PROGRAMME
Monday 19 May 2025
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500664135
10:00 – 10:15
Welcome and Introduction
John McDonagh, HoS, School of Global Development (UEA), Maria Abranches, School of Global Development (UEA)
10:15 – 11:45 Panel 1
Colonialism, Postcoloniality, and landscape Transformations (Chair: Iokiñe Rodriguez, DEV-UEA)
Marguerite Coetzee (University of Bristol), Reimagining Africa through the (Green)Hydrogenscape
Soumya Ranjan Gahir (Ravenshaw University, India), The Impact of British Colonisation on the Sacred Geographies of Odisha
Ritika Sahu (Cotton University, India), Parks and the (Re)Imaging of Spaces: A Case Study of Sivasagar and Charaideo, Assam, India
Anita Frison (University of Padua, Italy), Geographies of Power and Identity: Mapping Africa in Late Imperial Russia
11:45 – 13:15 Break
13:15 – 14:45 Panel 2
Space, Mobility, and Identity (Chair: Thi Bogossian, DEV-UEA)
Mohan Kumar Bera (Birla Institute of Technology & Science Goa,
India), Exploring Strategies to Maintain Tribal Identity in Sundarban Islands in India
Ben Jones (UEA), Reimagining Leave Voting England: “Middle England”, whiteness and the not-so-hidden history of middle-class English Nationalism
Samuel Babalola (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), Cultural Identity in Yorùbá Divination: Exploring the Sacred and Mythological Landscape in Ese Ifá Chants
Sofia Hnezla (University of St Andrews), Imagined Geographies: From Interiority to Humiliation in Tunisia
14:45 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:45 Panel 3
Cities, States, and Institutions (Chair: Will Haynes, DEV-UEA)
Nishka Kumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), Thrifted City: Tracing Waghri Community’s Livelihood in Shifting Mumbai
Sara Bardhan (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), Dons, Gangs, and the Muslim Badmash: Fantastical Geographies of Suspicion, Disorder, and Notoriety in Dongri, Mumbai
Fariba Alamgir (UEA), Making of Frontier in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Alex Aliaga (Instituto de Investigación y Acción para el Desarrollo
Integral, Bolivia), Creating a participatory architectonic framework to realise the ancestral Andean philosophy of Buen Vivir
16:45 Close Maria Abranches, DEV-UEA
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85397739884?pwd=mbWC3xzrhcavfonaZTRt6Umj5bkTmr.1
09:20 – 0930 Welcome Maria Abranches, DEV-UEA
09:30 – 11:15 Panel 1
Borders, Territory, and Conflict (Chair: Ulrike Theuerkauf, DEV-UEA)
Sapana Devi Karam (Lovely Professional University, Punjab), Contested History, Identity, and Territorial Claims in Northeast India
Usman Khan (National University of Science and Technology – NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan), Ruling the Borderlands: An Ethnography of Pakistan’s State Everyday Practices in Dir
Sakshi Wadhwa & Anjali Mathur (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi), Landscapes of Violence in India: Comparative Analysis of Ayodhya Case in Uttar Pradesh and Bhima Koregaon Case in Maharashtra
Ramachan Shimray (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), Ethno-Borderlands, Delicate Spaces, Disputed Zones: A Borderlands Approach to Reconceptualising the India-Myanmar Frontier (Border)
Jonas Nabbe (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), Analyses of political events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
11:15 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 13:15 Panel 3
Digital Media, Political Spaces, and Cultural Imaginaries (Chair: Martin Scott)
John Bessai (Trent University, Canada), Digital Landscapes and Canadian Cultural Imaginaries: Decolonization and Shaping Spatial Perceptions through Media
Jacqueline Fewkes (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Music Mashups and Imagined Landscapes: How Locally Produced Digital Media in Northern India Contribute to New Asian Geographies
Jukka Jouhki (Tampere University, Finland), The West and the War in Ukraine: Occidentalism in Finnish News Media
Omer Aijazi (University of Manchester), Speculative A/Geographies of Kashmir
13:15 Close
Maria Abranches, School of Global Development (UEA)
Susan Hodgett, Director, New Area Studies Research Centre (UEA)
Francis King, Co-Director, East Centre (UEA)