For more information about the schedule, see: http://www.urbansouthasia.co.uk/
Attendance is free, but the organizers request registration by Monday, 29 September 2014, either online via: http://tinyurl.com/oazqac6
or by email to: urbansouthasia@gmail.com.
Conference program, Urban South Asia: 1850 to the Present, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), 2 October 2014
1. Urban South Asia: 1850 to the Present
An Interdisciplinary Conference at
Radcliffe Centre for the Humanities, Oxford University
2 October, 2014
Registration opens at 9:00 AM
For full programme and schedule see: urbansouthasia.co.uk
Attendance is free; a sandwich lunch will be offered for all attendees. Please register interest at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/oazqac6
or by emailing urbansouthasia@gmail.com by Monday, September 29
Conference generously supported by:
2. Urban South Asia: 1850 to the Present
2 October 2014 | The Radcliffe Centre for the Humanities, Oxford University
9:00 -9:30 Registration, Colin Matthews Room
9:30-11:00 Session 1
Elites and Subalterns
Bombay Municipal Corporation: Franchise expansion and emergence of new elites - Danish Khan
Spatializing Paid Domestic Work - urban space, gender and work in millennial Delhi - Sonal Sharma
Religious segregation without overt discrimination: the political economy of bureaucratic collusion in Lucknow - Raphael
Susewind
Discussant: Justin Jones
11:00 – 11.30 Tea Break
11:30-13:00 Session 2: Parallel Panels
Urban Infrastructures: Living in the City
Rethinking Security and Insecurity in a Postcolonial Megacity: Countering Crime, Militancy and Urban Violence in Karachi – Zoha Waseem
Ecology of Urban Violence in Pakistan: Case Studies from Gujrat and Rahim Yar Khan – Rabia Nusrat
Comparative Solid Waste Policy: The Challenges of Policy Implementation in India and Brazil - Alexandre Neves M Pereira
Metro and Monorail Systems in India: National pride, security, and exclusion of the urban poor - Kartikeya Tripathi
Discussant: Liz Chatterjee
Planning the City
‘Urban ‘failures’: Municipal policies, the reorganisation of urban spaces and state power in Delhi, 1863-1910.
- Raghav Kishore
1950s urbanisation and legacies - Sunalini Kumar
Planning the Nation, Region and City: A Political Economy of the Nehruvian Period - Kriti Budhiraja
Role of Urbanisation and Civilian Ascent to Power - Adnan Rafiq
Discussant: Jayaraj Sundaresan
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 3
Cities Shining
Why Small Is Still Beautiful. Sustainable Cities versus ‘Creative’ Cities - Raza Naeem
The Lament of Delhi: Nostalgic Poems on the City in Colonial India - Eve Tignol
(Mis) representation of Delhi’s Muslim Ghettos - Eviane Leidig
Publishing in Gorakhpur - Christine Marrewa Karwoski
Discussant: Faisal Devji
15:30 – 15:45 Tea Break
15:45-17:15 Session 4
At the Margins
At the Margins: The Dynamics of Legality in the Indo- Nepal Borderland- Kristen Zipperer
Urbanization: A Study of Psychosocial Challenges for Pakistani Women – Maria Malik
College ki Ladki: Negotiating New Urban Womanhood - Niharika Yadav
Discussant: Sneha Krishnan
17:30-18:30 Keynote Speech by Dr. Nandini Gooptu, followed by Q &A
18:30-19:00 Tea Break
19:30 Informal post-conference dinner at Al-Shami in Oxford (please sign up via urbansouthasia@gmail.com)