SAMSA update, December 1, 2012
1. At the Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin, SAMSA sponsored a panel on “Politics of Identity & Memory among South Asian\ Muslims,” with papers by:
–Roger Long (on Liaquat Ali Khan)
–Taj Hashmi (on Karamat Ali Jaunpuri)
–Theodore Wright (on Badruddin Tyabji)
Also during the Annual South Asia Conference, SAMSA held its Board meeting, a quorum of six members elected the following officers for a three year term:
–President: Roger Long
–Vice President: Laura Dudley Jenkins
–Secretary: Farhat Haq
–Treasurer: Chris Candland
Chris offered to work on obtaining tax exempt status.
2. SAMSA’s proposal for the AAS (Association for Asian Studies) March 21-24, 2013 (San Diego) on “Paths to Social Mobility for South Asian Muslims” with papers by Laura Jenkins (convener), Taj Hashmi, Mariam Mufti, and Ted Wright has been accepted.
3. ACSIS (American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies) will meet April 5-6, 2013 at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. Abstracts are due Jan.15, 2013 and may be sent to Robert Hazen: hazenr@msudenver.edu. It has been suggested that ACSIS meet in South Africa in 2014 if a host institution can be found.
4. SASA (South Asian studies Association) with which SAMSA is now affiliated, will meet April 19-21 at SUNY Albany. Proposals should be sent to Muthusami Kumaran: program@SASA.org.
5. Next year, the Annual Conference on South Asia, will take place at Madison on Oct.17-20, 2013. Proposals are due April 1, 2013. Those interested in participating, please send suggestions to Roger Long: rlong@emich.edu.
6. The NYCAS (New York Conference on Asian Studies) will meet at (SUNY) Binghamton University September 27-28, 2013. Proposals are due by May 31, 2013 and may be sent to: NYCAS@binghamton.edu.
SAMSA update, September 15, 2012
1. SAMSA sponsored panel at Wisconsin is titled: “Rubrics of Identity and Memory among South Asian Muslims” and will take place on Friday, October 12, 1:45-3:30 pm in Conference Room 2 (second floor) with papers by:
–Taj Hashmi, “From Jihad to Islamic Reforms and Modernism: Karamat Ali Jaunpuri and Muslims in Bengal, 1820s-1870s”
–Zillur R. Khan, “The Mover of the Pakistan Resolution: A. K. Fazlul Haq”
–Roger Long, “Liaquat Ali Khan and the Politics of Nostalgia”
–Theodore Wright, “Memory in the Evolution of Family History in theTyabji Clan of Bombay”
2. SAMSA’s next board meeting (open to all interested scholars) will be in Madison during the Annual South Asia Conference on Saturday, noon -1:30 in Parlor 634. There will be an election for the next three year term of President, Vice President and Secretary. Irfan Omar has completed his three year term as president and will not be running for a second term. Any board members who would like to be nominated for office but will not be at Wisconsin should notify Irfan or Ted. Also on the agenda is the need to consider possible programs and panels for the ACSIS at Seton Hall University in New Jersey (April 5-6, 2013), and SASA at SUNY, Albany (April 19-21 2013). Ray Bromley and Muthusami Kumaran, SASA host and chair respectively have asked that we consider submitting panel proposals. SAMSA members have submitted a panel proposal for AAS in San Diego, March 21-24, 2013, and should know the program committee’s decision by mid-October 2012.
3. Nadeem Hasnain of the University of Lucknow, a former Fulbright fellow at St. Lawrence University, N.Y. who is the editor of Islam and Muslim Societies, a social science journal, is seeking submission of articles. For details visit: www.muslimsocieties.org.
SAMSA update, May 15, 2012
1. During his trip to Pakistan in April to attend the joint conference of ACSIS and SAMSA, Theodore Wright, Jr. was honored by the International Islamic University in Islamabad. He received a plaque in recognition of his fifty years of research on South Asian Muslims. The plaque was given by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan.
2. The NYCAS (New York Conference on Asian Studies) will be held at SUNY New Paltz Sept.28-29, 2012. For proposals please contact David Elstein and Akira Shimada at nycas2012@gmail.com. Deadline for proposals is May 15, 2012.
3. The next AAS (Association for Asian Studies) annual conference will be in San Diego, March 21- 24, 2013. The deadline for proposals will be early August 2012.
4. The next meeting of ACSIS (American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies) will be held at Seton Hall University in New Jersey in April 2013.
5. Last Fall SAMSA became affiliated with SASA, the South Asian Studies Association (http://www.sasia2.org/index.html). The call for papers for their next annual meeting will come out in January 2013.
SAMSA update, April 10, 2012
From: Ted Wright, Newsletter editor
1. The joint conference of SAMSA and ACSIS (American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies) met in two sessions in Pakistan this March.
First session met at International Islamic University in Islamabad, hosted by the University’s current president, Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad (who is a former president of SAMSA) from March 6-7, 2012.
