Conference – Inequalities in South Asia

20251215T093000

20251216T173000

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Annual Conference of the Sciences Po South Asia Program15th of December – Program9h30 – 11hProtest and conflictsChair: Christophe Jaffrelot (CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS)Mirza M. Hassan, BRAC UniversityThe July Popular Upsurge in Bangladesh: The Class and Political Inequalities at Work?Gameela Samarasinghe, Colombo UniversityInequality, Injustice, and Power Imbalances as Root Causes of Suffering in Sri Lanka – Exploring Psychosocial Responses to Crises.11h – 11h30Coffee break11h30 – 13h00GenderChair: Laurent Gayer (CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS)Farah Said, Lahore University of Management StudiesGender Norms and the Dynamics of Agency and Power within Households in PakistanKamala Marius, Université Bordeaux Montaigne and SciencesPo BordeauxRethinking Women’s Work and Gender Inequalities in Globalized India13h – 14hLunch break14h – 15h30RegionsChair: Loraine Kennedy (CESAH-EHESS/CNRS)Mahendran Thiruvarangan, Jaffna UniversityEthnically Unequal: The Northern Muslims of Sri Lanka during the Post-war YearsKalaiyarasan A., Madras Institute of Development StudiesThe Political Economy of Regional Inequality and Fiscal Transfer in India15h30 – 16hCoffee break16h-17h30ClassSonalde Desai, University of Maryland and NCAERClass of Mind? Subjective and Objective Dimensions of the Middle-Class Status in Modern IndiaShandana Mohmand, IDS, Sussex UniversityThe Political Economy of Progressive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan16th of December – Program9h30 – 11hCasteChair: Aminah Mohammad-Arif(CESAH-EHESS/CNRS)Jusmeet S. Sihra, Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeOld Problem in a New Place: Redlining of Ex-Untouchable GhettosJulien Levesque, GSRL-CNRSCaste, religion, and official categorization in Pakistan: a review of recent scholarship11h – 11h30Coffee break11h30 – 13h00ReligionChair: Lola Guyot, DEVSOC, Paris 1/Panthéon-SorbonneGilles Verniers, CERI-SciencesPoThe institutional exclusion of Muslims in IndiaCharza Shahabuddin, CERI-SciencesPoViolence and invisibilisation against ethnic and religious minorities in Bangladesh13h00 – 14h00Lunch break14h00 – 15h30PoliciesChair: Manisha Anantharaman, CSO-SciencesPoNadeera Rajapakse,Reducing Inequalities for Sustainable, Equitable Human Development in Sri LankaStéphanie Tawa Lama (CESAH-EHESS/CNRS)Local elections and the deinstitutionalisation of political equality in India15h30 – 17h00Meeting the Sciences Po South Asian alumni and students’ associationChairs: Léa Abrieux and Alexandre Mariani (DAI-SciencesPo)A panel discussion with office-bearers of the Indo-French Circle:Vithursan Wigneswaran, PresidentHanna Elizabeth John, Vice-PresidentSaee Vaidya, Head of student events and communicationManucheher Shafee, UN Social Protection Specialist at the World Food ProgrammeRegister here

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