Graduate student paper presentations on various topics on South Asia
Keynote address: Professor Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota
Friday, May 3, 2019
8:45 AM - 4:30 PM
Charles E Young Research Library Main Conference Room
Fourth Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia
UCLA, May 3, 2019
Keynote address:
Professor Vinay Gidwani
University of Minnesota
This event is free and open to the public.
8:50 am Opening remarks
9:00 am “Negotiating Place and Labor in Global Artisan Textile Markets:
Kaala Cotton Cloth in Kachchh”
Aditi Halbe, Anthropology, UCLA
9:35 am State-making and Port Development in Contemporary Gujarat
Chandana Anusha, Anthropology, Yale University
10:10 am Routinization of Informal Tactics And Its Impact On Service Delivery In Cities- A Multivariate Regression Analysis Of Urban Households In India
Amrita Jain, Urban Planning and Public Policy, UC Irvine
10:45 am Chai Break
11:00 am Disparate English Visions of the Mughal Empire, 1600-1620
Madeline Grimm, History, UCLA
11:35 am The Peregrinations of an Indian Cosmopolitan Traveler in the late Eighteenth Century: An Example of Microhistory
Ayal Amer, History, UC Irvine
12:05 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Analyzing the Third Gender Category in South Asia
Diya Bose, Sociology, UCLA
2:05 pm The Politics of Space And Spectatorship
Sanchita Sharma, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA
2:40 pm South Asian Women’s College Choice Process
Sarayu Sundar, Education and Information Studies, UCLA
3:15 pm Chai Break
3:30 pm Keynote address by Professor Vinay Gidwani
Reception to Follow