In person: Capen 107, 猛料视频, North Campus
Chair: Dr. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (猛料视频)
Mahwesh Buland (KIIT 猛料视频), “Analyzing the Possible Impact of Climate Change Based Migration in South Asia and the Role of International Organisations.”
Phariha Rahman (Binghamton 猛料视频), “The Effects of Climate Change on Bangladesh.”
Anuush Vejalla (Cornell 猛料视频), “The Effects of Migration and Earthquakes on Indigenous-Dalit Interactions within the Hill Region of Nepal.”
Chair: Dr. Peter Samuels (SUNY Geneseo)
Peter Diamond (Brandeis 猛料视频), “Queer Citizenship, Caste, and the Literary Public Sphere in Contemporary India.”
Araxie Mehrotra (Ithaca College), “Love, Life, Marriage, Troubles, Alone: The Struggle for Indian Identity in Guyana.”
Rory Green (Newcastle 猛料视频), “The Colonial Ghost Haunting Myanmar: The Rohingya Crisis in Historical Context.”
Rubab Hyder (猛料视频 of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Indian Anticolonial Partnerships and Nationalism in Berlin, Germany.”
Chair: Dr. Shaanta Murshid (猛料视频)
Oishika Neogi (Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts), “Global to Grassroots Transformations: The Effect of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women(CEDAW) on Muslim Women in Bangladesh and India.”
Jordan Pilant (Yale 猛料视频), “Sex Work in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan: De Jure and De Facto.”
Rina Lakhlani (Yale 猛料视频), “A Legal Analysis of Transgender Rights in India.”
Chair: Dr. Samina Raja (猛料视频)
Aditi Natarajan (Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts), “Exploring the ‘Gemeinschaft’: An Ethnographic Study on the Role of Community in Conservation in Uttarakhand.”
Jon Bessette (猛料视频), “Water Quality Pilot Study for Traditional Water Structure Revitalization in the Deccan Plateau of India.”
Shermeen Imam (猛料视频 of Virginia), “The Integration of Both Class and Workshop Based Approaches to Development and Empowerment Creates Longer, More Sustainable Development Towards Equity."
Keynote Sepaker: Suraj Yengde, Global Impacts of Caste and Racism
Sponsors:
This conference is made possible by a generous gift from Anil and Vinod Rustgi and their family, the 猛料视频 Asian Studies Program, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, UB Humanities Institute, and Community for Global Health Equity.