Day 1: June 15 Saturday
Panel 1.1A (McIntyre 1034)—9:00–11:00
Foregrounding Women
- Jobeth Ann Warjri (Vidyashilp University): Climate Justice, Gender and “Quiet” Work: The Washerwomen of Laitkor, Meghalaya (Virtual)
- Shamika Shabnam (McMaster University): Narrating the Self: The Multifaceted Stories of Women Wartime Survivors of Sexual Violence during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
- Parboti Roy (University of British Columbia): Understanding the Decolonial Approaches of Grassroots Level Indigenous Women Leaders in Addressing Violence Against Women: The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Context, Bangladesh
Panel 1.1B (McIntyre 1027)—9:00–11:00
Environment and South Asia
- Vineet Rathee (McGill University): Burning of Crop Residue: Entanglements of Air Pollution with Agrarian Life
- Khadiatou Sarr (Université de Montréal): Les droits forestiers des communautés Adivasis vs les législations de conservation des forêts en Inde
- Nolwen Vouiller (EHESS-Paris/France & ULiège/Belgique): Pression mondiale, gouvernementale, sociale et familiale: l’impossible soulèvement d’une population au bord de l’implosion (Parc national de Bardiya, Népal)
- Jagteshwar Singh Sohi (University of Toronto): Are there Shared Futures? – A Comment on Goa’s Iron-Ore Permanent Fund
Break: 11:00-11:30 (Macintyre 1027)
Panel 1.2A (McIntyre 1034)—11:30–13:30
Gender
- Twisha Singh (McGill University): Re-defining Performative Radicalism within Socio-Political Theatre in Colonial Bengal, 1870-1950
- Laurah Klepinger (Utica University): Is Gay Guy to Kothi as Intersex is to Tritya Prakriti? Global Human Rights and the Protection of Indigenous Gender Categories in South India
- Ari Para (York University): The Stories of Us: Queer Tamils Reclaiming their Cultural Identity
- Amrita Kumar-Ratta (University of Toronto): Re-Imagining Sexual & Reproductive Life in ‘Punjabi Canada’ through Critical Ethnography and Creative Storytelling
Panel 1.2B (McIntyre 1027)—11:30–13:30
Practices of the Body, Health, and Physical Culture
- Milda Graham (McGill University): The Entangled Development of Modern Postural Yoga at the Mysore Palace McGillThomas Seibel (Concordia University): The Inconvenient Ghost: Conjurings and Exorcisms in the Rise and Stall of BHU’s ‘Bhoot Vidya’ Ayurveda Certificate Program.
- Andrea Farran (McGill University): Serving Karah Parshad at Montreal Gurdwaras
- Bonita Das (York University): Looking and Sounding Right: Is Globalization Furthering Employment Discrimination within the Indian Labor Market?
Lunch: 13:30–14:30 (McIntyre 1027)
Panel 1.3A (McIntyre 1034)—14:30–16:30
Roundtable: Teaching South Asia Today
- Gillian McCann (Nipissing University)
- Nicola Mooney (University of the Fraser Valley)
- Arafaat Valiani (University of Calgary)
Day 2: June 16 Sunday
Panel 2.1A (McIntyre 1034)—9:00–11:00
(Post) Colonial Texts and the Literary
- Sunjay Mathuria (Concordia University): Conceptualizing Urban Heritage and Memorialization of Partition in Lahore (Virtual)
- Ruchini Abayakoon (McMaster University): Felt on the Skin: Unveiling the Tapestry of Slow Grief in Postcolonial Sri Lankan Literature
- Arastu Lenin Khan (University of British Columbia): Imagining a Bengali Muslim Literary Archive: The Puthi Sahitya Discourse, 1930s-1950s
- Sarwat Viqar (John Abbott College): Alternate Geographies and Imaginaries in Colonial Karachi, 1920s-1940s
Panel 2.1B (McIntyre 1027)—9:00–11:00
Canadian Stories
- Chandrima Chakraborty (McMaster University): Remembering as Rupture: Canadian History and Public Memory of the 1985 Air India Bombing
- Rishma Johal (McGill University): Transcending the Nation-State: Early South Asian Men in Canada and Family Formation
- Anne-Sophie Bentz (Université Paris Cité): Memory in Exile, Memory of Exile. The Tibetans’ Chyssem Project
