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 by 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
Discussant: 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 ship breaking 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
4:30 - 5 PM: Wrap Up
5:30 - 7:30 PM: Nautanki: Bringing Back India's Lost Opera by Devendra Sharma