From: Sangeeta Mediratta
Grounding Kashmir: Experience and Everyday Life on Both Sides of the Line of Control
A symposium sponsored by The Center for South Asia and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University
March 5th and 6th, Stanford Humanities Center
(424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305-4015; MAP)
Pre-registration requested:http://www.stanford.edu/group/ica/groundingkashmirregistration.fb
More details at: http://southasia.stanford.edu/conferences/grounding_kashmir_symposium
Disputed between India and Pakistan since 1947, the border region of Kashmir has tragically become the most contested and militarized zone in the world today. Research on this enduring South Asian conflict has been over-determined by a myopic security perspective, which centers on the changing contours of “Kashmir policy”, interstate rivalries, and local insurgencies. But how has ordinary life, relationships between generations, and life prospects been shaped by decades of insecurity, violence, and dispossession? How can we make sense of the multiple lineages of the dispute, and the different ways in which it has imposed itself on political subjectivities in the affected regions? And, most basically, why does the dispute continue to persist? These key concerns will centrally frame the symposium on “Grounding Kashmir.” The presentations at the symposium will collectively illuminate the diverse trajectories of the Kashmir dispute through a historical, ethnographic, and literary lens, focusing on social imaginaries, everyday realities, and cultural politics. While South Asian scholarship has richly explored the complexities of partition, grounded investigations of its most pernicious consequence – the Kashmir conflict – have only recently begun to emerge. Yet, there has been no avenue for conversation across the LOC. The symposium will provide an opportunity to unsettle this intellectual line of control, by engaging key speakers who work on Indian and Pakistani Kashmir.
12:00 pm - Lunch and Registration
1:15 pm - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm - Contested Histories
Chair: Aishwary Kumar, Stanford University
· Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University
“Regional Patriotism, Religious Universalism: The Kashmir-Punjab Nexus, 1931-2011”
· Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania
“Kashmir and the Challenge of Postcolonial Politics”
· Mridu Rai, Trinity College
“Making a Part Inalienable: Folding Kashmir into India’s Imagination”
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm - Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Book Reading and Film Screening
Moderator: Nosheen Ali, Stanford University
· Basharat Peer, Journalist
“Curfewed Night”
· Sanjay Kak, Film-Maker
“Jashn-e-Azadi”
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Meet and Greet
9:30 am – 10:45 am – Territories of Violence
Chair: Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University
· Cabeiri D. Robinson, University of Washington, Seattle
“The Territoriality of the Refugee Body and The Sovereignty of Azad Kashmir”
· Angana Chatterji, California Institute of Integral Studies
“Archaeologies of Violence: Regularized States of Exception in India-ruled Kashmir”
10:45 am – 11:15 am - Coffee Break
11:15 am – 1:00 pm – Public Culture and Sentiment
Chair: Jisha Menon, Stanford University
· Anaya Jahanara Kabir, University of Leeds
“The Entire Map of the Lost will be Candled: Archives and Counter-Archives for Kashmir”
· Nosheen Ali, Stanford University
“Vexed Emotions: Of Desire, Suspicion, and Sacrifice in Gilgit-Baltistan”
· Mona Bhan, DePauw University
“Nature, Water, and Bioscripts: Public Interest Litigations and the Cultural Politics of Environmentalism in Kashmir, India”
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Concluding Discussion
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm - Lunch
CONTACT
Sangeeta Mediratta, smedirat@stanford.edu or(650) 725-8150
Nosheen Ali, noshali@stanford.edu or (650) 996-7122
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