SAI: Rethinking Empires and Space: Histories of South Asia(ns), Mobility & Boundary Making

Date: 

Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Rm. 1550, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

FlyerCosponsored Event

 

Panelists:
Kornel Chang, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark

Catherine WarnerCollege Fellow in South Asian Studies and History at Harvard University

Vazira ZamindarAssociate Professor of History at Brown University

Discussants:
Sunil AmrithMehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies Professor of History at Harvard University

Hardeep DhillonPh.D. Candidate, History at Harvard University

In the last several decades, the historiography of South Asia has grappled with the prevalence of circulation and mobility in the past, overturning long-held notions of South Asia as a static society prior to colonial intervention, and developed increasingly nuanced analyses of global connections. The production of itinerant subjectivities, the making of new forms of sovereign power, and the creation of a modern, centralizing state are historical dynamics that all call for a re-examination of empire and space. This panel explores these and related issues through forms of boundary making and mobility.

Organized by the Harvard South Asia Institute and South Asia Across Disciplines Workshop 
Co-sponsored by Boston University School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia, Task Force on Asian & Pacific American Studies, Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies