Inaugural Global South Graduate Student Conference

08:30AM - 08:45AM

Opening Remarks by Manjusha Nair, Director of the Global South Research Hub

08:45AM - 10:00AM

Panel 1: Conversations about Knowledge:

Discussants: Lester Kurtz and Karthik Balaji Ramanujam

• Ivan Kislenko, HSE University. "Between North and South: Indigenous Sociology in Russia?"
• Hugo Parra Munoz, University of Bristol. "Decolonising the curriculum is not enough: other epistemologies for educating other-teachers"
• Nithila Kanagasabai, Tata Institute of Social Science. "A View From Afar: Reimaging Feminist Research from the Global South"

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Panel 2: Life on the Margins

Discussants: Cortney Hughes Rinker and Aleezay Khaliq

• Srimoyee Biswas, Jamia Millia Islamia. "Matua Namasudra: A community’s history in Bengal through the lens of caste, partition, and the Citizenship Act"
• Monika Verma, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. "Refugee livelihood and Covid-19: The case study of Rohingyas in India"
• Sana Ahrar, Penn State. "Urban Residential Segregation: A case of Delhi"
• Aishani Khurana, University of Illinois Chicago. "Networks of power: Exclusion, Discrimination and Marginalization of Muslims in Housing Market in Delhi"

11:30AM - 01:00PM

Panel 3: Identities and Imaginaries

Discussants: Anu Aneja and Kevin Nazar

• Aparna Shastri, George Mason University. "Televisual Homogeneity: A Case Study of Netflix’s Sacred Games and The Gift"
• Navdeep Kaur, New York University. "Chai and the Immigrant: Memory, Nostalgia and Authenticity"
• Gauri Saxena, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. "Understanding the Implications of ‘Model Minority’ Stereotyping for Intergroup Relationships amongst British South Asians"
• Juanita Vivas Bastidas, Loyola University, Chicago. "Identity Under Construction: Migration, Gender, and Ethno-Racial Self-Identification"

01:00 PM - 02:30 PM

Panel 4: Politics and Resistance

Discussants: Yasemin Ipek and Eric W. Ross

• Omer Pacal, George Mason University. "The Dilemma of Political Movements in the Middle East: Revolution vs. Recognition"
• Prashkandan Sengupta, University of Calcutta. "Resistance against Accumulation of Capital in the India: Community as Class and Beyond"
• Rasmieyh Abdelnabi, George Mason University. "A Gendered Politics of Life: Palestinian Embroidery as a Source of Economic Sustenance and Cultural Continuity"
• Soumodip Sinha, Delhi School of Economics. "Transnational collective action via digital activism: Using student political activism as a frame of reference to facilitate South- South interactions"

02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

Panel 5: Labor in question

Discussants: Manjusha Nair and Deepika Hooda

• Rianka Roy, University of Connecticut. "Local Networks, Global Reflections: Solidarity in Indian Tech Unions"
• Alexander Hoppe, University of Pennsylvania. "Can Expressive Work be Offshored? The Problem of Unique Capabilities in the Global Fashion Industry"
• Abhishek Dwivedi, South Asian University. "(Un)packing Precarity: A study of casual workers in Leather industry, India"
• Jialing Chen, University of Oxford. "Internet workers’ ‘hidden’ resistance practices against overtime work culture"

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Panel 6: On Human Rights

Discussants: Niklas Hultin and Kevin Nazar

• Madison Collins, Teachers College, Columbia University. "Critical Human Rights Education and Decolonial Practices for Teacher Professional Development in the Global South: A Literature Review and Application"
• Eliana Fonsah, University of California, Merced. "The Role of Colonial Legacies and Fundamental Human Rights in Shaping Worker Rights’ Struggles: The case of the Cameroon Anglophone Lawyers and Teacher’s Union"
• Hugo Goeury, CUNY. "Punishment in Latin America: "It's (still) the economy, stupid"
• Chibuzor Azubuike, Kansas State University. "Aid as Instigation for Conflict among the Bakassi Refugees and their Hosts in Ikang, Cross River State, Nigeria"

08:30 AM - 09:45 AM

Panel 7: Environmental Justice

Discussants: Christopher Morris and Mariam Kurtz

• Sampurna Das, Delhi School of Economics. "Floods are more than just inundation: Notes from the riverine island (chars) of Assam, India"
• Sabrina Kirschner, UniBW, Munich, Germany. "The Brazilian Position prior to the Stockholm Conference"
• Suravee Nayak, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. "Dispossession, Entanglements and Inequalities in Coal Economies: A Quest for Just Future"

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

Panel 8: Debates on Development

Discussants: Iccha Basnyat and Severin Mueller

• Yutong Su, Teachers College, Columbia University. "Youth Empowerment in The Global South case analysis through Human Capital Theory and Capabilities Approach"
• Devika Misra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. "Populism, Pandemic and Payments: Analysing Policies of Aid and Cash Transfers in Brazil and India"
• Judith Mane, George Mason University. "Development-induced displacement and resettlement: encounter of realities, histories, and cultures"
• Makhosazane Sithole, University of Zululand. "Urban informality and overcoming marginality: Female street traders and the COVID-19 pandemic in uMhlathuze city, South Africa"

01:00 PM - 02:30 PM

Panel 9: Contested Mobilities

Discussants: Rashmi Sadana and Eirini Giannaraki

• Edwin Rodriguez, Brown University. "Siempre Esperando: Remittances and Their False Promises in El Salvador"
• Shruti Gupta, National University of Singapore. "The Dynamics of (Im)mobilities within the Global South: Understanding gendered migration between India and UAE"
• Abla Triki, George Mason University. "Morocco's Border Regime and Policymaking"
• Margaret Zeddies, George Mason University. "Reimagining Study Abroad Through Political Economy"

02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

Panel 10: Global Solidarity Movements

Discussants: Johanna Bockman and Sevil Suleymani

• Poorvi Bellur, Princeton University. "Revolution in the East as ‘World Revolution’: Theorizing anti-colonial solidarity at the 2nd congress of the Communist International"
• Kelvin Ng, Yale University. "Itineraries of Self-Respect: Urban Sociality and Tamil Reform across the Indian Ocean, 1929–1940"
• Hee Eun Kwon, UC San Diego. "Tolerance and Cosmopolitanism: A Case Study of Al Fahidi District, UAE"
• Sunidhi Pacharne, University of Hyderabad, India. "Rewriting Gender Norms Together: The Unspoken Conversations of Dalit Women with African American Women"

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Concluding Session