Conference Presentations
Panel 1:

Iftikhar Dadi : Discussant
John H. Burris Professor, History of Art, Cornell University

The Complexities of “Climate Displacement” in Mustang, Nepal
By Emily Yeh
Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder


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 : Discussant
Associate Professor, History of Art, Cornell University
Panel 2 :

Living on The Estuary : A New Environmental Consciousness in Contemporary Bangladeshi Architecture
By Farhan Karim
Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Kansas

The Anthropocene in the Garden
By Nida Rehman
Assistant Professor, Architecture & Urban Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Esra Akcan : Discussant
Professor, Architecture, Cornell University
Panel 3 :

An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Indian Himalya
By Mabel Gergan
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University

If you Want Water, Be Prepared for the Pipe Bursts
By Parismita Singh
Writer, graphic novelist and educationist, Guwahati

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 : Discussant
Associate Professor, Art History, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 4 :

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

Architecture of Exfoliation: (Un)making Urban Lives and Ecologies
By Rohit Mujumdar
Architecture, School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai
Panel 5 :

Ecologies and Aesthetics of Dissent: Constructing Mediatic Environments of Resistance in Sri Lanka
By Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Assistant Professor, Architecture, Columbia University

Migrant Messages: The Monsoon and Dreams of Being Heard
By Debashree Mukherjee
Scholar, South Asian Studies, Columbia University

Reckonings and Speculations in Moving Image Practices
By Lalitha Gopalan
Associate Professor, Cinema, UT – Austin

Iftikhar Dadi : Discussant
John H. Burris Professor, History of Art, Cornell University
Panel 6 :

Daira and the Sentinel: Arrival, Convergence, and Ruination in Southern Theorising
By Ahsan Kamal
Faculty Member, Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University

(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

Writing the Anthropocene from the Indian Himalaya
By Nayanika Mathur
Professor, Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Oxford University

Anindita Banerjee : Discussant
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Panel 7 :

Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh: How Embankments Worsen Flooding
By Camelia Dewan
Postdoctoral research fellow, Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Après Moi le Deluge: Nature and/as Statecraft at the Sardar Sarovar Dam
By Kajri Jain
Professor, Art History, University of Toronto

After the Country: Agrarian Change in the Eastern Himalayas
By Sarah Besky
Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Llerena Searle : Discusssant
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Rochester
