21- Panel Title: Violence against women in South Asian countries
This panel aims to identify, analyse and theorise on experiences, narratives, responses and representations concerning violence against women in public and private spheres.
Panels
Below you find the detailed list of accepted panels at our upcoming conference (sorted alphabetically by title).
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22 – The present democratic crisis in South Asia: causes, distinctive elements and historical precedents
The South Asian region, once emblematic of the bold experiment of democracy in the postcolonial world, has witnessed sustained democratic backsliding in recent years. Between 2010 and 2021 the democracy scores of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh declined dramatically. Sri Lanka entered a phase of democratic involution since 2019, culminating with the recent economic and political instability.
23 – Engaging the world through contemporary South Asian tantric and shamanic traditions
South Asian tantra cannot be reduced to a corpus of texts, nor to a reservoir of classical philosophical debates over the ultimate nature of the world. Rather, it is well integrated in the sensible reality, the one that is susceptible to be perceived by the senses.
24 – Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia
The study of time and temporality has recently emerged as a new area of historical research. Yet, research on time and temporality in South Asian Studies has been primarily concerned with these categories as lenses through which to critique historical periodization and/or to theorize modes of historical writing.
25 – Thinking with markets: Practices and codes of engagement in South Asian economic milieus
Markets in South Asia are experienced in diverse contexts: through the gentrification of neighbourhoods, social welfare programmes, everyday household provisioning, hip cafés, inequalities in access to public resources, or micro-credit institutions.
26 – Radical Poetics in the Literary Cultures of South Asia
Although literary studies have historically constituted an important element of the studies of South Asia in both the recent past and our contemporary times, salient scholarly projects have largely concentrated on a single genre – the novel.
27 – Muslim agency within and against India’s regimes of urban segregation
This panel invites contributions from colleagues across disciplines, regions, and career stages to explore the complex roles Muslims assume in variously subverting and advancing processes of spatial segregation in Indian cities.
28 – South Asian sacred spots: Nodal Points in Webs of Connections
Presuming that sacred spots (e.g. temples, shrines, etc.) have been (and still are) of great importance to South Asian religious, social and political life, the panel seeks to address the questions WHY and HOW this happens.
29 – Travelling stories, bodies and genres and the making of communities
This panel explores forms of storytelling in South Asia, to make sense of how the past becomes embedded in the present. As people move, we ask how stories, that also travel, make communities and impact social realities; what gets carried over, what is lost; what changes and what stays the same?
30- Creative and social engagement with conflict: a perspective from the South Asian Diaspora
A 2020 Carnegie report on South Asia states that “the first decade of the twenty-first century saw areas of intense violence across the region” and it lists political conflicts in Kashmir, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
