Over the 17th-20th centuries, a distinct Bengali Islam emerged from a combination of its unique geography, culture, language, and populations. The form, content, and spread of Bengali Islam was different to developments in Muslim societies in North India or elsewhere.
Panels
Below you find the detailed list of accepted panels at our upcoming conference (sorted alphabetically by title).
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02 – Rewriting Hindu Women within Contemporary Popular Media
This panel seeks to explore representations of Hindu women in contemporary popular film and literature.
03 – Changing Forms of Gendered Participation in Politico-ideological Movements in South Asia: Histories, Networks, (In)Visibilities
In colonial as well as postcolonial South Asia, women have always been involved, and made important, yet often less-recognised and invisibilised, contributions to politico-ideological movements, campaigns and protests. Recent scholarship on different social and political movements has drawn attention to the changing forms of gendered participation in a fast-transforming world.
04- Pathways from Injury: Legal Narratives of Prejudice and the Politics of Hate in South Asia
Over the last decade South Asia has witnessed a steep rise in communal violence and identity-based attacks. India, specifically, has seen a growing and explosive discourse around hate speech and hate crime. Targeted attacks against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and Muslims have escalated under the current government, which has embarked on a policy of majoritarian Hindu nationalism.
05 – Health, disease and epidemics: multidisciplinary perspectives on the socio-ecology of medicine in pre-modern South Asia
Against the background of the global climate, biodiversity and pandemic crises this panel examines aspects of public health and disease in pre-modern South Asia, including social, religious and ecological dimensions of hygiene, health and wellbeing, chronic illness and disability, and the transmission and control of epidemics.
06 – Housing, Dwelling, Multilocal ‘Home’-Making: Repertoires of Living Together in Urban South Asia and Beyond
This panel seeks to bring together scholars working on questions of (affordable) housing in times of market-driven construction and lack of building land; architecture and infrastructure that enables humans (and potentially other species too) to live ‘well’ together - in cities, peri-urban regions or in particular spaces within cities.
Convenors:
Dr. Arshi Javid - Post-doctoral Critical Residency Fellow at the Freie Universität BerlinProf. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider - Gender Studies for the South Asian Region, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Asian and African StudiesAnna Schnieder-Krüger (M.A.) - Doctoral candidate at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies07 – Towards Collaborative Research on Cereal Cultures in South Asia
Cereals have been domesticated on almost every continent, and their cultivation and consumption have become fundamental components of food cultures around the world.
08 – Imagining the city: Literary and religious practices of urbanity in early modern and modern South Asia
This panel is organized to consider the idea and practice of urbanity in South Asia in the early modern and modern periods, to examine how it was perceived, described, and inhabited, in relation to diverse social and cultural formations.
09 – Making Artisans: Artisanal Lives and Production in South Asia
How have artisans engaged with material production in South Asia? By analysing practices of artisanal production, this panel aims to reorient scholarly debates of material culture towards the experiences of producers. The panel integrates studies of labour with approaches to artisanship that emphasise shifts in technology and the regional political economy.
10 – Stasis and Motion in the Processional Culture of Kathmandu Valley: The Buṅgadyaḥ Yātrā Revisited
The annual procession of the god Buṅgadyaḥ is one of the most important festivals in Kathmandu Valley. Over the centuries the festival has become a major forum for the performance of social, religious and gender identities, the staging of power and status and the construction of spatiotemporal imaginaries.
