NATIONS IN FRAGMENTS A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF PARTHA CHATTERJEE

Sponsored by

  • Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of History
  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
  • South Asia Institute

PROGRAM

10:30-11:45 NATIONALISM INSIDE AND OUT Chair: Karuna Mantena (Columbia) Gyan Prakash (Princeton) Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)

11:55-1:15 SOVEREIGNITY & ETHICAL LIFE Chair: Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia) Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley) Anand V. Taneja (Vanderbilt) Divya Cherian (Princeton)

2:00-3:15 STATES OF SOVEREIGNITY Chair: Mana Kia (Columbia) Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics) Suren Pillay (University of Cape Town) Rohit De (Yale)

3:30-4:00 THEATER READING WITH SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY Shayoni Mitra (Barnard) & Artist

4:15-6:00 PEOPLE & POLITICAL SOCIETY Chair: Anupama Rao (Barnard) Ruchi Chaturvedi (University of Capetown) Sandipto Dasgupta (New School) Gianpaolo Baiocchi (NYU)

6:00-8:00: Reception & Open Mic

SATURDAY SEP 16, 2023

00-11:45 DOCUMENTARY SCREENING WITH MOINAK BISWAS Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia)

11:45-1:15 KEYNOTE BY PARTHA CHATTERJEE

2:00-4:00 ROUNDTABLE Chair: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia) Dipesh Chakrabarty (U Chicago) Nivedita Menon (JNU) Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia) Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia) Gayatri C. Spivak (Columbia

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