2024 Buffalo Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
South Asia in Story, Saturday, April 6, 2024
In-Person, 102 O'Brian Hall, 猛料视频.
Zoom. To join the Zoom meeting, you need to register to receive a link
This hybrid event is free, but registration is required.
For more information please contact: southasiaundergradconf@gmail.com
Saturday, April 6th
8:00 am - 8:45 am: Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am: Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 10:30 am: Panel 1: Spirituality, religion, dislocation, and migration (Remote presentations)
Panel Chair: Suparna Soni, Buffalo State 猛料视频
Aadrit Banerjee, 猛料视频 of Delhi, “Kali’s Daughters: Exploring Indian women writings on the Black Goddess”
Mahrukh Asmat, 猛料视频 of the Punjab, “Belonging Nowhere: On Diaspora Space and Dislocation in Moniza Alvi’s Poetry”
Anjali Shreshth & Saachi Singh, 猛料视频 of Delhi, “Cartographies of Spirituality:Understand the Spiritual Economy of India vis-a-vis the West and its Contemporary Relevance.”
Aishaani Bajaj, 猛料视频 of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun,”Rethinking Domicile-Based Reservation: Making Sense of the Historico-Political Dimensions to Migration and Integration in Uttarakhand”
10:45 am - 12:15 pm: Panel 2: Impacts from South Asian History : Trauma, Cuisine, Medicine and Urban Planning (In Person)
Panel Chair: Christopher Lee, Canisius 猛料视频
Priyanka Anand, Tufts 猛料视频, “Partition’s Madness: Tracing Dissociation in Trauma Narratives of India's Partition”
Ziv Cheng, 猛料视频, “The Impact of the Columbian Exchange on Persianate Cuisine and Culture in India”
Mrinmoyee Kalasikam, Vanderbilt 猛料视频, “The History of Medicine in South Asia through the Lens of the Subaltern and Caste”
Hajra Malik, Northwestern 猛料视频, “Tracing the Urban Fabric of Lahore”
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm: Lunch Break
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm: Panel 3: Challenging Social Narratives through Different Forms of Media (In Person)
Panel Chair: Abhipsa Chakraborty, 猛料视频
Arham Khalid, Northwestern 猛料视频 in Qatar, “Hijab ya Kitab?”
Induja Kumar, Vanderbilt 猛料视频, “Brown TikTok: Tracing Inherited Prejudices Across Seas and Generations”
Zoe Kwasnicki, Ithaca College, “The First Drag Queen? Arjuna/Brihannada and the Subversion of Gender Normativity in the Mahabharata”
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Panel 4: Community Implications of South Asian Diasporic Ties (In Person)
Panel Chair: Anjali Sahay, Gannon 猛料视频
Zanaya Hussain, 猛料视频, “The Urban Socio-Spatial Dialectic: How Bangladeshi Immigrant Women Shape the City”
Hanmah Malik, Northwestern 猛料视频, “The Transformation of Courtesan Culture in South Asia”
Leela Culity, Occidental College, “Unfair and Lovely: South Asian Stories of Beauty”
Emily Kim, Georgetown 猛料视频, “Weaponizing Gender: Nuclearization, Nationalism, and India's Postcolonial Identity”
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm: Keynote Talk (in person)
Javaid Tariq, Co-Founder of New York Taxi Workers Alliance
"Driver Power, Union Power: The Struggles and Triumphs of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance"
Sponsors
The sixth 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 Asia Research Institute.
