International Conference Indian Indentureship and Girmitiya Descendants: Past, Present and Future @ The University of , 22-24 March

Wednesday 22 March 2017 11am Plenary Paper: Crossing Paths: Rethinking Taukei and Girmit relations (Professor Steven Ratuva) 11.45am Session 1: Girmit- Session 2: Science & Session 3: Indigenity Politics Technology Girmit & Education The Rewa Story The Roles and Contributions Girmit in Literature Texts of Indian Immigrant in Fijian Schools Women in Fiji on Sustainable Development The Syria Shipwreck and A Pilot Study of Freshwater Hidden curriculum in Texting Race Relations in Fiji quality and its biotic relation to local conditions communities in selected in Fiji sources in the West region of Fiji The Chiefly System and Ethnic Sustainable Education and Relevance of Girmit in Relations in Fiji Development Contemporary Fiji: results of a pilot study 1.15pm Lunch Break 2.00pm Session 1: continues Session 2: continues Session 3: Continues Session 4: Medicine & Health Indo-Fijian Counter Fijian Women’s Role in Vivekananda University Girmityas' Health: Review, Hegemony in Fiji: A Historical Disaster Risk Management 2017 Structural Approach and Climate Change

The Dark Journey from Sustainable Development - Girmit Awareness in Fiji's Destitution, depression Muaniweni to Girmit Centre. A Rewan Perspective School Children and disease among Girmitiyas in Fiji Maintaining the Significance of Public Participation in Girmit in Primary School Syria Deaths Girmit: Another Struggle Sustainable Development : Curriculum Case studies from Sri Lanka 3.00pm Afternoon tea break 3.20pm Session 1: continues Session 5: Gender Session 3: Continues Session 4: Medicine & Health continues Fragile histories and hopes for Narratives of Indentured Basic Mathematics SRH a better future Indian Women: A South Education in the first African Perspective primary schools established in Fiji Low and High Moments to ‘To every hundred men, Foundation of Community NCDs and its rates Remember in the Lives of forty women’: Traces of the Schools amongst FIDs and ITs. Girmitiyas: The Evolution of female indentured labour Gurmityas into a experience in Naipaul and Nandan National Reconciliation to A Critique of Women’s Foundation of Community : Girmit Health Shape a Better Fiji Representation in Indo- Schools Issues Fijian Literature The Women of Syria: A Foundation of Community Health Services in Fiji and Footnote Schools the impact of Girmit 4.40pm Plenary Paper: Perspectives on Fiji's Post-Girmit Population Growth (Prof. Rajat Gyaneshwar) 5.45pm Book Launches 6.30pm Conference Cocktail & Dinner

Thursday 23 March 9am Plenary Paper: Indian women's oppression in the indenture and post- indenture periods (Professor Prem Misir) 9.45am Session 6: History Session 7: Writers Forum Session 3: Girmit & Session 8: Legal Education Continues Dimensions Gandhi, Girmit and the : A Socio- Foundation of Community The Evolution of the End of Indenture Linguistics Legacy of the Schools Legislature/Parliament Girmitiyas in Fiji Christian humanitarianism “Unknown” potential of Foundation of Community Laws on land and and the fight to end Standard Hindi among the Schools cultivation indenture: the case of Fiji younger generation of Fijians of Indian Descent The End of Indenture: The attrition of Telugu Foundation of Community Finance laws Knowns and Unknowns language among the Fiji Schools South Indians Return of Indentured Pandit Totaram Sanadhya's Foundation of Community Workers from Fiji (Hindi) unpublished document "Fiji Schools Me Ghasleti Saahitye ka Durparinaam" - [The Tragic Consequences of Obscene Literature in Fiji.] 10.55am Morning Tea break 11.10am Session 9: Girmit in Session 6: Writers Forum Session 10: Girmit & Session 8: Legal Consciousness Continues Economy Dimensions Continues Race, Place and Indian NadīyāKePār: Empire The Socio-economic Protection of Intangible Identities in Contemporary Theatre [In Fiji Hindi, a Status of the Fijian Sugar Heritage Pertaining To homage to Subramani’s Industry: Past and The Indenture Dauka Puran and Fiji Maa] Present Paradox Experience in Fiji Restorying Girmit Fiji MAA: A book of Cane Quality Payment Money Lenders Act and thousand readings System in Fiji: Issues and Indian Business Challenges Temporary Vanua Girmitiya Bhasha Hindi Exploring the Production Defence of Indentured Possibilities and the Workers & Legal Maritime Foreign Trade History Potential of the Fiji Islands (1840-1860) Coming out of our shell Hindi on Move in New From the marine product Public Administration Zealand gatherers to the during the Girmit Girmitiyas: the Labor in Period: A Study of the the 19th Century (1850- Fiji Islands 1900) Fiji Islands Cooperative movement 12.50pm Lunch Break 1.30pm Plenary Paper: Imagination, Disruption and Change - the New Normal (Professor Dharmendra Sharma) 2.20pm Session 9: Girmit in Session 7: Writers Forum Session 10: Girmit & Session 11: Labour Consciousness cont Continues Economy and Work The Ram Leela – The वव भाषा के प म हंद : The Indenture Shipping A theoretical evaluation Girmitiya way of self- Business of the need for

