Skip to main content

Cornell University

Conference Presentations

Panel 1:

Iftikhar

Iftikhar Dadi : Discussant

John H. Burris Professor, History of Art, Cornell University

Emily

The Complexities of “Climate Displacement” in Mustang, Nepal

By Emily Yeh

Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

Mona Bhan

On Monsoons and Mythic Rivers

By Mona Bhan

Professor, Anthropology Department, Syracuse University

Rupali Gupte

Of Disintegrations, Immersions, Scattering, Shifting and Flowing : Towards a pedagogy of life

By Rupali Gupte

Professor, Architecture, School of Environment and Architecture

Kaja Maria McGowan

Kaja Maria McGowan : Discussant

Associate Professor, History of Art, Cornell University

Panel 2 :

Farhan Karim

Living on The Estuary : A New Environmental Consciousness in Contemporary Bangladeshi Architecture

By Farhan Karim

Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Kansas

Nida Rehman

The Anthropocene in the Garden

By Nida Rehman

Assistant Professor, Architecture & Urban Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Esra Akcan

Esra Akcan : Discussant

Professor, Architecture, Cornell University

Panel 3 :

Mabel Denzin Gergan

Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University

Parismita Singh

If you Want Water, Be Prepared for the Pipe Bursts

By Parismita Singh

Writer, graphic novelist and educationist, Guwahati

Saba Pirzadeh

Reading Ice: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation in Uzma Khan’s Thinner than Skin

By Saba Pirzadeh

Associate Professor, English and environmental literature, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore

 

Sonal Khullar

Sonal Khullar : Discussant

Associate Professor, Art History, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 4 :

Aparna Parikh

Socio-environmental Imbrications and Epistemological Borderlands

By Aparna Parikh

Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Rohit Mujumdar

Architecture of Exfoliation: (Un)making Urban Lives and Ecologies

By Rohit Mujumdar

Architecture, School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai

Neema Kudva

Neema Kudva: Discussant

Professor, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

Panel 5 :

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Ecologies and Aesthetics of Dissent: Constructing Mediatic Environments of Resistance in Sri Lanka

By Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Assistant Professor, Architecture, Columbia University

Debashree Mukherjee

Migrant Messages: The Monsoon and Dreams of Being Heard

By Debashree Mukherjee

Scholar, South Asian Studies, Columbia University

Lalitha Gopalan

Reckonings and Speculations in Moving Image Practices

By Lalitha Gopalan

Associate Professor, Cinema, UT – Austin

Iftikhar Dadi

Iftikhar Dadi : Discussant

John H. Burris Professor, History of Art, Cornell University

 

Panel 6 :

Ahsan Kamal

Daira and the Sentinel: Arrival, Convergence, and Ruination in Southern Theorising

By Ahsan Kamal

Faculty Member, Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University

Vastavikta Bhagat

(In)Betweenness of the Soil and the Sky: Urban Spatial Imaginaries of Post-Human Landscapes

By Vastavikta Bhagat

Assistant Professor, Architecture, School of Environment and Architecture

Nayanika Mathur

Writing the Anthropocene from the Indian Himalaya

By Nayanika Mathur

Professor, Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Oxford University

Anindita Banerjee

Anindita Banerjee : Discussant

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University

 

Panel 7 :

Camelia Dewan

Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh: How Embankments Worsen Flooding

By Camelia Dewan

Postdoctoral research fellow, Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Kajri Jain

Après Moi le Deluge: Nature and/as Statecraft at the Sardar Sarovar Dam

By Kajri Jain

Professor, Art History, University of Toronto

Sarah Besky

After the Country: Agrarian Change in the Eastern Himalayas

By Sarah Besky

Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Llerena G. Searle

Llerena Searle : Discusssant

Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Rochester