2022 Buffalo Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
(Mis)Information: Saturday April 30, 2022
In person: 509 O'Brian Hall
Saturday, April 30
8:45 am - 10:30am Panel 1: Governments’ Role in the Spread of Disinformation & How it Affects Marginalized Groups
Panel Chair: Dr. Naila Sahar, Â鶹´«Ã½o & Forman Christian College (Pakistan)
Prerna Vij, Ashoka University, “The Conspiratorial Road to the North East Delhi Pogrom”
Samana Butul, Syeda Dua, Zehra Zaidi, Habib University, “Sociopolitical Discourse of Balochistan versus Censored Media”
Manaam, University of Delhi, “Islamartization: Role of Art in Combating Religious Polarization”
Syeda Zarah Batool, Habib University, “Menstruating while Student: Coming Back To Campus after Lockdown in Pakistan”
10:45am - 12:30pm Panel 2: The Role of Social Media & Technology in the Spread of Disinformation & Prejudice
Panel Chair: Anupriya Pandey, Â鶹´«Ã½o
Ananya Pujary, Flame University, “The Effect of Climate Change Fake News on Emotions across Generations”
Rukhshan Haroon, Ayesha Naeem, Uswah Fatima, Lahore University, “Unpacking Misinformation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study”
Manum Shahid, McGill University, “Dalit Muslims in the Face of Hindu Supremacy”
Sudarshan Pujari, Jadavpur University, “Are 'Voluntary' Religious Associations Laboratories for State-Politics? The Case of 'Deras' in the Politics of North-Western India”
12:30pm - 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm- 2:15pm Panel 3: Power Structures of Regimes & How They Affect Ethnicities, Genders, and Religious Groups
Panel Chair: Dr. Christopher Lee, Canisius College
Samia Noor, Â鶹´«Ã½o, “The Blossoming of the Narcissus in Urdu Poetry”
Eric Cortes-Kopp, Hamilton College, “A Threat to Order: Colonial, Nationalist, and Contemporary Approaches To Gender Making”
Nisha Arya, University of Rochester, “COVID-19 in India: A Long History of Untouchability”
2:30pm - 3:45pm Panel 4: The Impact of Gendered Relations and Foreign Policy on the South Asian Subcontinent
Panel Chair: Dr. Shaanta Murshid, Â鶹´«Ã½o
Imaan Khasru, Princeton University, “Invisible Rebellions: The Indian Colonial Woman and Social Restriction”
Anastasiya Rudenko, Â鶹´«Ã½o, “How has the Soviet-Afghan War Been Covered by the Media?”
Brooklynn Mainard, University of Kansas, “From the Top: Profiling Iran’s Post-Revolution Political Elite
4:00pm - 5:30pm Keynote Speaker
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marla Segol, Â鶹´«Ã½o
Dr. Michael Muhammad Knight
“Trouble Among the Righteous: The FBI and American Islam”
Sponsors
The fourth annual South Asian Undergraduate Research Conference is made possible by a generous gift from the families of Dr. Vinod Rustgi and Dr. Anil Rustgi as well as funding from the Â鶹´«Ã½o , UB , UB , and UB .
