2024 Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia

In-Person, 102 O'Brian Hall, University at Buffalo.

Zoom. To join the Zoom meeting, you need to register to receive a link

This hybrid event is free, but registration is required.

For more information please contact: southasiaundergradconf@gmail.com

Panel Chair: Suparna Soni, Buffalo State University

Aadrit Banerjee, University of Delhi, “Kali’s Daughters: Exploring Indian women writings on the Black Goddess”

Mahrukh Asmat, University of the Punjab, “Belonging Nowhere: On Diaspora Space and Dislocation in Moniza Alvi’s Poetry”

Anjali Shreshth & Saachi Singh, University of Delhi, “Cartographies of Spirituality:Understand the Spiritual Economy of India vis-a-vis the West and its Contemporary Relevance.”

Aishaani Bajaj, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun,”Rethinking Domicile-Based Reservation: Making Sense of the Historico-Political Dimensions to Migration and Integration in Uttarakhand”

Panel Chair: Christopher Lee, Canisius University

Priyanka Anand, Tufts University, “Partition’s Madness: Tracing Dissociation in Trauma Narratives of India's Partition”

Ziv Cheng, University at Buffalo, “The Impact of the Columbian Exchange on Persianate Cuisine and Culture in India”

Mrinmoyee Kalasikam, Vanderbilt University, “The History of Medicine in South Asia through the Lens of the Subaltern and Caste”

Hajra Malik, Northwestern University, “Tracing the Urban Fabric of Lahore”

Panel Chair: Abhipsa Chakraborty, University at Buffalo

Arham Khalid, Northwestern University in Qatar, “Hijab ya Kitab?”

Induja Kumar, Vanderbilt University, “Brown TikTok: Tracing Inherited Prejudices Across Seas and Generations”

Zoe Kwasnicki, Ithaca College, “The First Drag Queen? Arjuna/Brihannada and the Subversion of Gender Normativity in the Mahabharata”

Panel Chair: Anjali Sahay, Gannon University

Zanaya Hussain, University at Buffalo, “The Urban Socio-Spatial Dialectic: How Bangladeshi Immigrant Women Shape the City”

Hanmah Malik, Northwestern University, “The Transformation of Courtesan Culture in South Asia”

Leela Culity, Occidental College, “Unfair and Lovely: South Asian Stories of Beauty”

Emily Kim, Georgetown University, “Weaponizing Gender: Nuclearization, Nationalism, and India's Postcolonial Identity”

Javaid Tariq, Co-Founder of New York Taxi Workers Alliance

"Driver Power, Union Power: The Struggles and Triumphs of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance"

Sponsors

The sixth annual Rustgi South Asian Undergraduate Research Conference is made possible by a generous gift from the families of Dr. Vinod Rustgi and Dr. Anil Rustgi, as well as funding from the University at Buffalo Asia Research Institute.