Discussing India and Pakistan: new dynamics and perspectives

Graduate Conference on South Asia –  Discussing India and Pakistan: new dynamics and perspectives

 

Thursday, June 18

 

Panel 1. Deconstructing borders

From 9.30 am to 12 pm

 

Discussants :
Kriti Kapila, King’s College London

Laurent Gayer, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

 

Presentations :

Sarbani Sharma, University of Delhi: Discourses of Sovereignty and Freedom in Kashmir: Exploring Azadi in Everyday life
Glen Chua, University of Toronto: Revisiting the Inner Line: Northeast India and the Politics of Exclusion 

Sarover Zaidi, Max Planck Institute: Religious Moderns: architecture and selfhood in Bohra Shias of Bombay

 

Panel 2. Politisation and militant careers

From 2 pm to 3.45 pm

Discussant: Nicolas Jaoul, EHESS/CEIAS

Presentations :

Jean-Thomas Martelli, King’s College: The Broker and the Revolutionary: Initiatory Politics in an Indian Campus

Asma Faiz, Sciences Po: Ethnic Nationalism, Political Parties and the State in Pakistan

Panel 3. New practices of the new middle classes

From 4 pm to 5.45 pm.

Discussant : Loraine Kennedy, EHESS/CEIAS

Presentations :

Salman Hussain, CUNY: Rule of law for all: Legal and Political Mobilization in the Lawyers’ Movement for Restoration of Judiciary (2007-09) in Pakistan
Sandhya Krishnan, University of Amsterdam : How ‘New’ is the New Middle Class in India?

Friday, June 19

Panel 4. Domestic factors of foreign policy

From 9.30 am to 12 pm.

Discussants :

Avinash Paliwal, King’s College

Deep Datta-Ray, Jindal School of International Affairs

 

Presentations:

Filippo Boni, University of Nottingham: Gwadar port and Sino-Pakistani relations: hurdles and prospects of Pakistan’s gateway to the Arabian Sea
Raphaëlle Khan, King’s College and Mélissa Levaillant, Sciences Po: A glimpse at the evolution of India’s International Relations expertise: mapping the trends and evolution of Indian think tanks

Xavier Houdoy, Institut Français de Géopolitique : India’s Foreign Policy Towards China: Assessing the Trend of a Sub-national Dynamic

 

 

Reponsable scientifique : Charlotte Thomas (Sciences Po-CERI)