Manthan: A Churning

The 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the DISP

You are invited!

This year's conference organizers, Daniel Beben, Jenny Dubeansky, Betsy Jose and Shahin Kachwala invite you to join our panelists at India House for a day devoted to the best of current research in topics on Indian and South Asian research.

Manthan 2012 Conference Schedule & Program

All events, unless otherwise noted, will be held at:

Dhar India Studies Program
825 East 8th Street
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408
812-855-5798

 

Thursday, February 23rd 5:30 – 7:30 PM: Shiva & Ram Avtar Tiwari Memorial Lecture

University Club, Mezzanine Level, Indiana Memorial Union

Dr. Siddhartha Deb (The New School) The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India

 

Friday, February 24th

9:00 – 9:30 AM: Registration and coffee

 

9:30 – 9:45 AM:

Opening remarks
Dr. Michael Dodson
Director, Dhar India Studies Program

9:45 AM – 12:00 PM: First panel session

Chair: Daniel Beben (Indiana University)
Discussant: Dr. Michael Dodson (Indiana University)

 

Jennifer MacGregor (University of Pittsburgh)

Defining Identity: Problems of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines

 

Traci C. Nagle (Indiana University)

The Influence of Hobson-Jobson on the Inventory of South Asian Words in the Oxford English Dictionary

 

Blake Smith (Northwestern University)

Race, Religion, and the Rights of Man: India in the French Revolution

12:00 – 1:15 PM: Lunch
1:30 – 3:45 PM: Second panel session
Chair: Shahin Kachwala (Indiana University) Discussant: Radhika Paramesawaran (Indiana University)

 

Swathi Sreerangarajan (University of Pittsburgh)

Sivanandan's When Memory Dies (1997) and the narrative use of memory as something 'not-discursive'

 

Ravi Ghadge (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Remaking Mumbai: Visions and Contestations

 

Rupal Satra (University of Illinois – Chicago)

The Indian Diaspora: Situating Family Building Strategies among South Asian Immigrants

 

Aimee Hamilton (Indiana University)

Divinity and Embodiment of Hindu Bridal Dress

4:00 – 4:30 PM: Special presentation by Dr. Siddhartha Deb

4:45 – 6:00 PM: Break

6:00 PM: Dinner

Taste of India restaurant 316 East 4th Street

We are especially grateful to our faculty, university and community with whose support we have been able to offer travel grants to four participants from outside universities--without you, this would not be possible, and our gratitude--and that of our participants--is profound. If you would like to support graduate research and the exciting work our students are doing, please contact Michael S. Dodson, Director of the DISP, to discuss the many ways you can be involved.

Thank you!

poster design by Jenny Dubeansky for Manthan: A Churning