Format of the Sessions

1. 20-30 minutes: Panel Contributors’ Statements

Each session will begin with a series of five minute statements by each of the Contributors on the Panel. Depending on the size of the Panel this process will take between twenty minutes to half an hour.

2. 20-30 mins: Panel Contributors Interact

The remainder of the first hour of the workshop will involve the panelists engaging each other in discussion.

3. 30 mins: Area Discussion

These twenty minutes will be allotted for those questions and discussions between the Contributors on the Panel and those among the audience including other Contributors, Local Participants, or Project Team members who are experts on the region.

4. 20 Mins: Refreshment Break

5. 1 hour: Contributors’ Hour

The next hour will be devoted to all other Contributors’, those not on the panel, i.e. to their questions, comments and interventions. This will serve to draw out the general themes, themes of cross-contextual validity, and connections.

Areas of Specialization

North East Asia

Dr. Joe Moore, Chair

Ann Anagnost, Anthropology, University of Washington

Tim Brook, History, University of Toronto

Shoichi Koseki, History, Dokkyo University

Song Suh, Law, Ritsumeikan University

Laura Hein, History, Northwestern University

South Asia

Dr. Radhika Desai, Chair

Mushirul Hasan, History, Jamia Millia Islamia University

Sumit Sarkar, History, Delhi University

Lamia Karim, Anthropology, University of Oregon

Farzana Shaikh, member and former Research Fellow in Politics of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Jonathan Spencer, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

South East Asia

Dr. Michael Bodden, Chair

Hy Van Luong, History, University of Toronto

Thongchai Winichakul, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Joshua Barker, Anthropology, University of Toronto

Epifanio San Juan, Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut

Central and West Asia

Dr. Gregory Blue, Chair

Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mohammed Bamyeh, Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown Univeristy

Martin Bunton, History, University of Victoria

Uradyn Bulag, Anthropology, Hunter College, New York

Valentine Moghadam, Women’s Studies, University of Illinois

Georgi Derlugian, Sociology, Northwestern University

General

Dr. Radhika Desai, Chair

Arif Dirlik, History, University of Oregon

Mark Selden, History and Sociology, SUNY

Romila Thapar, History, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Benedict Anderson, Anthropology, Cornell University

Jayant Lele, Political Science, Queen's University

Delia Aguilar, Women's Studies, University of Connecticut