Annual Conference of the Sciences Po South Asia Program
December 15 and 16, 2025
Venue: 28  rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris (Auditorium)
 

15 December

Mirza M. Hassan, BRAC University
The July Popular Upsurge in Bangladesh: The Class and Political Inequalities at Work?
Gameela Samarasinghe, Colombo University
Inequality, Injustice, and Power Imbalances as Root Causes of Suffering in Sri Lanka - Exploring Psychosocial Responses to Crises. 

 11h – 11h30: Coffee break
 

Farah Said, Lahore University of Management Studies
Gender Norms and the Dynamics of Agency and Power within Households in Pakistan
Kamala Marius, Université Bordeaux Montaigne and SciencesPo Bordeaux
Rethinking Women’s Work and Gender Inequalities in Globalized India

13h – 14h: Lunch break
 

Mahendran Thiruvarangan, Jaffna University
Ethnically Unequal: The Northern Muslims of Sri Lanka during the Post-war Years
Kalaiyarasan A., Madras Institute of Development Studies
The Political Economy of Regional Inequality and Fiscal Transfer in India

15h30-16h: Coffee break
 

Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland and NCAER
Class of Mind? Subjective and Objective Dimensions of the Middle-Class Status in Modern India
Shandana Mohmand, IDS, Sussex University
The Political Economy of Progressive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
 

December 16

Jusmeet S. Sihra, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Old Problem in a New Place: Redlining of Ex-Untouchable Ghettos
Julien Levesque, GSRL-CNRS
Caste, religion, and official categorization in Pakistan: a review of recent scholarship

11h-11h30: Coffee break
 

Gilles Verniers, CERI-SciencesPo
The institutional exclusion of Muslims in India
Charza Shahabuddin, CERI-SciencesPo
Violence and invisibilisation against ethnic and religious minorities in Bangladesh

13:00-14:00: Lunch break
 

Nadeera Rajapakse,
Reducing Inequalities for Sustainable, Equitable Human Development in Sri Lanka
Stéphanie Tawa Lama (CESAH-EHESS/CNRS)
Local elections and the deinstitutionalisation of political equality in India

A panel discussion with office-bearers of the Indo-French Circle:
Vithursan Wigneswaran, President
Hanna Elizabeth John, Vice-President
Saee Vaidya, Head of student events and communication
Manucheher Shafee, UN Social Protection Specialist at the World Food Programme