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March 5-6, 2011

H-ASIA
Feb 17 2011

Grounding Kashmir: A symposium at Stanford University, March 5-6, 2011
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From: Nosheen Ali <nosheen.ali@gmail.com>

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 (Sat/Sun), 2011

THE EVENT
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.

*SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011*

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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

*SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2011*

*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

LOCATION
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street,
Stanford, CA 94305-4015 (GET MAP <http://shc.stanford.edu/contact-us>)

CONTACT
Sangeeta Mediratta, smedirat@stanford.edu or (650) 725-8150
Nosheen Ali, noshali@stanford.edu or (650) 996-7122

More details at:
http://southasia.stanford.edu/conferences/grounding_kashmir_symposium

Pre-registration requested:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ica/groundingkashmirregistration.fb

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