DAY ONE
Friday, April 15, 2022
8.00 – 8.30 AM EDT: BREAKFAST
8.30 – 8.40 AM EDT: OPENING REMARKS
Arjun Sharma, Yale University
8.45 – 10.30 AM EDT: PANEL 1 – PERCEIVING THE FRONTIER
Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas, Austin
A Decolonial Historian’s Struggles against the Glocal Blindfold
Swati Chawla, OP Jindal Global University
Bhutan, Sikkim, and India’s ‘Mongolian Fringe’
Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster
Geopolitics, State-Making, and Friendship in the Himalayas: Bhutan in the 20th century
Discussant: Akshaya Tankha, Yale University
10.30 – 10.45 AM EDT: MORNING TEA
10.45 AM – 12.30 PM EST: PANEL 2 – CONSTRUCTING THE FRONTIER
Kyle Gardner, George Washington University
Building Disputed Borderlands: Colonial-era Border Making in Ladakh and its Postcolonial Afterlife
Francesca Fuoli, University of Bern
The British Commission of Enquiry and Military Tribunal in Kabul: Martial Law and the Redefinition of Afghan Sovereignty
Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster
Surviving at the Margins: Tawang and Post-Colonial Boundary Making
Discussant: Arjun Sharma, Yale University
12.30 PM EST: LUNCH
DAY TWO
Saturday, April 16, 2022
8.45 – 9.15 AM EST: BREAKFAST
9.15 – 11.00 AM EST: PANEL 3 – THE LIVING FRONTIER
Galen Murton, James Madison University
Infrastructural Affects: Making Territories with Roads and Towns across Himalayan Frontiers
Sara Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Desiring the future in city and village: Ladakhi youth in temporal borderlands
Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College
Border Destination: Tourism at Pakistan-China Border
Dan Haines, University of Bristol
History in Minutes: Time, Subjectivity, and Emotions After the India-Tibet Earthquake, 1950
Discussant: Logan Emlet, Yale University
11.00 AM – 1.00 PM EST: WORKING LUNCH