Con-IH 2022 Schedule
Revised Schedule
Panel #1: Political Currents
Friday, April 1, 2022 (10:30am-12:30pm EDT)
Sandeep Bhardwaj, Ashoka University
“ ‘East of Suez’ to the ‘Indian Ocean Theatre’: Making of the 1970s Cold War Maritime Rivalry in the Indian Ocean”
Manaswini Sen, University of Hyderabad
“Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Transcontinental Ties, Spread of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in Working-Class Movements of Bengal”
To register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_md34EBLzTEWojd05kiaY4Q
Panel #2: Gender and Environment
Saturday, April 9, 2022 (10:00 am-12:30 pm EDT)
Shriya Patnaik, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
“The Policing of Prostitution and Temple-Dancing in Colonial India”
Amrita DasGupta, SOAS University of London
“ ‘Living Amid Storms’: Environment and Migration in the Post-Colonial Lower Deltaic Bengal”
Mohit Mandal, Harvard University
“Muddy Waters: Floods and Disaster Capitalism in Kerala”
Shalini Iyengar, Yale University
“Trochus Tales”
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https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YaSG6K1gQNu5LNEr9dxp1Q
Panel #3: Social Hierarchies
Saturday, April 9, 2022 (2:00-4:00 pm EDT)
Kelvin Ng, Yale University
“Itineraries of Self Respect”
Irene Promodh, University of Michigan
“Caste and Christianity Across the Indian Ocean: Denominational Shifts and Pentecostal Conversions Among Kerala Christians in the Persian Gulf”
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https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_400VIz2dTfa7wE5T1mBf-w
Panel #4: Institutions
Saturday, April 16, 2022 (9:30 am-12:00 pm EDT)
Nicole Yow Wei, Chulalongkorn University
“The Invention of the ‘Literary’: Colonial Malay World Print Culture as a Cradle for Novel Indian Ocean Textual Socialities”
Tathagata Dutta, Tufts University
“Imperial Finance: Bank of Bengal and the Imperial Bank of India Across the Indian Ocean”
Carmen L. Ervin, Stanford University
“A Promise of Belonging: Gendered Afro-Muslim Migration in the Francophone Indian Ocean”
Faysal Murat Demir, McGill University
“Galley Labour in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
To register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yFwzB9RlRP6DbBLdYE28jw
Plenary Panel
Saturday, April 30, 2022 (2:00-4:00 pm EDT)
Sana Aiyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Enseng Ho, Duke University
John Willis, University of Colorado Boulder
“Reflections on the Present and Future of Indian Ocean History”
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https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XooephwYTXqoYrPNvi0_GQ
