Schedule
9th September, 2021
Day 1
Panel 1: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm IST
Discussant: Sanchita Khurana, University of Delhi
Ashmita Chatterjee, Ashoka University
Grievable Lives? – Minority Identities in India through Images
Stuti Pachisia, University of Cambridge, (8am - 9am in London)
Secularism and Communalism of the Cultural Materials of in the Anti-NRC and Anti-CAA protests, 2019-2020
Panel 2: 1:45 pm - 2:45pm IST
Discussant: Mathieu Claveyrolas, CEIAS
Marek Ahnee, CEIAS-EHESS (10:15 am in Paris)
Who holds the Daṇḍa? Conquest and Protest in the Mauritian Cavadee Pilgrimage (1900-2000)
Lipika Ravichandran, JNU
DEMOCRATIZATION of RELIGION in the TIMES of MAJORITARIAN HINDUTVA in TAMIL NADU
Panel 3: 3:00pm - 4:00pm IST
Discussant: Hem Borker, Jamia Millia Islamia
Anshu Saluja, JNU
Contesting Boundaries, Making Place: Muslim Lives in an Urban Landscape in Contemporary India
Sampurna Das, DU
Thin Documents, Thick Claims: Towards Understanding the Bengali Muslims of Assam, India
Panel 4: 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm IST
Discussant: Surinder Jodhka, JNU-CSH
Kamalpreet Kaur, University of Hyderabad
Toleration and Secularism: Producing (dis)Loyal Subjects
Abhiruchi Ranjan, JNU
The nation and its constituents: The challenges of recognising the Ravidassia religion
Panel 5: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm IST
Discussant: Natasha Raheja, Cornell University
Muhammed Shah Shajahan, Virginia tech, (8: 00 am in Virginia)
Is the Position of Minority Theological? Reflections on the Muslim Approaches to the Indian Constitution
Shaunna Rodrigues, Columbia University (8:00 am in New York)
Non-Secular Moralities and the Lure of Representation: Azad and Ambedkar on Non-Secular Practices of Justification
Ankita Banerjee, King's College (1:00 pm in London)
Religious Accommodation in the Secularist Imagination: Analysing Rabindranath Tagore’s Dharmashiksha in Countering Neo-Hindu Nationalism
10th September, 2021
Day 2
Panel 1: 2:15 pm- 3:45 pm IST
Discussant: Aminah Mohammad-Arif, CNRS
Sanjay Sharma, NUS (2:30 pm in Nepal)
Bīr Gōrkhālī: The Construction of Race, Nation, and Gender
Feeza Vasudeva, NYCU (4:45 pm in Taiwan)
Transgression and Violence in the Production of Minorities
Radhika Saraf, NUS-King's College (9:45 am - 11:15 am in London)
On the Muslim Question: Producing the Homo-Sacer in Contemporary India
Panel 2: 4 pm - 5pm IST
Discussant: Julien Levesque, Ashoka University
Noel Mariam, IIT Madras
Exceptions and the Unruly: Racialized Securitization and Legitimate Opposition in India after CAA
Michael Samjetsabam, IIT Bombay
Pangal Muslims in the Historiography of Manipur
Panel 3: 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm IST
Discussant: Prathama Banerjee, CSDS
Marilena Proetti Sapienza University (1:45 pm in Rome)
Women, minorities and tradition: The (R)evolution of Taboos in Adivasi Communities of Jharkhand
Valeria Termolino Sapienza University (1:45 pm in Rome)
Defining the Digital Public Sphere – The Case of Adivasis of Jharkhand
Panel 4: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm IST
Discussant: P. Sanal Mohan, MGU
Moinak Banerjee, McGill University (9:00 am in Montreal)
Politics of Minoritization and Literature of Resistance in Kerala – Questioning the Secular
Myth of Democratic Communists by Reading Dalitness in Malayalam Short Stories
Sadique PK, EFLU
CITIZENSHIP and BELONGING: CONTOURS of MUSLIM SOCIAL Movements in SOUTH INDIA