Accepted Panels
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Panel 1
Panel Title: Popular visual Cultures in South Asia
Name 1: PD Dr. Juergen Wasim FREMBGEN
Name 2: Dr. Nadeem Omar
Email 1: JSFrembgen@t-online.de
Email 2: notarar@gmail.com
Panel 2
Panel Title: Art History after Independence: South Asian Reconfigurations
Name: Prof Parul Dave Mukherji
Email: paruldm@icenet.net
Panel 3
Panel Title: Colonised Antiquity: Archaeology and South Asia's Material Past
Name: Deborah Sutton
Email: d.sutton@lancaster.ac.uk
Panel 4
Panel Title: Slavery and the Raj: Representing unfree labour in colonial South Asia
Name: Andrea Major
Email: amajor@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Panel 5
Panel Title: Gender and Performance in Princely India: New Perspectives
Name 1: Shweta Sachdeva
Email: shweta_sachdeva@yahoo.com
Name 2: Indira Vishwanath Peterson
Panel 6
Panel Title: Indian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges
Name 1: Christian Wagner
Name 2: Ummu Salma Bava
Email 1: christian.wagner@swp-berlin.org
Email 2: usbava@gmail.com
Panel 7
Panel Title: The Political Economy of Bangladesh
Name 1: Dr. Willem van Der Geest
Name 2: Dr. Mobasser Monem
Name 3: Dr. Golam Hossain
Email 1: willemvandergeest@yahoo.com
Email 2: mobasser2000@yahoo.co.uk
Email 3: golamhossain@yahoo.com
Panel 8
Panel Title: National parks & Landscapes of Resistance in South Asia
Name 1: Ananya Mukherjee
Name 2: Dr. Daniel Rycroft
Email 1: a.mukherjee@reading.ac.uk
Panel 9
Panel Title: Bengal Studies
Name 1: William Radice
Name 2: Kerstin Andersson
Email 1: wr@soas.ac.uk
Email 2: tinni.andersson@telia.com
Panel 10
Panel Title: Gender and Party Politics in South Asia
Name 1: Carole Spary
Name 2: Andrew Wyatt
Email 1: c.spary@warwick.ac.uk
Email 2: A.K.J.Wyatt@bristol.ac.uk
Panel 11
Panel Title: Disease, possession and healing in South Asia
Name 1: Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Name 2: Perundevi Srinivasan
Email 1: f.ferrari@chester.ac.uk
Email 2: latadevi@gwu.edu
Panel 12
Panel Title: Hagiographies: Topics, Canonization and Interculturality
Name 1: Johannes Beltz
Name 2: Andreas Doctor
Email 1: Johannes.beltz@zuerich.ch
Email 2: andreas@wlink.com.np
Panel 13
Panel Title: History and the South Asian Novel written in English
Name: Nicole Weickgenannt
Email: nicoleweickgenannt@yahoo.co.uk
Panel 14
Panel Title: Darbar, daftar, khanqah, math
Name 1: Dr Francesca Orsini
Name 2: Prof. Polly O'Hanlon
Email 1: fo@soas.ac.uk
Email 2: rosalind.ohanlon@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Panel 15
Panel Title: Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World
Name: Jacqueline Suthren Hirst
Email: jacqueline.hirst@manchester.ac.uk
Panel 16
Panel Title: Religion, Literature and Film in South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
Name 1: Dr Diana Dimitrova
Name 2: Dr Thomas de Bruijn
Email 1: dimitro7@msu.edu
Email 2: TH.deBruijn@BB.LeidenUniv.nl
Panel 17
Panel Title: Censorship, Subjectivity, and Subversion: Cultural Regulation in India from the
Colonial Era to the Present
Name: Dr Deana Heath
Email: heathd@tcd.ie
Panel 18
Panel Title: WRITING THE SOCIAL: POPULAR LITERARY TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA
Name: Dr Anindita Ghosh
Email: a.ghosh@manchester.ac.uk
Panel 19
Panel Title: The concept of continuity and its relevance for Indian literary culture
Name 1: Montaut Annnie
Name 2: Maheux Laurent
Email 1: montaut@ehess.fr
Email 2: laurentmaheux@hotmail.com
Panel 20
Panel Title: Medialised Realities in South Asia
Name 1: Dr. Britta Ohm
Name 2: Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
Email 1: ohm@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Email 2: schneidernc@web.de
Panel 21
Panel Title: Sri Lanka
Name: Dr. Allan Bullion
Email: alan.bullion@informa.com
Panel 22
