Greetings from the Moulding Methods Initiative at IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies at JGU.

We are excited to invite you to the Ethnographic Method Series of Moulding Methods under which we have planned three dialogues this semester. 

The first dialogue, titled, Memory and Ethnography: Is there a method to this madness? will be a conversation between Dr Soibam Haripriya and Sadaf Wani on memory as an ethnographic method to explore questions of power, identity and resistance in different social-spatial contexts. 

Date: 21st March, Friday
Time: 2:30 to 4pm
Venue: Zenith, Ratan Jindal Academic Block, T3 Ground floor

About the Speakers:
Soibam Haripriya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology- Delhi and a Faculty Member of the Ethnography Lab. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 2022-2023. She was an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium, 2019-2021, and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla 2018-2019. Zubaan, New Delhi published her (edited) book Homeward (2022). Her key areas of interest are Gender, Violence, Northeast India, and Poetry and/in Ethnography. Her recent work looks at the phenomenon of viral videos and trolling in social media and explores the intersection of Gender, New Media, and Digital Ethnography. She is also a poet and a translator. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Witness: The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent (2021), A Map Called Home (2018), Centrepiece (2017), 40 Under 40: An Anthology Of Post-Globalization Poetry (2016). Some of her poems have been included in the issues of Muse India (May-June 2019), Poetry at Sangam (July 2019), and the bi-monthly journal of Sahitya Akademi— Indian Literature. Her translations have appeared in Crafting the Word (2019).

Sadaf Wani is a Kashmiri writer and senior communications professional. She is the author of City as Memory: A Short Biography of Srinagar. Her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, have been widely published on platforms such as Himal Southasian, Scroll.in, and Inverse Journal, among others. Her short stories have appeared in notable anthologies published by Aleph Book Company: 100 Indian Stories: A Feast of Remarkable Short Fiction from the 19th, 20th, and 21st Century (2025), The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told (2023), and A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers (2022)."

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