Indo Muslim Cultures in Transition

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SDMA Exhibition

Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition
Conveners: Karen Leonard & Alka Patel
31 October-2 November 2008
The University of California, Irvine: Social Sciences Plaza B 1208

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Friday, 31 October 2008

Arrival of Conference Participants

Saturday, 1 November 2008

9:15 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks: Karen Leonard & Alka Patel
9:30 am	The Context: India, Central Asia and Iran Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh
	9:30 am	Scott Levi, "Indo-Central Asian Relations in Transition: the View from the Ferghana Valley"
	9:50 am	Mana Kia, "Accounting for Difference: a Comparative Look at the Auto-Biographical Travel Narratives of Muhammad ‘Ali Hazin Lahiji and ‘Abd al-Karim Kashmiri"
	10:10 am	Talinn Grigor, "Patronize the Modern Self: Indo-Persian Architectural Migrations out of 19th-Century India"

Break 10:45-11:00 am


11:00 am	Religious Currents and Hybridities Chair: Richard Eaton
	11:00 am	Syed Akbar Hyder, "Reading Josh Malihabadi through the Lens of Autobiography"
	11:20 am	Nile Green, "Barracks Islam: Sepoy Religion in the Hyderabad Contingent"
	11:40 am	Teena Purohit, "Conversion and Islam: Passages from the Medieval to the Modern"

Luncheon 12:30-2:00 pm

2:00 pm	Literary Endeavors I Chair: C.M. Naim
	2:00 pm	Mehr Farooqi, "Power, Culture and the Language of Poetry: The Transition from Vali to Ghalib"
	2:20 pm	Heidi Pauwels, "Literary Moments of Exchange in the 18th Century: the New Urdu Vogue Meets Krishna Bhakti"
	2:40 pm	Jennifer Dubrow, "'The Bitter Medicine of Beneficial Counsel and the Honey of Humor': Mixing Humor and Reform in Fasana-e Azad and Late 19th-century Lucknow"

Break 3:20-3:35pm


3:40 pm	Literary Endeavors II Chair: Karen Leonard
	3:40 pm	C. M. Naim, "Rereading Sharar on Lucknow"
	4:00 pm	Carlo Coppola, "Zaheer v. Ali: Dissenting Views on the Early Years of the Progressive Movement"
	4:20 pm	Sarah F. Waheed, "Bombay Film as Home to Muslim Modernity: Ismat Chughtai’s Ajeeb Admi"

Concert & Dinner 7:30 pm
Fee of $30 for non-Conference attendees; please contact Sandra Cushman (scushman@uci.edu) by 17 October 2008

Sunday, 2 November 2008

9:00 am	Art and Architectural Histories of Post-Mughal South Asia Chair: Sonya Quintanilla
	9:00 am	Laura Parodi, "Imperial Mughal Portraits after Shah Jahan"
	9:20 am	Keelan Overton, "Between Bijapur and Lucknow: Collecting, Copying and Clarifying Adil Shahi Painting"
	9:40 am	Sunil Sharma, "People of the Empire: Ethnographic Representations in Mughal Art and Literature"

Break 10:20-10:35 am


	10:35 am	Alka Patel, "Reinscribing Home: The Architectural Patronage of Hyderabad's Banking and Mercantile Communities"
	10:55 am	Alison Mackenzie Shah, "The Langar Parade in Nineteenth-Century Hyderabad: Transformations of Shia Inheritance and the Commemoration of the Asaf Jahi State"
	11:15 am	Yuthika Sharma, "A View from the City: Topographical Paintings of Delhi from 1750-1815"
	11:35 am	Chanchal Dadlani, "The 'Palais Indiens' Album: Representing Architecture, Writing History"
12:20 pm	Concluding Remarks: Karen Leonard & Alka Patel

End of Conference