Centre for South Asian Studies Graduate Workshop
April 28, 2025 | 9:30AM - 5:00PM
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In-person
Location | Room 208, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7
Workshop Program:
9:30 - 10:00 am Arrival and registration
10:00 - 11:30 am Panel #1: Articulating State Power
From "Backward" to "Aspirational" - A Synaptic History of Managing People and Places in South Asia
Aakash Solanki
Hailing the Bangladeshi State: Jumma Land and Citizenship Claims in Written Petitions
Hana Shams Ahmed
Hegemony After the Empire: State-Capital relations and the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi
Priyansh
The Cost of Revolutionary Struggle: Gender and Property Forfeiture after the Ghadar Uprising 1915
Umaima Miraj
Discussant: Dr. Bhavani Raman (Associate Professor, Department of History)
11:30 - 11:45 am Coffee break
11:45 am - 1 pm Panel #2: Knowledge and Value
The Pedagogical Value of Vikalpa
Sarju Patel
Vācaspati on Recognising Objects Across Time
Munema Moiz
Omniscience and Compassion
Nirali Patel
Discussant: Dr. Cristoph Emmrich (Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion)
1 - 2 pm Lunch
2 - 3:30 pm Panel #3: Communities of Filiation and Affiliation
Cracked Devotion: Piracy, Pedagogy, and Islamic Media Remixing in Pakistan
Hassan Asif
Cultivating Service, Cultivating Care: Volunteerism in a South Indian Medical Mission
Stephanie Duclos-King
Subversive Potential of Bacha Posh: A Reading of Nadia Hashimi’s "The Pearl that Broke its Shell"
Ishanthi Dissanayake
Exploring Bangladeshi Cricket in Canada: A Literature Review of Decolonization, Nationalism and Diaspora Studies
Saidur Rahman
Discussant: Dr. Sidharthan Maunaguru (Associate Professor and Tamil Studies Chair, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies and Anthropology)
3:30 - 3:45 pm Coffee break
3:15 - 4:45 pm Panel #4: Limits Of and In the Archive
Early 20th Century Sikh (Re)Formation: Caste in Colonial Panjab
Divyani Motla
Re-imagining the ‘Book’ of Language: Tamil Philology as the Intellectual Biography of Vīracaiva Brothers
Shibi Laxman Kumaraperumal
Bureaucratic Records and Historical Memory in Sri Lankan Archives of the Disappeared
Henria Aton
Discussant: Dr. J. Barton Scott (Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Department for the Study of Religion)
Please get in touch with Kim (kim.fernandes@utoronto.ca) if you have any questions.