Uzma Falak
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Uzma Falak Doctoral Studentin |
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- Doctoral Studentin
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E-Mail: uzmafalak@uni-heidelberg.de
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Born and raised in Kashmir’s Srinagar, Uzma Falak is a DAAD Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Heidelberg.
Her research explores Kashmir women’s soundmaking practices as sites of alternate spatialities, temporalities and modalities. She seeks to interrogate the intersection of sound, time and violence, and explore different valences of audibility and inaudibility.
Her essays and reportage have appeared in Disclaimer, Economic and Political Weekly, Guernica Magazine, The Baffler, The Caravan, Himal Southasian, Jadaliyya including edited volumes like Of Occupation and Resistance: Writings from Kashmir, Cups of Nunchai and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak?
Her poetry has appeared in Anthropology and Humanism, Adi Magazine, Warscapes, Himalaya Journal, The Electronic Intifada, The Palestinian Chronicle, Cafe Dissensus, The Polis Project, Kindle Magazine and anthologies and edited volumes such as Gossamer: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry, Fault Lines of History: The India Papers II, among others. In 2017, she won an Honourable Mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Award.
Her documentary film Till Then The Roads Carry Her exploring Kashmir women’s lifeworlds and repertories of resistance has been screened at the Art Gallery of Guelph (Ontario), 2nd Annual Memory Studies Association Conference (University of Copenhagen), The 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies (University of Warsaw), Karlstorkino (Heidelberg), Tate Modern (London), CineDiaspora Film Festival (New York), 12th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival (New Delhi) and others.
In 2018, she was invited for the Warwick Tate Exchange, The Production of Truth, Justice and History, held at the Tate Modern, London. She was also part of the inaugural cohort of the Regional Arts Australia’s artist-led online studio program (2021-2022). Currently she is part of a cohort coming together under Capture All: A Sonic Investigation — a collaboration of Australia Council for the Arts with Liquid Architecture and Sarai, focused on exploring sound/listening as resources of power, capture, and extraction.
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