Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Border Dialogues — A two day conference hosted by South Asian Studies graduate students

Friday, April 3 –
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer Street

Free admission

Friday-Saturday, April 3 & 4 | Joukowsky Forum
Border Dialogues — A two day conference hosted by South Asian Studies graduate students

Borders are often imagined as static lines on maps that do not change. However, recent scholarship on South Asia has problematized this conception of borders as static objects and unquestioned boundaries. Building on this body of scholarship, Brown University is hosting a year-long series in 2014-2015 titled “In Dialogue With Borders: Critical Conversations on Violence, Citizenship, and Sovereignty in Modern ‘South Asia,’” which will engage with the dynamic and evolving conceptions of borders on the subcontinent. 

Through two graduate student workshops, one in the fall semester and another in spring, as well as a two-day conference featuring invited faculty and graduate student presentations in Spring 2015, this colloquium seeks to open up important discussions about contemporary forms of “border making” in South Asia and the forms of violence, citizenship, and sovereignty that produce these boundaries. Ultimately we aim to push our understanding of modern South Asia as well as the broader methodological boundaries that constitute South Asian Studies.

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Contact: indiainitiative@brown.edu