- Ornella Puschiasis: Sherpa Diaspora in North America: Unraveling Networks, Identity, and Trans-Himalayan Connectivity
Break: 11:00-11:30 (Macintyre 1027)
Panel 2.2A (McIntyre 1034)—11:30–13:30
Business Meeting—Andrea Farran, Anne Murphy, Arafaat Valiani, Julie Vig
Lunch: 13:30–14:30 (McIntyre 1027)
Panel 2.3A (McIntyre 1034)—14:30–16:30
Texts and Images
- Maria Casadei (Jagiellonian University, Poland): Social reform in Telugu plays: Gurajada Apparao’s Kanyasulkam (Virtual)
- Christopher Austin (Dalhousie University): The Kālanemivadha in the Harivaṃśa and Bhāratamañjarī of Kṣemendra
- Seyed Abbas Zahabi (University of Toronto): Buddhist Influence on Islamic Concepts of Reincarnation
- Amber Elisabeth Peters (Ca’Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University): Re-stitching Text and Image in the Study of South Asian Illustrated Manuscripts
Panel 2.3B (McIntyre 1027)—14:30–16:30
Re-Reading Political Imaginaries
- Manimugdha Sharma (University of British Columbia): Subhas Chandra Bose, the South Asian Press, and the Second World War
- Subho Basu (McGill University): Global Sixties and the Changing Political Landscapes of Two Bengals
- Pushpa Acharya (Kwantlen Polytechnic University): Democracy and Norms in B.P. Koirala’s Writings
- Nipesh Palat Narayanan (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montréal): Towards a Pluriversal Politics of Knowledge Production: Reading Street-Food Vending in Colombo and Delhi
Day 3: June 17 Monday
Panel 3.1A (McIntyre 1034)—9:00 am-11:00 am
New Work in the Textual Studies of Punjab
- Jvala Singh (University of California at Berkeley): The All-Metal Text (Sarbloh Granth), A Sikh Retelling of a Jain Text?
- Fatima Afzal (University of British Columbia): Punjabis Against Punjabi: Muslim Nationalism in the Punjabi-Urdu Debate
- Anne Murphy (University of British Columbia): A Magazine for Change: Prītlaṛī and the Vision of a New India in Late Colonial India
Respondents:
- Robin Rinehart (Lafayette College) (Virtual)
- Guriqbal Singh Sahota (University of California Santa Cruz)
Break: 11:00-11:30 (Macintyre 1027)
Panel 3.2A (McIntyre 1034)—11:30-1:30
Thinking through Kashmir: Experiments in Theology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics
- Sloane Geddes (University of Toronto): In Praise of Śiva: Śaiva Descriptions of King Kapphiṇa in Śivasvāmin’s Rise of Kapphiṇa (Virtual)
- Aditya Guntoori (McGill University): Abhinavagupta and the Ontology of Artworks
- Swati Chauhan (McGill University): Mapping Pañcastavī Manuscripts Across Linguistic Thresholds
Respondent:
- Hamsa Stainton (McGill University)
Panel 3.2B (McIntyre 1027)—11:30-1:30
Panel: Technologies of Governance
- Arafaat Valiani (University of Calgary): Technological Innovation and Performing Transparency: Secrecy, Data Design and Postcolonial India’s Electronic Voting Machines
- Chiara Letizia (Université de Québec à Montréal): Religion at the Supreme Court in Secular Nepal: a Reflection on Selected Cases
- Jay Ramasubramanyam (York University): From Brussels to Bandung: Foregrounding India’s Role in Anti-Colonial Solidarity
- Aarushie Sharma (York University): The Contractual City: Nature of Work and the Infrastructure of Urban Sanitation in Delhi-NCR
Lunch: 13:30–14:30 (McIntyre 1027)
Panel 3.3 (McIntyre 1034)—14:30–16:30
Roundtable: Transnational Dimensions of Hindutva–Hinduphobia Discourse and Politics in India and Canada
Moderators:
- Sailaja Krishnamurti (Queen’s University)
- Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University)
Contributors:
- Nissim Mannathukkaren (Dalhousie University)
- Shana Sippy (Centre College)
- Nishant Upadhyay (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Harshita Yalamarty (Queen’s University)