Paper presentations on South Asia by graduate students followed by CISA Annual Lecture featuring Professor Sudipta Kaviraj.
Friday, May 12, 20179:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Charles E Young Research Library
UCLA
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Full Schedule:
Morning
8:30 – 9:00: Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks
9:10-9:45 Shekhar Mittal, Global Economics and Managment, UCLA - Anderson
“Enforcement in Value Added Tax: Is Third Party Verification Effective?” (with Aprajit Mahajan)
9:50-10:25 Camille Frazier, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
“Contaminated food, exposure, and the limits of the sensorial in Bangalore, India”
10:25 – 10:40: Tea and Coffee Break
10:45-11:20 Devaka Gunawardena, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
“Bringing Struggle Back Into The State: Analyzing Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones”
11:25-12:00 Muhammad Irfan Mahsud, Visiting Scholar, Center for India and South Asia, UCLA
“Religious Militancy: Pakistan At The Crossroads”
12:00 – 1:15 PM: Lunch
Afternoon
1:20-1:55 Oviya Govindan, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
“Ethnographic Refusal and Environmental Politics in Chennai”
2:00-2:35 Anandi Rao, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
“Queering Shakespeare, Querying Translation: Explorations from an Indian Archive”
2:40-3:15 Nima Lamu Yolmo, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
“Sense-making and Making-sense: Of practices and negotiations around money infrastructures in Manipur, North-East India”
3:15 – 3:25: Tea and Coffee Break
3:30– 5:00: Keynote Address
Annual Lecture, Center for India and South Asia
Professor Sudipta Kaviraj
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
“Marx and Postcolonial Thinking”
Sponsor(s): Program on Central Asia, Department of History, World Arts & Cultures/Dance, Anthropology, Geography, English, Dean of Social Sciences, Dean of Humanities, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies