Asian Studies Conference on The City in South Asia and Its Transnational Connections
presented with the assistance of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS)
November 13-14, 2014 Knight Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Keynote Lecture: Thomas Blom Hansen Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology, Stanford University Spatial Memory and Urban Imagination in South Asia
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Panel 1: Consumption, Class and Resistance in the City Chair: Bryna Goodman, Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon
Douglas Haynes, Professor, Dept. of History, Dartmouth College Beyond the Colonial City? The Transformation of the European Community in Bombay, 1920-1947″
Abigail McGowan, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Vermont, Burlington Home Life as City Life: The Urban Domestic in Interwar Western India
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Assistant Professor,Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University Unruly Landscapes: Spatial Contestation in Early Twentieth Century Bombay”
Discussant: Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cinema Studies, University of Oregon
Friday November 14th 2014
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Panel 2: Urban Real Estate and Its Peripheries
Chair: Andrew Verner, Director, Ph.D. Program, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
Matthew Hull, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Cities and Property
Nikhil Rao, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College Approaching the Urban Edge: Changing Perceptions of Bombay’s Periphery
Asher Ghertner, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University When is the State? Flux, Porosity and Exclusion in Delhi’s State Spaces
Discussant: Dan Buck, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Asian Studies, University of Oregon
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Panel 3: Urban Infrastructure and the City in History
Chair: Lamia Karim, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Tarini Bedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Mimicry, Friction and Trans-Urban Imaginaries: Mumbai Taxis/Singapore Style
Arafaat Valiani, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon Entrepreneurship and Urban Land Markets in Postcolonial Mumbai and Karachi
Douglas Haynes, Professor, Dept. of History, Dartmouth College & Nikhil Rao, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wesleyan College Beyond the Colonial City: Re-Evaluating the Urban History of India, 1920-1970
Discussant: Arafaat A. Valiani, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Roundtable Discussion and Concluding Remarks
Moderated by Arafaat A. Valiani, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon Contact person: Lori O’Hollaren Assistant Director Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Email: loholl@uoregon.edu
Sponsored by the following at the University of Oregon:
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) Asian Studies College of Arts and Sciences Office of International Affairs Academic Affairs Oregon Humanities Council Department of History Department of Anthropology Robert D. Clark Honors College Planning, Public Policy and Management