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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