Day 03: Modernity
Morning Plenary: Is the Indian City finally becoming Bourgeois?
01. Is the Indian City finally becoming Bourgeois? Partha Chatterjee, CSSS
02. Is the Indian City finally becoming Bourgeois? Discussion
Morning Sessions
Panel 01: An Urban Modernity?
01. The Modern City in Ruins: Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
02. Number in the Anatomy of the Crowd: Radhika Subramaniam, Connect
03. Modernism and Modernization: Imaging Post-Colonial India: Ravi Kalia, The City College of New York
04. Discussant: Thomas Blom Hansen
05. An Urban Modernity? Discussion
Panel 02:Urbanism, Architecture & Social Space
01. Making Space Public in Colonial Lahore: William Glover, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
02. Being and Becoming: Urbanism in Delhi and Bangkok: Jyoti Hosagrahar, University of Oregon
03. Gender Architecture and the Indian City: A View from the Ground: Madhavi Desai, CEPT, Ahmedabad
04. South Asian Cities and the Principle of Visual Indifference: Denis Vidal, Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris
05. Urbanism, Architecture & Social Space: Discussion
Panel 03: Urban Poverty and Access to Resources
01. A Twilight called Illegality: Where the Urban Poor Dwell: Usha Ramanathan, Activist and Legal Scholar
02. Pubic Space for Participation and Food Security in an Urban Context: The Case of Kathmandu: Jagannath Adhikari, Independent Geographer and Writer
03. NGOs, Civil Society and Civic Exclusion in Urban India: D. Parthasarthy, IIT
04. Discussant: Sheela Patel
05. Urban Poverty and Access to Resources: Discussion
Afternoon Sessions
Panel 01: Forms of Urban Memory
01. Commemorating and Remembering 1857L The Revolt in Delhi and its Afterlife:Nayanjot Lahiri, Delhi University
02. Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi: Emma Tarlo, Goldsmiths College
03. Mapping Violent Narratives: War Memorials in Dhaka and their Embodied Recallings: Nayanika Mookherjee, University of Sussex
04. Forms of Urban Memory: Discussion
Panel 01: The Politics of Space in Mumbai
01. Putting the Public in its Place/ Marginalised at Home: The Public in its Space in Mumbai: Himanshu Burte, Pukar, Mumbai
02. The Spaces of Post-Industrial Mumbai: Shekhar Krishnan, Pukar, Mumbai
03. Re-imaging the City: The Gendered Body in Public Space: Shilpa Phadke, Pukar, Mumbai
04. Neighbourhoods as Fields: Rahul Srivastava, Pukar, Mumbai
05. Discussant: Vyjayanthi Rao, Yale University
06. The Politics of Space in Mumbai: Discussion
Panel 03: Planning and City Form: The Case of Bangalore
01. Remembered and Imagined Cities: Contemporary Bangalore: Janaki Nair, CSSS
02. Claiming Politics within Bangalore: Spaces of Resistance: Solomon Benjamin, Independent Scholar [incomplete]
03. Public-private Partnerships in Urban Governance: The Case of Bangalore and Mumbai: Sanjiv Aundhe, TIDE
04. Redifining Bangalore: Global Networks and the Contemporary City: John Stallmeyer, University of California
05. Planning and City Form: The Case of Bangalore: Discussion
Evening Open Plenary
01. Talks
02. Discussion