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The 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, ECSAS, will be organized by CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investiga&#231;&#227;o em Antropologia, and hosted by ISCTE-IUL (Portugal) on the 25th to 28th July 2012.&#160;Programme25 JulyStart time / Room / Panel14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C406&#160;&#160;&#160; P04&#160;&#160;&#160; State and tribe in central-eastern India: (re)approaching a troubled and troublesome nexus&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C301&#160;&#160;&#160; P05&#160;&#160;&#160; The empire at the margins: subaltern voices from Portuguese colonialism in India&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C402&#160;&#160;&#160; P10&#160;&#160;&#160; Rural poverty, inequality and contemporary social mobilisation&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C408&#160;&#160;&#160; P11&#160;&#160;&#160; Changing spaces, identities and livelihoods in Delhi&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P35&#160;&#160;&#160; Imagining Bangladesh and its 40 years&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C405&#160;&#160;&#160; P36&#160;&#160;&#160; Language death and language preservation in South Asia&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C401&#160;&#160;&#160; P38&#160;&#160;&#160; The 19th century: discontinuities, sites and events in Indian literature&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C401&#160;&#160;&#160; P16&#160;&#160;&#160; Meerut revisited: the conspiracy case in context, 1929-1934&#160;&#160; 26 JulyStart time / Room / Panel09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C402&#160;&#160;&#160; P09&#160;&#160;&#160; Developing control: the reconfiguration of space and the making of development on the ground&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C302&#160;&#160;&#160; P15&#160;&#160;&#160; Re-forming subjects: colonial and national approaches to moral education, 18th to mid-20th century&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C406&#160;&#160;&#160; P30&#160;&#160;&#160; Village restudies in South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C405&#160;&#160;&#160; P32&#160;&#160;&#160; Marriage in South Asia: practices and transformations&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C408&#160;&#160;&#160; P39&#160;&#160;&#160; Narrative and counter narrative in contemporary South Asian literature and film&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P44&#160;&#160;&#160; Security architecture in South Asia: prospects and challenges&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C401&#160;&#160;&#160; P47&#160;&#160;&#160; Of saints, converts, and heroes: hagiographies  and conversion auto/biographies across religions in South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00 Grande Audit&#243;rio P51 From the inside looking out&#8230; Filmic visions of South Asia's tacit &#34;other&#34;&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C406&#160;&#160;&#160; P18&#160;&#160;&#160; Settled strangers: why South Asians in diaspora remain outsiders?&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C301&#160;&#160;&#160; P48&#160;&#160;&#160; Life on the margins: Expressions of agency among the marginalized in Contemporary South Asia.&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C405&#160;&#160;&#160; P02&#160;&#160;&#160; Collective action and class struggle:  anthropological and historical perspectives on India's working classes&#160;&#160;  16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C402&#160;&#160;&#160; P25&#160;&#160;&#160; Mercantile spaces, networks, and mobility in early modern South Asia16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P26&#160;&#160;&#160; The politicization of emotions in South Asia&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C301&#160;&#160;&#160; P33&#160;&#160;&#160; Law and religion in practice in South Asia&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C408&#160;&#160;&#160; P42&#160;&#160;&#160; Relevance of the economy in transformations from war to peace in South Asia&#160;&#160; 27 JulyStart time / Room / Reference panel / Title09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P03&#160;&#160;&#160; Possession, mental illness and the effectiveness  of healing rituals in contemporary South Asia and beyond&#160;&#160;&#160; email09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C301&#160;&#160;&#160; P06&#160;&#160;&#160; Politics in the margins: the everyday state, violence and contested rule in South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C302&#160;&#160;&#160; P07&#160;&#160;&#160; Knowledge, power and health in South Asia: historical tensions and emerging issues&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C402&#160;&#160;&#160; P23&#160;&#160;&#160; Yogis, sufis, devotees: religious/literary encounters in pre-modern and modern South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C405&#160;&#160;&#160; P24&#160;&#160;&#160; Pakistan: state formation, identity politics, and national contestation&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C406&#160;&#160;&#160; P40&#160;&#160;&#160; Portuguese orientalism: postcolonial perspectives&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C408&#160;&#160;&#160; P45&#160;&#160;&#160; Objects of worship in the lived religions of South Asia: forms, practices and meanings&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C401&#160;&#160;&#160; P46&#160;&#160;&#160; Christians, cultural interactions, and South Asia's religious traditions&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C301&#160;&#160;&#160; P19&#160;&#160;&#160; Visions of Portuguese India, Portuguese visions of India, 16th-18th centuries&#160;&#160; 14:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C104&#160;&#160;&#160; P34&#160;&#160;&#160; The partisan manufacture of citizens in India&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P12&#160;&#160;&#160; Rethinking gender and politics in South Asia&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C406&#160;&#160;&#160; P17&#160;&#160;&#160; Children and colonial (con)texts of power in India&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C405&#160;&#160;&#160; P20&#160;&#160;&#160; Bombay from the ashes: the creation and emergence of city space, 1803-1920&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C401&#160;&#160;&#160; P21&#160;&#160;&#160; The republic of letters: the Islamicate world of