Colloquium

New Interventions in the History of Partition

As 2022 marks 75 years after partition we tune into some recent interventions into Partition Studies to assess the state of the field. Please join us online to hear these speakers share with us thoughts about their work on partition, from a range of perspectives.

Registration:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrc-mhrD8oGtKjND_L52YSrZlisL_tnL9c

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Our program:

• 20.10.2022 | Problematic Subalterns: How Partition Refugees Negotiated State Policies
  Uditi Sen (University of Nottingham)


• 03.11.2022 | A Future that Never Came: Ambedkar on the Eve of Partition
  Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza (University of Manchester)


• 10.11.2022 | The Reunification of Hindusthan?: V.D. Savarkar on Hindu Pasts and Hindutva Futures - (Hybrid)
  Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California Irvine)


• 08.12.2022 | The 1947 Partition Violence in Punjab: Opportunistic Characteristics and Political Imperatives
  Ilyas Chattha (LUMS)


• 12.01.2023 | Stages of Partition: The Early Years of Prithvi Theatre
  Salma Siddique (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)


• 26.01.2023 | Feeding into Partition? The Bengal Famine of 1943 and the Carving of Communal Identities
  Anwesha Roy (University of Oxford)


• 02.02.2023 | From Silences to Virtual Memories: Partition History in the Digital Age
  Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University)


• 09.02.2023 | First Sparks: The Calcutta Riots of 1946
  Janam Mukherjee (Ryerson University)