Project Launch: The Missing; memory, migration and Partition
From: 8th February 2018 2:00 pm
To: 8th February 2018 5:00 pm
Radar Loughborough
3 Lesney Avenue, London, United KingdomHashtag
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Thu 8 February, 2:00pm
Venue: LDN103, Loughborough University, London: 3 Lesney Avenue, The Broadcast Centre, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E15 2GZ
Free
Join us at Loughborough University London for an afternoon of discussion to mark the launch of the five-year research project Migrant Memory and the Post-colonial Imagination: British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition, led by Professor Emily Keightley and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Radar has worked with the project team to organise a panel of artists and academics, who will reflect on their research and creative practice in response to the project’s main themes: Partition, diaspora and memory. The session will be followed by a drinks reception.
Panel:
– Dawinder Bansal – Creative Producer
– Kazi Ruksana Begum – Arts Development Officer at London Borough of Tower Hamlets
– Prof Raminder Kaur Kahlon – Professor of Anthropology & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, and author of Atomic Mumbai: Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns (Routledge, 2013)
– Prof Emily Keightley – Professor of Media and Memory Studies at Loughborough Universit and Primary Investigator on the project. Co-author of My library Memory and the Management of Change: Repossessing the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
– Dr Churnjeet Mahn – Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Strathclyde, and co-editor of Partition and the Practice of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
– Kevin Ryan – Director of Charnwood Arts
– Dr Pippa Virdee – Senior Lecturer in Modern South Asian History at De Montfort University, Leicester; and author of From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
