Partition: politics, memory and experience
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Clare Hall; Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge)
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
- 📍 Venue: S2 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
Abstract
Following the seminar on ‘The Indian National Movement’, this session proposes a comparative analysis of selected visual records, interviews and private papers documenting several fictionalized narratives as well as first-hand experiences of Partition. The lecture includes sub-thematic strands that look at gender, military and diplomatic conflict. (Participants might find some of the images disturbing.)
Series This talk is part of the Visual Rhetoric and modern South Asian history (2015-16) series.
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Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Clare Hall; Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge)
Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00