CONFERENCE PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
BETWEEN EMPIRES:
THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF BORDERS
19TH- 20TH CENTURIES
ORGANISED BY
NORTH EAST INDIA STUDIES PROGRAMME
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI
Supported by
Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
Date: 1 and 2 February, 2018
Venue: Committee Room,
School of Social Sciences – I, Jawaharlal Nehru University
DAY ONE: 01 February, 2018
09.30 am Registration
10.00 am – 10.30 am: Opening Session
Welcome: Rakhee Bhattacharjee, NEISP, JNU
Introducing the Conference: Lipokmar Dzuvichu, NEISP, JNU
10.30 am – 11.00 am: Tea Break
11.00 am – 12. 30 am: Session One: Empire, territoriality and making borderlands
Chair: Radhika Singha, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
Speakers: “War and Space: Territorial lessons from the Anglo-Gurkha War, 1814-16”
Bernardo A. Michael, Messiah College, USA
“The Scotts in the Himalayas: Tracing highland influences”
Nilanjana Mukherjee, University of Delhi, Delhi
“Rivalry and negotiation in the borderlands: State-making at the margins of empire.”
Frances O’Morchoe, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
12.30 – 01.30: Lunch Break
01.30– 03.00 pm: Session Two: Representing geographies, producing frontiers
Chair: Sangeeta Dasgupta, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
Speakers: “Producing the frontier: production of geographical knowledge in the Northeast frontier of British India, 1820 – 1850”
Bauna Panmei, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
“Geographers of the Great Game: Imperial Geo-politics in the making and unmaking of Assam-Tibet Borderlands”
Bikram Bora, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
“The River Sutlej: From Frontier to British Territory, in the personal chronicle of Prussian Prince Waldemar participating in the First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-46”
Jutta Jain-Neubauer, Independent Art Historian, New Delhi
03.00 pm – 03.30 pm: Tea Break
03.30 pm – 05.00 pm: Session Three: Making state, making borders
Chair: Bernardo A. Michael, Messiah College, USA
Speakers: “The State Ambition, provincial expansion, and local competitions: Militarism and the integration of the Yunnan borderlands from 1908 to 1945”
Diana Zhidan Duan, Brigham Young University, USA
“Buffer politics in a colonial frontier: The case of Tawang and West Kameng”
Swargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka University, Sonepat
“State-sponsored migration and border-making in the India-Burma borderland”
Zilpha Modi, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
DAY TWO: February 02, 2018
09.30 am – 11.00 am: Session One: Re-ordering Space, Delineating borders
Chair: Papori Bora, Centre for Women Studies, JNU
Speakers: “The French concession of Shanghai: State lines around a fluid community”
Alexander Major, University of Montreal, Canada
“Building Identities to draw borders: Maps and Censuses as tools for constructing socio-political identities”
Papia Sengupta,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
“The Radcliffe Award and the Partitioning of Bengal 1947”
Sheila Sengupta, University of British Columbia, Canada
11.00 am - 11.30 am: Tea Break
11.30 am – 01.00 pm Session Two: Commodities, frontier networks and crossing borders
Chair: David Vumlallian Zou, Department of History, University of Delhi
Speakers: “Kohat Salt: Objects, Resistance and Violence in the Northwest Frontier of British India”
Sameetah Agha, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
“Rethinking Imperial Margins: French comptoirs and the limits of British rule in India, circa. 1815 -1947”
Akhila Yechury, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
“Communication with the Margins: Telecommunication in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Bay of Bengal”
Medha Saxena, University of Delhi, Delhi
01.00 pm – 2.30pm: Lunch Break
02.30 pm – 4.00 pm: Session Three: War, Violence and Re-imagining borders
Chair: Swargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka University, Sonepat
Speakers: “Speaking out from the borders: Building minority representation in post-war Burma and China, 1945 – 1950”
Andres Rodriguez, University of Sydney, Australia
“Japanese invasion, violence and state making in Northeastern British India, 1939 – 1949”
Deepak Naorem, University of Delhi, Delhi
“Reconfiguring a Frontier: Post War Development Narratives in the North East”
Limasenla Jamir, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
04. 00 pm – 04.30 pm: Tea break
04.30 pm – 05.30 pm: Concluding Session
‘Conversations on Asian borders’
Panellists
Sameetah Agha, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Eric A. Hyer, Brigham Young University, USA
Rakhee Bhattacharjee, NEISP, JNU
Concluding Remarks: Manjeet Baruah, NEISP, JNU
Vote of Thanks