writing&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C408&#160;&#160;&#160; P27&#160;&#160;&#160; Technologies, industries, practices: examining the soundscape of Indian films&#160;&#160; 16:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C301&#160;&#160;&#160; P29&#160;&#160;&#160; Courtesans in South India: towards a revisionist cultural history28 JulyStart time / Room / Reference panel / Title09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; B201&#160;&#160;&#160; P01&#160;&#160;&#160; Ritual and the practice of texts in South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C406&#160;&#160;&#160; P08&#160;&#160;&#160; Dalit communities in India and diaspora: agency and activism, research and representation&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P14&#160;&#160;&#160; Regimes of violence and phantasms of good government in colonial India, 1800-1947&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C405&#160;&#160;&#160; P28&#160;&#160;&#160; The (im)morality of everyday life in South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; B202&#160;&#160;&#160; P31&#160;&#160;&#160; Disability in South Asia: an emerging discourse&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C401&#160;&#160;&#160; P37&#160;&#160;&#160; Up to date? Hindi literature in the 21st century&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C402&#160;&#160;&#160; P43&#160;&#160;&#160; Political parties and change in South Asia&#160;&#160; 09:00&#160;&#160;&#160; C408&#160;&#160;&#160; P50&#160;&#160;&#160; State-identity interface: explorations in  economic, social and cultural dynamics of tribal communities&#160;&#160; 11:15&#160;&#160;&#160; C407&#160;&#160;&#160; P13&#160;&#160;&#160; The Indian state in transition in the 1940s and 1950sEventsWednesdayOpening reception, Museu Cidade, 19:30 onwardsECSAS2012 will host a reception with wine and canap&#233;s which will take  place in the cloisters and garden of the Museu da Cidade, where you  will be entertained by a fadista and a guitarist. The Mayor may be  present to welcome delegates to the city. The museum is just a ten  minute walk from the main venue.The museum presents evidence of Asian cultures and the five centuries  of Portuguese presence in Asia, with a trans-disciplinary approach, and  through the exchange of perspectives from History, Art and  Anthropology, seeks to offer visitors a living and insightful memory of  Asian cultures and the centuries old relationships established between  the East and the West (and particularly Portugal).The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00-18:00, and Friday:  10:00-22:00 (with free entry from 18:00 to 22:00); with last admission  30mins before closing.ThursdayFilm screening, Grande Audit&#243;rio, 11:15-19:15There will be a film series screening in the Grande Audit&#243;rio  following on from Panel 51: From the inside looking out&#8230; Filmic visions  of South Asia's tacit 'other'. All are invited to attend.EASAS General meeting, B203, 18:00-20:00All members are invited to attend this general meeting of the Association.FridayConference banquet, Museu do Oriente, 19:30 onwardsThe banquet will be held at Museu do Oriente on a terrace overlooking  the beautiful River Tagus. The delegates will be entitled to free  entrance to all the Museus' exhibitions, granted by the Museum's  administration.Tickets for the dinner had to be requested when registering for the conference and purchased in advance.Travel time to the Museu is ~40minutes by bus/metro and some of conference team will be guiding delegates. Panels&#160;    P01 Ritual and the practice of texts in South Asia     P02 Collective action and class struggle: anthropological and historical perspectives on India's working classes     P03 Possession, mental illness and the effectiveness of healing rituals in contemporary South Asia and beyond     P04 State and tribe in central-eastern India: (re)approaching a troubled and troublesome nexus     P05 The empire at the margins: subaltern voices from Portuguese colonialism in India     P06 Politics in the margins: the everyday state, violence and contested rule in South Asia     P07 Knowledge, power and health in South Asia: historical tensions and emerging issues     P08 Dalit communities in India and diaspora: agency and activism, research and representation     P09 Developing control: the reconfiguration of space and the making of development on the ground     P10 Rural poverty, inequality and contemporary social mobilisation     P11 Changing spaces, identities and livelihoods in Delhi     P12 Rethinking gender and politics in South Asia     P13 The Indian state in transition in the 1940s and 1950s     P14 Regimes of violence and phantasms of good government in colonial India, 1800-1947     P15 Re-forming subjects: colonial and national approaches to moral education, 18th to mid-20th century     P16 Meerut revisited: the conspiracy case in context, 1929-1934     P17 Children and colonial (con)texts of power in India     P18 Settled strangers: why South Asians in diaspora remain outsiders?     P19 Visions of Portuguese India, Portuguese visions of India, 16th-18th centuries     P20 Bombay from the ashes: the creation and emergence of city space, 1803-1920     P21 The republic of letters: the Islamicate world of writing     P23 Yogis, sufis, devotees: religious/literary encounters in pre-modern and modern South Asia     P24 Pakistan: state formation, identity politics, and national contestation     P25 Mercantile spaces, networks, and mobility in early modern South Asia     P26 The politicization of emotions in South Asia     P27 Technologies, industries, practices: examining the soundscape of Indian films     P28 The (im)morality of everyday life in South Asia     P29 Courtesans in South India: towards a revisionist cultural history     P30 Village restudies in South Asia     P31 Disability in South Asia: an emerging discourse     P32 Marriage in South Asia: practices and transformations     P33 Law and religion in practice in South Asia     P34 The partisan manufacture of citizens in India     P35 Imagining Bangladesh and its 40 years     P36 Language death and language preservation in South Asia     P37 Up to date? Hindi literature in the 21st century     P38 The 19th century: discontinuities, sites and events in Indian literature     P39 Narrative and counter narrative in contemporary South Asian literature and film     P40 Portuguese orientalism: postcolonial perspectives     P42 Relevance of the economy in transformations from war to peace in South Asia     P43 Political parties and change in South Asia     P44 Security architecture in South Asia: prospects and challenges     P45 Objects of worship in the lived religions of South Asia: forms, practices and meanings     P46 Christians, cultural interactions, and South Asia's religious traditions     P47 Of saints, converts, and heroes: hagiographies and conversion auto/biographies across religions in South Asia     P48 Life on the margins: Expressions of agency among the marginalized in Contemporary South Asia.     