2022 Buffalo Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
(Mis)Information: Saturday April 30, 2022
In person: 509 O'Brian Hall
Saturday, April 30
8:45 am - 10:30am Panel 1: Governments’ Role in the Spread of Disinformation & How it Affects Marginalized Groups
Panel Chair: Dr. Naila Sahar, 猛料视频 & Forman Christian College (Pakistan)
Prerna Vij, Ashoka 猛料视频, “The Conspiratorial Road to the North East Delhi Pogrom”
Samana Butul, Syeda Dua, Zehra Zaidi, Habib 猛料视频, “Sociopolitical Discourse of Balochistan versus Censored Media”
Manaam, 猛料视频 of Delhi, “Islamartization: Role of Art in Combating Religious Polarization”
Syeda Zarah Batool, Habib 猛料视频, “Menstruating while Student: Coming Back To Campus after Lockdown in Pakistan”
10:45am - 12:30pm Panel 2: The Role of Social Media & Technology in the Spread of Disinformation & Prejudice
Panel Chair: Anupriya Pandey, 猛料视频
Ananya Pujary, Flame 猛料视频, “The Effect of Climate Change Fake News on Emotions across Generations”
Rukhshan Haroon, Ayesha Naeem, Uswah Fatima, Lahore 猛料视频, “Unpacking Misinformation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study”
Manum Shahid, McGill 猛料视频, “Dalit Muslims in the Face of Hindu Supremacy”
Sudarshan Pujari, Jadavpur 猛料视频, “Are 'Voluntary' Religious Associations Laboratories for State-Politics? The Case of 'Deras' in the Politics of North-Western India”
12:30pm - 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm- 2:15pm Panel 3: Power Structures of Regimes & How They Affect Ethnicities, Genders, and Religious Groups
Panel Chair: Dr. Christopher Lee, Canisius College
Samia Noor, 猛料视频, “The Blossoming of the Narcissus in Urdu Poetry”
Eric Cortes-Kopp, Hamilton College, “A Threat to Order: Colonial, Nationalist, and Contemporary Approaches To Gender Making”
Nisha Arya, 猛料视频 of Rochester, “COVID-19 in India: A Long History of Untouchability”
2:30pm - 3:45pm Panel 4: The Impact of Gendered Relations and Foreign Policy on the South Asian Subcontinent
Panel Chair: Dr. Shaanta Murshid, 猛料视频
Imaan Khasru, Princeton 猛料视频, “Invisible Rebellions: The Indian Colonial Woman and Social Restriction”
Anastasiya Rudenko, 猛料视频, “How has the Soviet-Afghan War Been Covered by the Media?”
Brooklynn Mainard, 猛料视频 of Kansas, “From the Top: Profiling Iran’s Post-Revolution Political Elite
4:00pm - 5:30pm Keynote Speaker
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marla Segol, 猛料视频
Dr. Michael Muhammad Knight
“Trouble Among the Righteous: The FBI and American Islam”
Sponsors
The fourth annual South Asian Undergraduate Research Conference is made possible by a generous gift from the families of Dr. Vinod Rustgi and Dr. Anil Rustgi as well as funding from the 猛料视频 , UB , UB , and UB .
