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75 Years Post-Partition: Artist Pritika Chowdhry on her Partition Anti-Memorial Project

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, cosponsored by the Humanities Research Institute and The Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies
Location
Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
Date
Nov 3, 2022   7:00 pm  
Speaker
Pritika Chowdhry
Contact
Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
E-Mail
csames@illinois.edu
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Join Pritika Chowdhry in remembering the Partition through the lenses of visual arts, postcolonial feminism, post memory, and diaspora.

Chowdhry’s research-based art practice excavates the counter-memories of the Partition to create experiential art installations that are anti-memorials to the Partition. Chowdhry is a grandchild of the Partition and weaves her family’s experience of the Partition through postmemory. Her research is informed by postcolonial feminisms and her own diasporic (dis)location.

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