Talk: “Partition: Histories, Stories, Memories” by Urvashi Butalia

• Event Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
• Time: 7:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series

Present-day challenges to the post-colonial nation-state and its boundaries are often rooted in imperial partitions. Whether in Kashmir, Syria or Palestine, the legacies of partition form the everyday experiences of conflict and violence for millions of people. Renowned Delhi-based author, journalist and publisher Urvashi Butalia will explore how themes of gender and sexuality, bodies, and memory cut across the various sites of imperial partitions in the twentieth century, discussing how specific and embodied experiences of partition can be examined in global, comparative, and connective frames.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in conjunction with the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, Department of History, Department of Religion, Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, Program in Comparative & World Literature, Spurlock Museum, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

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