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