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