
Chandana Anusha
Yale University, USA
Histories and Ecologies in Western India

Nicole Berger
Princeton University, USA
Can Paris be Tamil ?

Kaitlin Emmanuel
Cornell University, USA
Setting the Stage for Sri Lankan Modernism

Nuno Grancho
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Political rivalry, architectural knowledge and colonial presence in the Indian Ocean

Khatija Sana Khader
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Mobility and Translocality in the Indian Ocean: Transforming Notions of Racial, Religious and Diasporic Identities in the Siddi and Hadrami Communities of Hyderabad, India

Yih-chuen Liao
New York University, USA
Politics and Aesthetics of the National Museums in South Asia

Christopher Miller
University of California, Davis, USA
The Fluid Body

Qurratulain Nasiruddin
Independent Scholar, Pakistan
Pir Sabzali’s Travelogue: An Insight into the evolution of Ismaili communities in last 100 Years

Alessandra Radicati
London School of Economics, UK
On the Way to Everywhere: The politics of “hub-ness” in contemporary Sri Lanka

Reema Rajbanshi
University of California, San Diego, USA
Abolitionist Imaginaries: Precarity, Unfreedom, and the “Prior” in 20th c South Asia and 19th c Brazil

Faheem Hussain Sabzali
Independent Scholar, Pakistan
Pir Sabzali’s Travelogue: An Insight into the evolution of Ismaili communities in last 100 Years

Taimoor Shahid
University of Chicago, USA
The Ethics of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Moral, Literary, and Spatial Geographies in an Indian Ocean Epic

Michael Sugarman
University of Cambridge, UK
Extending South Asian Urbanism Through Housing Practices: Slum clearance, squatter resettlement and redevelopment schemes in Bombay and Singapore, 1920-1940

Byapti Sur
Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
The Politics of Corruption beyond Europe and Asia in the Indian Ocean: local-Dutch power dynamics in 17th-century Bengal

Mahendran Thiruvarangan
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Bastard Tamils and Sinhala Leftists: Socialist Oceanic Cosmpolitics in Somachandra Wijesuria’s First Rising

Bidita Jawher Tithi
University of California, Davis, USA
Reimagining the political ecology of environmental risks and place-making in Chittagong, Bangladesh and its location in the Indian Ocean World: a critical feminist analysis of the perceptions of contemporary vulnerabilities and historical memory of the Indian Ocean region

Sarover Zaidi
University of Utrecht, Netherlands
The Mughal Masjid: tracing Shi’a materiality, making and mnemonics in Bombay.