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CWS is organising a conference on "Displacement and Citizenship: Histories and Memories of Exclusion"

CWS is organising a conference on "Displacement and Citizenship: Histories and Memories of Exclusion"

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CWS is organising a conference on "Displacement and Citizenship: Histories and Memories of Exclusion"
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Centre for Women's Studies,
School of Social Sciences-II
 

UPE-II: Traces of the Global: Memory, Displacement, Cultural Citizenship Conference

February 8th and 9th, 2018

Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

 

Displacement and Citizenship: Histories and Memories of Exclusion

 

 

Thursday, February 8, Committee Hall, Convention Centre, JNU

10am: Introductory remarks by Papori Bora and Mallarika Sinha Roy

10:15am-12:45pm      Representations and histories of violence. Chair: Papori Bora

10:15-10:40    Sunil Choudhary (JNU): Collective Memory of Namibian Genocide in the Transnational Framework of Memory Studies

10:40-11:05     Mallarika S. Roy (JNU): Revisiting the Bangladesh Birangona: Love in the Times of War

                                    11:05-11:25     Discussion

10 minute tea break

11:35-12:00    Pallavi (Tezpur University): Fictional Representation of Rape and Sexual Violence in Battle of Berlin, 1945

                                    12:00-12:25   Arshi Javid (JNU): Ambiguity of Concealment: Forgotten Stories  from Jammu Massacre

                       12:25-12:45     Discussion

                      12:45-2           Lunch

2-4pm                          Play-reading and discussion of 1947: The Man from Lahore by K. Madavane.

 Chair: Vijayalakshmi Rao

 

Friday, February 9, Committee Room #108, Convention Centre, JNU

9:30am-12:45pm  Experiences of refugeehood & migration. Chair: Mallarika Sinha Roy

9:30-10:05       Ekata Bakshi (JNU): The ‘Marginal Women’ in Partition induced forced migration

          10:05-10:40     Farhana Ibrahim (IIT-D): Citizenship practices, honour and mobility capital: Sodha migrants from TharParkar negotiate family and citizenship after 1971

                                            10:40-11:00     Discussion

10 minute tea break

11:10-11:35     Anindita Ghoshal (DHWU): Experiences and Experiments over Refugee-hood: East Pakistan after 1947

11:35-12:00     Thotwungphi S. (JNU): Race, Work and Sex: A study of migrant Tangkhul women Spa workers in Delhi.

12:00-12:25     Jaanu Nagar: Experiencing Displacement: Voices from the belly of the city

12:25-12:45     Discussion

12:45-2pm       Lunch

2pm-3:15pm  Narratives of exclusion. Chair: Shambhavi Prakash

2:00-2:25         Leila Essa (King’s College): Narrating Partitioned Nations, Displacement, and Alternative Communities: Heterotopian Possibilities in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Regina Scheer’s Machandel

2:25-2:50         Pallavi Brara (JNU): ‘Reconciliation’ through reconstruction of Collective memory in Scholastique Mukasonga’s Notre-Dame du Nil and Krishna Sobti’s Zindaginama

                        2:50-3:10         Discussion

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.