Conference Schedule
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Thursday, April 15
4:10 pm Opening remarks and faculty panel: Balancing the Humanities and Social Sciences in Area Studies (208 Knox Hall)
, Chair of Dept. of MESAAS, Columbia University
, Dept. of MESAAS, Columbia University
, Dept. of History, Barnard College
6:10 pm Student panel: Literature Crossing Borders (963 Schermerhorn Hall)
“Individuation in Early Modern Travelogue” –
“Why Did Shāh Ḥātim’s Collected Works Spawn a Child?” –
“The Autobiography of Muḥammad Shukrī: Modern Ṣuʿlūk” –
Friday, April 16
All events in 501 Schermerhorn Hall.
9:00 am Breakfast
9:30 am Student panel: The Politics of Religion I
“After The Sepoy Rebellion: South Asian Sufism and the Reassertion of Indo-Muslim Identity” –
“Qur’anic Exegesis in East Africa: Circulation of Knowledge and Tradition” –
“Two Seas and Two Sides: Bahraini Women’s Religious Activism” –
11:00 am Student panel: Conceptions of Law and Legality
“Sovereignty Beyond Boundaries” –
“Weapons Out of Control: Israel’s Use of Cluster Bombs and the 2006 War in Lebanon”
12:20 pm Break for Lunch
1:30 pm Student panel: Area Studies?
“Not Death of a Discipline but Birth of a Refuge: A Post-Philological Image of the Department” –
“Islamic Intellectual History and the Methodological Question: Toward an Analytical Avicennism?” –
3:00 pm Student Panel: South Asia(s)
“Local Food, Disparate Identities: Culinary Practices in Three ‘Enclave’ Communities in India” –
“Obscene Geographies: The “Item Region” in Contemporary Hindi Film” –
“Bollymizwid and Bollyraï: Digital Mashups of Hindi, Tunisian, and Algerian Popular Music” –
4:30 pm Student panel: Building Identities
“Anatomy, Androgyny and Performative Politics in Early Colonial South Asia, 1780–1830” –
“Colonial Legacy Faultlines as Mindset Frontiers” –
“Dynamics of Changing National and Ethnic Identity Concepts of Sahrawi Refugees” –
6:10 pm Keynote address by Professor Aamir Mufti of UCLA
Saturday, April 17
All events in 501 Schermerhorn Hall.
9:00 am Breakfast
9:30 am Student panel: The Politics of Religion II
“Stemming the Saffron Tide: Populism versus the Hindu Right in India” –
Untitled paper on Early Modern South Indian Intellectuals –
11:00 am Faculty panel: Cosmopolitanism and Identities
, New York University
Dept. of MESAAS, Columbia University
, Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University
12:30 pm End of the conference