The Second session was organized at the Forman Christian College University, Lahore, March 11-12, and was hosted by Dr. Grace Clark.
Seven members of ACSIS from the United States participated: John Caldwell, Charles H. Kennedy, Masood Raja, Jeff Redding, Margaret Ronkin, Afroz Taj, and Theodore Wright, Jr. Three other members were already in Pakistan: Mumtaz Ahmad, Mary Linda Armacost, and Grace Clark. Nineteen Pakistani scholars participated as presenters or discussants.
2. Several members of SAMSA’s executive board proposed a paper or panel for the Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI
-Christopher Candland proposed a single paper on “Faith and Philanthropy in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.” It examines the work of Pakistan’s leading private, political party, and government philanthropies in creating the “Islamic Welfare State.”
-Roger Long proposed a panel entitled: “Rubrics of Identity and Memory among South Asian Muslims.” Participants include Theodore Wright, Jr. (chair and presenter), Taj Hashmi, Zillur Khan, and Roger Long as presenters.
-Mariam Mufti proposed a panel entitled “Approaches to the Study of Democracy in Pakistan.” Participants include herself, Arsalan Khan (University of Virginia), Maira Hayat (Univ. of Chicago), and Farhat Haq serving as discussant.
-Irfan A. Omar proposed a single paper on “Inter-religious Hermeneutics: Dara Shikuh’s ‘Islamic’ View of the ‘Other’.” His paper examines the implications of inter-religious hermeneutics as a viable methodology which Dara used to (inter-religiously) interpret Hindu and Islamic religious texts within the context of his encounters with the Hindu ‘other’.
-M. Raisur Rahman proposed a single paper on “Identity, Genealogy, History: Family and Community in Colonial North Indian Qasbahs” as part of a panel on family in South Asia. His paper explores family as a basic unit of social and intellectual life and a marker of identity, intersecting individual and community and draws upon a number of Muslim families from qasbah towns.
SAMSA update, Nov 20, 2011
1. NYCAS met at SUNY Buffalo September 16-17. Feisal Khan of Hobart organized a roundtable on “Meaning of Recent events for Pakistan/FATA/Afghanistan” with Vikash Yadav of Hobart presenting on the “Taliban, Afghanistan and India,” Jawad Yusafzai on “The Pakistan Army and Swat,” Feisal Khan on “Pakistan’s Economy and Aid Dependence;” and Ted Wright as chair. The 2012 conference will be at SUNY New Paltz, September 27-28. Proposals are due in May and may be sent to: nycas2012@gmailcom.
2. Zillur Khan organized a roundtable at the Madison, Wisconsin Conference on South Asia, Oct. 20-23, on “Perceived Effects of Militant Extremism in Pakistan.” Presenters were Irfan A. Omar of Marquette, Aurangzeb Syed of Northern Michigan, and Ted Wright of SUNY Albany. Also at Madison, five members of the SAMSA Board (Candland, Jenkins, Long, Omar and Wright) met to discuss future plans. Proposals for next year’s conference at Madison (October11-14, 2012) are due April 1, 2012.
3. At the SAMSA board meeting in Madison (October 2012), the issue of board expansion was discussed. Subsequently, based on board recommendations, three South Asia scholars were invited to join and they graciously accepted the invitation. SAMSA welcomes three new members to its executive board, Mariam Mufti (University of Oklahoma), Taj Hashmi (Austin Peay State University), and Raisur Rahman (Wake Forest University).
4. Our proposal for the next AAS (in Toronto, March 15-18, 2012) was not accepted. The following AAS will meet in San Diego in March 2013, with proposals due next August. It is hoped that SAMSA members on the West Coast will propose a panel.
5. Per discussions between Roger Long (SAMSA board member) and William Vanderbok of SASA (South Asian Studies Association http://www.sasia2.org/) SAMSA is now an affiliate of SASA. SASA’s next meeting will be at Claremont Graduate University (CA) next April 13-15. Proposals are due this December.
6. ECMSAS (European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies will take place in Lisbon late next July. Long and Wright are on panels. Taj Hashmi is now at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee and asks anyone interested in joining a panel at BASAS (British Association for South Asian Studies) next spring to contact him at: taj_hashmi@hotmail.com
SAMSA’s Joint Conference with ACSIS in Pakistan in 2012
At their last meeting on October 21st at the Annual Conference on South Asia (Madison, WI), SAMSA’s elected members of the executive board unanimously approved a proposal to co-sponsor the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies’ (ACSIS) annual meeting in 2012.
The joint meeting will be held at the International Islamic University in Islamabad in March 2012 (tentative dates, Mar 5-7) at the invitation of the former president of SAMSA, Mumtaz Ahmad, who is currently Vice Chancellor of that university.
Anyone interested in proposing a paper should contact Grace Clark at Forman Christian College, Lahore (her email: Forsting@aol.com).
