Organized by: Thomas Hansen, Department of Anthropology, Yale University & Oskar Verkaaik, Research Centre for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam

Breakfast & Registration
Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall
8:30-9:15am

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Introduction & Opening Comments
Luce Hall Auditorium
9:15-10:30am

Thomas Hansen, Yale University
"The Hustler and the Anthropologist: Introductory Notes on Infra power and Legibility in the City"

Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam
"Charisma & Taboo: Introductory Notes on Non-Bureaucratic Forms of Urban Authority"

Discussion & Coffee
Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall

10:30-11:00am

Panel 1
Luce Hall Auditorium
11:00am-1:00pm

Thijl Sunier, University of Amsterdam
"Muslim Women take Issue: Islam and the Public Sphere in Western Europe"

Discussant
Faisal Devji, New School University

Eric Worby, Yale University
"The Play of Race in a Field of Urban Desire: Soccer and Spontaneity in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg"

Discussant
Abdoumaliq Simone, New School University

Lunch
Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall
1:00-2:00pm

Panel 2
Room 202, Luce Hall
2:00-4:00pm

Dhooleka Raj, Yale University
"The neo-Hindu Hustler and the Department of the Environment" (pdf)

Discussant
Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam

Commentary

Ahmed Afzal, Colgate University
"Rumors, Tales, Gossip and the Pakistan-American Association of Greater Houston: Specters of Power and Contemporary Ethnic Organizations in the United States"

Discussant
Véronique Benëi, Yale University

Commentary & discussion

Coffee
4:00-4:30pm

Panel 3
Room 202, Luce Hall
4:30-6:30pm

Wilson Chacko Jacob, Cornell University
"Between Strongman and Thug: Diagnosing the Futuwwa in Interwar Cairo"

Discussant
Saba Mahmood, University of Berkeley

Steffen Jensen, Roskilde University
"Back Street Blues: Imaginaries and Practices of Street Gangs in Cape Town"

Discussant
Ajay Gandhi, Yale University

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Breakfast
Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall
8:30-9:15am

Panel 4
Room 202, Luce Hall
9:15-10:15am

Helen Siu, Yale University
"Grounding Displacement II:  The Infra-Power of Middle Class Hong Kong in the New Millennium"

Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, Discussant

Discussion

Coffee
10:15-10:30am

Panel 5
Room 202, Luce Hall
10:30am-12:30pm

Abdoumaliq Simone, New School University
"Choreographing Emergency Democracy: on the “Governing Composite” of a Douala Market"

Discussant
Patricia Marquez, Harvard University

Response & discussion

Room 202, Luce Hall Stanford University
"The Charisma of Informality: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa"

Discussant
Arjun Appadurai, New School University

Response

Commentary

Lunch
Common Room, Second Floor, Luce Hall
12:30-1:30pm

Panel 6
Room 202, Luce Hall
1:30-3:30pm

Ayse Caglar, University of Budapest
"Hometown Associations, Urban scale and the Ambivalent Location of Migrant Grassroots Transnationalism"

Discussant
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University

Response

Commentary

Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam
"Participatory logic in a Mediated Age. Neighbourhood Governance in the Netherlands after the Multicultural Drama"

Discussant
Thomas Hansen, Yale University

Response

Commentary

Coffee
3:30-4:00pm

Panel 7
Room 202, Luce Hall
4:00-6:00pm

Justus L. Uitermark, University of Amsterdam
"Performing Authority in the ‘Multicultural Drama’ - Building Bridges after the Assassination of Theo van Gogh"

Discussant
Srirupa Roy, University of Massachuetts at Amherst

Response

Commentary

Bernard Bate, Yale University
"Walking Utopia: Spacetime and the City in Indian Political Practice"

Discussant
Carol Breckenridge, New School University

Response

Commentary

Concluding Remarks & Discussion
6:00-6:30pm