Friday, September 22 | Tisch Hall, Room 1014
9:15am | Welcome
Farina Mir, Director, Center for South Asian Studies; Department of History
9:30-10:30 | Chair: Ram Mahalingam, Deparment of Psychology
Gender Concerns and Minority Safeguards within a Communalised Polity—The Triple Talaq Controversy
Flavia Agnes, Majlis Legal Centre, Mumbai
10:30-11:30 | Chair: Matthew Hull, Department of Anthropology
Post-Minority Politics: Reflections on Pasmanda Muslim Discourse in India
Khalid Anis Ansari, Glocal University (UP, India)
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break
12:00-1:00 | Chair: Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History
Efforts to Secure Social Justice in Bangladesh: Surging Sentiments and Shrinking Spaces
Sara Hossain, Bangladesh Legal Aid Services and Trust
1:00-2:30 | Break for Lunch
2:30-3:30 | Chair: Aswin Punathambekar, Department of Communication Studies
The Many Faces of Justice and the Crisis of the International: Lessons from Sri Lanka
Alan Keenan, Sri Lanka Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group (London)
3:30-4:30 | Chair: William J. Glover, Department of History
Pakistan's Legal Margins: Representing the Most Vulnerable, Facing the Harshest Punishments
Zainab Malik, Justice Project Pakistan
4:30-5:00 | Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 | Chair: Aniket Aga, School for Environment and Sustainability
India's Marginalised Majority and Matters of Livability
A.R. Vasavi, National Institute of Advanced Sciences (retired), Bangalore
Saturday, September 23 | Tisch Hall, Room 1014*
9:30-10:30 | Chair: Farina Mir, Director, Center for South Asian Studies; Department of History
Manual Scavenging in India: The Stark Reality of Untouchability
Bezwada Wilson, Safai Karmachari Andolan
10:30-11:30 | Chair: Paromita Vohra, Parodevi Pictures
The Road to Justice gets Rockier
P. Sainath, Founder Editor, People’s Archive of Rural India
11:30-11:45 | Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 | Concluding Discussion
*Saturday access to Tisch Hall will be on the south side of building via doors facing UMMA
