||
| Madison Ballroom | Sacred Power, Social Hierarchy: Caste and Religion in South Asia | Mother Tongue in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Historical Texts, the Census, and Digital Practices | ||||||
| Off-Site | ||||||||
| Parlour Room 627 | Urban Encounters | Precarity With(out) Borders in South Asian Fiction | The Gabriel of Madness: A Roundtable on Islamic Poetry, Ethics, and Muslim Life in the Age of Hindu Nationalism | |||||
| Parlour Room 629 | Borders Beyond Doctors: Sri Lanka's mixed lineages of healing and medicine | South Asian Politics and Political Thought in the Interwar Period | From Moscow to Madras: Cold War Internationalism and Indo-Soviet Cultural and Intellectual Exchanges | |||||
| Parlour Room 634 | Ajeeb Intimacies: Making sense of Human-Jinn encounters cross South Asia | Beauty and Its Beasts: Embodiment, Gender, and Morality in South Asia | Indigenous Medicine and Ideal Bodies in South Asia | |||||
| Parlour Room 638 | Challenging the Borders of Gender, Religion and Nation: An Analysis of South Asian Reimagination of Translocal Identities | Defining Women’s Health in South Asia: A View Through the Twentieth Century | Traversing Languages and Borders: Queer and Trans Vernaculars in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh | |||||
| PDR | ||||||||
| Senate Room A | Algorithms of the Gods: GenAI and the Transformation of South Asian Religions | The Study of Jain Society and Visual Practice: A Roundtable on the Work of Marcus Banks | Jainism and Politics: Power, History, Identity, and Practices | |||||
| Senate Room B | Brides, Wrestlers, and Rakes: Erotic Texts and Transformations in Early Modern South Asia | Translating Devotion: Vernacularities, Textual Traditions, and Religion Making in South Asia | Nepalbhasa travels: translation and modernism in Newar Literature | |||||
| University A | ||||||||
| University A/B | Marginalized Positionalities in Pakistan | Recognition and Marginalization in South Asia | Muslim Utopias in India Amidst Attempted Erasures | |||||
| University B | ||||||||
| University C/D | APPROACHING DALIT LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION ANEW | Caste Beyond Borders and Analogies: A Roundtable | Caste across borders: Higher Education, Diaspora and Politics of Abolition | |||||
| Wisconsin Ballroom | Author Meets Critics Roundtable on SherAli Tareen’s Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi: Aspirations and Tensions of Islamic Cosmopolitanism | Book Discussion—The Selfie Machine: Selfies, Platforms and Digital Image Culture in India | Book roundtable: The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia |
Friday Schedule
| Room | Session 5: 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 6: 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Session 7: 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM | Session 8: 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||
| Assembly Room |
Coffee Break -- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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Archaeological Documentation and Analysis |
Coffee Break -- 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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Historical to Colonial Archaeology in South Asia |
Lunch On Your Own -- 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
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Archiving the Margins: Case Studies from South Asian Historical Archaeology |
Coffee Break -- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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| Capitol Ballroom A | Screens, States, and Infrastructures: Cinema’s Mediations of Politics, Dissent, and Labour in India | Gendered whiteness on and beyond the Bollywood screen | ||||||
| Capitol Ballroom B | ||||||||
| Caucus Room | Unsettling South Asia’s “Regional Closets”: Craft, Legibility, and Survival in Times of Genocide and Nationalist Violence | The Violence of Nationalism, the Perils of Migration, and the Power of Solidarity | Revisiting Epics & Classics in Colonial and Postcolonial India | |||||
| Conference Room 1 | Between Displacement and Settlement: Urban Space-Making and Belonging in Twentieth Century Bengal and Assam. | Ideas and Practices in Western Indian Economic Life: Labor, Co-operation, and Capitalism, from 1876 to the Present | New Books in Political and Economic Theory | |||||
