“Freedom’s Open Wound” Conference at Tufts University

The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies Presents:

“Freedom’s Open Wound: Kashmir and the Future of South Asia”

A conference on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of South Asia’s independence from British colonial rule, to be held on October 6th and 7th, 2017

The conference will take place at:
Cabot 7th Floor
The Fletcher School
Tufts University

PROGRAM

Friday October 6

Film Screening of Iffat Fatima’s Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves Its Trail) 93 minutes; Kashmiri/English subtitles
4 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in Tisch Library 304

A small reception will be held at the Center of Humanities (48 Professors Row)

Saturday October 7

Opening Remarks: 9:30 a.m.

Session 1: “Kashmir’s Absent Presences”
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Suchitra Vijayan, “Records of Repression”
Barrister-at-Law, Political essayist, and Photographer

Cabeiri Robinson, “The Territoriality of the Refugee Body and the Sovereignty
of Azad Kashmir”
Associate Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies,
University of Washington

Saiba Varma, “Injury, Affect, and Trauma to Politics in Kashmir”
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego

Lunch: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Session 2: “Kashmiri Imagination and Resistance”
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Shahla Hussain, “Kashmiri Imaginings of Freedom in the Global Arenas”
Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. John’s University

Mona Bhan, “Tunneling to the Future in India” “Concrete, Counter-insurgency,
and Everyday Resistance in Kashmir” Assistant Professor, Department of
Anthropology, DePauw University

Iffat Fatima, KHOON DIY BAARAV (Blood Leaves Its Trail)
Documentary Film-maker based in India

Coffee Break: 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Session 3: “Kashmir on the World Stage”
3:15 p.m. -5:15 p.m.

Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Ayesha Jalal
Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University