P50 State-identity interface: explorations in economic, social and cultural dynamics of tribal communities     P51 From the inside looking out&#8230; Filmic visions of South Asia's tacit &#34;other&#34;                                                &#160;Authors and respective panels     Ahmad, Mujeeb. Rise of militancy in the Pakistani Barelwis: the case of Sunni Tehrik - P24      Akter Satu, Shammi. Urban development in Bangladesh: The spatial planning perspective - P35      Aktor, Mikael. The Shiva Linga: what's in a form? - P45      Alder, Ketan. External and internal perspectives on development in tribal Jharkhand - P09      Alessandrini, Nunziatella. Visions of Portuguese India in the Italian documentation of the 16th century - P19      Annamalai, E. Death by other means: neo-vernacularization of South Asian languages - P36      Ansaldo, Umberto. Diversity, convergence and modernity in Sri Lanka: a retrospective - P36      Ansari, Sarah. Sindhi nationalism and identity politics in Pakistan - P24      Ara, Hussan. The application of the process of ritual healing through spiritual transformation, relations and radical empathy - P03     Ara, Hussan. Terrorism at sea: maritime security challenges in South Asia - P44     Ara&#250;jo, Caio. Criminalizing the &#34;third body&#34;: gender, law and sexuality in colonial Calcutta - P12     Avelar, Ana Paula. Orientalism in 16th century Portuguese chronicles - P40     Bagchi, Barnita. Fruits of knowledge: polemics, humour, and moral education in selected Bengali women's writing, c. 1920-c.1960 - P15     Bal, Ellen. &#34;Were we born here to suffer?&#34; Constructing notions of belonging and disengagement in Bangladesh - P35     Balachandran, Aparna. Christians in conflict: Christianity, outcastes and the city in nineteenth-century South India - P46     Banerjee, Milinda. &#34;Asceticizing&#34; and &#34;ethicalizing&#34; everyday peasant life: the case of the Rajavamshis of Bengal, ca 1910-2010 - P28     Banerjee, Milinda. Saviour against Caesar: Assessing the concept of incarnation in Indian nationalist theology in late 19th- and early 20th-century Bengal - P46     Banerjee, Supurna. The language of protest: perception of agency within the women workers of the tea plantations of North Bengal, India - P48     Bangash, Yaqoob. Constructing a state: constitutional Integration of the princely states in Pakistan, 1947-73 - P24     Barreto Xavier, &#194;ngela. Catholic orientalism and Portuguese orientalism: connections and differences - P40     Bastos, Cristiana. Of plagues and names: negotiating sanitary order in colonial Goa - P07     Basu, Helene. Rational exorcism: healing possession and the Swaminarayan panth - P03     Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua. Energy security of South Asia and the Bay of Bengal - P44     Batabyal, Somnath. Middle class environmentalism: Indian media and activism - P11     Batool, Rubeena. Management of post 9/11 decision-making structures related to states at risk: a case study of Pakistan - P44     Battaglia, Giulia. Reflecting upon the predicament of digital image-making in South Asia - P51     Baujard, Julie. No planning, no policies: the case of the Tibetan colony of Majnu ka tila - P11     Bauman, Chad. Pentecostals, charismatics, and anti-Christian violence - P46     Bauman, Chad. Mythological biography and the biography of a myth: Guru Ghasidas, Satnamis, and Christians in colonial Chhattisgarh - P47     Benteler, Miriam. Saints and brotherhoods: ritual and ritual knowledge among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India - P01     Bhatia, Mohita. Agency of Dalits in a conflict situation: the case of Jammu and Kashmir - P08    Bhattacharya, Binayak. The rebellious politics and counter-aesthetics of the Bengali popular films now - P39     Bhattacharya, Binayak. Bhadralok vanguard and 'cultural governance': the biped leftism of West Bengal - P43     Bhattacharya, Nilanjan. It's all rheydt: reflecting on German art intervention in Durga Puja festival in Calcutta - P51     Bhattacharya, Sanjoy. Power and powerlessness: colonial- and post-colonial governance, and international health in India, 1920-1980 - P07     Bindi, Serena. Hybridizing idioms: interrogating the shifting interpretations of disabilty in a north Indian biomedical setting - P31     Bishokarma, Miriam. Development as a strategy in the struggle over &#34;Gorkhaland&#34; - P09     Blell, Mwenza. British Pakistanis, new reproductive technologies, and transnational (in)fertilities - P07    Blom, Am&#233;lie. &#34;Talking emotions&#34;: exploring young born-again Muslims' narratives in Bangalore and Lahore - P26     Bloomer, Kristin. Ritual as text, text as ritual: the poetics of possession in South India - P01     Bochkovskaya, Anna. Adjusting the image: &#34;traditional&#34; and &#34;modern&#34; in Punjab Deras' representation - P08     Bougnot, Olivier. &#34;Comment on &#233;crit l'histoire?&#34; Writing and unwriting history in modern Hindi and Bengali literature - P39      Bouillier, Veronique. N&#226;th and Sufis encounters - P23      Brandt, Carmen. Script as a preserver of languages in South Asia? - P36      Brown, Luke. If I did not pray, the jinn would press me down even further: ethnic and cultural determinants of help seeking among ethnic minorities in Britain - P03      Byrne, Sarah. Compromising local government: politics and authority in Nepal's post-conflict transition - P06      Cachado, Rita. South Asians, Gujaratis, Hindus, and other identities - the process of being a Hindu in Portugal - P18      Cardoso, Hugo. The demise of Indo-Portuguese in South India - P36      Carrin Tambs-Lyche, Marine. Indigenous knowledge as a resource to promote an alternative citizenship - P04      Carrin Tambs-Lyche, Marine. The performance of indigeneity and the politics of representation: divergent views - P50      Castaing, Anne. &#34;Comment on &#233;crit l'histoire?