Annual
Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies
Hyatt
Regency, Chicago
March
31 - April 3, 2005
The
Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies
will be held from March 31 to April 3, 2005 at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel in Chicago. Pakistan related panels are
listed below. For a PDF version of the complete program,
click here.
For further details, please visit the AAS
website.
Thursday,
March 31st, 2005
Session
8: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Individual Papers, States, Religion, and Discourses
of the “Other”
Chaired by Paula Richman, Oberlin College
Columbus Hall AB – Gold Level/East Tower
Pakistan’s
Madrassahs: Teaching the Alphabets of Jihad?
Ali Riaz, Illinois State University
Fundamentalism, the Curriculum and National Identity;
Lessons from India.
Marie Lall, University of London
Regressive Anti-Hindutva? The James Laine Affair within
and besides Election 2004.
Spencer A.
Leonard, University of Chicago
Between
Security and Conflict: Governments and Muslim Minorities
in Asia.
Sandra
Leavitt, Georgetown University
Saturday,
April 2nd, 2005
Session
120: 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Getting
to Rapprochement over Kashmir: Implications for India,
Pakistan, and China
Sponsored by the South Asia Council
Chaired by Anita M. Weiss, University of Oregon
Grand Ballroom B- Gold Level/East Tower
Resolving
the Kashmir Dispute: Blending Realism with Justice
Rifaat Hussain,
Quaid-e-azam University
Kashmiris and the Indian State: History, Politics, and Future Possibilities.
Chitralekha Zutshi, College of William & Mary
China and the Kashmir
Problem
Jing-dong Yuan, Monterey
Institute of International Studies
Discussants:
Sumit Ganguly, Indiana
University
Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Session
138: 2:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Criminalizing Tradition, Legalizing Modernity? Law,
Custom, and Modern-ity in Colonial Postcolonial Asia
Chaired
by Magnus Fiskesjo, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
Grand Ballroom F – Gold Level/East Tower
Civilizing
through Legal Change: Law, Custom and Colonial Rule
in India.
Sandra
der Otter, Queens University
Evil
Practices of the Past: Rethinking and Reconfiguring “Custom” and “Statute” in
Meiji Japan.
Ronald
K. Frank, Pace University
Bigamy,
Wedding Customs, and the Civil Code in Republican Beijing.
Zhao
Ma, Johns Hopkins University
Islamization
vs. Modernization of Laws: Pakistan’s Complex
of Contradictions.
Abdul
Karim Khan, University of Hawaii, Manoa
The
Restorative Process of Indigenous Justice in East Timor:
Local Practice and Pragmatism as an End to the Cycle
of Militia Violence.
Chris
Lundry, Arizona State University
Discussants:
Magnus
Fiskesjo, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
Chris Lundry, Arizona State University
Session
161: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Imagining a Region
Columbus Hall CD – Gold Level/East Tower
Envisaging
the Land of the Pure: Imagining Pakistan in the United
Province in the 1940s.
Yasmin Khan, University of Oxford
What
is Cutch, Kutch and Kachchh? Newsprint, Territory,
and Contest in the Democratic Era.
Edward
Simpson, London School of Economics
Imagining
a Hindi Pradesh? Early Formations of the Region in
Gangetic North India in the 1890s.
Harriet
Bury, SOAS, University of London
The
Idea of Jharkhand: Who Cares about Jharkhand State?
Alpa
Shah, University of London
Discussant:
David
Washbrook, University of Oxford
Sunday,
April 3rd, 2005
Session
195: 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Roundtable. Women in World History: A Reappraisal of
Approaches to Teaching.
Sponsored
by the Committee on Teaching About Asia
Chaired by Keith Snodgrass, University of Washington
Grand Ballroom A – Gold Level/East Tower
Discussants:
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
Anand A. Yang, University of Washington
Session
202: 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Individual Papers. Popular Culture, Sex, and Religion
in South Asia.
Chaired
by Rakka Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Columbus Hall KL – Gold Level/East Tower
The
(Un)Making of a South Asian Aesthetic: The Consumption
of Bollywood in Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora.
Socks, Shoes, and Toilet Seats: The Commodification of Hindu Imagery in the
Western Market.
Tanisha Ramachandran,
Concordia University
First Night:
Conservative Sexual Humor in Madras Theater.
Kristen Rudisill,
University of Texas, Austin
Geographies of Contagion: Hijras, Kotis and the Politics of Sexual Marginality
in India.
Gayatri
Reddy, University of Illinois, Chicago
