# Cntr for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies: Freedom's Open Wound: Kashmir and the future of South Asia #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 6 - October 7, 2017** 04:00PM - 05:15PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Tufts University: Friday - Tisch Library 304. Saturday - Cabot (7th floor), The Fletcher School** ![poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/history/files/kashmirconference_final_edit2.png?itok=Lda_uzau) Please join us at “Freedom's Open Wound”, Tufts University's conference and audio-visual experience on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of South Asia's independence from British colonial rule, to be held on October 6th and 7th, 2017. **Friday October 6** Film Screening of Iffat Fatima's Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves Its Trail) 93 minutes; Kashmiri/English subtitles 4 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. in Tisch Library 304, Tufts University A small reception will be held at the Center of Humanities (48 Professors Row) Saturday, October 7, 2017 Cabot (7th floor), The Fletcher School - Tufts University Opening Remarks: 9:30 a.m. **Session 1: "Kashmir's Absent Presences"** 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Suchitra Vijayan, "Records of Repression" Barrister-at-Law, Political essayist, and Photographer Cabeiri Robinson, "The Territoriality of the Refugee Body and the Sovereignty of Azad Kashmir" Associate Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Saiba Varma, "Injury, Affect, and Trauma to Politics in Kashmir" Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego Lunch: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. **Session 2: "Kashmiri Imagination and Resistance"** 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Shahla Hussain, "Kashmiri Imaginings of Freedom in the Global Arenas" Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. John's University Mona Bhan, "Tunneling to the Future in India" "Concrete, Counter-insurgency, and Everyday Resistance in Kashmir" Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, DePauw University Iffat Fatima, KHOON DIY BAARAV (Blood Leaves Its Trail) Documentary Film-maker based in India Coffee Break: 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. **Session 3: "Kashmir on the World Stage"** 3:15 p.m. -5:15 p.m. Sugata Bose Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University Ayesha Jalal Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University Looking forward to seeing you there! Warm regards, Satgin Hamrah Co-sponsor of Event: the History Department Contact: Satgin Hamrah, [http://as.tufts.edu/csaios/events/conference2017.htm](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__as.tufts.edu_csaios_events_conference2017.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=XvykKlJOEz0ueqfuAxlojtsSooSmqLuGho0H034msOA&m=SVNJsTrJBBNZE1DioopdHNt61G4Hwf4oxGLf0Q0YTKo&s=FgT-i0wGF-O0VxTl6RD9sgRFBNaM0oBubveXCHQSi6M&e=) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf kashmirconference\_final\_edit2.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/history/files/kashmirconference_final_edit2.pdf) --- See also:- [ History Events ](/events/history) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/1194666/event-feed.ics) Copy link link