2022 Buffalo Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
(Mis)Information: Saturday April 30, 2022
In person: 509 O'Brian Hall
Saturday, April 30
8:45 am - 10:30am Panel 1: Governments’ Role in the Spread of Disinformation & How it Affects Marginalized Groups
Panel Chair: Dr. Naila Sahar, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ & Forman Christian College (Pakistan)
Prerna Vij, Ashoka ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The Conspiratorial Road to the North East Delhi Pogrom”
Samana Butul, Syeda Dua, Zehra Zaidi, Habib ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Sociopolitical Discourse of Balochistan versus Censored Media”
Manaam, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Delhi, “Islamartization: Role of Art in Combating Religious Polarization”
Syeda Zarah Batool, Habib ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Menstruating while Student: Coming Back To Campus after Lockdown in Pakistan”
10:45am - 12:30pm Panel 2: The Role of Social Media & Technology in the Spread of Disinformation & Prejudice
Panel Chair: Anupriya Pandey, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Ananya Pujary, Flame ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The Effect of Climate Change Fake News on Emotions across Generations”
Rukhshan Haroon, Ayesha Naeem, Uswah Fatima, Lahore ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Unpacking Misinformation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study”
Manum Shahid, McGill ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Dalit Muslims in the Face of Hindu Supremacy”
Sudarshan Pujari, Jadavpur ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Are 'Voluntary' Religious Associations Laboratories for State-Politics? The Case of 'Deras' in the Politics of North-Western India”
12:30pm - 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm- 2:15pm Panel 3: Power Structures of Regimes & How They Affect Ethnicities, Genders, and Religious Groups
Panel Chair: Dr. Christopher Lee, Canisius College
Samia Noor, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The Blossoming of the Narcissus in Urdu Poetry”
Eric Cortes-Kopp, Hamilton College, “A Threat to Order: Colonial, Nationalist, and Contemporary Approaches To Gender Making”
Nisha Arya, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Rochester, “COVID-19 in India: A Long History of Untouchability”
2:30pm - 3:45pm Panel 4: The Impact of Gendered Relations and Foreign Policy on the South Asian Subcontinent
Panel Chair: Dr. Shaanta Murshid, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Imaan Khasru, Princeton ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Invisible Rebellions: The Indian Colonial Woman and Social Restriction”
Anastasiya Rudenko, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “How has the Soviet-Afghan War Been Covered by the Media?”
Brooklynn Mainard, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Kansas, “From the Top: Profiling Iran’s Post-Revolution Political Elite
4:00pm - 5:30pm Keynote Speaker
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marla Segol, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Dr. Michael Muhammad Knight
“Trouble Among the Righteous: The FBI and American Islam”
Sponsors
The fourth annual South Asian Undergraduate Research Conference is made possible by a generous gift from the families of Dr. Vinod Rustgi and Dr. Anil Rustgi as well as funding from the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ , UB , UB , and UB .