| Conference Room 2 | Shifting Grounds: Borderscapes, Opacity, and Relational Belonging in South Asia - Part 1 of 2 | Shifting Grounds: Borderscapes, Opacity, and Relational Belonging in South Asia - PART 2 of 2 | Minor Forms, Global Histories: Beyond Novel and Nation | |||||
| Conference Room 3 | Spatial Transformations and Contestations: New Directions in the Urban History of South Asia in the Twentieth Century | River Geographies of South Asia: Beyond Borders and Boundaries | Fashion to Field: Social Justice and Other Myths of “Ethical” Garment Consumption | |||||
| Conference Room 4 | Transcending Borders: Multiculturalism and the Future of Democracy in a Cross-National Dialogue between the US and Pakistan | Memory, Testimony and Identity across Literary Genres | (Post)Colonial Subject Formations in the Vernacular | |||||
| Conference Room 5 | Without a Working Archive: Rumor, Platforms, and Piracy as Indian Film History | Archives and Afterlives | Disruption and Its Discontents: Platforms, Data, and Digital Media Industries in India | |||||
| Madison Ballroom | Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures: Critical engagement with "Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks" | |||||||
| Off-Site | ||||||||
| Parlour Room 627 | Colonial Epistemologies, Legal Regimes, and Knowledge Production | Marxist Internationalism in Twentieth-Century South Asia | Unfinished Dialectic: Capitalist Abstraction, Nationalist Reaction, and Marxist Critique in South Asia | |||||
| Parlour Room 629 | Decolonization: Sovereignty, Capitalism and the World after Empire | New Directions in South Asian Historiography | South Asia Beyond Borders: Empire, Mobility, and Memory in Southeast Asia | |||||
| Parlour Room 634 | Sex, Violation, and Violence in Early Modern South Asia | Intimate Economies: Gender, Work, Migration, and Law in South Asia | Governing Bodies: Gendered Biopolitics in South Asia | |||||
| Parlour Room 638 | Cultures of Care: Gendered Subjectivities and Practices in South Asia | Love, Desire, Affect: The Polymorphous Ubiquity of Gender and Sexuality in South Asia | Women (In)Action: Feminized Disobedience as Political Ethics in South Asia. | |||||
| PDR | ||||||||
| Senate Room A | Between Constraint and Agency: Jain Female Renouncers across Historical and Contemporary Contexts | On Vividness in Sanskrit Philosophy and Literary Theory | Trans* Religion(s) in South Asia | |||||
| Senate Room B | Nationalism, Alterity, and Resistance in Nepali Literature and Culture | Extraction, Translation, Encounter: Germany and South Asia Across Three Centuries | Literary Traditions and Alternative Narratives of Community Formation in South Asia | |||||
| University A | ||||||||
| University A/B | Muslim Solidarities beyond nation, region and sovereignty | Muslim Solidarities beyond nation, region and sovereignty | In Search of Chand Bibi: Gender, Islam, and Sovereignty in Early Modern South Asia | |||||
| University B | ||||||||
| University C/D | Student Activism in South Asian - Beyond the Spectacle, Looking at the Everyday | Casted Grounds: Property, Territory and Dalit Politics in Contemporary South Asia | Madras Elsewhere: The Making of a Global South Indian Indenture Diaspora | |||||
| Wisconsin Ballroom | Tamil Scholars, Sectarian Publics, and Colonial Knowledge: Intellectual Mediations in the Madras Presidency | What Wonders We Make: Archives of Dissent |
Saturday Schedule
| Room | Session 9: 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 10: 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Session 11: 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM | Session 12: 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||
| Assembly Room |
Coffee Break -- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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Prehistoric and Historic Foundations of South Asian Cultural Traditions |
Coffee Break -- 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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Craft Technology and Social Complexity Across South Asia |
Lunch On Your Own -- 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
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Pyrotechnology and Social Complexity in Ancient South Asia |
Coffee Break -- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM -- University Foyer (second floor)
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The Brahmaputra Valley in Early Modern South Asia: Statecraft, Literature, Ecology |
