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> April 5, 2011
>
> Midnight's Images: Joint Duke-NCSU conference (April 15th-16th, 2011)
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> From: Sumathi Ramaswamy <sr76@duke.edu>
>
> Midnight's Images: Spatial and Artistic Imaginings around a Contested
> Border
>
> Joint Duke-NCSU Conference, North Carolina State University, April
> 15th-16th, 2011
>
> This conference re-examines conflicted meanings of the borders that
> divided British India at the stroke of midnight on August 14-15, 1947 to
> produce the new states of India and Pakistan. British India's partition,
> and the violence that surrounded it, has been the subject of considerable
> scholarship and debate among a range of scholars across the social
> sciences and the humanities.
>
> This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars who
> work on the textual and image archives generated around this contentious
> event to explore themes and issues shared by the verbal and visual
> registers, as well as the divergences, silences and invisibilities.
>
> Our goal is to understand the conflicted imaginings that shaped the
> boundaries that were produced by partition, boundaries that both made
> possible­and disrupted­the imagining of the new Indian an and Pakistani
> nations. It has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together scholars who
> work on both countries in history, religion, literature, and art history.
> Further enquiries may be addressed to the conference co-organizers David
> Gilmartin (david_gilmartin@ncsu.edu) and Sumathi Ramaswamy
> (sr76@duke.edu).
>
> ANNA BIGELOW, Partition without Parting: Devotional Islam in Indian Punjab
>
> VINAYAK CHATURVEDI, Hindutva Beyond the Borders
>
> LUCY CHESTER, Ambiguous Cartographies: Uncertainty and Danger in the
> Mapping of the 1947 Partition
>
> IFTIKHAR DADI, Zainul Abedin and competing nationalisms in South Asia
>
> VENKAT DHULIPALA, Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest
> for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
>
> DAVID GILMARTIN, Maps, Property and Civilization
>
> HAMMAD NASAR, Lines of Control: The Productive Capacity of India's
> Partition
>
> SUMATHI RAMASWAMY, Art on the Line
>
> BHASKAR SARKAR, Mourning Becomes Reflexive: Historical Consciousness in
> Mammo and Zubeida
>
> GAYATRI SINHA, Partition and the Patriarchal state: Images in Indian Art
> from the 1940s to the Present
>
> PAVITRA SUNDAR, Aural History: Sounds of Partition in Hindi Cinema
>
> VAZIRA ZAMINDAR, Qaum, Tari aur Zaban: Representing the Muslim Journey
> from Delhi to Karachi
>
> For abstracts, please visit:
> http://www.nccsas.org/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=68537
>
> --
> Sumathi Ramaswamy
> <sr76@duke.edu>
>
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