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<\/a><\/p>\nSchedule, LUMSConference<\/a><\/p>\n Re-thinking Methodology in Partition Studies: Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/p>\n The Lahore University of Management Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n 22-23 February 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n in collaboration with\u00a0The Centre for Migration Studies and Department of History, University of British Columbia, Canada, & Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.\u00a0With support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n February 22, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00-9:30: Tea<\/span><\/p>\n 9:30-10:15:\u00a0 Opening Remarks and Welcome<\/span><\/p>\n Nadhra Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences<\/p>\n Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia<\/p>\n Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London<\/p>\n Debjani Sengupta, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi (online)<\/p>\n Avishek Ray, National Institute of Technology, Silchar (online)<\/p>\n Ali Khan, Dean MGSHSS, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/p>\n Waqar Zaidi, Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/p>\n Session 1: Making memory, 10:15am-12:45pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:15-10:45:\u00a0<\/span>The ‘Other’ community: Situating Christians in the Partition of the Punjab, Yaqoob Khan Bangash, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Technology University, Pakistan<\/p>\n 10:45-11:15:\u00a0<\/span>Manipulation of Memory: Partition and the Indian State Since 2014 (online),\u00a0Manimugdha Sharma, University of British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n 11:15-11:45:\u00a0<\/span>Partition Violence and National Unity: Pakistan\u2019s Cinema from the 1960s,\u00a0Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin, USA<\/p>\n 11:45-12:15: Reflection\/Discussion\u00a0<\/span>Respondent: Ali Usman Qasmi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>12:15-12:30 Tea\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Session 2: Memorializing practices at and across borders, 12:30noon-2:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:30-1:00:\u00a0<\/span>Memorializing Partition across the Indo-Pak Border: Ethnographic Reflections on (the limits of) Comparison, Collaboration and Ethics,\u00a0Philipp Zehmisch, University of Heidelberg, Germany<\/p>\n 1:00-1:30:\u00a0<\/span>Digital diasporas beyond the \u2018empathy machine\u2019:\u00a0 The potentials and perils of using Virtual Reality (VR) technology in public memory work on the partition (online),\u00a0Navtej Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK<\/p>\n 1:30-2:00: Reflection\/Discussion\u00a0<\/span>Respondent: Ali Raza, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n 2:00-3:00 Lunch Break<\/span><\/p>\n Session 3: Partition spacialities, 3:00-4:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 3:00-3:30:\u00a0<\/span>The Maps of Partition: Visual Methods and Partition History,\u00a0Willem van Schendel University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, Netherlands<\/p>\n 3:30-4:00:\u00a0<\/span>The prose of marginality: Kingsway and Walton, a study of the 1947 Partition\u2019s refugee camps,\u00a0Anne Castaing & Mehraj Iftikhar, Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH) and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France<\/p>\n 4.00-4:30: Reflection\/Discussion <\/span>Respondent: Ilyas Chattha, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n 4:30-5:00: Tea<\/span><\/p>\n Session 4: Technologies of memory, 5:00-6:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 5:00-5:30:\u00a0<\/span>Reconstructing the Human Experience of Partition through Podcasts: a Study of ‘Partition Voices’ and ‘Empire’ (online),\u00a0Cecilia Varuzza, University of Essex, UK<\/p>\n 5:30-6:00: <\/span>A taste of displacement: Partition, food and memory-making in Muslim families,\u00a0Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, University of Sheffield, UK<\/p>\n 6:00-6:30:<\/span> Reflection\/Discussion,\u00a0Respondent: Furrukh Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n February 23, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00-10:30: Tea<\/span><\/p>\n Session 5: Refocusing Partition Studies: The place of Sindh, 10:30am-12pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:30-11:00:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Post Ayodhya Memories of Anti-Hindu Violence in Sindh.\u00a0Ashok Kumar Khatri and Ghazal Asif Farrukhi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n 11:00-11:30:\u00a0<\/span>Exploring Culturally Inclusive Translation in Partition Studies: A Perspective from Sindh, Rafique Wassan, University of Sindh, Pakistan<\/p>\n 11:30-12:00:<\/span> Reflection\/Discussion,\u00a0Respondent: Tahir Kamran, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan<\/p>\n Session 6: Visualization, 12:00-2:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00-12:30,\u00a0<\/span>Experiencing Partition \u2212 The Visual Way.\u00a0Sadia Kamran, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan<\/p>\n 12:30-1:00:\u00a0<\/span>Evolution of Partition Narratives in Art from Post-Partition to the Contemporary Era,\u00a0Sadia Safdar\/Khurram, Govt. Associate College for Women, Manga Mandi, Lahore, Pakistan<\/p>\n 1:00-1:30:\u00a0<\/span>Art of the Partition and the Partition of Art,\u00a0Quddus Mirza, <\/strong>Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan<\/p>\n 1:30-2:00: <\/span>Reflection\/Discussion,\u00a0Respondent: Nadhra Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n 2:00-3:30: Lunch Break<\/span><\/p>\n Session 7: Creative Engagements, 4:00-5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 3:30-4:30:<\/span> Performance\/Reflection:\u00a0I & Thou: The Pedagogy of Partition Studies,\u00a0Shabnam Syed Khan and Iram Zia Raja, National College of Art, Pakistan<\/p>\n 4:30-5:00:<\/span> Bilingual short story reading (Punjabi\/English),\u00a0Story by Zahid Hussain, Lahore University of Management Sciences.\u00a0Translation by Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n Session 8: Roundtable and closing discussion, 5:00-6:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Muhammad Waseem, Emeritus, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan<\/p>\n Naumana Kiran, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan<\/p>\n Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK<\/p>\n Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin, USA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The conference at LUMS brought together scholars from India, North America (Canada and the USA), the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and Pakistan to consider current work on Partition and future directions in the field. 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