[Reader-list] Student Conference on Gender and Sexuality @SAU

[Anuj Bhuwania]

The Department of Sociology at  South Asian University cordially
invites all to a  Young Scholars’ Conference from 15-17 October 2015.
The theme is

'On Gender and Sexuality: Discourses, Dialogues and Praxis in
Contemporary South Asia.' Please see the schedule below:



Thursday 15th October:

10 am-11:30 am: Opening Plenary Round Table

Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia

Uma Chakravarti, Urvashi Butalia, Sahba Hussain & Navsharan Singh

Chair: Professor Sasanka Perera, South Asian University



Tea break: 11:30 am-11:45 am



Panel 1: 11:45 am -1:15 pm: Queer Lives, Queer Nation

Chair/Discussant: Dr Navaneetha Mokkil, Jawaharlal Nehru University



The ‘gay gaze’ and the web

Utsa Mukherjee, Royal Holloway, University of London & Anil Pradhan,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Querying the Nation: The Queer "identity" and the National Narrative
in the Sri Lankan English Novel

Deepthi Siriwardena, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Hindu Myths, Queer Sexuality and Neo-liberal Economy: Exploring
Identity politics in Contemporary India

Archit Nanda, Delhi University



1:15-2:15 pm: Lunch

2:15 -4pm: Panel 2: Contemporary trends in marriage and conjugality

Chair/Discussant: Dr Parul Bhandari, Centre of Social Sciences and
Humanities (CSH)



Love in Tourism and Inter-racial marriages: Construction of gender and
sexuality: A spatial analysis

Neha Nimble, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai

Problematizing the Legal and Meta-Legal Dynamics of Cohabitation in India

Charusheel Tripathi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Socio-Economic Analysis of Marriages in Nepal: A Case Study of Three
Villages in Dhanusha District

Ratnakar Jha, South Asian University

Women in inter-religious marriages – A Case study in Kerala

Shani SS, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai



Tea break: 4 pm-4:15 pm



Panel 3: 4:15-5:45 pm

Chair/Discussant: Dr Mallika Shakya, South Asian University New Delhi



Gender, Sexuality and Family Violence among South Asian Immigrants:
Canadian Perspective

Rangapali Ranaweera & Malinda Panagoda

Domestic Violence Against Women in Bangladesh: An Analysis from
Socio-Legal Perspective

Razidur Rahaman, University of Dhaka

Gender Issues in Export Oriented and Import Competing Industries:
Evidences from Indian Manufacturing

Kishor Jadhav & Tareef Husain, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar



Friday 16 October

10-11:15 am: Keynote lecture

Changing selves and sexualities: Perspectives from 'other' worlds.

Professor Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Chair: Dr Ravi Kumar, South Asian University



Tea break: 11:15 am-11:30 am



Panel 4: 1130-1:15 pm Gender, Performance and Form: Visual media

Chair/Discussant: Dr Dev Pathak, South Asian University New Delhi



Transgressing Boundaries, Transforming Cultures: the Constructs of
Gender, Sexuality and Region in the Bedeni films of West Bengal

Spandan Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Gender and Visual Representation: A study of the photographs by
Pushpamalan N and Mickalene Thomas

Devika N, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Sohag, Samdaun and Kohbar: Understanding the expressions of ‘self’ by
the women of Mithila

MS Suman, Delhi University



1:15-2:15pm: Lunch



Panel 5: 2:15-3:45 pm: Gender, Performance and Form: Dance

Chair/Discussant: Dr Gitanjali Surendran, Jindal Global University



Situating Lavani in popular culture and Media

Sejal Yadav, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Revisiting Gender through Bhavai

Minakshi Rajdev, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Mapping the Contours of Gender and Sexuality Representation in Indian
Classical Dance forms: A Case Study of Odissi

Sipra Sagarika, Punjab University, Chandigarh



Tea break: 345 pm-4 pm



Panel 6: 4-5:45 pm: Gender, Sexuality and Urban Space

Chair/Discussant: Dr Rukmini Sen, Ambedkar University Delhi



Like a moth to a flame: an exploration of dance and desire in public space.

Meghna Bohidar, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai

Politics of Sexuality in Urban Space – A Study of Kiss of Love Protest.

Mahima Taneja, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Creative Practice as Resistance: The queer collective as an example
for forms of resistance in the city

Sumithra Sunder, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore



Saturday 17 October:

Panel 7: 10 am-11:30 am: Gendered labour

Chair/Discussant: Dr Chudamani Basnet, South Asian University



Vulnerability of Migrant Women Workers at their Pre-departure Stage: A
Case of Sri Lankan Women Domestic Workers in the Middle East

Dushmanthi Silva, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu

“Was I born to cook for others?” Unraveling the questions of servitude
through an affective attachment of love and labor between the domestic
workers and the neo-middle class Bengali women

Anindita Chatterjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

(In)Fertile Ground for Commercial Surrogacy in India: Making a Feminist Sense

Sneha Banerjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi



Tea break: 11:30 am-11:45 am



Panel 8: 11:45-1:15pm: Gender at Play

Chair/Discussant: Dr Diya Mehra, South Asian University



The Binao and Bijao of ‘Homo’ Beauty Parlours: Personal Narratives of
Same-Sex Desiring Subjects of Meitei Society, Imphal

Sunny Sharma Gurumayum, Ambedkar University Delhi

Is Man’s Beauty indispensable for his Masculinity?

Sharmin Akhter, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka

Gender at play: A case study of physical education in Manipal

Esther Moraes, Manipal University, Manipal



1:15-2:15pm: Lunch



Panel 9: 2:15pm- 3:45pm. Gender, identity and conflict

Chair/Discussant: Dr Ankur Datta, South Asian University



Identity-in-conflict: Realising realities in the midst of fiction in
Rehnuma library Centre, Mumbra

Reetika Revathy Subramanian, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and
Research (PUKAR), Mumbai

Feminism in turbulent times: A Study on Meira Paibis of Manipur 1970-2004

Naorem Jonsan Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Sexual borderlands: the unmaking of a tribe and a new gender consciousness

Deepa Kozhisseri, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras



Tea break: 345 pm-4 pm



4 pm: Film Screening: Nirnay (Decision)

 Directors: Pushpa Rawat & Anupama Srinivasan