Journée 2012 du Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud

Organisée par Aminah Mohammad-Arif, Blandine Ripert & Sanjay Subrahmanyam

THE IDEA OF SOUTH ASIA

Journée du Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud

Research Group “Of Borders and Boundaries”

13 November 2012  –  Room 638-641

EHESS-CNRS, 190 avenue de France, 75 013 Paris

• 9h30: Morning Tea/Coffee

• 9h50: Welcome address and introduction (Blandine Ripert, CNRS)

Deconstructing South Asia and beyond

 Chair: Denis Matringe (CNRS)

• 10h: “South Asia”: An (Un)Contested Category (Aminah Mohammad-Arif, CNRS)

10h30: Tea/Coffee break

• 10h45: India that is Bharat: An On-going Debate on a Strange Equation (Catherine Clémentin-Ojha, EHESS)

• 11h15: The “Iranian world” between the Turkish, Arab, Indian and European Lands: The Quest for Identity. (Bernard Hourcade, CNRS)

• 11h45: Discussion Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA)

12h30: Lunch break

Perceptions, Representations and Actors

Chair: Eric Meyer (INALCO)

• 14h: Thinking India in South Africa: Gandhi’s Conundrum (Claude Markovits, CNRS)

• 14h30: The Strange Love of the Land: Identity, Poetry and Politics in South Asia (Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University. Paper read by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA)

15h: Tea/Coffee break

• 15h15: South Asianism: The Diasporic Construction of a Category or an Ideology? (Anouck Carsignol, CSH)

• 15h45: People’s SAARC: Building a South Asian Identity from Below (Sudha Ramachandran, Kulturstudier, Puducherry, invited by the Franco-Indian programme of the FMSH)

• 16h15: Keynote Address and Discussion, Tariq Ali (Historian, Novelist, Filmmaker)

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