| Capitol Ballroom A | Tasting, Testing: Feminine Figurations in Modern South Asian Media | Heritage, Labor, and Textiles across South Asia | Cultural Economies: Performance, Media, and Capital in India | Staging Across Borders: Caste, Translation, and Diaspora in South Asian Theatre | ||||
| Capitol Ballroom B | ||||||||
| Caucus Room | Between Poetics and Science: Intellectual Traditions in South Asia | At the Margins of the State: Governance, Political Economy, and Cultures of Exception in South Asia | Debating the Dharma: Buddhist Intellectual Exchange Across Traditions | |||||
| Conference Room 1 | Sri Lanka’s NPP Government: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Beyond the Line: Borderlands as Sites of Governance and Contestation | Communalism and Ethno-nationalism in South Asia, Past and Present | |||||
| Conference Room 2 | Nationalism, Media, and Popular Culture in South Asia | Performance and Popular Culture across the Borders | Worldling Urdu Literature and Periodicals | |||||
| Conference Room 3 | Rethinking the Forms of Debate: Climate, Geology, and Ecology across South Asia | Vulnerability and Resilience: Rural South Asia Under Stress | Entangled Ecologies: Environment, Power, and Place in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia | Unruly Waters: Ecology, Borders, and Belonging in South Asian Waterscapes | ||||
| Conference Room 4 | The After Lives and Other Lives of South Asian Images | Anticolonial Thought and the Graphic Novel: The Fiction and History of Gandhi and Bacha Khan's Friendship | Urban Spaces and City-Making through Literature | More-than-Human Entanglements: Conservation, Conflict, and Care in Multispecies South Asia | ||||
| Conference Room 5 | Entangled Devotions: Sound, Ritual, and Identity Across Traditions | From Courtly Cosmologies to Street Protest: Music Across Time | Caste in Practice: Labor, Development, and the Politics of Visibility | |||||
| Madison Ballroom | Contested Belongings: Religion, Caste, and Political Identity Across Borders | Topographies of Knowledge: Caste, Power, and Institutional Inequality | ||||||
| Off-Site | ||||||||
| Parlour Room 627 | Subaltern Regional Identities and the Politics of Mobilisation in India | Negotiating Difference: Gender Variance and Authority Across Time | Empire in the Everyday | |||||
| Parlour Room 629 | Navigating Care Across Borders: Health, Medicine, and Inequality in South Asia and Beyond | Gujarat in the Longue Durée: Multi-Dimensional Crossings from the Medieval to the Modern | The State against Personal and Public Rights in India | Political Work and Thought | ||||
| Parlour Room 634 | Biometrics, Surveillance, and Citizenship in Colonial and Post-colonial India | Between Goddess and Woman: Gendered Ideals and Lived Realities | Muslim Women, Ethics, and Everyday Life | |||||
| Parlour Room 638 | Women’s Work in Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Insights from India and Pakistan | “Men at Home” and “in the World”: Fathers, Brothers, Husbands, and Men’s Rights Activists in Colonial and Post-Colonial India | The Making of Elections and Electorates in India | |||||
| PDR | ||||||||
| Senate Room A | Postcolonial Gothic Entanglements: Of Gardens, Ghosts and the Weird | Critical Mass: Festivals, Sacred Assemblies, and the Making of Publics in South Asia | Beyond Tradition: Rethinking South Asian Religious Concepts | Ritual, Prophecy, and the Making of Religious Authority | ||||
| Senate Room B | The Precolonial Lives of "Worldliness" | HISTORY IN LITERATURE AND LITERATURE IN HISTORY: THE CASE FOR PRE-MODERN SOUTH ASIA | The Heart of Things: Hearing the Heart in Premodern Tamil Poetry | |||||
| University A | ||||||||
| University A/B | Islamic Intellectual Traditions: Frameworks for Resistance and Law | Intersections of Legal and Social Histories in South Asia | Afghanistan: Nation Formation, Ideology, and the Production of Publics | Islamic Worlds: Alternative Modes of Authority and Meaning-Making | ||||
| University B | ||||||||
| University C/D | Sacred Utopias, Lived Dystopias: Adivasi Identity, Maddening State Projects, and Nation-Building in India. | Refusal, Escape, Dignity: The Logics of Resistance under Racial and Caste Capitalism | Speaking Across Borders | |||||
| Wisconsin Ballroom | A roundtable on "Caste A Global Story" | The Language of Caste: Passing, Avoiding, and Indexing in Global India | Entangled Faiths: Christianity, Caste, and Community in South Asia | Caste, Knowledge, and Institutional Power |