Friday, May 8, 2015
2 - 5 pm Panel I
EXCHANGE | RELATION | BODY
Discussants
  • Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)
  • Lawrence Cohen (UC Berkeley)
 A Polemics of Equality and the Equivalence of Bodies​   William F. Stafford, Jr.
Fluid Exchange  Aarti Sethi
Exchanges of Mutual Need and the Re-production of Marginality: NGOs and Working-class Transmen and Lesbians in South India​  Elizabeth Mount
Is Sex Work Sex or is Sex Work Work? Intimate Exchange and the Making of the Sex Worker in Bangalore​  Gowri Vijayakumar
Friendship as Origin Myth and as History in 17th-19th century South India  ​Hannah Archambault
5:30 - 7 pm Keynote Address Buy Now | Pay Later Geeta Patel 
Saturday, May 9, 2015
9 - 11 am Panel II
FORM | THING | CULTURE:
Discussants 
  • Parama Roy (UC Davis)
  • Poulomi Saha (UC Berkeley)
 Unfolding Gurgaon in Jagannath Panda’s Art Karin Shankar​
Morass of Beauty, Soil, and Sea: Aporias of the Colonial ‘Picturesque’ in 19th century India Mitchell Winter
When “Heritage” Hits the Ground: Precariousness and Paradox in Sri Lanka’s “Traditional Industries" Aimée Douglas Caffrey​ 
11:30 - 1:30 pm Panel III
MONEY | DEBT | VALUE: 
Discussants
  • Sudipta Sen (UC Davis)
 Revisiting the 'Great Firm' theory of Mughal decline: The Haribhakti family and banking households in western India, c. 1750-1818 Sudev Sheth​
Turbulent Tribes, British Rupees: Migrations, Remittances, and Resistances among Afghans in Colonial South Asia H William Warner
Knots of Trade: Promissory Payments in Srinagar’s Wholesale Market Aditi Saraf​
2:30 - 4:30 pm Panel IV
WASTE | MILIEU | EXCHANGE: 
Discussants
  • Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford)
  • Smriti Srinivas (UC Davis)
 Space, Labor, and Law: The global production of a landscape for shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh and the problem of ‘waste’ Elizabeth Sibilia
Contingency and Survivability: Regimes of Precarity in a scrap market in Delhi Ishani Saraf​ 
Middle Class Waste, Working Class Hands: The Politics of Cleaning and Greening the Garden City Manisha Anantharaman​
5:30 - 7:30 pm Nautanki Bringing Back India's Lost Opera  Devendra Sharma