SAMSA update, June 5, 2011
From: Ted Wright, Newsletter editor
1. The deadline for AAS 2012 proposals is August 4, 2011.
2. The SAMSA sponsored roundtable (organized by Zillur Khan) has been accepted at the Annual South Asia Conference (Madison, WI). The title of the roundtable is: “Perceived Effects of Militant Extremism in Pakistan as seen from Bangladesh, India, and the United States.”
3. ACSIS / SAMSA have been invited by former SAMSA president, Mumtaz Ahmad to hold a joint conference next March at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Paper or panel proposals should be sent to Grace Clark of Forman Christian College, Lahore, at: Forsting@aol.com
4. NYCAS 2011 at SUNY Buffalo: Feisal Khan of Hobart has proposed a roundtable on “Meaning of Recent Developments in Pakistan, FATA and Afghanistan.”
SAMSA Newsletter, February 2011
From: Ted Wright, Newsletter editor
1. SAMSA-sponsored panel at the AAS conference in Honolulu is as follows: “The Media and the Message; Muslims in India. Pakistan & Bangladesh,” April 3, 2011, 8am with Taj Hashmi, Zillur R. Khan, Taberez Neyazi and Ted Wright as chair/discussant.
2. President of SAMSA Irfan Omar has scheduled a “meeting in conjunction” to plan the next year’s SAMSA participation in conferences on Saturday, April 2, 2011 noon to 1:30 in Room 308A Hawaii Convention Center. The 2012 conference will be at Toronto. Proposals are due the first week of August 2011.
3. The annual Wisconsin conference on South Asia will be held at Madison, Oct. 20-23, 2011. Panel proposals are due April lst.
3. ACSIS (American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies) will hold its annual meeting at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, April 8-9, 2011 on the theme “Religion, Nationalism & Change in Islamic Societies.” Panel or paper proposals to Robert Hazan: hazanr@ncsd.edu. Submit paper copies to the host, Tamara Sonn: txsonn@wm.edu. Ted Wright shall be giving a paper on “The Role of Religion and Diaspora in the founding of States: Israel and Pakistan compared”.
4. The New York Conference on Asian Studies, on the theme: “Asia at Work and Play,” will be held Sept.16-17, 2011 at SUNY Buffalo. Deadline for proposals is May 2, 2011.
5. The 22nd biennial European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies is scheduled for July 25-28, 2012 at Lisbon, Portugal. Proposals are due on April 15, 2011 to ecsas22@ed.ac.uk.
6. Anyone wishing to be added to the SAMSA mailing list, please send: name, affiliation, email, country of specialization, discipline to Ted Wright at: wrightt@gleneddy.com
7. Bill Richter of Kansas State University is disposing of his files on Pakistan and the Middle East files of his colleague, Michael Suleiman.
SAMSA mourns the loss of a noted scholar of South Asian Muslim Studies, Dr. Omar Khalidi (1954-2010)
SAMSA mourns the loss of its former executive board member and a long time supporter of research and scholarship on Indian Muslims. Dr. Omar Khalidi, who worked at the MIT’s Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture since 1983, died in a streetcar accident on November 29th, 2010, near his home in Boston, Massachusetts.
In response to the sad news, Prof. Theodore P. Wright, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Political Science, State University of New York at Albany noted:
“I was shocked by this news of the premature passing of Omar Khalidi, a prolific scholar on Indian Muslims, both historically and currently. He was a longtime member of the board of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association and contributed constructively to many of the conference panels which it sponsored at AAS, Wisconsin, ACSIS and the European Conferences on Modern South Asian studies. He and I contributed a joint paper to a major conference on Muslims in South Asia in New York City in 1989. He was a goldmine of information on bibliography and on resources on South Asian Muslims; scholars often sought his help in locating hard to find sources. He courageously pursued his research on this important topic in the face of much unfounded criticism. His death is a great loss to his community and to scholarship on Hyderabad and on South Asian Muslims in general.”
More information about Dr. Khalidi and other responses to the news of his untimely death may be found at MIT’s web site:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/obit-khalidi.html
Newsletter, October 2010
1. The New York Conference on Asia (NYCAS) met Oct.1-2 at SUNY Brockport, hosted by Salahuddin Malik.
There were three SAMSA-sponsored panels on:
–“Pakistani-Americans at the crossroads” (Faizan Haq of Buffalo and Taqdees Razzaq of George Mason)
–“Pakistan Historical perspectives, Politics & Identity” (Malik Haq, Muhammad Rumi of Islamic Center Rochester, Muhammad Shafiq of Nazareth)
–A round table on “Peace & Economic Development in South Asia” (Vikash Yadav and Feisal Khan of Hobart), two papers on language & community and “Constructing Media Violence” by Suhail Islam of Nazareth.
