Jammu and Kashmir is a region divided by a line of control, ethnicity and religion but united by pain, grief and struggle. Since its de facto partition between India and Pakistan in 1948, the territory has known unrest. Different factions, including state actors, have been involved in a battle for control over Jammu and Kashmir, all denouncing their opponents as occupiers.

Panellists:

Chair - Victoria Schofield

Historian and Journalist from Oxford who has studied the Jammu and Kashmir issue extensively. She has travelled to both sides of the line of control and has written numerous articles and books on the subject, notably Kashmir in the Crossfire (1996) and Kashmir in Conflict (now in its 5th updated edition.)

The Lord Desai, current member of the House of Lords

Indian-born British economist and former member of the Labour Party. Lord Desai is a Professor emeritus at LSE. He's written about the Jammu and Kashmir issue extensively in writings such as The Rediscovery of India (2011), "Mother India's Stepchildren" as well as articles for The Indian Express. He's also given a lecture in Jammu University for the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Memorial.

Professor Ather Zia, University of Northern Colorado

Having grown up in Indian-occupied Kashmir, Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She wrote Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir. She is also the founder of Kashmir Lit and is the co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective. She is also the co-editor of Cultural Anthropology Journal

Professor Daanish Mustafa, Kings College London

Being from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Mustafa is professor of critical geography at King's College. He has done extensive research on Jammu and Kashmir and has written articles such as “Faces of the Beloved”: Kashmir Issue and Historical Subjectivities.

Professor Mona Bhan, Syracuse University

Professor of Anthropology and the Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies at Syracuse University. She is a political and environmental anthropologist whose work on Indian-occupied Kashmir explores the role of economic and infrastructural development in counterinsurgency operations and people's resistance movements to protracted wars and settler occupation. Her work includes Counterinsurgency, Development, and the Politics of Identity: From Warfare to Welfare? (2014), She has co-edited Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (2022).

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Programme

Join us in a diversified discussion on occupation in the region. Hear a panel inclusive of multiple parties review it and participate in the Q&A

2.00pm Arrivals- to register, enjoy refreshments and view our exhibition

2.15pm Panel commences

3.00pm Audience Q+A

4.00pm Closing words

4.05pm Refreshments and exhibition

4.30pm Event close