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Brac University Exchange Program

Brac University’s Scholarly Exchange Program

Brac University is launching a scholarly exchange and outreach program involving three interconnected in-person workshops and an online symposium between Brac University, National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Silchar, Assam, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Centre for Migration Studies in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Initiative aims to create opportunities for exchange between scholars and students, despite the national boundaries that divide the region. Workshop focuses on methodological and pedagogical aspects, assessing the diverse range of approaches to studying the 1947 Partition’s histories.

Workshop asks questions about the drawbacks of existing methods in partition studies, the possibility of new methods, how biases and dispositions influence methods and how to best understand memories concerning Partition. Oral history is a foundational methodology used in studies of Partition, and other research engages with fictional representations and articulations of the Partition experience and its legacy.

Workshop also explores the implications of diverse methodologies for the pedagogy of Partition Studies, how partition can be taught in the contemporary classroom and how to address the politics of trauma and political renderings of that trauma. It also explores the possibilities of the digital, such as digital archiving, digital narration and distant reading in reconfiguring historiographies concerning Partition.