2. At the Wisconsin Annual Conference on South Asia, Oct.15-17, SAMSA sponsored a panel (Friday 1:45-2:30):
“Representations of Differences by/of South Asian Muslims” with papers by
Irfan Omar (Marquette) “Friend or Foe? 19th century Muslim Views of the British in India”,
Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan) “Shared Fears, Divergent Expressions; Islamophobia in British India & USA”,
Laura Dudley Jenkins (Cincinnati), “Conversion as Seduction; Islamophobia in Law and Media”;
Zillur R. Khan (Oshkosh), “Indo-Bangladeshi Misperceptions; Causes & Consequences”
3. SAMSA executive Board met at the Annual Conference on South Asia (Oct 15-17, 2010) at the Ovations Restaurant, Madison, WI
4. For the AAS conference in Honolulu, Mar.31-Apr.3, 2011,
SAMSA’s panel proposal “The Media & the Message, Muslims in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh” has been approved with the following papers: Taj Hashmi “The Politics of Trying ‘War Criminals’ & Islamist Militants in Bangladesh”; Zillur R Khan “The Media & Autonomy Movements of Muslims in South Asia”, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, “the Changing Face of an Islamic Religious Movement (Darul Uloom Deoband), the Media Perspective from India”; Chair & discussant: Theodore Wright
5. SAMSA has a new website:
www.southasianmuslimstudiesassociation.org A list of SAMSA-sponsored panels & roundtables since the early 1990s will be posted there soon. Other suggestions and comments to improve the website would be most appreciated.
SAMSA issues a Newsletter periodically (roughly twice a year) with a mailing list of nearly 100 scholars working in a variety of fields related to South Asian Muslims. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter, please contact Theodore P. Wright Jr. (Prof. Emeritus of Political Science, SUNY Albany).
1989 – 2010 Archives
Panels organized and/or sponsored by
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2010
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 15, 2010
Panel Title: Representations of Difference by/of South Asian Muslims
-Irfan A. Omar (Marquette): “Friend or Foe? Muslim Views of the British in 19th Century India”
-Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan): “Shared Fears, Divergent Expressions: Islamphobia in British India and the United States
-Laura Dudley Jenkins (Cincinnati): “Conversion as Seduction:Islamophobia in Law and Media”
-Zillur R Khan (Oshkosh): “Indo-Bangladesh Mutual Misperceptions; Causes & Consequences”
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), SUNY-Brockport: October 1-2, 2010
Panel Title: Peace and Economic Development in South Asia
Panelists: Vikash Yadav (Hobart), Feisal Khan (Hobart), Victoria Farmer (SUNY-Geneseo)
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Villanova University: April, 9, 2010
Panel Title: State and Islam in South and Southwest Asia
-Robert Hazan (Denver): “Rise of Religious Orthodoxy in Turkish Politics 2002-10”
-Grace Clark (USEFP): “Pakistan’s Policies on Aging”
Panel Title: Literature & Poetry in South Asia
-Janet Powers (Gettysburg): “The Marriage Metaphor in South Asian Devotional Poetry”
-Steve Fink (Eau Claire): “A Timely Transition: Secularization of Qawwali in India and Pakistan”
-Tahira Khan (Denver): “Religio-political Power of Imam of Mosque in Rural Pakistan”
Panel Title: Indian Muslims before & after Independence
-Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany): “Deradicalization of Jamaat-i-Islami Hind compared to JI Pakistan
-Athar Murtuza (Seton Hall): “Educated Islam in Hyderabad before Partition”
Panel Title: Muslim Education in South Asia
-Mashal Said (Duke): “Forming Ideal Muslim Subjects: Education and Edification in Madrasas in Colonial India and Beyond”
-Nathaniel Davis (Southern Illinois Univ-Carbondale): “From Colonialism to Neo-Colonialism; Nationalism, Islam and the Cultural Framing of Conflicts in Afghanistan”
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Philadelphia, PA: March 28, 2010
Panel Title: Muslim Identity in India 19th to 21st Centuries
-M Raisur Rahman Khan (Wake Forest): “Madrasas, Maktabs & Schools; Muslim Education in Qasbati Colonial India”
-Fatima Imam (Lake Forest): “Ideological Adjustments of Indian Muslims-Twelve Families of Uttar Pradesh”
-Irfan A. Omar (Marquette): “Secularism or Marginalization: Muslim Religious Discourses in 21st Century”
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 25, 2009
Panel Title: How Muslims View Jihad & its Global Implications
-Irfan A. Omar (Marquette): “Gandhi on Jihad: an Interreligious Perspective”
-Aurangzeb Syed (N. Mich.): “Jihad in Punjab”
-Geoffrey Cook (Independent): A Critical Analysis of the Islamic Imagery Project”
-Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany): “Deradicalization of a Revivalist Movement”
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Cornell University: October 9, 2009
Panel Title: Politics of an Unclear Borderland
-Feisal Khan (Hobart): “Understanding Pakistan’s Afghan Policy”
-Faizan Haq (Buffalo): “American Demands & Pakistan’s Priorities: Illusion, Expectations & Realities”
-Vikash Yadav (Hobart): “Myth of the Moderate Taliban”
Panel Title: Displaced Borders
-Madhavi Bhasin (Global India Foundation): “Line of No Control: India-Pakistan Interactions through the Blogosphere”
-Saheli Datta (Syracuse): “Refugees & Displaced Persons in SA: Political Connections.
