South Asian University Seminar on “Violence and
Collective Memory“
By Srimal Fernando, Global Editor, Foreign Exchange The
Diplomatic Society
The Faculty of Social Sciences of South Asian University
(SAU) of India organised a seminar on Wednesday, 13th August 2014 at the
university main hall. The keynote speaker Professor Partha Ghosh, Senior Fellow
at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library delivered a lecture titled “Violence and Collective Memory”.
Professor Partha Ghosh was formerly a Professor of South
Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in India. He is the
author of several books including The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia:
Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code and Unwanted and Uprooted: A
Political Study of Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Displaced in South Asia
and the editor for the India Quarterly Journal. Professor Ghosh’s interests
include South Asian politics, migration, ethnicity, majority-minority
relations, and domestic politics-foreign policy interface.
Professor Partha Ghosh’s seminar was facilitated by Dr. Diya
Mehra and Dr. Ankur Datta Assistant Professors of the Department of Sociology,
South Asian University (SAU). A large
number of participants who also have a strong background in Sociology and
International Relations attended the seminar.
The participants, mostly students from the South Asian University,
acquired knowledge about the South Asian region’s historical cultural
encounters that have given shape to all kinds of memory formations which keeps
influencing its politics and social behavior. Among the other participants
Professor Sasanka Perera, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Dr. Dev N.
Pathak, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, was also present. At the
end of the seminar students of the South Asian University (SAU) engaged with
Professor. Partha Ghosh and this was followed by an interactive question and
answer session.
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