expression and संभावनाओं का उभरता आकाश protection of universal overcoming oppression labour rights Girmitia Vs Indo- गरमटया हद (फजी, मारशस, Gujerati owned Wages and Working Fijian;Around 140 Years businesses, from THE Condition during the

Legacy of Hard Core सरनामू और दण अका का EARLY 1900’s till date in Indenture System in Struggle सदभ ) the eastern cape, South Fiji: 1887-1930 Africa Girmit and Culture गरमट गीत –वासी भारतीय क Gujeratis of Fiji Labour Legislation t o contain industrial

संघष कथा के मौखक दतावेज़ disputes during Indenture 3.20pm Afternoon Tea Break 3.40pm Session 12: Multiple Session 7: Writers Forum Session 11: Labour & Banishments Continues Work Continues fQth esa tkxhjh izFkk& nk:.k Home, Migration and a Origins of Fiji Teachers New Identity Hkkjrh; izokfl;ksa dh ewrZ xkFkk Union Twice Banished: 3rd - 4th  Origins of Fijian Generations and Migration  Teachers Association Issues 3G Girmitiyas  Origins of Fiji Public Service Association Devika  4.40pm Plenary Paper: Writers Forum - Girmit Origins: A Writing Life (Prof. Satendra Nandan) 5.30pm END of DAY - tour of exhibition etc

Friday 24 March 9.00am Plenary Paper: From Indian to Fijians: Culture and Identity Change among Indo-Fijians (Professor Vijay Naidu) 9.45am Session 13: Engaging Session 7: Writers Forum Session 14: General Session 11: Labour with Diaspora Continues and Work ’s Engagement with Poetry Reading: Two poems Girmit as a Site of IR development during Girmit Diaspora: in Hindi and English. Resistance British colonial rule: Prejudices and Prospects 1900-1970. Girmitiyas to Diaspora: Round Table 1: The Future The State of National Sugar Mill Unions in Engagement of Fiji Indian of Hindi in Fiji Media in Fiji CSR to FSC Transition Diaspora in Transnational Space Commemorating Girmit in Round Table 1: The Future MacGregor Story Origins of Chini of Hindi in Fiji Mazdoor Sangh New Museum at the Round Table 1: The Future Indian Association Fiji Kisan Sangh Apravasi Ghat, Mauritius of Hindi in Fiji 10.55am Morning Tea Break 11.10am Session 13: Engaging Session 7: Writers Forum Session 15: General Session 11: Labour & with Diaspora Continues Work Continues Correcting Girmit History: Writing Fiji: From a Girmitiya Struggle The 1920 and 1921 A Tribute to Fiji Nepalis colonizing to a decolonizing strikes project From Abolition of Hindi Cinema as Window to In Exile at Home-A Fiji Origin of National Indenture to Liberation India for Girmitiya Indian Story Farmers Union fromIndenture: The Case Descendants in Fiji of Indenture System in Fiji The Plight of Indentured Round Table 2: Fiji Writers Indian Diaspora in Origin of Fiji Cane Labourers in Fiji Association Malaysia: An Untapped Growers Association Asset Celebrating creativity in Round Table 2: Fiji Writers Cheddi Jagan and Jung education: A formidable Association Bahadur Singh: The challenge Shaping of an Indian Imagination in Guyana 12.20pm Lunch Break 1.00pm Session 14: Sugar Industry: Panel Discussion 2.30pm Afternoon Tea 2.50pm Plenary: Panel Discussion: The Future 4.30pm Closure: The Girmitiya Story

Sponsors:

Fiji Institute of Applied Studies University of Fiji

Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises & Development

New Zealand