&#34; Writing and unwriting history in modern Hindi and Bengali literature - P39      Cavaliere, Stefania. Time of thought, language of dream: some counter-narrative schemes in Hindi 'experimental' prose - P39      Cerulli, Anthony. The ritual use and production of texts in the education of Malayali physicians - P01      Chakma, Bhumitra. Is a liberal security order emerging in South Asia? - P44      Chatterjee, Nandini. Cultural expertise and social vision: Justice Amir Ali's interpretation of Indian tradition - P33      Chattha, Ilyas. Partition refugees' agricultural resettlement in West Punjab: changing balance of power in Pakistan - P24      Chattopadhyay, Dhrupadi. Aberration as the norm: representing the Christian converts in nineteenth century Bengal - P47      Chaturvedula, Nandini. Rhetoric or Reality? Perceptions of Corruption in Portuguese India - P19      Chaudhuri, Nupur. Discourse on Bengali girls' education from 1880s to 1930s - P17      Chiriyankandath, James. What happened to &#34;garibi hatao&#34;? The Congress Party and the politics of poverty - P43      Ciotti, Manuela. North India 1950s-2000s: two (conceptual) villages, its (Chamar) inhabitants and the question of 'the new' - P08      Claquin, Timour. Ethnopolitics, business and connectivity in the Garo Hills region of Meghalaya - P06      Clark, Matthew. The formation of the identity of the Dasanami-Samnyasis - P23      Condos, Mark. Belligerent empire and military despotism in colonial India, 1800-60 - P14      Consolaro, Alessandra. New horizons for Hindi writing in the contemporary age: the case of Kuṇal Siṃh. - P37      Consolaro, Alessandra. Becoming-minor counternarrative: Kuṇāl Siṃh's Romiyo Jūliyaṭ aur aṁdherā (Romeo, Juliet and darkness). - P39     Copland, Ian. History in flux: Indira Gandhi and the great all-party campaign for the protection of the cow, 1966-67 - P13     Damodaran, Sumangala. Migrant identities and kinds of industrial work in Delhi - P11     Damodaran, Vinita. Mining and sacred landscapes in Eastern India - P04     Das Gupta, Sanjukta. Adivasis and the state in Chotonagpur: negotiation and resistance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - P04     Datta, Anjali B. The urban conquest of the periphery - P09     Dayeh, Islam. The flower of Arabic philology and its Persian fruit: Siraj al-din Ali Khan Arzu's (d.1756) appropriation in his 'Musmir' of Jalal al-din al-Suyuti's (d.1505) 'Al-Muzhir'. - P21     de Bruijn, Thomas. Hindi on the web - P37     de Bruijn, Thomas. Dominance and counter-narrative as positions in the cultural and literary field - P39     De Neve, Geert. Money, marriage and morality: moral evaluations of love marriages in a South Indian industrial town - P28     de Silva, Jani. Masculinity, violence and the body - P12     Delacy, Richard. The ambivalent return to the village in the post-liberalization period: Maitreyi Pushpa's novel &#34;Chak&#34; [the potter's wheel] - P37     Delvoye, Fran&#231;oise. 'Nalini'Encounters between Sufi saints and court musicians in the sultanate and Mughal periods - P23     Denault, Leigh. Constructing 'madhya sreni' (middle-class) values: social and religious education in the Hindi-speaking household - P15      DeVotta, Neil. Sri Lanka's soft-authoritarian dispensation - P43      Dhanda, Meena. Being a Dalit in Ludhiana, Punjab - P08      Dhubert, Thibaut. The formation of the Bengali Sufi idiom and religious debates in seventeenth-century eastern Bengal - P23      Dimitrova, Diana. The dramas of Urdu-Hindi author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996): narrative and counter narrative - P39      Donner, Henrike. Of untold riches and unruly homes: Neoliberalism, property and morality in middle-class Calcutta families - P28      Drumond Braga, Duarte. Displaced Orientalism: Portuguese Orientalism between empire and memory - P40      Dupont, V&#233;ronique. Which place for the homeless in an aspiring global city like Delhi? Scrutiny of a mobilization campaign in the context of the 2010 Commonwealth Games - P11      Elliott, Derek. Torture and good government: the violent contradictions of company governance in India - P14     Esteves Reis, M&#243;nica. Thru art with art, the strategies of conversion thru native forms and symbols. - P19     Favero, Paolo. Reflecting upon the predicament of digital image-making in South Asia - P51     Fennell, Shailaja. Group rights, distributional conflicts and the making of unequal identities - P50     Fernandes, Jason Keith. A Chain of Subalternities? - P05     Fibiger, Marianne. The living icon - P45     Freier, Monika. Modern ethics and etiquette - Hindi advice books in colonial India - P15     Frenz, Matthias. A woman at the crossroads: reformist ideals and narrative strategies in A. Madhaviah's biographical novel &#34;Clarinda&#34; - P47     Frese, Heiko. Journals, Telugu literature and its encounter with the West - P38     Gaenszle, Martin. &#34;Numafung&#34;: images of ethnic culture in Nepali cinema - P51     Gaikwad, Nikhar. Smiling Buddha, Shakti, and beyond: India's nuclear policies at crossroads - P44     Gama, Fabiene. The South Asian Institute of Photography and the &#34;independent&#34; imagination of Bangladesh - P35     Gazieva, Indira. Russian Indians: do they become natives? - P18     George, Joppan. Unsound sound: a brief history of Indian talkies in the 1930s - P27     Ghimire, Safal. Post-conflict reconstruction and economic transformation in Nepal - P42     Glushkova, Irina. Object of worship as a free choice: Vithoba (god), Dnyaneshvar (saint), the Dnyaneshvari (book), and even Samadhi (grave) - P45     Gon&#231;alves Miranda, Rui. Salazar, Goa and the Goans: imperial images and Goan voices - P40     Gooptu, Nandini. Informality, class and work culture in post-liberalisation India: a study of urban private security guards - P02     Gould, William. Food controls, rationing and the politics of corruption and anti-corruption in Uttar Pradesh in the 1940s and 1950s - P13     Govinda, Radhika. Gender and identity politics in urban renewal in Delhi: changing dynamics of life and livelihood in Lal Dora villages - P11     Graner, Elvira. Dhaka's transport: (re-)negotiating governance and control in a megacity - P09     Gravend-Tirole, Xavier. Abhishiktananda and mysticism: Some postcolonial (re)investigations - P46     Grunebaum, Jason. Choosing an English for Hindi: recent translations - P37     Gupta, Pamila. Goa, an internal 'exotic' in South Asia: discourses of colonialism and tourism - P05     Gust, Anna. &#34;Public good&#34; versus &#34;private convenience&#34;: colonial ideology and city space - P20     Guzy, Lidia. Landscape as Resistance - P04     Halliburton, Murphy. The developing