The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, 5-6 September 2016 HH Conference 4th September 2016 19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner for invited quests only THE PAST BEFORE US: HERITAGE AND HISTORY IN SOUTH ASIA SOAS University of London, 5-6 September 2016 DAY ONE, 5th September 0900-0930 Registration and Coffee 0930-1030 Welcome and Introduction Djam Michael Hutt Lecture Theatre (DLT) Opening Lecture Peter Robb: Community and Modernity: Abdul Latif (1828 – 93), Calcutta colleges and British India The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, 5-6 September 2016 1030-1200 Panel 1 Between the Global and the Local Panel 2 Diaspora Heritage (DLT) (Khalili Lecture Theatre or KLT) Swadhin Sen (Jahangirnagar University): Sharada Srinivasan & Vijayluxmi Panray (Bangalore Desiring Nationalistic Oldness and IISc): The Intangible Aspect of ‘Artefact’ as Secular Glory: Contemporary Structures ‘Heritage’: Explorations within Artisanal and Processes of Heritageisation in Communities in South India and Mauritius Bangladesh Shweta Saraswat (University of California Los Amrita Shodhan (SOAS) and Achyut Angeles}: The Shifting Value of Heritage in the Yajnik (Ahmedabad): Geography – Diaspora: Formulations of Indian Classical Dance History – Heritage in Gujarat Practice in the United Kingdom Savantani Gupta Jafa (Mumbai): Heritage Smita Yadav (University of Sussex): Heritage Politics: Oversight issues in the Tourism and Indian Diaspora: Non-Himalayan Sites Governance Frameworks of Heritage of Pilgrimage in India Administration In Contemporary India 1200-1300 LUNCH 1330-1530 Panel 3 (part 1) Craft Heritage Dynamics Panel 4 Culturally Owning Space and History (KLT) (DLT) Alice Tilche (LSE): Curating The Francesca Orsini (SOAS): Beyond The Generic: Everyday: The Museum, The Body, The Plural histories of the Local Landscape and The Home The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, 5-6 September 2016 Elizabeth Cecil (British Museum/Leiden University): Ezra Raskow (Montclair State Gods Imprisoned: the Politics of Heritage Making in University): Adivasis and Cultural Rajasthan Heritage Conservation Gauri Bharat (Ahmedabad): Producing Raza Naeem (University of Management and Adivasi Heritage and Identity - Technology, Lahore): The Evolution of Culture in Industrialization and the 'Noble Savage' Pakistan Bidisha Dhar (Tripura): Crafting Kamalika Banerjee (National University of Linkages: Making Heritage in Lucknow’s Singapore): Neocolonial Heritage Practices in Embroidery Industries 'Postcolonial Mumbai' 1530-1600 TEA/COFFEE 1600-17:30 Panel 5 Craft Heritage Dynamics (pt 2) Panel 6 Heritage Politics and Partition Legacies (KLT) (DLT) Anais de Fonseca (SOAS): Contemporary Deborah Sutton (Lancaster): Partition Pasts and the Cherial Paintings from Telangana, India Heritage of Delhi Priyanka Basu (SOAS): Heritage, Michel Boivin (CNRS-CEIAS, Paris) & Bhavna Rajpal Performative Labour, and (University of Westminster): Negotiating a Representation Vernacular Heritage: Visual Representations of Jhulelal and the Construction of Sindhiyyat in Pakistan and in India The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, 5-6 September 2016 1830 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Keynote lecture Romila Thapar: Past Cultures as the Heritage of the Present DAY TWO, 6th September 0930-1100 Panel 7 Sound Archives (DLT) DLT Christian Poske (SOAS): The Bake Collection of the British Library Sound Archive: global perspectives on historical sound recordings Bisakha Goswami (SOAS): Music Archiving in Colonial India: global perspectives on the conceptualisation of intangible cultural heritage Moushumi Bhowmik (Jadavpur University): How Beautiful Were Our Days in The Past! Were They Really? The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, 5-6 September 2016 1100-1130 TEA/COFFEE 1130-1300 Panel 8 Contested Colonial Legacies (pt 1) Panel 9 Monumental Interpretations of Heritage DLT Display (pt 1), KLT Sanjukta Ghosh (SOAS): Experiments Kanika Singh (Ambedkar University, Delhi): with the Self as Citizen: Bengal’s Representation of Heritage in Museums of Sikh Bratachari Movement History Souradip Bhattacharyya (National Bryony Whitmarsh (SOAS): Putting the Nepali University of Singapore): Whose Nation into Place: Historical stagings in Narayanhiti Heritage? : Politics of Negotiation in palace grounds, Kathmandu restoration of Indo-Danish Heritage Buildings of Serampore Anne Julie Etter (Cergy-Pontoise University): Souvik Mukherjee (Presidency Between local and Global forms of Architectural University): Of Swimming Doctors, Conservation in South Asia: the Company Raj (mid Scotch Dissenters and Susanna’s Seven 18th-mid 19th centuries) Husbands 1300-1400 LUNCH The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, 5-6 September 2016 1400-1530 Panel 11 Monumental Interpretations of Heritage Display (pt 2), KLT Suhrita Saha (Presidency University): Social Thought of Benoy Kumar Sarkar: Heritage not Inherited Nadine Zubair (University of East Anglia) : The Politics of Place and Heritage-Making in Lahore Emily Rose Stevenson (SOAS): A Walk Down Memory Lane: The Material and Spatial Experience of Heritage Walks in Bangaluru 1500 - 1600 British Library Visit (by invitation only) Venue: The Maps Seminar Room Hosted by Dr. Nur Sobers-Khan, Lead Curator for South Asia 1530-1700 ICE CREAMS 1700 -1830 Panel 12 250 years of Waris Shah’s Heer (DLT) Speakers (tbc): HE Navtej Sarna, Professor Christopher Shackle, Dr Nur Sobers-Khan 1830-2030 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Madangopal Singh and his Chaar Yaar: musical performance .