08.06. BERSAS Reading & Lecture: "Partition in Cinema and Fiction of the 1960s in Pakistan" (Prof. Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas)
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- 08.06. BERSAS Reading & Lecture: "Partition in Cinema and Fiction of the 1960s in Pakistan" (Prof. Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas)
- 2024-06-08T19:00:00+02:00
- 2024-06-08T21:00:00+02:00
- Wann 08.06.2024 von 19:00 bis 21:00
- Wo Donaustraße 84, 12043 Berlin
- Name des Kontakts Dr. Sadia Bajwa
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A collaboration between _Subkontinent, Critical Pakistan and BERSAS
Partition in Cinema and Fiction of the 1960s in Pakistan
Location: Donaustraße 84, 12043 Berlin
June 8, 2024
Doors open: 6pm
Programme begins: 7pm
Introduction and Moderation Dr. Sadia Bajwa (IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Sadia Bajwa is assistant professor of South Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests include the history of student politics, education and nationalism in Pakistan and colonial India.
Reading of excerpts from Jamila Hashmi’s Ban-Baas (Exile) in Urdu and English
Born in eastern Punjab in 1929, Jamila Hashmi was an acclaimed feminist novelist at the forefront of women’s writings in 1960s. She wrote a series of long and short novels that characteristically gave equal room to Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, emphasising shared experiences. ‘Ban-Baas’ is a story of violence and exile following partition.
Talk “LakhoN mein Aik” Partition Violence, Women and the Nation in Pakistan’s Cinema from the 1960s
Prof. Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas at Austin)