Women in the colonial archive: Private memories in public spaces
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