DAY 1: Friday, Oct. 2nd, 2015
9:15-9:30 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Matt Hull (Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan)
- Farina Mir (Department of History, University of Michigan)
9:30-11:45: Panel 1: Digital Imaginaries
Chair: Will Glover (Department of History, University of Michigan)
- Nimmi Rangaswamy (Xerox Labs, India)
Romance in the Times of Facebook: The Surplus Digital Self and Youth in Urban India - Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Imagining Cellular India: the Popular, the Infrastructural, and the National - Huma Yusuf (Woodrow Wilson Senior Fellow and Control Risks Consulting)
Mapping digital Pakistan - Lilly Irani (University of California-San Diego, USA)
Entrepreneurial Citizenship: Digital Pedagogies of Mass-Mediated Development
Discussant: Kentaro Toyama (School of Information, University of Michigan)
[12:00-1:15: Lunch]
1:30-3:30: Panel 2: Digital Media and the New Political
Chair: Muzammil Hussain (Communication Studies, University of Michigan)
- Rohit Chopra (Santa Clara University, USA)
The Digital and the Postcolonial in South Asia: Convergences, Contradictions, and Overlaps - Wazhmah Osman (Temple University, USA)
Af-Pak Women in The Age of Pictures: Activism and Digital Media - Sahana Udupa (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Class of Actors: Nationalism and Middle Class Politics on Online Media - Bish Sen (University of Oregon, USA)
Data Alone Prevails: Talk Shows and the Rise of Informational Politics in India
Discussant: Joyojeet Pal (School of Information, University of Michigan)
[3:30-4:00: Coffee Break]
4:00-5:30: Love and Longing in Digital India
- Paromita Vohra (Independent Filmmaker and Digital Artist, India)
Discussant: Madhumita Lahiri (Department of English, University of Michigan)
DAY 2: Saturday, Oct. 3rd
9:00-11:00: Panel 3: Television’s Newness
Chair: Ram Mahalingam (Department of Psychology, University of Michigan)
- Sangeet Kumar (Denison University, USA)
Trending Hashtags and Networked Publics: Participatory News Television and the Invitational Affect of Memetic Culture - Shanti Kumar (University of Texas-Austin, USA)
Television in Digital India - Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Where Cinema Meets Television: Four Positions on Dhaka’s Map - Purnima Mankekar (University of California-LA, USA)
Public Intimacies: The Remediation of Affect and Digital Media
Discussant: Pavitra Sundar (Kettering University, USA)
Coffee Break: 11:00-11:15
11:30-12:15: Wrap Up Session
Media & Communication Studies in Digital South Asia, moderated by Aswin Punathambekar
