3rd Annual Global South Graduate Student Virtual Conference

Panel 1- Unveiling Narratives: Intersections of Identity and Activism in South Asia

Discussants: Lester Kurtz , Arvind Geetha Christo

• Chandini Jaswal, Panjab University, Memories of 1947: Ordinary Voices, Extraordinary Stories
• Aatika Singh, Stanford University, Ambedkar as an Embodied Surface/s - Degenerate Desires to Deface Dalit Iconography
• Jolanda Brunnekreef, Radboud University, South Asian Anti-Caste Scholar Activism and Epistemic Injustice in Global Academia

Panel 2- Reimagining Global Research: Decolonial Perspectives on Indigenous Struggles and Global Economies

Discussants- Manjusha Nair , Kevin Nazar

• Saidur Rahman, University of Toronto,  Decolonizing Imagination: Deconstructing History and Research through Decolonial Research Framework
• Ang Li, Colorado State University, Types of Foreign Direct Investment and the Informal Economy: A Cross-National Assessment
• Alok Ranjan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Reassembling Pathhalgadi: Towards a Decolonial Study of an Indigenous Struggle

Panel 3-Intersections of Resistance: Feminist Inquiries Across Cultures

Discussants- Iccha Basnyat,  Sevil Suleymani

• Joo Hyun Lee, American University, The Role of Affect in Yun Huisun's Songs of Resistance: examination of Yun Huisun as a  divergent feminist moral philosopher
• Aaloklina Chakraborti, Indian Institute of Management, Exploring the dynamics of Queer Activism in Palestine: A critical inquiry into the discourse of ethno-hetronormitivity and war for liberation
• Uthara Geetha, University of Oviedo,  Decolonise and Debrahminise: Bridging Transnational Feminism and Dalit Feminism

Panel 4- Decolonizing Discourses: Perspectives on Knowledge, Power, and Global Inequality

Discussants- Yasemin Ipek, Deepika Hooda

• Sevin Sagnic, Bernardo Mackenna, Tianyu Yu, UC San Diego, Coloniality of Knowledge and Global South in Refugee Studies
• Vineet Gupta, Northwestern University, Global Inequality & Epistemic Geographies: The Unbearable Parochialism of American Sociology

Panel -5 On Language Humour, and Research

Discussants: Christopher Morris, Karthik Ramanujam

• Shreyashi Ganguly York University,  Who gets to laugh? Indian political humor in stand-up comedy as a site of resistance and agency
• Vinita Abichandani, George Mason University, Decolonizing the Practice of English
• Glenda Vaillant Cruz, University of South Florida,  Decolonizing International Research: A Native Anthropologist's Reflection on Positionality and Engaged Anthropology

Keynote Address

Prof Vineeta Sinha

"Curating Decolonising Practices in Academia: Towards Critical Research and Pedagogy."