-Lindsey Kingston (Syracuse): “A Border around Every Corner: Statelessness and Zones of Exception”
-Nasim Yousaf (Independent): “Pakistan and India: the Case for Unification”
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Coral Gables, FL: April 24, 2009
Panel Title: South Asian Muslim Encounters with the West, pre and post independence
-Faisal Devji (The New School): “The Problem of Muslim Universalism”
-Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany): “The Rise of Political Violence among some South Asian Muslim Youth”
-Hafeez Malik (Villanova): Discussant
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 19 2008
Panel Title: Adoption of Muslim Personal Law of South Asian Muslims in the West
Panelists: Jeff Redding comparing India and the West, Rita Akhtar on the debate on multiculturalism, Irfan Omar on the debate in the USA, Theodore Wright, chair
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Hamilton, NY: September 26, 2008
Roundtable: The New Regime in Pakistan
Panelists: Faizan Haq (SUNY-Buffalo), Vikash Yadav (Hobart and William Smith), Tariq Karim (Foreign Service), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Washington, DC: April 16, 2008
Panel Title: Reopning the Gates of Ijtihad
Panelists: Nadeem Hasnain (St. Lawrence), Etin Anwar (Hobart and William), Irfan A Omar (Marquette), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany), Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton), Discussant
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Binghamton: October 26-27, 2007
Roundtable: Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2007: Domestic Crises, Foreign Causes?
Panelists: Faizan Haq (SUNY-Buffalo), Salahuddin Malik (SUNY-Brockport), Holly Sims (SUNY-Albany), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany), Chair
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 13, 2007
Roundtable: Decentering Study of Indian Muslims
Panelists: Laura Dudley Jenkins (Cincinnati), Zillur Khan (Oshkosh), Irfan A. Omar (Marquette), Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany), Discussant
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Denver, CO: April 20, 2007
Panel Title: Markers: Ways in which majority communities detect minority members for either discrimination or benefits
-Nadeem Hasnain (St. Lawrence): “Shia and Sunni in Lucknow”
-Zillur R. Khan (Univ of Oshkosh): “Ahmadis and Hindus in Bangladesh”
-Dennis McGilvray (Univ of Colorado-Boulder): “Interethnic Semiotics of Circumcision in Sri Lanka”
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Boston, MA: March 22, 2007
Panel Title: Legacies of Partition in South Asia
-Vazira Zamindar (Brown): “Moving People; Immovable Property”
-Omar Khalidi (MIT): “Martial Races in the post partition Indian Army”
-Haimanti Roy (MIT): “Citizens without a Nation; Minorities in Being 1947-65”
-Karen Leonard (Univ of CA-Irvine): “Hyderabadis in Pakistan and Beyond”
-Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan): Discussant
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 20, 2006
Roundtable: Picking up the Pieces; predicting the Muslim Situation after the Bush Wars
Panelists: Farhat Haq (Monmouth), Zillur R. Khan (Oshkosh), Aurangzeb Syed (Northern Michigan), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
Roundtable: Muslims, Kashmir and the Bush Administration
Panelists: Zillur Khan (Oshkosh), Aurangzeb Syed (N. Michigan), Syed Bashir Hussain (Oshkosh), Aminul Karim (Bangladesh), Ghulam Nabi Fai (Washington DC), Anwar Syed (Lahore), G. C. Thomas (Marquette)
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), St. Lawrence College: October 6, 2006
Roundtable: Muslims in the Media: North America, Europe, and South Asia
Panelists: Salahuddin Malik (Brockport), Faizan Haq (Buffalo), Nadeem Hasnain (St. Lawrence), John Collins (St. Lawrence),Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Villanova University: 2006
Panel Title: A Critique of Bernard Lewis’s thesis in ‘What Went Wrong; the Clash between Islam and Modernity’
Panelists: Karl Barbir (Siena), Radwan Masmoudi (CSID), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) San Francisco, CA: April 6-9, 2006
Panel Title: South Asian Madaris in Comparative Perspective
Panelists: Ali Riaz (Illinois State), Matt Nelson (SOAS), Chris Candland (Wellesley)
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: Oct. 6-9, 2005
Panel Title: Competing Perspectives of Unity vs. Diversity of South Asian Muslims
Panelists: Ahrar Ahmad (Black Hills, South Dakota), Laura Dudley Jenkins (Cincinnati), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), SUNY-New Paltz: September 30, 2005
Round table: Changing Academic interest in South vs.East Asia since World War II
Panelists: Janet Powers (Gettysburg), John Chaffee (Binghamton)
Round table: Muslims in America Today
Panelists: Ammar Deliou (SUNY-Albany), Salahuddin Malik (SUNY-Brockport)
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Orlando, FL: Apr 1-2, 2005
Panel Title: Afghanistan since the Elections
Panelists: Aminul Karim, Theodore Wright
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: Oct.15, 2004
Roundtable: The Future of Indian Muslims in the light of the 2004 Elections
Panelists: Mike Fisher (Oberlin), Laura Dudley Jenkins (Cincinnati), Phil Oldenburg (Texas), Raju Thomas (Marquette), Ted Wright (SUNY-Albany)
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Bard College, NY: Oct. 29, 2004
Roundtable: The Ever-tilting Triangle of US, Pakistan and India
Panelists: Steve Hoffman (Skidmore), Saeed Shafqat (Columbia/Lahore), Faizan Haq (Buffalo), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) San Diego, CA: Mar 7, 2004
Panel Title: Translation through Boundaries; an attempt at Hindu-Muslim Rapprochement in the works of the Mughal Prince, Dara Shikoh
Panelists: Douglas Berger (Oakton), Irfan A. Omar (Marquette), David Pinault (Santa Clara), Michael Fisher (Oberlin)
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: Oct. 2003
Panel Title: Religious Conversion in India
Panelists: Chandra Mallampalli (Westmont), Irfan A. Omar (Marquette), Douglas Berger (Oakton), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Univ. of Buffalo: October 17-18, 2003
Roundtable: Urdu Language in South Asia: Wall or Bridge?
