Monday 20th June, 3pm to 8pm
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT)
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
https://www.soas.ac.uk/location/travel/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