Panel Title: KARNATAKA STUDIES; FRAGMENTED POLITY, ITS FORMATION , LEGITIMIZATION
AND UPWARD MOBILITY OF BACKWARD CLASSES IN SOUTH INDIA -- A SPECIAL REFERENCE KARNATAKA [ 1650-- 1761]
Name: Dr. A.SOMASHEKAR
Email: shekarsima71@yahoo.co.in
Panel 23
Panel Title: Crime and Punishment in South Asia
Name 1: Dr. Kim A. Wagner
Name 2: Anastasia Piliavsky
Email 1: kaw32@cam.ac.uk
Email 2: anastasia.piliavsky@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Panel 24
Panel Title: Migration in South Asia: Causes, Patterns and Consequences
Name: Md Mizanur Rahman
Email: mizan@nus.edu.sg
Panel 25
Panel Title: Legal pluralism and tribal politics in South Asia
Name 1: Bert Suykens
Name 2: Nel Vandekerckhove
Panel 26
Panel Title: The Kerala Model: Trajectories in Transition
Name: Dr. K. Ravi Raman
Email: ravi.raman@manchester.ac.uk
Panel 27
Panel Title: Routes and Roots of Democracy in the Himalayas
Name: Dr. Vibha Arora
Email: aurora@hss.iitd.ac.in
Panel 28
Panel Title: Social exclusion, social legislation and religious freedom: the relevance of Ambedkar in India, then and now
Name 1: Dr Annapurna Waughray
Name 2: Dr Tilman Frasch
Email 1: a.waughray@mmu.ac.uk
Email 2: t.frasch@mmu.ac.uk
Panel 29
Panel Title: Political Economy of Federalism in India: state, society and local elites
Name 1: Louise Tillin
Name 2: Amrita Jairaj
Email 1: L.Tillin@ids.ac.uk
Email 2: A.Jairaj@ids.ac.uk
Panel 30
Panel Title: Religion and Governance in India
Name: Prof Ian Copland
Email: ian.copland@arts.monash.edu.au
Panel 31
Panel Title: Citizenship and education in South Asia
Name 1: Birgitte Refslund Srensen
Name 2: Siri Hettige
Email 1: birgitte.soerensen@anthro.ku.dk
Email 2: shettige@hotmail.com
Panel 32
Panel Title: Vegetarianisms: the communicative power of meat in South Asia
Name 1: Isabelle Clark-Deces
Name 2: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Email 1: ideces@princeton.edu
Email 2: fachand@yahoo.com
Panel 33
Panel Title: The Public Representation of a religion called Hinduism: Show Temples and Public Worship
Name: John Zavos
Email: john.zavos@manchester.ac.uk
Panel 34
Panel Title: Re-use: The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety
Name 1: Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald
Name 2: Prof. Dr. Subrata K. Mitra
Email 1 Julia.Hegewald@manchester.ac.uk
Email 2:js3@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Panel 35
Panel Title: Lived Islam in Contemporary South Asia
Name 1: Filippo Osella
Name 2: Caroline Osella
Email 1: f.osella@sussex.ac.uk
Email 2: co6@soas.ac.uk
Panel 36
Panel Title: Christians, Cultural Interactions, and South Asia's Religious Traditions
Name 1: Prof. Richard Fox Young
Name 2: Prof. Chad M Bauman
Email 1: richard.young@ptsem.edu
Email 2: cbauman@butler.edu
Panel 37
Panel Title: South Asian Transnational Families and Negotiated Relationships
Name 1: Ulla Vuorela
Name 2: Dr Keezhangatte James Joseph
Email 1: Ulla.m.vuorela@uta.fi
Email 2: jamesjk@hkusua.hku.hk
Panel 38
Panel Title: Writing the Cities of the South Asian Diaspora
Name 1: Sean McLoughlin
Name 2: William Gould, Ananya Kabir, Emma Tomalin
Email 1: s.mcloughlin@leeds.ac.uk
Email 2: hiswrg@leeds.ac.uk; engajk@leeds.ac.uk; trseto@leeds.ac.uk
Panel 39
Panel Title: Management of Development Projects in South Asian Countries
Name 1: Professor Dr. Azhar Mansur Khan
Name 2: Mr. Raheel Bodla
Email 1: azharmak@yahoo.com
Email 2: azhar@bmc-online.com
Panel 40
Panel Title: DOES DECENTRALISATION NECESSARILY IMPLY PRO-POOR SERVICE DELIVERY:
ISSUES IN THE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
Name 1: Dr. Soumen Bagchi
Name 2: Mr. Soumyadip Chattopadhyay
Email 1: bagchi.soumen@gmail.com
Email 2: soumyadip.chattopadhyay@gmail.com
Panel 41
Panel Title: Pakistan in Transition
Convener: Pakistan Workshop
Contacts: Pnina Werbner, Steven Lyon, Mohammad Wasim