Panelists: Ayesha Jalal (Tufts), Joseph O’Connell (Toronto), Yakub Khan Bangash, Syed K.U. Hassan, Salahuddin Malik (Brockport), Suhail Islam (Nazareth)
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), American University: April 2, 2003
Panel Title: Waging Peace, Waging Justice, a Multifaith Perspective
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Skidmore College: Oct.25-26, 2002
Panel Title: Images & Stereotypes of Muslims in South Asian Countries
Panelists: Shahid Refai (St.Rose); Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington DC: April 6, 2002
Roundtable: Bush Administration & South Asia: Change or Continuity?
Panelists: Ainslie Embree (Columbia), Saeed Shafqat (Lahore), Sumit Ganguly (Texas), Rashiduzzaman (Rowan)
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Washington, DC: Mar 4, 2002
Panel Title: Islam, 9/11 and US National Security
Panelists: Akbar Ahmed (American Univ), Ambassador M Aminul Karim (Bangladesh); Hafeez Malik (Villanova); Asma Afsaruddin (Notre Dame); Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Cornell University: October 27, 2001
Panel Title: Rewriting of Muslim History in South Asia: Who controls the discourse?
-Shahid Refai (St. Rose) “Colonial India”
-M. Rashiduzzaman (Rowan) “Bangladesh since 1971”
-Yvette Rosser (Texas) “The Hindu-centric Perspective”
-Irfan A Omar (Marquette), Discussant
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 19, 2001
Panel Title: A Place to Remember or Not: Local intersections of Memory, Forgetting and Identity Construction
Panelists: Syed Faiz Ali (Virginia?); Peter Gottschalk (Wisconsin); Christopher Lee (Canisius), Karen Leonard (UC-Irvine), Discussant
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Villanova Univ: April 27-28, 2001
Panel Title: Muslims, Distorting media and American Politics
-Mir M. Ali (Washington), “Treatment of Muslims in the American Media; the Arab-Israeli Dispute”
-Dilnawaz Siddiqui (Clarion),”Iraq from Virtual Ally to Enemy in the Gulf War toTarget of Sanctions”
-Ghulam Nabi Fai (Kashmiri American Council), “Kashmiris from Freedom Fighters to Fundamentalists, Mercenaries, and Terrorists”
-Abdul Malik Mujahid (Soundvision, Chicago), “The American Media and the Balkan Conflicts, a Reverse Case?”
-Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton), Discussant
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, IL: Mar. 22-25, 2001
Panel Title: Nonviolent and Quietistic Islam
-Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton), “Tabligh-i-Jamaat in Bangladesh”
-Robert Johansen (Notre Dame), “Radical Islam and Non-violence: A Case Study of Religious Empowerment, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Khudai Khidmatgars”
-Irfan A. Omar (Temple), “Rethinking Jihad in Wahiduddin Khan’s Theology of Non-Violence”
-Sheila McDonough (Concordia), Discussant
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), College of St. Rose: October 21, 2000
Panel Title: ?
Panelists: Shabnum Khan, Garrett Menning, Iftikhar Khan, Mubarak Zuberi, Chitralekha Zutshi, Reeta T. Chowdhari
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 14, 2000
Panel Title: Teaching about Muslims
-Richard Eaton (Arizona) “Confronting Stereotypes with Historical Evidence”,
-Laura Dudley Jenkins (Cincinnati),”Not without my Stereotypes: Muslim Personal Law Debates via internet-based Instruction”
-Peter Gottschalk (Southwestern),”Challenging Identities: Muslims and Hindus in a Virtual Village”
-Syed Ali, Discussant.
