9:15am
Welcome Remarks
9:20am-11:00am
Imperial Identities, Imperial Afterlives
Chair: REN Chao, PhD student, History
Brittany Puller, PhD student, Asian Languages & Cultures
The Making of a Masand: Sikh Agents and Political Actors in 17th Century Punjab
Rachel Hirsch, Masters student, South Asian Studies
The Sivalayatirth and the Formation of Imperial Identity
Matt Schissler, PhD student, Anthropology
Primordial, Postcolonial, Foretold: Historicizing Violence against Rohingya in Myanmar
11:10am – 12pm
Mediations of Mobility
Chair: Vishnupriya Das, PhD student, Communication Studies
Sriram Mohan, PhD student, Communication Studies
Transacting to Belong: Mobile Payments and the Mediation of Technological Citizenship in Digital India
Padma Chirumamilla, School of Information
“By the Grace of Ramoji Rao, My Job Survived”: Television Stories from Andhra Pradesh
1:00pm – 2:15pm
Innovating the Modern
Chair: TBD
Conner Singh Vanderbeek, PhD student, Ethnomusicology
Whose Punjab? Bhangra, Gurdas Maan, and the Multi-temporal Sikh Framing of Indian Punjab
Swarnim Khare, PhD student, Asian Languages & Cultures
Literary Innovation in Dalit Women's Writing in Hindi
2:20pm – 4:00pm
City Dreaming
Chair: TBD
Janaki Phillips, PhD student, Anthropology
The Chill of Ghosts and the Weight of History: Engagements with Shimla's Haunted Architectural Heritage
Amit Ittyerah, PhD student, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Commodity Architecture, the City, and Beyond: Emerging Urban Morphologies along National Highway 1
Salman Hussain, PhD student, Anthro-History
Gulfee City: Provincial Dreams
4:10pm – 6:00pm:
Keynote Address
Professor Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota
Towards a Non-sovereign Politics? Rethinking "Religion" with Gandhi