country advantage: assessing the effectiveness of religious healing in South India - P03     Hampshire, Kate. British Pakistanis, new reproductive technologies, and transnational (in)fertilities - P07     Haniffa, Farzana. Muslim politics in Sri Lanka before and after the emergence of Muslim political parties - P43     Harder, Hans. Misplaced gods and new Puranic heroes: topsy-turvy counter-mythology in modern South Asian literatures - P39     Harper, Ian. Evolution and growth of health research and experimentation in Nepal: emerging trends, actors and modalities - P07     Hawley, Jack. Archetypal Bhakti encounters - P23      Henn, Alexander. Cutting Across Doctrines: The Goan Ganv - P05      Hiralal, Kalpana. Struggling for migratory and citizenship rights - the experiences of free Indian migrants to Natal 1880-1930 - P18      Homm, Sebastian. Spatial strategies in the industrial development of peri-urban Chennai, India - P09      Huesken, Ute. Women's ritual agency: on texts and practice in a South Indian Brahmanic tradition - P01      Ikhlef, Hakim. Portuguese visions of the Sultanate of Mysore in second half of the 18th century. - P19      Iqtidar, Humeira. Piety and the 'Market' - P10      Israel, Hephzibah. Conversion and the language of autobiography: inventing the protestant self in nineteenth-century India - P47      Jabeen, Musarrat. The legacy of poverty, marginalization and underdevelopment in Balochistan: historical, political and social factors - P42      Jabeen, Musarrat. Management of post 9/11 decision-making structures related to states at risk: a case study of Pakistan - P44      Jacobsen, Knut Axel. Rituals of Sāṃkhya-Yoga - P01      Jacobsen, Knut Axel. Sacred images of the ancient sage Kapila in contemporary Hindu traditions - P45      Jagannathan, Bharati. Creating a community, Creating a Tradition: The Politics of Tamil Srivaisnava Hagiographies- P47      Jandu, Gurbachan. Gurdwara, Sikh youth and identity politics in London: a case study of the Hounslow Gurdwara and the transmission of British Sikh identity - P18      Janeja, Manpreet. Food and ownership in imagining Bangladesh - P35      Jaoul, Nicolas. &#34;Harijan Sandesh&#34;: finding one's way to citizenship - P34     Jasani, Rubina. If I did not pray, the jinn would press me down even further: ethnic and cultural determinants of help seeking among ethnic minorities in Britain - P03      Javid, Hassan. Popular movements and the uneven geography of opposition in Punjab - P10      Javid, Hassan. Path dependence and the persistence of landed power in Punjab - P24      Jebanesan, Subramaniam. Seeing through mirage: Marxist perspectives on Catholicism and conversion from K. Daniel's &#34;Kanal&#34; (1983), a Sri Lankan Tamil Dalit novel - P47      Jeffery, Roger. Janus in the mediscape? The Indian pharmaceuticals industry (and its global ambitions) - P07    Jones, Arun. Calvin in Kashi - Kashi in Calvin - P46     Jones, Justin. Of courts and codes: Islamic legal pluralism and the question of authority in colonial India - P33         Jullien, Cl&#233;mence. Maternity policies in Northern India: issues and implementation of maternal and child healthcare programs - P07     Kalyanpur, Maya. Changing perspectives of disability in India's transition towards globalization: implications for educational policy and practice for children with disabilities - P31     Kanungo, Pralay. In Defence of their Endangered Life Worlds: The Adivasi Uprisings in Contemporary Odisha- P04     Kato, Mariko. Function of remittances and intra-state migration for Dalits in rural Bihar: 1980s to 2000s - P08     Kaur, Ravinder. Institutional continuities, changing dynamics? Marriage in contemporary South Asia - P32     Kc, Diwas. The workers and the intellectuals at Meerut - P16     Kersenboom, Saskia. Ganika: glorifying the public - P29      Keshavmurthy, Prashant. The flower of Arabic philology and its Persian fruit: Siraj al-din Ali Khan Arzu's (d.1756) appropriation in his 'Musmir' of Jalal al-din al-Suyuti's (d.1505) 'Al-Muzhir'. - P21      Keune, Jon. Religious others redacted: the writings of and hagiographies about Eknath - P23      Khan, Amina. Security architecture in South Asia: prospects and challenges - a Pakistani perspective - P44      Khan, Muhammad. Peacebuilding and stability in FATA: understanding the process of extremism - P24      Khan, Muhammad. Peace building and stability in FATA: understanding the spread of extremism - P44      Khan, Razak. Enlightened ruler or decadent prince: colonial education and reform of princely India - P15      Khandeparkar, Sammit. Fabricating a caste: a study of the role played by a foundational text in forming a caste - P05      Khanna, Akshay. Justice beyond Law - eroticism, morality and the juridical register in India - P28         Khatri, Rekha. Evolution and growth of health research and experimentation in Nepal: emerging trends, actors and modalities - P07      Khera, Dipti. Visualizing Udaipur as a charismatic landscape: circulating people, objects, and ideas in 18th and 19th century India - P25      Khokhlova, Liudmila. Majority language death - P36      Kim, Hanna. Negotiating NIMBY, neighbourliness, and being publicly Hindu in the United States - P18      Kim, Helen. (Can we) do it like this? Politics and the sounds of a convivial 'desi' London space - P27      Kirmani, Nida. To be or not to be 'Islamic feminist': Comparing the approaches of the Indian and Pakistani women's movements vis-&#224;-vis islam - P12      Kirmani, Nida. The answer to our prayers? The possibilities and limits of the nikahnama as a means to protecting Muslim women's rights in South Asia - P32     Klem, Bart. Contested rule in eastern Sri Lanka: a longitudinal perspective - P06     Kocho-Williams, Alastair. The impact of the Meerut Conspiracy case on the Comintern's challenge to British India - P16     Korf, Benedikt. Contested rule in eastern Sri Lanka: a longitudinal perspective - P06     Kulandai Raj, James. PonniahSouth Asian Christianity under scanner: its negotiations and negations by the Dalits in India - P46     Kumarasingham, Harshan. Patronage over party: high politics in Sri Lanka following independence - P43     Lama, Rinzi. Matas/pitas and their healing rooms - P03      Landy, Frederic. Nature conservation as &#34;development&#34;, or is environmentalism for everyone? The case of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai - P09      Lang, Claudia. From possession to mental disorder and back: (re)inventing and positioning ayurvedic psychiatry in the mental health pluralism of Kerala - P03      Leonard, Karen. Mercantile spaces, networks, and mobility in early modern South Asia - P25      Leucci, Tiziana. 