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THE PROGRAM

10:30 – 11:00 – Welcome, Bagels/Coffee
11:00 – 11:15 – Introduction (Meghna Chaudhuri and Matt Shutzer)

11:15 – 12:30 – Roundtable 1

Manan Ahmed: “What Did W. Norman Brown Do?”
Gyan Prakash: “Agrarian Studies and Subaltern Studies”
Willem van Schendel: ” Spatial History, Borders, and ‘Nature’s Social Geography'”

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch

1:45 – 2:30 – Keynote 1

In Conversation: Beshara Doumani and David Ludden
Global Frames: Imperialism, Inequality & the Politics of Knowledge

2:45 – 4:15 – Roundtable 2

Johan Mathew: “From Development Regimes to Mobile Capital: New Histories of Capitalism in the Wake of David Ludden”
Prasannan Parthasarathi: “Agriculture and Environment in Nineteenth-Century Tamil Nadu”                                                                                                                        Andrew Sartori: “Currency, Commerce and the State: Cowry Country Revisited?”                                                                                                                              

4:15 – 4:30 – Break

4:30 – 5:15 – Keynote 2

                       Sanjay Subrahmanyam: “The Annales School and Indian History:                                                                                   The View from Tirunelveli”

Closing Remarks: David Ludden

Reception at Vol de Nuit (148 West 4th Street, nr. 6th Ave)