The papers in the seminar will address a broad range of research questions through acknowledging the regional and national variability of movements across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. On what issues and identities students mobilise in South Asia? What is the visibility and influence of student politics on society and political process? To which extent student politics is tied to party politics and broader socio-political networks? What means and methods of mobilisation are employed by student activists? How student politics is affected by and reacts to neo-liberalism, consumerism and globalisation?

19 November, 2018
Salle de Conférence, CERI, Sciences Po
56 Rue Jacob, 75006

9h00 - 9h10: Greetings and Opening Remarks

9h10 - 12h30: Panel 1. THE GRAMMAR OF STUDENT POLITICS IN INDIA: CASTE, IDENTITIES, COMMUNITIES
Chair:
Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities)
Discussants:
Nicolas Jaoul (CNRS-IRIS, EHESS)

Kristina Garalytė (Vilnius University) -  "Becoming middle class in a Dalit way: social mobility tensions"
Saptarshi Chauduri (Delhi University) - "Provincializing Dalit Assertion: Refashioning of Dalit Student Politics by Ambedkarwadi Chatra Sabha"
Laurence Gautier (O.P. Jindal Global University). "The Construction of a Muslim Symbol: Jamia Millia and the Satanic Verses Controversy"
Satendra Kumar (University of Allahabad). "The Great Transformation: Politics, Caste and Violence in a North Indian University"

12h30 - 14h00: Lunch, Salle du Conseil, CERI

14h00 - 17h30: Panel 2. PERFORMATIVE FRAMES AND CONTEMPORARY STUDENT POLITICS
Chair:
Kristina Garalytė
Discussants:
Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (CNRS-CEIAS, EHESS), Virginie Dutoya (CNRS-Centre Emile Durkheim, Bordeaux)

Promona Sengupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University) -  "Rehearsing the Campus: Producing Dissent Space-time Through Theatre Practice"
Mascha Schulz (University of Zurich and London School of Economics and Political Sciences). "Performing the Party: National Holiday Events and Politics at a Public University Campus in Bangladesh"
Leah Koskimaki (University of the Western Cape) - "Regional Visibilities and a Politics of Charisma: The Making of a Student Leader in a Himalayan Hill Town"
Malavika Priyadarshini Rao (University of Exeter) "Contemporary Dalit Student Movement in Sub-national State, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India"

17h30 - 19h00: Welcome Drink at Basile (34 Rue de Grenelle, 75007)

20 November, 2018
CEIAS, EHESS
54 boulevard Raspail, 75006

9h00 - 12h30: Panel 3. UNDERSTANDING PARTY POLITICS THROUGH STUDENT POLITICS
Chair: Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities)
Discussants: TBD

Julian Kuttig (University of Ghent) - "Local Political Machines and Student Politics in Provincial Bangladesh: Violent Party Labour in Rajshahi City"
Wajid Mehmood and Hassan Shah (University of Peshawar, University of Gottingen) - "Student‘s Organisations and Group Socialisation: An Analysis of Islami Jamiat Talba in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan"
Hassan Javid (Lahore University of Management Sciences) - "Patronage, Populism, and Protest: Student Politics in Lahore"
Morten Koch Andersen (Dignity Institute) - "Aspirations and Accomplishments"

12h30 - 14h00: Lunch, EHESS

14h00 - 17h00: Panel 4. CAMPUS SPACES, STUDENT POLITICS AND INTERSTITIAL DEMOCRACY
Chair: Kristina Garalytė
Discussants: Jules Naudet (CNRS-CEIAS, EHESS)
Samantha Christiansen (University of Colorado) "Liberated Space: Student and Campus Political Identity in Postcolonial Pakistan/Bangladesh, 1952-1990"
Tom Wilkinson (London School of Economics) -  "Youth Politics: Violence, Radicalism and Masculinities, 1938-1952"
Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities) - "From Resonant to Dissonant: Campus Spaces and the Changing Political Narratives at Jawaharlal Nehru University (1964-2018)"

17h00 - 17h10: Concluding Remarks

17h10 - 19h00: Cash bar at Chez Georges (11 Rue des Canettes, 75006)

Responsables scientifiques: Jean-Thomas Martelli, Christophe Jaffrelot et Kristina Garalytė