Introductory Remarks by Prof Judith Misrahi-Barak and Prof Alexis Tadié

Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak

10.15-10.35: Nandini DHAR, “‘Please do not sign this piece of Paper’: The Spectre of the Contract, Questions of Choice and Questions of Archive in Debarati Mukhopadhyay’s Narach”
10.35-10.55: Apala KUNDU, “Through Diasporic Eyes: ‘Home’ and/in the Archive”
10.55-11.15: Gabrielle Jamela HOSEIN, “The Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Mehndi as Imaginative Archive”
11.15-11.30: discussion

Chair: Vanessa Guignery

Chair: Alexis Tadié

14.00-14.20: Jaine CHEMMACHERY, “Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan: Archiving the Lives of Malayali Workers in the Gulf”
14.20-14.40: Praveen MIRDHA, “Dialectics and Differentials of Transoceanic Labour Migration from the Indian Subcontinent in the Contexts of Indentured Travails and Gulf Migration”
14.40-15.00: discussion

Chair: Shalini Puri

15.15-15.35: Tessa ALEXANDER, “Reconnecting Through Visual Art, In Search of My Foremothers”

15.35-15.55: Siba BARKATAKI, “From Alimentary Subjugation to Culinary Cosmopolitanism: Tracing the Journey of the Old Indian Diaspora through its Story of Nourishment”
15.55-16.15: Antara CHATTERJEE, “The Journey of the Dal Puri across the Oceans: Diaspora, History and Culinary Memory in Richard Fung’s Dal Puri Diaspora”

16.15-16.30: discussion

Chair: Jenni Balasubramanian

 10.00-10.20: Ananya KABIR, “Kala Pani Crossings through the lens of Le Trait d’union: An Argument for Creolised Archipelagic Memory”

10.20-10.40: Sandrine SOUKAI, “Charting Transatlantic Connections of Indentureship from Pondicherry to the French Caribbean through the Indian Ocean”

10.40-11.00: Luca RAIMONDI, “Post-indentureship ‘indianocéanisme’ through the pages of Le Trait-d’union”
11.00-11.15: discussion

Chair: Ritu Tyagi

Chair: Senthil Babu

13.45-14.05: Dickens LEONARD, “The Coolie Heritage: Tamil Diaspora, Cultural Expressions, and the Question of Caste”

14.05-14.25: Atreyee PHUKAN, “(Re)Centering a Kala Pani Poetics”

14.25-14.45: Sahithya VENKATESAN, “Beyond Kalapani: Indentured Labor, Plantation Mobilities and the Emergence of Radical Movements in the Eastern Cauvery Delta”
14.45-15.00: discussion

Chair: Himadri Lahiri

15.15-15.35: Swagata BHATTACHARYA, “Daughters of Twilight: The Inheritance of Indentureship in South African Women’s Writing”

15.35-15.55: Kavya E M, “The Diasporic Fantasy: Demythifying the Ideal through Contemporary Malayalam Novels”

15.55-16.15: Amit RANJAN, NCERT and Kanika BHALLA, “Dat Rain No Wash No Pain: Archiving Despondency in No Pain Like This Body”
16.15-16-30: discussion

Discussants: Annu Jalais and Judith Misrahi-Barak

Joy Banerjee: Histoires d’engagisme 

Stephanos Stephanides & Constantinos S. Constantinou: Remembering Mariamman: the Remaking of ‘Hail Mother Kali’

58, Suffren Street, White Town, Puducherry

Chair: H Kalpana

10.00-10.20: Ruchika RAI, “Bidesia and Batohia: Story of Indentured Ship, Migration and Distorted Identities through Bhojpuri Folksongs”
10.20-10.40: Sarmistha MONDAL, Bankura University, “Travelling Subject, Migrating Language: Bhojpuri in the Caribbean Islands in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin”
10.40-11.00: Ridhima TEWARI, “Liminality, Transformation and Restored Masculinity: Examining the Bidesiya’s Negotiations of the Arab World in Contemporary Bhojpuri Cinema”
11.00-11.15: discussion

Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak

Chair: Corinne Duboin

13.45-14.05: Pierre-Yves TROUILLET, “What Remains of Kālāpāni? The Hindu Migratory Taboo as Experienced by the Migrant Priests of the Tamil Diaspora Temples”
14.05-14.25: Valentine LEROUGE, “Transcontinental Nationalism in the Novels of Anita Rau Badami”
14.25-14.45: Arnab Kumar SINHA, “Migration from India to Burma and Return: Contextualising Dwelling and Hospitality in Eugene Lawrence’s The Lacquered Curtain of Burma”
14.45-15.05: discussion

Chair: Vanessa Guignery

15.20-15.40: Natacha LASORAK, “Drifting and Belonging in The Sly Company of People Who Care (2011), by Rahul Bhattacharya”

15.40-16.00: Gargi DUTTA, “Spatial and Emotional Dimensions of ‘Home’ in Maniam’s Between Lives and Preeta Samarasan’s Evening is the Whole Day”

16.00-16.20: Cédric COURTOIS, “‘Kalapani […] / means to mislay / your name, means orphaning, / means taking the name / Coolie’: Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish (2021) and Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir (2021)”
16.20-16.30: discussion

Chair: Ananya Jahanara Kabir

With co-editors H Kalpana, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Ritu Tyagi, as well as contributors Joshil K. Abraham, Jenni Balasubramanian, Gargi Dutta, Himadri Lahiri, Praveen Mirdha, Peggy Mohan, Arnab Kumar Sinha, Vijaya Rao, Stephanos Stephanides, Ridhima Tewari.