Colonizing Kashmir: Book Talk with Professors Hafsa Kanjwal and Haley Duschinski

Colonizing Kashmir
September 18, 2024
6:30PM - 8:00PM
via Zoom

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2024-09-18 18:30:00 2024-09-18 20:00:00 Colonizing Kashmir: Book Talk with Professors Hafsa Kanjwal and Haley Duschinski The South Asian Studies Initiative and the South Asia Graduate Study Association invite you to an online conversation with author Hafsa Kanjwal on Wednesday, September 18 from 6:30 to 8 pm via Zoom.  Kashmir is the world's most militarized zone, facing colonial occupation for over 75 years. This online event centers Professor Hafsa Kanjwal’s book Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford Univ. Press, 2023) and will feature a conversation between the author and Professor Haley Duschinski. The book examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of the 1947 Partition. Go Here to Register for Zoom Link Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Initiative, Humanities Institute and the South Asia Graduate Study Association.  About the panelists:Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College, where she teaches courses on the history of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern World. Following Colonizing Kashmir, her second book project examines questions of Muslim political sovereignty and the secular, liberal international order in the context of 20th and 21st century Kashmir.Dr. Haley Duschinski is a professor of Anthropology at Ohio University (Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University, 2004). She also serves as Director of the Center for International Studies. She is a cultural anthropologist with research specializations in law and society; violence, war, and power; and human rights and international justice in South Asia, with a focus on Kashmir. She has co-edited three books on these topics, and she presented expert testimony on Kashmir at the US congressional hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in November 2019. via Zoom Humanities Institute huminst@osu.edu America/New_York public
The South Asian Studies Initiative and the South Asia Graduate Study Association invite you to an online conversation with author Hafsa Kanjwal on Wednesday, September 18 from 6:30 to 8 pm via Zoom. 
 
Kashmir is the world's most militarized zone, facing colonial occupation for over 75 years. This online event centers Professor Hafsa Kanjwal’s book Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford Univ. Press, 2023) and will feature a conversation between the author and Professor Haley Duschinski. The book examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of the 1947 Partition.

 

Go Here to Register for Zoom Link

 

Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Initiative, Humanities Institute and the South Asia Graduate Study Association. 
 

About the panelists:

Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College, where she teaches courses on the history of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern World. Following Colonizing Kashmir, her second book project examines questions of Muslim political sovereignty and the secular, liberal international order in the context of 20th and 21st century Kashmir.

Dr. Haley Duschinski is a professor of Anthropology at Ohio University (Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University, 2004). She also serves as Director of the Center for International Studies. She is a cultural anthropologist with research specializations in law and society; violence, war, and power; and human rights and international justice in South Asia, with a focus on Kashmir. She has co-edited three books on these topics, and she presented expert testimony on Kashmir at the US congressional hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in November 2019.

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