Conference Schedule

Thursday, September 22, 7:00 p.m.

Keynote Address/Millercomm Distinguished Lecture Series

Urvashi Butalia, Publisher and Founder of Zubaan Books, Co-Founder of Kali for Women

PARTITION: HISTORIES, STORIES, MEMORIES

Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

600 S. Gregory, Urbana IL 61801

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Friday, Sep. 23, 2016

Location: Illini Union Room 210, General Lounge

8:30 am  Breakfast and Welcome

9:00 am – 10:30 am Empire and Resistance: War, Partition and Anti-­‐Colonial Solidarity in Early 20th century Ireland and India

Chair: Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas

  • Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, ‘Promoting Sedition’: The Irish Language in the Orange State after Partition
  • Pranav Jani, Ireland, Partition, and the Indian Revolutionary Imagination
  • Brian Kelly, Rebels in the Uniform of Empire: Anti-­Colonial Solidarity and the 1920 Connaught Mutiny

10:45 am – 12:15 pm Flight from Home

Chair: Dr. Julie Laut

  • Deepti Misri, Performing Humanity: Violence and Visuality in Kashmir
  • Debali Mookherjea-­Leonard, Divided Mindscapes: Displaced Women and Work in Bengali Fiction
  • Aparna Kumar, Unraveling a National Symbol: Museums of South Asia, Partition, and the Question of Lahore

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Empire, Nation and the Politics of Partition

Chair: Professor Barbara Ramusack

  • Penny Sinanoglou, Mapping the Future: Imperial Careers and Imagined Partitions in British Palestine
  • Ibrahim Natil, National Identity in Palestine and Northern Ireland
  • Arie Dubnov, The Architect of Two Partitions or a Federalist Daydreamer? The Curious Case of Reginald Coupland

3:00 p.m. – 3:45 pm    Endnote with Rajmohan Gandhi: Ex-­colony Seeking Global Influence: What India Can Learn from the Imperial Tale.

3:45 – 4:00 Coffee Break

4:00 pm Closing Remarks

Antoinette Burton, Rini Mehta and Tariq Ali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign