2024 Buffalo Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
South Asia in Story, Saturday, April 6, 2024
In-Person, 102 O'Brian Hall, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.
Zoom. To join the Zoom meeting, you need to register to receive a link
This hybrid event is free, but registration is required.
For more information please contact: southasiaundergradconf@gmail.com
Saturday, April 6th
8:00 am - 8:45 am: Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am: Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 10:30 am: Panel 1: Spirituality, religion, dislocation, and migration (Remote presentations)
Panel Chair: Suparna Soni, Buffalo State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Aadrit Banerjee, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Delhi, “Kali’s Daughters: Exploring Indian women writings on the Black Goddess”
Mahrukh Asmat, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of the Punjab, “Belonging Nowhere: On Diaspora Space and Dislocation in Moniza Alvi’s Poetry”
Anjali Shreshth & Saachi Singh, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Delhi, “Cartographies of Spirituality:Understand the Spiritual Economy of India vis-a-vis the West and its Contemporary Relevance.”
Aishaani Bajaj, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun,”Rethinking Domicile-Based Reservation: Making Sense of the Historico-Political Dimensions to Migration and Integration in Uttarakhand”
10:45 am - 12:15 pm: Panel 2: Impacts from South Asian History : Trauma, Cuisine, Medicine and Urban Planning (In Person)
Panel Chair: Christopher Lee, Canisius ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Priyanka Anand, Tufts ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Partition’s Madness: Tracing Dissociation in Trauma Narratives of India's Partition”
Ziv Cheng, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The Impact of the Columbian Exchange on Persianate Cuisine and Culture in India”
Mrinmoyee Kalasikam, Vanderbilt ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The History of Medicine in South Asia through the Lens of the Subaltern and Caste”
Hajra Malik, Northwestern ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Tracing the Urban Fabric of Lahore”
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm: Lunch Break
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm: Panel 3: Challenging Social Narratives through Different Forms of Media (In Person)
Panel Chair: Abhipsa Chakraborty, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Arham Khalid, Northwestern ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ in Qatar, “Hijab ya Kitab?”
Induja Kumar, Vanderbilt ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Brown TikTok: Tracing Inherited Prejudices Across Seas and Generations”
Zoe Kwasnicki, Ithaca College, “The First Drag Queen? Arjuna/Brihannada and the Subversion of Gender Normativity in the Mahabharata”
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Panel 4: Community Implications of South Asian Diasporic Ties (In Person)
Panel Chair: Anjali Sahay, Gannon ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Zanaya Hussain, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The Urban Socio-Spatial Dialectic: How Bangladeshi Immigrant Women Shape the City”
Hanmah Malik, Northwestern ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “The Transformation of Courtesan Culture in South Asia”
Leela Culity, Occidental College, “Unfair and Lovely: South Asian Stories of Beauty”
Emily Kim, Georgetown ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, “Weaponizing Gender: Nuclearization, Nationalism, and India's Postcolonial Identity”
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm: Keynote Talk (in person)
Javaid Tariq, Co-Founder of New York Taxi Workers Alliance
"Driver Power, Union Power: The Struggles and Triumphs of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance"
Sponsors
The sixth 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 Asia Research Institute.
