South Asia: Conflict, Culture, Complexity and Change
The 2010 Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
February 17-21, 2010
Wednesday, February 17
- South Asian Cultural Evening, 5:00pm
- NGO Fair, Performances, Regional Food
Thursday, February 18
- Burden of Memory, Quest for Identity, 7:00pm
- Ayesha Jalal, Kris Manjapra, Asim Rafiqui, Rajini Srikanth, Rafia Zakaria
- Student Presentation
- 9/11 in South Asian Textbooks - Elizabeth Herman
- EXPOSURE/Aftermath Project Workshop in Ajmer, India
Friday, February 19
- South Asia’s Troubled Waters: Deluge and Disappearance, 11:00am
- Junaid Ahmad, Sanjoy Hazarika, Shafiqul Islam, Adil Najam
- Development, Poverty and Inequality: The Challenges Ahead, 2:00pm
- Junaid Ahmad, David Dapice, Dana Freyer, Hossain Zillur Rahman, Rafia Zakaria
- Student Presentations
- Comparing Primary Schools in Bangladesh: A Story of Inequalities and Diverging Attitudes - Jennifer Dann-Fenwick, Anika Huq
- NGO's and Community Development in Bangladesh - Anna Gilmer, Mark Rafferty
- Welcome and Introductions, 6:30pm
- Lawrence Bacow, Sherman Teichman, Matan Chorev, Jake Sherman
- Buzkashi: Afghanistan’s Recurring Great Game, 7:00pm
- Sarah Chayes, Matthew Hoh, Said Jawad, Sulaiman Layeq, David Mansfield, Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Noor ul-Haq Olomi
- Student Presentation
- Comparing Soviet and American Strategies in Afghanistan - Julia Evans, Mara James, Iman Jawad, Lauren Milord, Katherine Monson, Emily Pantalone, Benjamin Perlstein, Patrick Schmidt
Saturday, February 20
- Violent Discontent: Addressing Regional Insurgencies, 10:00am
- Hassan Abbas, Keith Fitzgerald, Sanjoy Hazarika, Zachariah Mampilly, Ian Martin
- Student Presentation
- Reconciliation and Political Solutions in Sri Lanka - Leslie Ogden, Alon Slutzky, Lauren Visek
- Governance in Transition: Pakistan and Bangladesh, 2:00pm
- Hassan Abbas, Jalal Alamgir, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Shuja Nawaz, Hossain Zillur Rahman, Moeed Yusuf
- Breakout Sessions, 4:00pm
- Corruption and Proliferation
- Jack Blum
- Negotiating with Terrorists
- Keith Fitzgerald
- The Possibilities of Hybrid Governance
- Dipali Mukhopadhyay
- Reframing the Debate: Poverty Alleviation vs. Poverty Elimination
- Hossain Zillur Rahman
- The Media and Afghanistan
- Edward Girardet
- Drugs and Development in Afghanistan
- David Mansfield
- Water in South Asia
- Sanjoy Hazarika
- South Asian Diaspora Literature
- Rajini Srikanth
- Af-Pak: Taking Stock
- Matan Chorev
- Corruption and Proliferation
- Kashmir: Reclaiming Paradise Lost, 8:00pm
- Sanjoy Hazarika, Ayesha Jalal, Arif Jamal, Farooq Kathwari, Basharat Peer
Sunday, February 21
- Emerging India: The Use of Hard and Soft Power, 1:00pm
- Jalal Alamgir, Sugata Bose, Pradeep Singh, Ananya Vajpeyi
- Student Presentations
- Women’s Labor Force Participation and Fertility Outcomes - Megan Kearns, Madeline Tasker
- Youth Civic Participation in India - Tomoaki Takaki
- South Asia 2060, 3:00pm
- Jamshed Bharucha, Sugata Bose, Stephen P. Cohen, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Adil Najam
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