Program
Sessions
Session 1: Pranav Prakash
Moving Books: How the Mobility of Chapbooks Transformed Colonial Mithila
Date: Tuesday 2026-07-07 09:00-10:30
Chair: Coralynn V. Davis
Respondent: Anand Yang
Session 2: Ankita Choudhary
Printing Mithila: Vernacular Media, Linguistic Belonging, and the Making of the Maithili Public
Date: Tuesday 2026-07-07 11:00-12:30
Chair: Christopher L. Diamond
Respondent: David Boyk
Session 3: Mallika Shakya
Performing Aspiration: Protest, Popular Culture, and Maithil Mobility in Nepal–India Border Towns
Date: Tuesday 2026-07-07 14:00-15:30
Chair: Dev Nath Pathak
Respondent: Camille Buat
Session 4: Camille Buat
Shifting Pardesh: Labour Migration and Territorial Reconfiguration in North India (1880s-1950s)
Date: Tuesday 2026-07-07 16:00-17:30
Chair: Nupur Choudhary
Respondent: Christopher L. Diamond
Session 5: Christopher L. Diamond
From Courtyard to Canon: De-Domesticating Sita in Nineteenth-Century Maithili Rāmāyaṇas
Date: Wednesday 2026-07-08 09:00-10:30
Chair: Camille Buat
Respondent: Nupur Choudhary
Session 6: Nupur Choudhary
Songs of Separation: Gendered Dialogues, Movement and Singing Worlds of the Women of Mithila
Date: Wednesday 2026-07-08 11:00-12:30
Chair: Pranav Prakash
Respondent: Mallika Shakya
Session 7: David Boyk
Did Bihar and Orissa Exist? Provinces and Regions in Late Colonial India
Date: Wednesday 2026-07-08 14:00-15:30
Chair: Mallika Shakya
Respondent: Ankita Choudhary
Session 8: Dev Nath Pathak
Fluid Femininity: Modern Maithili Litterateur Lily Ray's Affective Subjectivity in Transregional Mobility
Date: Wednesday 2026-07-08 16:00-17:30
Chair: Anand Yang
Respondent: Coralynn V. Davis
Art Presentation: Nupur Choudhary
Date: Wednesday 2026-07-08 19:30-21:00
Session 9: Anand Yang
Date: Thursday 2026-07-09 09:00-10:30
Chair: Ankita Choudhary
Respondent: Dev Nath Pathak
Session 10: Coralynn V. Davis
Moving Stories: Reflections on Archival and Filmic Circulations of Maithil Women's Tales
Date: Thursday 2026-07-09 11:00-12:30
Chair: David Boyk
Respondent: Pranav Prakash
Concluding Discussion
Date: Thursday 2026-07-09 14:00-15:30