“The Paradox of Desire”
A talk by Dr. Simona Sarma, an independent scholar of Women’s Studies.
Between College and Town: Designing the Indian MIT or the IIT (1951) in Kharagpur, India
A talk by Dr. Priya Jain from the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M.
“Beyond Hooking Up: Tales from Grindr in Pakistan”
A talk by Dr. Ahmed Afzal, exploring an underexplored area of scholarship on smartphone-based social networking apps in the non-West. Drawing on participant observation, qualitative interviews, and oral life histories, this paper explores the uses of Grindr, a social networking app, among men who have sex with men in Pakistan.
Screening of Joyland (2022)
Screening of the 2022 film Joyland, directed by Pakistani screenwriter and director Saim Sadiq. The screening will be followed by Q&A with Dr. Ayesha Khurshid from Florida State University.
“They Will Chase Me Away from Classroom or Ask Me to Sit on Floor”: Belonging Dissonance Among Marginalized Adolescent Girls
A talk by Dr. Ananya Tiwari (Educational Psychology, Texas A&M) investigating several themes around sense of belonging to school among historically marginalized adolescent girls in rural India.
“The Missing Stories: South Asian American Histories from the 1800’s to Now”
A talk by Dr. Samip Mallick, Executive Director of South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA).
“The Origins of Air Conditioning in India (1920s-1960s): Race, Class, and Technoscience”
A talk by Dr. Priya Jain from the department of Architecture at Texas A&M.