The Religion Factor: Why Policy in South Asia Can’t Ignore Faith
Join the Notre Dame South Asia Group for two panel discussions exploring religion, public policy, and development – at a critical time when the Rohingya refugee crisis destabilizes Myanmar and Bangladesh, and the ongoing elections in India highlight the rise of Hindu nationalism in the world’s largest democracy. Cosponsored with the Keough School for Global Affairs, the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.
Schedule
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Registration and Refreshments
9:00–10:00 a.m.
The Rohingya Crisis: Integrating Religion with Policy
Featuring: Madhav Joshi, Kathleena Mumford, Kellogg Faculty Fellow Rahul Oka, and Mahbub Hassan Saleh
10:30–11:30 a.m.
The Role of Religion in South Asian Elections: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
Featuring: Devesh Kapur, Farzana Shaikh, Mahbub Hassan Saleh, and Kellogg Faculty Fellow Susan Ostermann
Rahul Oka
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Rahul Oka is a research associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Oka is an economic anthropologist and his research interests include the anthropology of urbanism, social network analysis, the development of complex socio-economic systems, applications of agent-based simulation modeling techniques to anthropology and archaeometry/materials analysis...
Susan Ostermann
Susan Ostermann is an assistant professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame and an expert in comparative politics in South Asia, regulatory compliance, and environmental regulation. Her work seeks to understand why actors comply with regulations in unlikely circumstances, such as when states are weak or actors have strong incentives to break the law. She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2018...