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Diego, CA: March 9-12, 2000
Panel Title: Changing Sources of Patronage for Muslim musicians in South Asia; Hindu Temples, Muslim Rulers & Shrines and Secular Bollywood
Panelists: Dan Neuman and Loraine Sakata (UCLA), Brian Silver (VOA Urdu program), Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (Alberta), Bonnie Wade (Berkeley)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Boston, MA: March 13, 1999
Panel Title: Homogenization vs. Differentiation among Indian Muslims
-Jonah Blank (Harvard): “Mullah on the Mainframe; Modernity and Islamization among the Daudi Bohras”
-Frank Fanselow (Brunei): “The Genesis of Communalism in Tamil Nadu; the Minakshipuram Mass Conversions”
-Laura D. Jenkins (Wisconsin): “Caste, Class and Islam; Debating the Boundaries of Backwardness in India”
-Omar Khalidi (MIT): “Konkani Muslims on the Urduization Path”
-Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany), Grace Clark (AIPS), Ali Asani (Harvard), Discussants
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Villanova Univ: May 1, 1999
Panel Title: Homogenization vs. Differentiation among Indian Muslims
-Jonah Blank (Harvard): “Mullah on the Mainframe; Modernity & Islamization among the Daudi Bohras”
-Laura D. Jenkins (Wisconsin): “Caste, Class & Islam; Debating the Boundaries of Backwardness in India”
-Tahira Aftab (Franklin and Marshall): “The Gender Gap in Pakistan”
-Mumtaz Ahmad, Discussant
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Hobart College: Oct 16, 1999
Panel Title: Different Kinds of Muslim Stance Towards Religious Conversion in South Asia
Panelists: Omar Afzal (Cornell), Russell Blackwood (Hamilton), Shahid Refai (St. Rose)
Roundtable: Afghanistan
Panelists: Mohammed I. Khan (Clarion), Tom Greene (US State Dept), Qadir Amiryar (George Washington Univ), George Collins (Wichita)
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 15-17, 1999
Panel Title: Contesting Perspectives on Religious Conversion in South Asia: Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist
Panelists: Arvind Sharma (McGill), Marcia Hermansen (Loyola), Geoffrey Cook (Berkeley), Christopher Queen (Harvard).
Panel Title: Predicaments & Poetics of Muslim Identity in India; Variable Meanings of Caste, Code and Community
Panelists: Syed Ali (Virginia), Kristin Bright (Santa Cruz), Laura Dudley Jenkins, Christopher Lee (Syracuse)
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), SUNY-New Paltz: October 15, 1998
Panel Title: Muslims, the Media and the Post-colonial State
Panelists: Shahid Refai, (St. Rose), Convenor; David Lelyveld (Columbia); McCord, Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
Panel Title: Responsibility for Environmental Degradation in Asia
Panelists: Holly Sims (SUNY-Albany), Ward Morehouse, Reshma Prakash Murti
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington, DC: March 27-29, 1998
Panel Title: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: A Centennial Retrospective
Panelists: C. M. Naim, (Chicago), Convenor; Faisal Devji (London), David Lelyveld (Columbia), Gail Minault (Texas).
Panel Title: Post Modernism and the Study of South Asian Muslims
Panelists: Paul Brass (Univ. of Washington), Frank Spaulding (Ohio) Ashutosh Varshney (Harvard), Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton). Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany).
MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS), West Chester Univ: Oct. 26, 1997 Panel Title: Pakistan at 50
-Craig Baxter, Convenor
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 17, 1997
Panel Title: The Muslim Response to Globalization/Privatization in South Asia
-Stanley Kochanek (Penn State) “Business and the New Economic Policy in South Asia”
-Dennis McGilvray (Colorado) “Sufi Circuits in/to Sri Lanka”
-Rashiduzzaman (Rowan) “The Islamic Critique of Economic and Media Globalization in Bangladesh”
-Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany) “Muslim Self-Reliance in India: the Model of the Business Communities”
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Binghamton University: October 31, 1997
Panel Title: Fifty Years of Independence of India
-Russell Blackwood (Hamilton), Convenor
MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS), West Chester Univ: Oct. 26, 1997 Panel Title: Islam and NGOs in South Asia
Panelists: Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton), Muhammad Maruf (Cordoba Institute), Rashiduzzaman (Rowan), Shahid Refai (St. Rose)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, IL: March 15, 1997
Roundtable: NGOs in South Asia
Panelists: Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton), on Pakistan, M. Rashiduzzaman (Glassboro State, NJ) on Bangladesh; Muhammad Maruf (Cordoba Institute) on Sri Lanka; Shahid Refai (St. Rose) on colonial India; Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany) on post-independence India
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: October 19, 1996
Panel Title: Changes in Urdu since Partition: India and Pakistan
Panelists: Herman Van Olphen (Texas), Tahsin Siddiqi and Peter Hook (U. Michigan), C.M. Naim, Discussant.