'Courtly culture': some thoughts on the dharma of South Indian courtesans - P29      Lim, Lisa. Diversity, convergence and modernity in Sri Lanka: a retrospective - P36     Lindberg, Anna. Dowry in Kerala: from women's wealth to women's marriage fee - P32     Lobo, Sandra. Francisco Jo&#227;o da Costa and the ideas of assimilation and hybridity - P40     Long, Roger. Ethnicity and politics in Pakistan: the case of Karachi - P24      Lopo, Rui. Nineteenth-century Portuguese Philosophical Orientalism and the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism - P40      Loureiro, Miguel. Who Do You Love? Premarital and marital choices in rural Pakistan-administered Kashmir - P32      Louren&#231;o, In&#234;s. South Asians, Gujaratis, Hindus, and other identities - the process of being a Hindu in Portugal - P18      Louro, Michele. Rethinking Meerut: Nehru, the League against Imperialism, and the limits of internationalism in India - P16      Luchesi, Brigitte. 'Living images' as objects of worship in Himachal Pradesh, North India - P45      Machado, Everton V. Orientalized orientals in the world that the Portuguese created: the case of some writers of the Goan Christian milieu - P40      Maksimenko, Irina. Russian Indians: do they become natives? - P18      Malik, Anushay. Local forms of national resistance: the industrial workers of Lahore, 1968-1973 - P06      Mallinson, James. Unity and difference among medieval Indian ascetics - P23      Manandhar, Prabin. Does identity based social mobilization matter? - P10      Mapril, Jos&#233;. A Shaheed Minar in Lisbon: national imaginaries, objects and the transnational person - P35      Marques, Sandra. You're on the air. Now what? - P51     Martin, Nicolas. Greed and scarcity in the Pakistani Punjab - P28     Mattausch, John. Unsettled citizens? British South Asians - P18     Menezes, Deborah Christina. Not silent yet: the presentation of identity of older people in care homes in Goa, India - P48     Mestroni, Simone. Practicing and imagining the Kashmiri intifada: stonepelting as governance institution - P06     Michelutti, Lucia. Caste sovereignties: who is entitled to govern? - P34     Mohammad-Arif, Aminah. &#34;Talking emotions&#34;: exploring young born-again Muslims' narratives in Bangalore and Lahore - P26     Mohanty, Aditya. Negotiating Liminality in a megalopolis - P11     Mohmand, Shandana. The impact of women's mobility on political participation in rural Pakistan - P12      Mohmand, Shandana. Political parties and the transformation of a village in Pakistani Punjab - P43      Mohomed, Carimo. &#34;Mohammadan Revealed Law&#34; and &#34;Mohammadan Common Law&#34;: law, religion and political reform in late 19th century India through the eyes of Chiragh Ali - P33     Mondini, Sara. Performing the Puja and the Ziyara at the Grave of a Sultan. The Ahmad Shah Bahmani Mausoleum between Old-Political and New-Religious Perceptions- P45     Montaut, Annie. Is Nai Kahani fading away? From K.B. Vaid's critique and his fiction to U. Prakash's fiction - P37     Montaut, Annie. An exemplary counter narrator: Krishna Baldev Vaid - P39     Morey, Stephen. Language maintenance and loss in North East India - P36     Moritz, Maria. A &#34;universal brotherhood of men&#34; through education? Rudolf Steiner's (1861-1925) reform pedagogy and theosophy's South Asian liaison - P15     Mosse, David. Dalit rights &#38;the development agenda: the promise, progress and pitfalls of NGO networking and international advocacy. - P08     Mufti, Mariam. Understanding the 'persistently unstable' nature of Pakistan's hybrid regime - P24     Mukherjee, Madhuja. Soundscape, soundmarks, musical trajectories: the architecture of sound and music in popular Hindi cinemas - P27     Mukherjee, Sipra. In opposition to Brahma and Brahmins: constructing the hagiography of the Matua Dharma founder - P47     Murphy, Anne. Encounters with the Guru - P23     Myrvold, Kristina. Making the book a living guru: ritual practices among contemporary Sikhs - P45     Nair, Deepa. Hindu diaspora in the United States - negotiating an identity through religious pilgrimage - P18     Nardi, Carlo. Film sound and the negotiation of moral boundaries - P27     Newman, Robert. Celluloid subalterns: Goa and Goans In Hindi Film - P05     Nuckolls, Charles. Maternal desire and the origin of political order in a South Indian village - P26     Oddie, Geoffrey. Issues in the writing of missionary biography: James Long of Bengal, 1814-87 - P47      Oecknick, Linda. Changing identities, risk and livelihood diversification: live-in domestic's in Delhi - P11      Oesterheld, Christina. The exemplary modern man: Mirza Rusva's Sharif Zada - P15      Oesterheld, Joachim. Experiences in settling down - Indians in Germany - P18      Offredi, Mariola. India at the mid of the 3rd Millennium. A cry against ultramodernisation - P39      Orsini, Francesca. Writing about work - P37      Osella, Filippo. Migration and the immorality of everyday life - P28      Palriwala, Rajni. Institutional continuities, changing dynamics? Marriage in contemporary South Asia - P32      Pande, Ishita. Law, medicine and 'child-rape' in late nineteenth century India - P17      Parobo, Parag. In search of self: identity as resistance in Goa - P05      Passos, Joana. Salazar, Goa and the Goans: imperial images and Goan voices - P40      Patel, Simin. Gentlemen prefer hotels: hoteliering in colonial Bombay - P20     Pauwels, Heidi. Soir&#233;es of bhaktas and Sufis in the early eighteenth century: evidence from the pen of Savant Singh of Kishangarh - P23     Pereira, Cl&#225;udia. Oral tradition and resilience to Portuguese domination: memory of conversion among Catholic Gaudde in Goa, India - P05     Peterson, Indira. The Courtesan's life as Art in the Viralivitututu, an 18th-century Tamil literary genre - P29     Polit, Karin. Healing words: exploring the uses of ritual texts during healing ceremonies in the Garhwal Himalayas, North India - P01     Powell, Avril. New educational theories and India: advocates of Froebelian principles and practices in the late nineteenth century - P15     Prakash, Amit. Politics of transformation: governmentality of participation in Jharkhand - P50     Purewal, Navtej. Pakistan's religious others: reflections on the 'minority' discourse on Christians - P24     Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur. Urban development in Bangladesh: The spatial planning perspective - P35     