Author Urvashi Butalia is Conference Keynote Speaker

urvashi-butallaPartitions and Empire Conference September 22-23, 2016
Urvashi Butalia, Publisher and Co-Founder of Kali for Women and Founder of Zubaan Books, will be the keynote speaker. She will give a MillerComm lecture at Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m.

The title of her talk is Partition: Histories, Stories, Memories

The conference resumes Friday, Sept 23 from 9 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Illini Union General Lounge (Room 210), 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana.

The imperial partitions of the twentieth century reverberate to the present, and inform contemporary insecurities of different regimes across the world. Present-day challenges to the post­colonial nation­state and its boundaries are often rooted in imperial partitions. Whether in Kashmir, Syria or Palestine, the legacies of partition form the everyday experiences of conflict and violence for millions of people. With these considerations in mind, this conference will explore the theme of partition and empire in global, comparative, and connective frames.

CSAMES thanks our co-sponsors for making this conference possible.


“Partition and Empire: Ireland, India, Palestine and Beyond”  Marshall Gallery and North-South Corridor, September 2016

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The University Library Exhibitions Committee invites you to view the current exhibit running during the month of September in the Main Library Marshall Gallery and North-South Corridor.

The International and Area Studies Library is proud to present an exhibit on “Partition and Empire: Ireland, India, Palestine and Beyond” in conjunction with a conference on the same topic. The imperial partitions of the twentieth century reverberate to the present, and inform contemporary insecurities of different regimes across the world. Present-day challenges to the post¬colonial nation¬state and its boundaries are often rooted in imperial partitions. Whether in Kashmir, Syria or Palestine, the legacies of partition form the everyday experiences of conflict and violence for millions of people. With these considerations in mind, this conference will explore the theme of partition and empire in global, comparative, and connective frames.

The exhibit was sponsored by the Library Exhibitions Committee and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES).


Spurlock Museum also invites you to its Exhibit Opening Celebration: 

Medieval Irish Masterpieces in Modern Reproduction

Friday, September 23 • 7:30–9:00 pm 

Join the Museum staff for refreshments and gallery explorations (7:30–8 pm) followed by a short talk by exhibit curator UIUC Professor Charles D. Wright and a performance by Port Mor (8–9 pm).

Free admission.

About the exhibit: Campbell Gallery Exhibit

Medieval Irish Masterpieces in Modern Reproduction 

September 13, 2016–April 2, 2017

In 1916, the UIUC Museum of European History acquired a remarkable set of high-quality reproductions of major monuments of early Irish metalwork art, including the Tara Brooch, Ardagh Chalice, the Cross of Cong, and the shrine of St. Lachtin’s arm. These superb pieces were part of a larger collection created in very small numbers by the Dublin jeweler Edmond Johnson for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. They are important not only as museum-quality reproductions but also in their own right as specimens of the art of the Celtic Revival and of modern “medievalism.” In this exhibit, many pieces of this collection will be displayed alongside nineteenth- and twentieth-century facsimiles of illuminated Irish vernacular and Latin manuscripts on loan from the UIUC Library—works that have been fundamental to scholarship on medieval Irish studies in the past century and a half.