BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center is proud to host pre sentations by two recent recipients of the Bharati Memorial Award about th eir research. This award supports exceptional graduate students working on South Asia and commemorates the legacy of Professor Agehananda Bharati\, a renowned expert in the cultural anthropology of South Asia and a member of Syracuse University’s faculty for three decades. \;Kanwaljit Singh (anthropology)Poonam Agarde (social science)In “Pānī Ontologies: Counter-H egemonic Ontologies of Water in the Narratives of Mumbai’s Water Rights Ca mpaign\,” Argade examines three counter hegemonic ontologies of water base d on my fieldwork with Mumbai’s Water Rights Campaign\, a collective that has been striving for inclusive municipal water access in the city’s infor mal settlements. Argade thinks through what it would mean to recognize ont ological politics of water mobilizing across difference(s) in urban wester n India. Multilingual\, anti-caste (Dalit-Bahujan)\, and left-progressive approaches shape the core of non-dominant pānī ontologies. Argade analyzes how water ontologies emerge in tussles with and against the state and mak e it possible for different waters to exist. \;In “Smart City Kashmir: Implications of Urban Development and Infrastructural Transformations in the Contested City of Srinagar\,” Singh adopts a spatiotemporal approach t o analyze the smart city project in Srinagar. Singh examines the smart cit y project in Kashmir by focusing on two main themes: first\, the aim to mo dernize the city\, driven by a unilineal model of development operating un der the dominant temporal framework of the state\, which overlooks the mul tiplicity of time and temporalities\; and\, second\, the threat posed to t raditional Kashmiri spaces and places of memory\, as well as the impact on how Kashmiris experience these transformed spaces and the stories that ev olve alongside these changes. Singh critically reviews India’s model of de velopment (especially smart city project) to highlight how this project ov erlooks non-dominant articulations of time and temporalities in Kashmir.&n bsp\; DTEND:20250123T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260510T225946Z DTSTART:20250123T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:2025 Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentations UID:RFCALITEM639140363866240353 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center is proud to host presentations by two recent recipients of the Bharati Memorial Award about their research. This award supports exceptional graduate students wo rking on South Asia and commemorates the legacy of Professor Agehananda Bh arati\, a renowned expert in the cultural anthropology of South Asia and a member of Syracuse University’s faculty for three decades. \;< /p>

In “Pānī Ontologies: Cou nter-Hegemonic Ontologies of Water in the Narratives of Mumbai’s Water Rig hts Campaign \,” Argade examines three cou nter hegemonic ontologies of water based on my fieldwork with Mumbai’s Wat er Rights Campaign\, a collective that has been striving for inclusive mun icipal water access in the city’s informal settlements. Argade thinks thro ugh what it would mean to recognize ontological politics of water mobilizi ng across difference(s) in urban western India. Multilingual\, anti-caste (Dalit-Bahujan)\, and left-progressive approaches shape the core of non-do minant pānī ontologies. Argade analyzes how water ontologies emerge in tus sles with and against the state and make it possible for different waters to exist. \;

In “Smart City Kashmir: I mplications of Urban Development and Infrastructural Transformations in th e Contested City of Srinagar\,” Singh adopts a spatiotemp oral approach to analyze the smart city project in Srinagar. Singh examine s the smart city project in Kashmir by focusing on two main themes: first\ , the aim to modernize the city\, driven by a unilineal model of developme nt operating under the dominant temporal framework of the state\, which ov erlooks the multiplicity of time and temporalities\; and\, second\, the th reat posed to traditional Kashmiri spaces and places of memory\, as well a s the impact on how Kashmiris experience these transformed spaces and the stories that evolve alongside these changes. Singh critically reviews Indi a’s model of development (especially smart city project) to highlight how this project overlooks non-dominant articulations of time and temporalitie s in Kashmir. \;

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