DAY ONE
Friday, May 28, 2021
8.30-8.45 AM EDT: opening remarks
Lav Kanoi and Chandana Anusha, Yale University
8.45-10.15 am EDT: Panel 1 (Fluid Frictions)
Bikash Chetry, University of Cape Town
Paper Title: Living with Floods: Community based coping and resilience mechanism of Mising/Mishing from floods a study of Majuli District of Assam
Dustin Barter, University of Cambridge
Paper Title: Contesting Hydropower Hegemony: Civil Society Lessons from Cambodia
Liang Wu, City University of New York – Graduate Center
Paper Title: Containerized and Stranded at Sea for the Material Mobility of International Shipping: Asian Seafarers through the Port of Hong Kong
Discussant: Professor Helen Siu, Yale University
Moderators: Kelvin Ng, Yale University and Shoko Yamada, Yale University
10.30-12 pm EDT: Panel 2 (Producing Urban Spaces)
Ethan Barkalow, Yale University
Paper Title: Colonial Modernity and Turbulent Water in Sapporo, Japan, 1866–1882
Sharon Mizbani, Yale University
Paper Title: The Art of Water Infrastructure: Hamidiye Fountains in Late-Ottoman Istanbul
Sirus J Libeiro, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: Water Activism in the Periphery: A case from Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Discussant: Professor Sunil Amrith, Yale University
Moderators: Chandana Anusha, Yale University and Shoko Yamada, Yale University
12.15-1 pm EDT: informal graduate student coffee chat
Virtual Zoom coffee chat for graduate students, details will be announced during the conference.
DAY TWO
Saturday, May 29, 2021
8.30-10 am EDT: Panel 3 (Grounding Meaning)
Dewi Tan, Yale University
Paper Title: Unpacking the Sociopolitical Productions of Urban Floods in Jakarta
Phi Nguyen, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Paper Title: Devout Landscape – Liquid Spine: Huế’s Waterways and Its Latent Urban Dynamics
Tanya Matthan, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Title: Hydrology is Destiny: Fate, Fortune and the Possibilities of Groundwater in Rural India
Discussant: Professor Erik Harms, Yale University
Moderators: Vanessa Koh, Yale University and Lav Kanoi, Yale University
10.15-11.45 am EDT: Panel 4 (Institutions and their Discontents)
Brian Cannon, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: Water, Ecology, and Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century Indian Desert
Karan Misquitta, Pennsylvania State University
Paper Title: A Tangled Web: Water scarcity, bureaucracy, and a network approach to understanding policy making
Sauvanithi Yupho, Rutgers University
Paper Title: Taboos of Water Governance of Institutional Stability: The Endless Floods in Bangkok, Thailand
Discussant: Professor K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
Moderators: Shalini Iyengar, Yale University and Al Lim, Yale University
12-1 pm EDT: Keynote
Professor Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University
1-1.15 pm EDT: closing remarks
Faculty Chairs, Yale University
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