Ram, Ronki. The other modernity and forgotten tradition: resurfacing of Dalit cultural heritage in contemporary India - P08    Ramasubramonian, Ramakumar. Where is the &#34;agrarian&#34; in contemporary rural mobilisations? - P10     Ranganathan, Shubha. Re-thinking 'cure' and 'efficacy': ritual healing and possession in the Mahanubhav sect in Maharashtra, India - P03     Rao, Anupama. Urban subalterns and the political thought of emancipation - P34      Rao, Shridevi. The South Asian disability experience and the social model within the context of globalization: implications for policy and practice - P31      Rao, V. Narayana. Self as the other: Autobiography of Chellapilla Venkata Sastry - P38      Ravindran, Deapica. From being a care-giver to becoming a researcher - clinical research in India - P07      Raza, Ali. Meerut and its impact on regional politics: a case study of the Punjabi Leftist movement - P16      Reetz, Dietrich. Sectarian emotions vs. religious politics: Pakistan's Islamic parties and the Defence of Pakistan Council - P26      Rest, Matth&#228;us. A dam cancelled and reincarnated: the Nepalese Arun-3 hydropower project - P09      Ripert, Blandine. Redefining tribal claims in a context of political change in Central Nepal - P50      Robotka, Bettina.Political turmoil in a megacity: the MQM in Karachi and its capacity for change - P43      Rousseleau, Raphael. Hindu 'mainstream' and 'tribal' discourses about the origins and functions of the state - P04      Roy, Indrajit. Making citizens, forging states: political subjectivities among rural poor in Eastern India - P34      Said, Maurice. Redefining space through aid: an analysis of development as a tool for elite mobility in southern Sri Lanka - P09      Samad, Yunas. Ethnicity and conflict in Baluchistan - P24      Samarth, Anil. Portugal-India, mutual, secular discoveries - P40      San Chirico, Kerry. The pitfalls, perils, and promise of &#34;Hindu&#34;-&#34;Christian&#34; studies - P46     Sanchez, Andrew. Sons of the soil, sons of steel: autochthony and the class concept in industrial India - P02      Sancho, David. &#34;Schooling with a difference&#34;: an ethnography of Indian citizenship in an urban Kerala private school - P28      Sardesai, Madhavi. On a trail with Konkanno - P05      Sariola, Salla. From being a care-giver to becoming a researcher - clinical research in India - P07      Sariola, Salla. Researching the researcher: studying public health interventions in Sri Lanka - P07      Sarkar, Aditya. The antinomies of industrial relations: Bombay, 1881-1897 - P20      Sax, William. Possession in transcultural perspective - P03      Saxena, Swati. Adoption of new-age vaccines by India: a study of discourses on nation building and international diplomacy - P07      Schleiter, Markus. &#34;Tribal&#34; consciousness on VideoCD? State, ideas of belonging and popular Santali films - P50      Schleyer, Maritta. A community of the virtuous: emotions and the moral foundation of Khwaja Hasan Nizami's and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's visions of the Indian nation - P26      Schulte-Droesch, Lea. External and internal perspectives on development in tribal Jharkhand - P09      Schulte-Droesch, Lea. Indigenous hunting and the state: claiming rights by emphasizing tradition- P50      Sen, Uditi. Bringing up citizens: education and identity amongst partition's orphans - P34      Servan-Schreiber, Catherine. Kabir's banis in Mauritius: holy men and devotees - P23      Shah, Alpa. The tensions over liberal citizenship in a Marxist revolutionary situation: the Maoists in India - P34      Shah, Safdar. Indigenous influences on Christianity in Pakistan - P46      Shani, Ornit. Forging India's democratic nationhood: the preparation of the first electoral roll and the making of universal franchise (1947-1952) - P13      Sharma, Jeevan. Evolution and growth of health research and experimentation in Nepal: emerging trends, actors and modalities - P07      Shaumyan, Tatiana. Kashmir problem: conflict and compromise - P44    Sheikh, Samira. Lalludas Diwan and the mercantile ethos of 18th century Gujarat - P25    Shulman, David. Tiricirapuram Minaticuntaram Pillai: Modernist Manq&#233; - P38      Sidharth, Juhi. I like love marriage but I will go for arranged marriage': Exploring the changing dynamics of love, sex and marriage in the lives of young Dalit women in India - P32      Simpson, Robert. Researching the researcher: studying public health interventions in Sri Lanka - P07      Simpson, Robert. British Pakistanis, new reproductive technologies, and transnational (in)fertilities - P07      Singal, Nidhi. Evolving understandings of disability: reconciling concept, culture and context - P31      Singh, Gurharpal. Violence and state formation in Pakistan - P24      Singh, Pritam. Class, nation and religion: changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India - P43      Singh, Satnam. Worshipping the Sword: The Practice of Shastar Puja in the Khalsa Tradition - P45      Singh, Sunny. The Tigress Hunts: short story as counter-narrative - P39      Siqueira, Antonio Alito. The subaltern goes to school - P05      Sitapati, Vinay. New socio-legal movements in India: Anna Hazare's hunger strike against corruption and India's new middle-classes - P10      Skoda, Uwe. Adivasis, chiefs and the state: notes on evolving relations and the history of Bonai state in early 20th century - P04      Smith, Frederick. The expectation of ritual efficacy as an Indian historical phenomenon    P03      Soneji, Davesh. Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in kalavantula communities of coastal Andhra - P29      Stark, Ulrike. A poetic of the quotidian: Vinod Kumar Shukla's Divar mem ek khirki rahti thi (1997) - P37      Steur, Luisa. Paniya workers and &#34;identity politics&#34; in post-reform Wayanad (Kerala): the unmaking of an Adivasi working class? - P02      Steur, Luisa. Dalit rights &#38;the development agenda: the promise, progress and pitfalls of NGO networking and international advocacy. - P08      Steur, Luisa. Shaping caste and citizenship in &#34;shining&#34; India: effects of the Dalit struggle's global turn - P34      Stolte, Carolien. The impact of the Meerut case on the international engagements of the Indian trade union movement - P16      Strulik, Stefanie. Panchayat politics and translocal discourses of development - P09      Str&#252;mpell, Christian. The jungli raj in Western Orissa: tribal perspectives on dispossession - P04      Suthren Hirst, Jacqueline. Truth, exchange and rivalry: