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The Clowes Center for Conflict and Dialogue presents

States of Violence:
Representations of Conflict in Film, Fiction, and Media of South Asia

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[Updated 2/17 at 12pm]

Fri, Feb 20th
Venue: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall 225

Registration (8:30am – 9:00am)

Opening Remarks (9:00am – 9:30am)                          

Panel 1: Cinematic Representations of the Partition (9:30am – 10:45am)

“The Allegoric Partition Flashback in Early Post-Independence Cinema”
by Shahzad Hussain, Special Individual Program, Concordia University, Montreal

“Violence and Women in Pinjar and Khamosh Pani: Examining the Traumatic Structure of Women-centric Partition Cinema”
by Soumitree Gupta, English Department, Syracuse University

“Religion, Nationalism and Dislocated Women in Khamosh Pani”
by Shahnaz Khan, Women’s Studies & Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

 Panel 2: Politics of Resistance in Literature and Society (10:45am – 12:15pm)

“Representing the Violence of Western Aesthetics: E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India”
by Jana M. Giles, Department of English, University of New Mexico

“Shamelessness, Shame and Honour: Axes of Violence in Contemporary South Asian British Women’s Stories”
by Christine Vogt-William, Women’s Studies Department, Emory University

“(Geo)graphies of Empire: Sea of Poppies and The White Tiger”
 by Tayyab Mahmud, School of Law, Seattle University

“Unmanning Violence: The Politics of Naked Protest”
by Deepti Misri, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

 Lunch and Official Launch of the new, peer-reviewed journal Studies in South Asian Film and Media (12:15pm - 2:00pm)
Lunch is provided courtesy of a generous donation from the South Asian Bar Association of Washington

 Panel 3: The Informatics of Activism (2:00pm – 3:15 pm)

“Greasing the Political Machine: Nepali Media Producing Politicians and Student Activists Producing News”
by Amanda T. Snellinger, Anthropology Department, Cornell University

“Pakistaniat: The Internet and Activist Citizenship”
by Kyla Pasha, Liberal Arts, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan

“Hindutva 2.0: User-Driven Internet Media and Hindu Fundamentalism”
by Rajiv Menon, English and International Affairs Departments, George Washington University

 Panel 4: Madness, Masculinity, and Nationalism (3:15 pm – 4:30pm)

“‘Time for Milk’: Reading Madness and Motherhood in Clear Light of Day”
by Jiena Sun, English Department, University of Indianapolis, Indiana

“Testosterone and Territoriality: Investigating the Nature of Violence in Indian Fiction”
by Sohrab Homi Fracis, Augsburg College, Seaside Institute

“‘One day everybody is themselves—and the next day they are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christians’: Reconstructing Partition Stories”
by Nandi Bhatia, Department of English, University of Western Ontario

Keynote Speech: Nirmala Rajasingham (6:30pm – 8:30pm, Kane Hall 120)
Title: “Gendering Conflict – Disarming Nationalisms”
Reception follows

Saturday, Feb 21st
Venue: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall 225

Registration (9am – 9:30am)

Panel 5: Sexuality and the Body (9:30am – 10:45am)

“Sexual Harassment: Movies and Mythologies”
by Heidi Pauwels, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle

“The Virgin Suicide: Ligy Pullapally’s The Journey”
by Karen Remedios, English Department, Southern Connecticut State University

“Becoming-Death: The Lollywood Gothic of Khwaja Sarfraz’s Zinda Laash”
by Summer Pervez, English Department, Univesity of Ottawa, and Sean Moreland, English Department, University of Ottawa

Panel 6: Communal Violence (10:45am – 12:00pm)

“Benjamin, Bollywood, and the Terrorism Question: Raj Kumar Gupta’s Hindi Film, Aamir”
by Shreerekha Subramanian, Humanities, University of Houston-Clear Lake

“When the Violence is Communal, What Value is Individual Redemption?”
by Rajini Srikanth, English Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston

“The Muslim in the Post-9/11 World: South Asian Cinematic Representations”
by Sonali Agarwal, Department of English, Indraprastha College, Delhi University

Break for Lunch (12:00pm – 1:30pm)

Panel 7: Violence, Terror, and Terrorist (1:30pm – 2:45pm)

“Mumbai Terror Films / India’s New Middle Cinema and the Politics of Fear”
by Avantika Rohatgi, Santa Clara University and San Jose State University            

“Modes of Violence in the Films of Ram Gopal Varma”
by Paul McEwan, Media & Communication / Film Studies, Muhlenberg College

“State, Subalterneity, and Resistance”
by Alka Kurian, English Studies, University of Puget Sound

Panel 8: State Violence in Cinema and Music (2:45pm – 4pm)

“The Lady and the Tiger: Diasporic Tamil Nationalism as (Re)Produced and (Re)Positioned by M.I.A.”
by Mark Balmforth, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington, Seattle

“The Music of M.I.A. and Representations of Resistance in Danny Boyle’s and Loveleen Tandan’s Slumdog Millionaire”
by Rahul Gairola, Department of English and Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington, Seattle

“Territories, Terrorists, and Traitors: Representations of the Kashmir Conflict in Bollywood”
by Huma Bashir Dar, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of British Columbia

Closing Remarks (4pm  –  4:15pm)