PARTITION: THE LONG SHADOW: CLOSING SEMINAR

Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan

The Heinrich Böll Foundation,

India Habitat Centre and Zubaan

are pleased to invite you to the closing seminar of their year-long series - 'Partition: The Long Shadow'.

PARTITION: THE LONG SHADOW: CLOSING SEMINAR



Dates: 1 and 2 November 2008



Casuarina, India Habitat Centre, Vardhaman Marg, New Delhi 110003

10.30 am to 4.30 pm

The closing seminar of the series of dialogues and conversations entitled 'Partition: The Long Shadow' returns to some of the themes discussed during the series and explores them further. The seminar is not intended as an academic exercise; rather its aim is to look at how partition continues to live on in our lives in the subcontinent and how to move away from it, into the future.

Programme:

Day 1 - 1st November 2008

10.30 am: Registration and coffee

Session 1 –

11.30 am - 12.30 pm Dialogue on Art and peace between Sallima Hashmi and Alka Pande

12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch

Session 2

2.00 pm to 3.00pm: Dialogue between Subboranjan Dasgupta and Gargi Chakravarty on ‘Women and Partition in the East’

3.00 pm - 3.15 pm Tea/Coffee Break

Session 3

3.15 pm - 4.30 pm: Round table discussion on the ‘Continuing legacies of partition’.

Panelists include: Saima Jasam, Lahore

Neelam Hussain, Director, Simorgh, Lahore

Kavita Panjabi , Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Day 2

2nd November 2008

Session 4

10.30 am - 11.30 am: Dialogue between Shama Zaidi and Ranjani Majumdar on the film ‘Garm Hawa’

Session 5

11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Dialogue between Shohini Ghosh and Urvashi Butalia on ‘Partition and its impact in the East’

12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch

Session 6

2.00 pm - 3.30 pm: Panel Discussion on ‘Partition and Psychiatry – Making Sense of History: A Mental Health Perspective

Panelists: Professor Sanjeev Jain, Psychiatrist, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore

Profesor Anirudh Kala, Psychiatrist, Ludhiana

Dr Shobna Sonpar, Clinical Psychologist, Delhi

Dr Alok Sarin, Psychiatrist, Delhi



3.30 pm Closing discussion

All are welcome.

Envisaged as a series of dialogues, lectures and readings from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the year-long Partition: The Long Shadow programme marks the 60th anniversary of the Partition of 1947, a seminal event in the history of the subcontinent. This series of talks and discussions explores the multiple and somewhat unaddressed dimensions of the Partition of the Indian sub-continent.

For further information please call 011 26521008/ 26864497.



With warm regards,



Mercy Vungthianmuang



Programme Coordinator



Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan

3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg

New Delhi 110001

Tel: +91 - 11 - 233 295 06

Fax: +91 - 11 - 233 255 34

mail to : vungthianmuang@delhi.goethe.org

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