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Copenhagen South Asia Workshop

One day workshop on "Writing South Asia"

Copenhagen South AsiaWorkshop (CSAW) invites researchers engaged in the studies of South Asia to reflect upon the ways in which societies write and are written about through history. The workshop aims at a collective exploration of different modes of expression, practices of record keeping, technologies of archive, and ethnographic incursions. These include a wide range of writings produced by the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial state authorities from census databases, district reports, handbooks and manuals, history textbooks to writing by individuals such as travel writing, works of fiction, biographies, memoirs and autobiographies. The idea is to reflect upon how words form, inform and even deform different subjectivities and identities.

Tanika Sarkar, Professor of Modern history, Jawaharlal Nehru University will deliver the key note address 'Words to Win: A Modern Autobiography' that draws our attention to how autobiographical writing became a particular mode of expression among women during the colonial times.

Tanika Sarkar is currently a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College Cambridge. Some of her major publications include Bengal, 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest. Oxford University Press, Delhi: 1987; Words to Win: a Modern Autobiography. Kali for Women, Delhi: 1999; Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Religion, Community, Cultural Nationalism. Permanent Black, Delhi and Indiana University Press: 2000

Programme

9.30- 9.45 Welcome: Marie Roesgård - Introduction: Ravinder Kaur

9.45-11.30 Counter/Narratives
Chair: Dayabati Roy

Esther Fihl: Encountering native voices in Tanquebar in South India Esther

Jyoti Atwal: A Hindu Widow's Narrative of the Body: Priyamvada Devi.

Stine Simonsen Puri: ‘The temple whores' of Tanquebar

Dan V Hirslund: ‘Waiting & cadreship among Maobadi youth in Nepal

11.30- 11.45 Tea/Coffee Break

11.45-12.30 Society, Self, Discourses
Chair: Esther Fihl

Frida Hastrup: Enacting Protection. Environmental Concerns in Coastal Tamil Nadu

Peter Andersen: The Santal Rebellion 1855

12.30- 1.00 Lunch

1.00- 3.00 Words to Win: A Modern Autobiography
Prof. Tanika Sarkar
Chair: Ravinder Kaur

3.00- 3.30 Tea/Coffee Break

3.30- 4.30 State, Law, Governance
Chair: Peter Andersen

Ida Sofie Matzen: The creation of a secular Muslim state and the invention of Sufism

Anna Lindberg: The Marrying of Children in Travancore in the 1940s: Gender discourses and childhood

For more information, contact Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor, Centre of Global South Asian Studies, rkaur@hum.ku.dk

For registration, contact Marie Yoshida, Asian Dynamics Initiative, marie.yoshida@nias.ku.dk

Centre of Global South Asian Studies and Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen