Narratives of Refugee Memories and Resettlements (Registration for attendance)
Day/Date: Monday, 20 June 2022

Time: 3 pm to 8 pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

The event is free and open to all but registration essential to guarantee a place. (please note access to pre-conference networking areas is now closed)
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Commemorative Conference on Narratives of Refugee Memories and Resettlements
Monday 20th June, 3pm to 8pm
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT)
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

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2:30pm SOAS Library Gallery Tour (Main Building Reception) led by Dr Sanjukta Ghosh

3:00pm onwards -- Registration only (please note access to pre-conference networking areas is now closed)

4:00 Conference Introductions in the BRUNEI GALLERY LECTURE THEATRE (Lower ground floor/lift access or stairs)

4:00 to 6:00 pm: Panel 1: Remembering Partition
Exclusive Film screening of Children of Partition – An Oral History of Pothoharis; Introduced by Bhupinder Singh Bhasin (The Pothohar Association, UK)

Panel talks by Dr Uditi Sen (Nottingham), Dr Aditi Kumar (SAA-JNU and Warwick); Syeda Saadia Gardezi (Co-Founder of Project Daastan) and Dr Antara Datta (Royal Holloway)

6:15 to 8:00 pm: PANEL 2: British Ugandan Asians at 50

The film ‘I Walk This Path’, and introduction by Alan Critchley (Chair of BUA@50)
Launch of oral history videos; excerpts from Prof Akbar Vohra and others.
Paresh Solanki – Ethics of recording oral history (and remembering Mohamed Amin).
Bhasker Solanki (Photojournalist) -- Filming refugees, from the Uganda experience to the crisis in Ukraine.

Conference Keynote
Prof Michael J Molloy (Carleton University, Canada)
UGX: Canada's Ugandan Asian Refugee Movement, Uganda's Loss, Canada's Gain


 

Slow Journey -- Print from the Original Painting by Kamal Koria                                                                                                                                                       Display in SOAS Library Wolfson Gallery
Calamity (The Chaos Within) Printed from original by Kamal Koria.                                                           Display in SOAS Library Wolfson Gallery till 30 June
Ugandan Asians on Train, photo by Mohamed Amin
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