Time Frames: Questioning Chronologies in South Asia's Pasts | Workshop at Shiv Nadar University, Feb 24-25, 2017

Charu Singh Discussion

Dear All, 

The Department of History, Shiv Nadar University invites you to Time Frames: Questioning Chronologies in South Asia's Pasts, a two day workshop on pedagogy and history, to be held on February 24-25, 2017. 

Over these two days, a group of scholars from history, archaeology and anthropology will survey and interrogate the chronological frames that have been used to study and teach Indian pasts.  Please share the details of the workshop with your friends and colleagues. For the full workshop schedule, please email Meera Visvanathan (meera.visvanathan@snu.edu.in) or Shrimoy Chaudhury (shrimoy.chaudhury@snu.edu.in). 

 
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
 
With best wishes, 
Jaya 
 
Jaya Menon
Professor & Head, Department of History, Shiv Nadar University, UP 
 
The workshop will include the following presentations:
 
Aniket Alam (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad), Ancient-Medieval-Modern Periodisation of Indian History: Some Thoughts on an Alternative

Pankaj Kumar Jha (Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University), Beyond Universal Keys and Unmoving Chronologies: Fifteenth Century and Other Missing Links of "Indian" History

Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi), Taming Time: Disputes in History and Philosophy

G. Arunima (Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Borders, Boundaries and Cross-Overs: Some Thoughts from the Classroom on Disciplinarity and Knowledge Production

Swadhin Sen (Department of Archaeology, Jahangirnagar University), The Concepts of Continuity and Disjuncture in the Chronology Of South Asia: Perspectives from the Archaeology of 'Early Medieval' In Northern Part of Bengal

Ranjeeta Dutta (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Querying the Medieval: Peninsular India and the Idea of Periodization in a ‘Regional’ Perspective

Mudit Trivedi (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago), Conversion, Tradition and the Place of Periodization: Questions from Khanzada Mewat

Upinder Singh (Department of History, Delhi University), Crossing Boundaries in the History of Ideas

Supriya Varma (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Slicing Time: History, Technology, and Material Culture

V. Rajesh (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali), A Possible Literary History in Tamil: Some Historiographical Considerations

Awadhesh Tripathi (Ambedkar University Delhi), Problems of Periodization in Hindi Literature : Some Questions, Some Thoughts

Tanuja Kothiyal (Ambedkar University Delhi), The Shifting Frontiers of Al-Hind: The Making of the Medieval?           

Yengkhom Jilangamba (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati), From the Time of Capital to Self-Determination: History’s Difficulties in the North East