Overview
This conference aims to critically examine the region’s borders through a variety of lenses, addressing issues related to migration, diaspora, historical legacies, linguistic boundaries, and the geopolitical significance of islands in South and South-East Asia.The notion of boundaries in South Asia is multifaceted, incorporating geographical, political, and cultural dimensions. South Asian and South-East Asian societies, identities, relationships, and ecosystems are deeply entangled with physical and metaphorical borders. Academic discourse in modern South Asian studies has been driven by borders, both imagined and real. Within the context of the changing political landscape of the broader region today, a conference on the role borders have played and continue to play is timely and necessary.
Programme
22 September - Daytime (Chancellor's Centre)
9.00-9.30 - Registration
9.30-9.45 - Opening Remarks
9.45-11.00 - Panel 1
11.00-11.15 - Tea and Coffee
11.15-12.30 - Panel 2
12.30-13.30 - Lunch
13.30-14.45 - Panel 3
14.45-15.15 - Tea and Coffee
15.15-16.30 - Panel 4
22 September - Evening (Lee Hall)
17.00-18.30 - Key Note
23 September - Daytime (Chancellor's Centre)
9.30-10.45 - Panel 1
10.45-11.00 - Tea and Coffee
11.00-12.30 - Panel 2
12.30-13.30 - Lunch
13.30-14.45 - Panel 3
14.45-15.15 - Tea and Coffee
15.15-16.30 - Panel 4
23 September - Evening (Lee Hall)
17.00-18.30 - Key Note
24 September - Daytime (Lee Hall)
9.30-11.00 - Panel 1
11.00-12.30 - Keynote Panel Discussion: State of the Field
12.30-13.00 - Closing Remarks
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
Details
This event is open to all and free to attend - registration is recommended.
Access
This conference will take place in the Gatsby Room and the Roger Needham Room, which are on the first and second floor of the Chancellor's Centre, as well as in the Lee Hall which is entirely at ground floor level.
There is step-free access with a lift to both rooms in the Chancellor's Centre, and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building. The Lee Hall which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact our events team - events@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
