2022 Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia

In person: 509 O'Brian Hall

Panel Chair: Dr. Naila Sahar, University at Buffalo & Forman Christian College (Pakistan)

Prerna Vij, Ashoka University, “The Conspiratorial Road to the North East Delhi Pogrom”

Samana Butul, Syeda Dua, Zehra Zaidi, Habib University, “Sociopolitical Discourse of Balochistan versus Censored Media”

Manaam, University of Delhi, “Islamartization: Role of Art in Combating Religious Polarization”

Syeda Zarah Batool, Habib University, “Menstruating while Student: Coming Back To Campus after Lockdown in Pakistan”

Panel Chair: Anupriya Pandey, University at Buffalo

Ananya Pujary, Flame University, “The Effect of Climate Change Fake News on Emotions across Generations”

Rukhshan Haroon, Ayesha Naeem, Uswah Fatima, Lahore University, “Unpacking Misinformation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study”

Manum Shahid, McGill University, “Dalit Muslims in the Face of Hindu Supremacy”

Sudarshan Pujari, Jadavpur University, “Are 'Voluntary' Religious Associations Laboratories for State-Politics? The Case of 'Deras' in the Politics of North-Western India”

Panel Chair: Dr. Christopher Lee, Canisius College 

Samia Noor, University at Buffalo, “The Blossoming of the Narcissus in Urdu Poetry”

Eric Cortes-Kopp, Hamilton College, “A Threat to Order: Colonial, Nationalist, and Contemporary Approaches To Gender Making”

Nisha Arya, University of Rochester, “COVID-19 in India: A Long History of Untouchability”

Panel Chair: Dr. Shaanta Murshid, University at Buffalo

Imaan Khasru, Princeton University, “Invisible Rebellions: The Indian Colonial Woman and Social Restriction”

Anastasiya Rudenko, University at Buffalo, “How has the Soviet-Afghan War Been Covered by the Media?”

Brooklynn Mainard, University of Kansas, “From the Top: Profiling Iran’s Post-Revolution Political Elite

Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marla Segol, University at Buffalo

Dr. Michael Muhammad Knight

“Trouble Among the Righteous: The FBI and American Islam”

The fourth annual Rustgi South Asian Undergraduate Research Conference is made possible by a generous gift from the families of Dr. Vinod Rustgi and Dr. Anil Rustgi as well as funding from the University at Buffalo Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, UB Community for Global Health Equity, UB Humanities Institute, and UB Office of International Education.