Panellists: Prof Krishna Menon, Prof Rachana Johri, Prof Sumangala Damodaran, Dr Rukmini Sen, Dr Bindu KC.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Tuesday 20th February, 6-8pm
Chrystal Macmillan Lecture
Professor Krishna Menon (Ambedkar University Delhi) 'Feminist Explorations of Contemporary South Asia: Possibilities and Challenges'
King Khalid Lecture Theatre (Behind Surgeon's Hall), Hill Square, Edinburgh EH8 9DR
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Pankaj Pankaj (UoE): Building Resilience to Disasters in South Asia.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Thiruni Kelegama, University of Zurich - Occupying Weli Oya: Frontier Politics and Post-war Sri Lanka.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Delwar Hussain (Social Anthropology, UoE): Class, Gender, Sexuality – An Intersectional Example from Bangladesh.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Adjitya Sarkar (University of Warwick): The Authoritarian Handbook: Reflections on Indian Politics since 2014.
[Centre for Modern and Contemporary History / Centre for South Asian Studies]
The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop, scheduled to take place on Wednesday 14 March, is postponed owing to ongoing industrial action.
It is anticipated that Francesca Young Kaufman's presentation will be rescheduled later in the semester. (see below for original listing)
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Francesca Kaufman (University of Edinburgh): Ways of Seeing: Chinese rural-urban migration and its representation on film in the 1990s
Devin Grier ( University of Edinburgh): Assessing the Resourcefulness of Scottish Immigrants during California's Gold Rush: San Francisco and Sacramento, 1850-1860.
Devin takes on the notion of the 'Canny Scot' in Gold Rush California. A diasporic people often observed as rational and sceptic, a significant Scottish population in mid nineteenth-century California suggests otherwise. Using data extracted from federal and state census counts, Devin breaks down and analyses the Scottish presence that resided in California during its Gold Rush.
Gintare Venzlauskaite, (University of Glasgow): From Post-War West to Post-soviet east: Manifestations of Displacement, Collective Memory, and Lithuanian Diasporic Experience Revisited
Alley Jordan (University of Edinburgh): “Beautiful shells from the shore” Thomas Jefferson’s Sacred Grotto of 1771