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Honolulu, HI: April 12, 1996
Panel Title: Gender, Ethnic Identity and Modernity under Stress in South Asian Islam
Panelists: Gail Minault (Texas), Sylvia Vatuk (Chicago), Shahid Refai (St. Rose), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany), Gulnar Baltanova (Tataria)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington, DC: April 6-9, 1995
Panel Title: The Hyderabad Diaspora
Panelists: Karen Leonard (Irvine), Omar Khalidi (MIT), Michael Witmer (Temple)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston, MA: March 26, 1994
Panel Title: Hindu-Muslim-Sikh Communal Integration and Disintegration in India
-Cynthia Keppley Mahmood (Maine) “The Culture of Sikh Separatism”
-Andreas D’Souza (Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies, Hyderabad), “The Aman-Shanti Forum Movement for Muslim-Hindu Dialogue in Hyderabad”
-Claire Weber (Penn) “Hindu Traders and Muslim Embroidery Workers in Lucknow: a Caste Study of their Economic Relations” (paper read by DeWitt Ellinwood, SUNY-Albany)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Los Angeles, CA: March 27, 1993
Panel Title: Problems of Research on the South Asian Muslim Diaspora
-Dorothy Angell (DC) “Bangladeshis in USA”
-Michael Fisher (Oberlin) “An Early Muslim Migrant to the UK”
-Kathryn Hansen (Columbia) “Muslim Cultural Activities in the New York City area”
-Omar Khalidi (MIT) “Indian Muslims in USA”
-Shahid Refai (St. Rose) “Members of Diaspora doing research in home countries”
-Arthur Helweg (W. Michigan) “Gulfis”
-Salahuddin Malik (Brockport) “Relations between Black Muslims and South Asian in USA”
-Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany) “South Asians in the West’s Reactions to the Rushdie Controversy and the Gulf War”
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington, DC: Apr. 4, 1992
Roundtable: Muslim Women: when Muslims?; when Women?
Panelists: Charles H. Kennedy (Wake Forest), Shahid Refai (St. Rose), Anita Weiss (Oregon), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
SAMSA, New Orleans, LA: Apr.13, 1991
Roundtable: South Asian Muslims in the post-Cold War Era
Panelists: Michael Fisher (Oberlin), Shahid Refai (St. Rose), Eliot Tepper (Carleton, Canada), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)
MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS), Lockhaven, PA: Nov. 1-3, 1991
Panel Title: The 1990 Pakistan Elections
Panelists: Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton), Larry Gerber (NDI Election Observation Team), Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany) informal observer while in Pakistan on sabbatical
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, IL: Apr. 7, 1990
Panel Title: Insiders and Outsiders in the Study of South Asian Muslims
Panelists: Doranne Jacobson (Springfield, IL), Shahid Refai (St. Rose), Dhirendra Vajpayi
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Syracuse University: Nov. 11, 1989
Panel Title: Asian Islam: Institutionalization of Religious Culture, Beliefs and Practices
Panelists: Shahid Refai, David Pinault, Ralph Sisson
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI: Nov. 4, 1989
Panel Title: Indo-Islamic History
Panelists: Gavin Hambly, William Spengler, Fritz Lehmann, Marie Martin, Richard Eaton
Muslim Social Scientists Association (MSSA), Brockport, NY: Oct. 26-28, 1989
Panel Title: Status of the Indian Muslim Minority
Panelists: Theodore Wright (SUNYA), Chair, Abidullah Ghazi (Chicago), M. Badr Alam (Elmira, NY), Omar Khalidi (MIT), Laxmi Barwa (New Delhi), Mohammed I. Khan (Clarion, PA)
MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS), Georgetown Univ: Oct. 22, 1989
Panel Title: The Ethno-National Question and Regional Security in Pakistan
Panelists: Aftab Kazi, Mumtaz Ahmad, Suleiman Nyang,Theodore Wright
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington, DC: Mar. 17, 1989
-Barbara Metcalf (UC-Davis) on “Endeavors of the Joint Committee (ACLS/SSRC) on the Comparative study of Muslim Societies”
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Albany: Oct. 9, 1988
Panel Title: Patterns of Social Interaction & Non-Interaction between Religious Communities in India
-Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth), “The Khilafat Movement & the Emergence of Communalism in Surat”
-Khalid Mehtabdin (St. Rose), “Regional Inequalities in Pakistan”
-Omar Afzal (Cornell), “Role Maintenance in Communal Tension: Dilemma of Nationalist Muslims
-Mohammed I. Khan, (Clarion), “Communal Integration through Intermarriage”
-Soofiye Hussain (Nassau CC), Discussant
MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS), Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Oct. 23, 1988
Roundtable: Ethnoreligious Integration & Disintegration in South Asia
Panelists: Aminul Islam (on Bangladesh), Fazal Davood (on Sri Lanka), Mohammed I. Khan (on India), Mumtaz Ahmad, Salahuddin Malik, Aftab Kazi and Manzoor Khatana (on Pakistan)