{"id":12911,"date":"2020-11-30T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=12911"},"modified":"2021-01-15T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:14:06","slug":"12911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2020\/11\/30\/12911\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonization @60 Symposium (Dec. 14, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decolonization@60<\/strong>, the BU Center for the Study of Asia<\/strong>, and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global<\/strong> Studies<\/strong> invite you to take part in the Decolonization@60 Symposium<\/p>\n

Monday Dec. 14, 2020 from 9:00 to 12:30 pm EST via Zoom<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link for each event<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Keynote:<\/strong> https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMud-ytqjMoH9SP7zThNgYLjVM2mTrh4slP<\/a><\/p>\n

Roundtable:<\/strong> https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJArd-CupzwpGtb-ktL-9RL6364Fj641i8pJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>
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If you have any questions, please contact<\/span> decolo@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the Speakers:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Keynote Speaker:<\/span> Willem van Schendel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(University of Amsterdam & International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) \"\"<\/a>works in the fields of history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent books include\u00a0<\/span>A History of Bangladesh<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(new edition, July 2020);\u00a0<\/span>The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(with Joy L.K. Pachuau, 2015); and\u00a0<\/span>Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using Historical Evidence, 1840s\u20131940s<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(ed., 2017). His publications can be found at \u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/uva.academia.edu\/WillemVanSchendel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Roundtable Participants:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sana Aiyar<\/strong> is a historian of modern South Asia at MIT, where she is an associate professor of history. Her broad research and teaching interests lie in the regional and transnational history of South Asia and South Asian diasporas, with a particular focus on colonial and postcolonial politics and society in the Indian Ocean. Her first book, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2015), explores the interracial and extraterritorial diasporic political consciousness of South Asians in Kenya from c. 1895 to 1968 who mediated constructions of racial and national identity across the Indian Ocean. Professor Aiyar is currently working on two projects. One is a study of the everyday encounters of African soldiers and South Asian civilians during the Second World War when over a hundred thousand military recruits from East and West Africa were stationed in India and Burma. The second, \u201cIndia\u2019s First Partition,\u201d is an examination of migration, religious and ethnic politics, nationalism, and anticolonial activism across India and Burma in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Kalyani Ramnath <\/strong>is a historian of modern South Asia, with research and teaching interests in legal \"\"<\/a>history, histories of migration and displacement, transnational history and questions of archival method. She is a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at the Center for History and Economics and Lecturer at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2018, holds an LLM from Yale, and a JD-equivalent from the National Law School of India.<\/p>\n

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Debjani Bhattacharyya <\/strong>is an associate professor of history at Drexel University. Her work explores the \"\"<\/a>intersection of legal and environmental history. Professor Bhattacharyya\u2019s research is driven by the desire to understand how legal and economic structures order our conceptualization of environmental transformations and shape how we respond to climate crisis. Her book,\u00a0<\/span>Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Cambridge University Press, 2018) won the 2019 honorable mention for the best book in Urban History.\u00a0She holds a PhD from Emory University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanjib Baruah <\/strong>is is professor of political studies at Bard College, New York and honorary research \"\"<\/a>professor at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi.\u00a0 He is the author of a number of books and many articles. His books include Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India and India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality. He recently published in In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2020)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prasannan Parthasarathi <\/strong>is Professor and Chair at the Department of History at Boston College. He \"\"<\/a>teaches courses on modern South Asia, global history, and environmental history. He is now engaged in a study of environmental change, agriculture, and labor in nineteenth-century South India. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Dibner Institute and the American Council for Learned Societies. He is a senior editor of\u00a0International Labor and Working Class History\u00a0<\/em>and serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including\u00a0Textile History<\/em>, the\u00a0Medieval History Journal<\/em>, and the\u00a0American Historical Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Decolonization@60<\/strong> is part of the Global Decolonization Initiative<\/strong> (GloDec) at the\u00a0BU Pardee School<\/a> which brings together undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs and faculty to develop an intellectual community passionate about understanding the ongoing processes of decolonization through studying borders, borderlands, partitions, identities, race,\u00a0citizenship and political violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

GloDec comprises\u00a0four\u00a0kinds of programs that predominantly relate to student and faculty research.\u00a0<\/span>\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

STUDENT\u00a0RESEARCH\u00a0PROJECTS<\/span><\/p>\n

GloDec’s research projects include its flagship\u00a0<\/span>Partitions Project<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to develop a database and a series of case studies on territorial\u00a0partitions, and the\u00a0<\/span>Nuclear Sites Project<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to develop in-depth case studies on nuclear weapons, energy, and mining sites located in the world’s borderlands.\u00a0See the projects’\u00a0pages for more information.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

STUDENT-LED PROGRAMS\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n