Women in the colonial archive: Private memories in public spaces

3 December 2024, 10.30 AM - 3 December 2024, 4.45 PM

ARTS 1.H021, 3-5 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB

10.30 –11.00 Welcome and coffee


11.00 – 12.00 Panel 1: Inclusions and exclusions in the archive (Chair: Sumita Mukherjee)
Ellen Smith, ‘Living with Letters: Locating British Women in Imperial Collecting and 
Archival Processes'

Mobeen Hussain, ‘Racialising caste and class: tracing colourism and its codes in 
colonial India’


12.00 – 12.30 Panel 2: Recipe collections: an interpretive experiment (Chair: Tara Puri)
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, ‘Interpreting cookbooks for personal experience: a case 
study of Amina Begum’s Naya Bawarchi Khana (1941)’


12.30 – 12.45 Discussion


12.45 – 14.00 Lunch


14.00 – 15.00 Panel 3: Archival abundance: the case of photographs (Chair: Nazia Hussein) 
Mallika Leuzinger, ‘The past as blur: archival mobilisations in twenty-first century 
India’

Tara Puri, ‘Photograph as event: Indian women in the colonial archive’


15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break


15.30 – 16.30 Panel 4: Family archives, imperial archives and artistic practices (Chair: Zahra Shah)
Mohini Chandra, ‘Absence: the art of seeing the unseen in the archive’

Zehra Jumabhoy, ‘“Here's Looking at Me...”: Colonial Photography & The “Imperious’ Gaze”’


16.30 – 16.45 Concluding remarks

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