{"id":585,"date":"2021-02-04T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/?p=585"},"modified":"2021-02-16T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:35:10","slug":"rustgi-undergraduate-conference-on-south-asia-feb-26-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/2021\/02\/04\/rustgi-undergraduate-conference-on-south-asia-feb-26-27-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia (Feb 26 & 27, 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Isolation and Its Discontents<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 26 and 27, 2021, via Zoom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University at Buffalo, SUNY<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Featuring<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, Feb 27 at 3 PM EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Aniruddha Dutta, Keynote Speaker<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Isolation to Responsibilization: Contradictions of Trans Activism in India during COVID-19”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Aniruddha Dutta<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Indian state\u2019s high-handed response in the form of severe lockdowns without adequate notice or welfare measures had profoundly debilitating effects on socially vulnerable groups, including trans and gender-diverse people. As many have documented, these impacts, including livelihood loss and psychosocial isolation, prompted a flurry of mobilization and fundraising by trans and kothi-hijra <\/em>(transfeminine spectrum) activists and organizations for not just their own communities but also other marginalized social groups. This burgeoning sphere of COVID-related activism helped mitigate the intensified social and structural isolation of trans and other vulnerable groups during the pandemic, but evidences several contradictions. Since the immediate need for relief took precedence over challenging state policies, trans activism helped fill in for token welfare measures meted out to these communities, which intensified the process of neoliberal responsibilization wherein individuals and the \u201ccivil society\u201d take up responsibility to make up for declining state infrastructure and social security. Further, this activism was characterized by profound inequalities in recognition and funding among activists based on class, caste and geographic location, and the state\u2019s utilization of the pandemic period to institute undemocratic bodies for trans welfare, in which elite trans activists were complicit. Based on ethnography and collaborative activism in eastern India, this lecture will explore the conundrums and potentials of Indian trans activism during an unprecedented crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pandemic food distribution <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Dutta is Associate Professor in the departments of Gender, Women\u2019s and Sexuality Studies and Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa. Their work has appeared in journals such as\u00a0Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking<\/em>,\u00a0International Feminist Journal of Politics<\/em>,\u00a0Gender, and History,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0South Asian History and Culture<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, Feb 26 at 9 PM EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Livingstone & SANGAM, Guest Performers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Jacobson (l) and Paul Livingstone (r) of SANGAM<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sangam is the chamber music duo of sitarist Paul Livingstone and cellist Peter Jacobson. They have been featured on three Grammy Award-winning records artists with Ozomatli, Quetzal & Rickey Kej.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Program<\/em>:\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/rustgiprogram2021<\/a>\u00a0(subject to change)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>Friday, February 26th<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong> <\/strong>Panel 1: Contextualizing Gender Violence<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>                              7:00 pm – 8:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Syeda M. Bokhari (American University):\u00a0\u201cObject or Subjects: Women and Violence During the 1947 Partition\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannarose Manning (SUNY Geneseo): \u201cProstitution in Times of Rebellion: Examining the Roles Prostitutes\u00a0Played in the 1857 Rebellion and the Legacy They Left Behind\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Frison De Angelis (The College of Wooster): \u201cCriminals and Comic Relief: Hijra Misrepresentation in South Asian\u00a0Films\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Mridula Sharma (University of Delhi ): \u201cEscaping Isolation(s): (Re)Constructing the Kashmiri Woman in\u00a0Popular Imagination\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               Performance: Paul Livingstone & SANGAM <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>9:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>Saturday, February 27th<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong> <\/strong>Panel 2: Mediated Spaces <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>9:00 am – 10:30 am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>Amna Ejaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences): \u201cNetflix in Pakistan: Navigating Evolving Screen Modalities\u00a0among Young Adults\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Nimra Tariq (Lahore University of Management Sciences): \u201cBlood, Guns, and Words: Response to violence in Palestinian\u00a0and Kashmiri rap music\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uswah e Fatima (Lahore University of Management Sciences): \u201cA Shared Past & An Ambivalent Future: The Dynamics\u00a0Between the Pakistani and Indian Film Industries\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               Panel 3: Reclamation of Identity <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>11:00 am – 12:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>Sukanya Maity (Jadavpur University): \u201cFleeing from the Nations of Pandemics and Epidemics: Walls,\u00a0Isolation\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Wajeeha Amir (Lahore University of Management Sciences): \u201cAjab Khan Afridi in Pashto Cinema: Changing Representations and\u00a0Shifting Identities\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               Panel 4: Isolation, Religion, and Othering <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>1:00 pm – 2:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upasana Rajagopalan (Ashoka University): \u201cCaught in the web of inequalities: The Devadasis\u2019 Isolation\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Hom (Elon University): \u201cA Model of Religious Othering for Medieval Tamil Literature\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Lucas J Brenner (SUNY Geneseo): \u201cWahhabism and the Isolation of Indian Muslims After the 1857\u00a0Rebellion\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Speaker <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>3:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Aniruddha Dutta, \u201cIsolation to Responsibilization: Contradictions of Trans Activism in <\/em>India during COVID-19\u201d<\/em> <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This online event is free but registration is required. To register, please visit <\/em>https:\/\/bit.ly\/rustgiregistration2021<\/a> Further details will be provided before the event to those who register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inquiries<\/strong>
Please contact rustgiconference@buffalo.edu<\/a> for more information. 
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To view past conference programs, please visit http:\/\/bit.ly\/rustgi2018<\/a> or http:\/\/bit.ly\/rustgiprogram2019<\/a>
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The third annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia is made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Vinod Rustgi and his family.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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