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Nations in Fragments: A Conference in Honor of Partha Chatterjee

September 15, 2023 - September 16, 2023
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
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Buell Hall, Columbia University

 

PROGRAM

10:30-11:45 NATIONALISM INSIDE AND OUT

  • Chair: Karuna Mantena (Columbia)
  • Gyan Prakash (Princeton)
  • Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)

11:55-1:15 SOVEREIGNITY & ETHICAL LIFE

  • Chair: Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia)
  • Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
  • Anand V. Taneja (Vanderbilt)
  • Divya Cherian (Princeton)

1:15-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:15 STATES OF SOVEREIGNITY

  • Chair: Mana Kia (Columbia)
  • Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics)
  • Suren Pillay (University of Western Cape)
  • Rohit De (Yale)

3:15-3:30: Coffee

3:30-4:00 THEATER READING WITH SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY

  • Shayoni Mitra (Barnard) & Artists

4:15-6:00 PEOPLE & POLITICAL SOCIETY

  • Chair: Anupama Rao (Barnard)
  • Ruchi Chaturvedi (University of Capetown)
  • Sandipto Dasgupta (New School)
  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi (NYU)
  • 6:00-8:00: Reception & Open Mic

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

11:00-11:45 DOCUMENTARY SCREENING WITH MOINAK BISWAS

  • Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia)

11:45-1:15 KEYNOTE BY PARTHA CHATTERJEE

2:00-4:00 ROUNDTABLE

  • Chair: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia)
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty (U Chicago)
  • Nivedita Menon (JNU)
  • Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia)
  • Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia)