A CASI 30th Anniversary Workshop
With Additional Funding and Administrative Support from:
Wolf Humanities Center Seminar Room
623 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please email Indivar Jonnalagadda (indivarj@sas.upenn.edu) if you would like to attend in-person or on Zoom
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM ET Introduction
Thomas Cowan, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Indivar Jonnalagadda, Doctoral Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET Session 1
“The Bureaucratic Categorisation of Allocation: A Tale of Bihar State Housing Board,” Sheema Fatima, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Mumbai
“Drafting Cities through Demolitions: The Politics of Order and Negotiation in City Bureaucracy,” Sushmita Pati, Assistant Professor, National Law School of India University – Bengaluru
“Drafting Development in Mumbai,” Sangeeta Banerji, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
11:40 AM – 1:00 PM ET Session 2
“How to Make Land Disappear: Corruption, Computerization, and Care in Lahore,” Tariq Rahman, Doctoral Scholar, University of California – Irvine
“To B or not to B: Exploration of the bureaucratic practices of quasi-legal property tax papers in the city of Bangalore,” Varun Patil, Doctoral Scholar, Max Weber Kolleg
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET Lunch
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET Session 3
“Mapping Land Conflicts and Urban Planning in the National Capital Region of India,” Sophia Abbas, Doctoral Scholar, Yale University
“A House Divided: Urban Family Estate Following the Great Nepal Earthquake, 2015,” Andrew Haxby, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
“Property-work, work of property: Notes on land, caste, and property in India’s urbanizing frontiers,” Shubhra Gururani, Associate Professor, York University
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM ET Discussant Comments
Akhil Gupta, Professor, University of California – Los Angeles
5:00 PM – 5.30 PM ET Closing Discussion
6:30 Dinner