constructions of Prannath's seventeenth century encounter with the call to prayer - P23      Suykens, Bert. Campus bosses: violent student politics, non-state governance and state rule in urban Bangladesh - P06      Swaminathan, Siddharth. Economic change, state capacity and violent internal conflict in India - P42      Talib, Adam. From circulation to publication in Mamluk correspondence - P21      Tambe, Ashwini. Fantasized childhoods: representations of adolescence in a Marathi women's magazine, 1931-1985 - P17      Taneja Johansson, Shruti. &#34;He is intelligent but different&#34;: Stakeholders' perspectives on children on the autism spectrum in an urban Indian school context - P31      Tawa Lama-Rewal, St&#233;phanie. Fun and political mobilization in India - P26      Titzmann, Fritzi-Marie. The Indian online matrimonial market: changing patterns of marriage matchmaking - P32      Topdar, Sudipa. Anxieties of masculinity: the nation and the child's body in Bengali children's magazines - P17      Torri, Davide. A thin frame between the worlds: the human body as text in shamanic rituals - P01      Tschurenev, Jana. Inscribing minds: card-boards, copy-books and rote learning in early nineteenth century monitorial schools - P15      Udalagama, Tharindi. Researching the researcher: studying public health interventions in Sri Lanka - P07      Upreti, Bishnu. The role of local public sector in peacebuilding in North-East India - P42      Upreti, Bishnu. Post-conflict reconstruction and economic transformation in Nepal - P42      Valdinoci, Mauro. Encounters between Sufis and Yogis in the Sufi hagiography of the Deccan: a preliminary analysis - P23      Vandekerckhove, Nel. The state, forest and bodo militant violence: mediated rule in the Indo-Bhutanese border - P06      Vicente, Filipa Lowndes. Another India: British travellers in Goa (1870-1920) - P40      Vidyarthee, Kaushal. Dalit community in the business contexts: incorporated or marginalised? - P08      Viitam&#228;ki, Mikko. An [imaginary?] encounter of a Hindu prince with a Sufi master in Khwaja Hasan Nizami's Nizami Bansuri - P23      Viola, Antonella. Portuguese India in the Florentine documentation of the second half of the 17th century: economic and commercial aspects - P19      Virdee, Pippa. Women's emancipation and identity formation in Pakistan - P24      Vittorini, Simona. Performing difference or getting lost in the rainbow nation? - P18      Voix, Rapha&#235;l. Dancing with skulls: the Tandava case and its repercussions on a contemporary Hindu sect - P33      Wagner, Christian. Security cooperation in South Asia: old threats, new opportunities - P44      Webb, Martin. Being the change that you want to see in the world? The practice of anti-corruption activism in India - P28      Wessler, Heinz. WernerFrom &#34;Kāśī kā Assī&#34; to &#34;Rehan par Raghu&#34;: the (counter-) narrative world of Kashinath Singh - P39      Wilkinson, Steven. Army, Nation and Democracy in India after 1947 - P13      Williams, Tyler. The Niranjani connection: bhaktas, yogis, Sikhs and courts in early modern Rajasthan - P23      Wiśniewska-Singh, Justyna. Marriage in early twentieth century Northern India: Hindi literature vis-&#224;-vis social transformations - P32      W&#252;lbers, Shazia. Rivalry theory and its application for India and China - P44      Wyatt, Andrew. Political Parties and Populist Politics in Contemporary Tamil Nadu - P43      Xavier, Constantino. India in South Asia: new avatar or new strategy? - P44    Young, Richard. Seeing through mirage: Marxist perspectives on Catholicism and conversion from K. Daniel's &#34;Kanal&#34; (1983), a Sri Lankan Tamil Dalit novel - P47      Zaman, Faridah. Liberal imperialism on trial: Muhammad Ali, Abul Kalam Azad, and colonial justice in early twentieth century India. - P14      Zavos, John. Small Acts, Big Society: Sewa and Hindu (nationalist) identity in the UK - P18      Zeiler, Xenia. Yantras as objects of worship in Hindu and Tantric religious traditions - P45      Zeitlyn, Benjamin. Desh Bidesh Revisited - P35Steering CommitteeConvenerProfessor Rosa Maria PerezDepartment of AnthropologyISCTE - Lisbon University Instituterosa.perez@iscte.ptCommittee    Professor Cristiana Bastos Instituto de Ci&#234;ncias SociaisUniversidade de Lisboac.bastos@ics.ul.pt     Professor Diogo Ramada Curto Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias Sociais e HumanasUniversidade Nova de Lisboadiogoramadacurto.cesnova.gshc@fcsh.unl.pt     Dr. Jos&#233; Mapril Gon&#231;alves CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investiga&#231;&#227;o em Antropologia, Executive BoardISCTE - Lisbon University Institutejmapril@gmail.com     Dr. Cl&#225;udia Pereira ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, CIES-IULclaudiapereir@gmail.com     Dr. Rita &#193;vila Cachado ISCTE -Lisbon University Institute, CIES-IULritacachado@gmail.com     Dr. Everton Machado Centro de Estudos ComparativosFaculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboaevermachado@gmail.com     Dr. Hugo Cardoso Universidade de Macauhugoccardoso@gmail.com     Dr. Jason Keith Fernandes Department of AnthropologyISCTE- Lisbon Univeristy Institutejason.k.fernandes@gmail.comCollaborators    Professora Ana Paula Laborinho. Faculdade de Letras - Universidade de Lisboa. ap.laborinho@fl.ul.pt    Professor Helder Carita. Funda&#231;&#227;o Ricardo Esp&#237;rito Santo. hc.atelier@clix.pt    Professor Jorge Flores. Department of History and Civilization. European University Institute    Jorge.Flores@eui.eu    Professor Mohamed Azzim. Business School - ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute. mazzimg@gmail.com    Professor Susana Sardo. Universidade de Aveiro /DECA. INET-MD. ssardo@ua.pt    Dr. Paolo Favero. Department of Anthropology. ISCTE- Lisbon Univeristy Institute/CRIA    Paolo.Favero@iscte.pt    M.Phil, Constantino Xavier. School of Advanced International Studies. Johns Hopkins University. Washington DC. constantino.xavier@gmail.com    Mr. Lu&#237;s Gomes. Department of Anthropology. ISCTE- Lisbon Univeristy Institute. d.luisgomes@gmail.com    Architect Pedro Sobral Pombo. Department of Anthropology. ISCTE- Lisbon Univeristy Institute/CRIA. pedromanuelpombo@gmail.com    Dr. Mafalda Melo Sousa. CRIA -&#160; Inter-institutional Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology. mafalda.melo.sousa@cria.org.ptVolunteer coordinators    Architect L&#237;dia Cordeiro    Mr. Ricardo Rodrigues    Ms. Vanessa AmorimConference administrators NomadITecsaslisbon2012@gmail.comhttp://www.nomadit.co.uk