Participants and Concerns
1
Dr. Amba Pande
India
Centre for Indo Pacific Studies,
School of International Studies, JNU,
New Delhi
Unpacking the Indian Diaspora
2.
Dr. Bernard D’ Sami
India
Coordinator of Loyola Institute of
Social Science Training and Research
(LISSTAR) Loyola College, Chennai.
Inside Indian Indenture – The Story of
the Dalit Diaspora
3.
Dr. Sadananda Sahoo
India
Assistant Professor, School of
Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies (SOITS), Indira
Gandhi National Open University
(IGNOU), New Delhi
Marginality and Philanthropy: A Study
of Diaspora Philanthropy in Healthcare
4.
Richard O’Connor
India
Superintendent of Customs, Chennai,
Writer and Researcher of AngloIndian history and culture.
The Anglo-Indian Diaspora: Present
Progress and Past Participation
5.
Harry MacLure
India
Editor and Publisher, Anglos In The
Wind and amateur film-maker.
The Anglo-Indian Diaspora: The Pangs
of Emigration
6.
Imayan
India
Tamil Novelist
Diaspora Literatures in Tamil
7.
Kombai Anwar
India
Documentary Film maker, Journalist Ordeal, Agony and Anxiety: Exploring
and photographer
the Indian Diaspora through novels and
films
8.
Dr. Anisur Rahman
India
UGC–Human Resource Development
Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi
Identity, Citizenship and Human Rights
Issues in the Indian Diaspora
9.
Dr. Kiranmayi Bhushi
India
Indira Gandhi National Open
University, Delhi
Marginal Spaces and Working Class
Alliances: Exploring Chicago’s Little
India
10.
Prof. Irudaya S. Rajan
Chair Professor, (MOIA) Research
Unit on International Migration,
Centre for Development Studies,
Kerala
Philanthropy by Overseas Indian
Communities and Engagement by
Indian States: Models, Motives and
Management
11.
Dr. Surajit C
Mukhopadhyay
India
Registrar, West Bengal National
University of Juridical Sciences,
Kolkata
Diaspora and Value Difference
12.
Dr. M. Mahalingam,
India
Research Fellow, Centre for Policy
Unraveling Dalit Diaspora Movements
Analysis; Visiting Faculty, Faculty of
Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi,
13.
Dr. Vijaylakshmi Brara
India
Associate Professor in Centre for
Manipur Studies, Manipur University,
Imphal,
Home Coming of Sorts
14.
Dr. J. Raja Mohamad
Former Assistant Director,
Department of Museums; Freelance
Researcher, Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu,
India
Tamil Muslims: History and Diaspora
15.
S. Muthiah
Editor ‘Madras Musings’, Freelance
Researcher and Author, Chennai
The Chettiar Heritage
India
India
16.
Dr. Antony Palackal
Varghese
India
Associate Professor, Department of
Sociology, Loyola College of Social
Sciences, University of Kerala.
Currents and Ruptures in Indian
Diaspora: Facets of Diasporic
Engagement
17.
S. Amuthan
India
Research Scholar, Madras Christian
College (MCC), Chennai
Secretarial Support
18.
Rev. Dr. V. Gilburt
Camillus, S.J.
India
Principal, St. Xavier’s College
(Autonomous) Palayamkottai,
Tamil Nadu
Indian Diaspora in Guyana:
Reminiscences
19.
Prof. Samuel Asir Raj
India
Prof. of Sociology, Department of
Sociology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar
University, Tirunelveli
India
Professor and Head, Dept. of
Journalism and Communication,
University of Madras
Migration and Tirunelveli Tamil
Diaspora/Organising Team
20.
Prof. Gopalan Ravindran
21.
Salma Khoo
Malaysia
President of the Penang Heritage Trust
and of the Sun Yat Sen Museum
Penang
22.
Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Malaysia
Author, independent scholar, publisher The Mandailing Diaspora in Malaysia:
and Heritage activist
Making Sense of the Diasporic
Experience
23.
Dr. Nagarajan
Malaysia
School of Foundation and Liberal
Studies, Wawasan Open University in
Penang, Malaysia
South African Tamils' Negotiations of
Cultural Identity and Transnational
Tamil Cinema
The First Eastern ‘Port of Call’: Tracing
South Indian Muslim Diasporas from
Penang
Human Rights and the Malaysian Indian
Diaspora
24.
Himanshu Bhatt
Malaysia
Journalist, Penang
Legacy and Struggle in ‘Little India’
and Other Indian Enclaves of Penang,
Malaysia
25.
Dr. Malini Ramanan
Malaysia
Lecturer, Humanities & Social
Sciences on the American Degree
Programme, HELP University, Kuala
Lumpur Malaysia
Being Telugu and Nurturing
Teluguness: Challenges and
Achievements of the Telugu
Association of Malaysia
26.
Preveena Balakrishnan
Malaysia
Independent scholar, publisher and
Heritage Activist
Yanggeh Cherita Panngehlam (“Let's
Talk Some Stories”): Voices from the
Past
27.
Dr. Swagata Sinha Roy
Malaysia
Faculty of Creative
Industries, Universiti Tunku Abdul
Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia
Ordeal, Agony and Anxiety: Exploring
the Indian Diaspora through Novels and
Films
28.
Dr. Mohammed Siraaj
bin Saidumasudu
Malaysia
29.
Dr. Nadarajah Manickam
Malaysia
Researcher of Tamil Muslim
community & Head of Education
Bureau, United Muslim Association,
Penang
Consultant/Independent
Researcher/Author
The Development of Arabic and Tamil
Education in Penang, Malaysia:
Exploring The Role of Tamil Muslim
Diaspora
Theories of the Indian Diaspora/
Organising Team
30.
Dr. Edmund Edwards
Mckinnon
UK
Fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, Nalanda Srivijaya Centre
(Archaeology Unit),
Indonesia/Singapore
Role of Archeology in Tamil Diaspora
Studies
31.
Dr. Natasha Pairaudeau
U.K.
Research Associate, Centre for History
and Economics and Centre for South
Asian Studies, Cambridge University
French Indians in Indochina: A
Distinctive Diaspora
32.
Chi Pham Phuong
Vietnam
Researcher, Vietnam Academy of
Social Sciences (Institute of
Literature).
Identity Construction of Indian
Descendants in Vietnam:
Questions for Diaspora Studies
33.
Dr. Gauri Krishnan
Singapore
Centre Director, Indian Heritage
Centre, National Heritage Board
Heritage and the Indian Diaspora in
Singapore
34.
Dr. Darini Rajasingham
Sri Lanka
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of
South Asian Studies (ISAS), National
University of Singapore
Routes of Identity: Diaspora,
Citizenship and the Modern Nation
State in South Asia
35.
Dr. Rajiv Narayan
Spain
Senior Policy Adviser, International
Commission against the Death Penalty
Senior Consultant Adviser, Rafto
Foundation, Madrid
A Human Rights Perspective of the
Indian diaspora in Two Societies
36.
Dr. Ramji Timalsina
Nepal
Lecturer, Tribhuvan University
Nepalese Diasporic Literature: Voicing
the Silence from the Margin
38.
Prof. Terada Yoshitaka
Japan
Department of Advanced Studies in
Anthropology, National Museum of
Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.
'Indian Culture Does Not Exclusively
Emanate from India': "Circular Flow"
and Indian Diasporic Culture