The Place of Memory in diasporic cultures
MRSH (Maison de la Recherche et des Sciences Humaines)
Université de Caen Basse-Normandie CAMPUS 1
3-4 Octobre 2013
Thursday 3rd October
8.30h - 9.00h : Registration at the MRSH (Maison de la Recherche et des Sciences humaines),
Université de Caen, Campus 1
9h – 9h20 : Room 027 Salle des Actes :
Opening of the conference by Professor Anca Cristofovici, Director of the ERIBIA, University of Caen.
9h20- 11h45: Workshop 1.1 Room 027 Salle des Actes
Shaping collective identity through memory (India, Bangladesh).
Chair: Françoise Král
Jennifer Randall, Université Paris 8
‘Imagined communalisms : disseminating India’s ‘other’ post-colonial history through the diaspora.’
Antara Chatterjee, Calcutta, India
‘Remembering Bangladesh : Tahmima Anam and the Construction of a Bangladeshi national narrative.’
Florence Cabaret, Université de Rouen
‘Memories of the partition of India in Earth, 1947 by Deepa Mehta (1998)’
9h20- 11h45: Workshop.1.2 Room : 028 Salle des thèses
Poetics of oblivion, politics of remembrance.
Chair: Corinne Bigot