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CCI Awardees Research Symposium: Celebrating Student Scholarship and Independent Research

CCI Awardees Research Symposium: Celebrating Student Scholarship and Independent Research

   20,
  2 - 5 p.m.
   10 Stephens Hall

The Center on Contemporary India at UC Berkeley offers two competitive awards: the Rapid Response Research Grant (award amount upto $5000) and the Dissertation Research Grant (award amount upto $15000). Both grants are intended for UC Berkeley graduate students conducting research on or related to contemporary India (post-1947).

Please join us as the CCI grant awardees for 2021 and 2022 present their research work to UC Berkeley faculty, ISAS staff, and their peers.

DATE: Thursday, April 20, 2023
TIME: 2-5 pm Berkeley | Calculate Your Local Time
VENUE: 10 Stephens Hall
LIVESTREAM: On FB at: ISASatUCBerkeley

AGENDA

2:10 pm

Opening Remarks by Prof. Jennifer Bussell, Director, Center on Contemporary India
Remote Presentations 

2:15 pm

 

Pranav Gupta (PhD Candidate, Political Science): How Ideas Spread: Ideological Diffusion in India
Ritika Goel (PhD Student, Political Science): Status and perceptions of performance
Luisa Cefala (PhD Student, Economics): Social Image Concerns and Labor Supply among Indian Urban Casual Laborers
2:40 pm Q&A
2:55 pm Break
In-person Presentations Part I

3 pm

 

Ananya Tiwari (MA Candidate, Journalism): Decoding the aftermath of India’s farmers’ protests on voting patterns
Pratiti (MA Candidate, Group in Asian Studies): a) The Bizarre in the City: Science, Nature and Narrative in Calcutta b) How Tintin became Bengali? Herge’s afterwork in India.
María Villalpando (MDP Candidate, Development Practice): Community seed banks for sustainable rural livelihoods in Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary
3:25 pm Q&A
3:40 pm Break
In-person Presentations Part II

3:45 pm

 

Gauthami Penakalapati (PhD Student, Energy & Resource Group): Encoding empowerment: a systematic review of women’s and adolescent empowerment programs in South Asia from 2000 to present day
Surili Sheth (PhD Candidate, Political Science): The politics of compromise: the adjudication of women’s disputes in India
Payal Hathi (PhD, Demography & Sociology): Improving stillbirth measurement by understanding the production of stillbirth statistics in India
4:05 pm Q&A
4:15 pm Closing Remarks
4:20 pm Reception
5 pm Event ends

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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.