Legal-Literary Imaginaries across the Ireland–India Nexus

Final Programme

Convenors: Rupsa Banjeree (SR University) and Eugene McNulty (DCU) 

Co-hosted by the Ireland–India Institute (Dublin City University) and the Irish Humanities Alliance Legal Humanities Working Group 

Schedule:

1.10pm: Welcome and Introductions 

1.20-2.50pm: Panel 1 (Comparative literary readings) 

·     Jinan Ashraf, ‘Architectures of Containment: Modernism and Memories of Incarceration’

·       Maria Shawl: ‘From Kashmir to Northern Ireland: A Comparative Reading of Agha Shahid Ali and Seamus Heaney’

·     Tapasya Narang, ‘An overview of a research project on little magazine movement in India and Ireland in 1960s and 70s’

Keynote (3pm-3.50pm):

Danny Shanahan, Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland: Disturbed Areas

4-5pm: Panel 2 (Comparative Legal Histories and Postcolonial Critiques)

·     Martin O’Donoghue, ‘One of the vexed questions of political science’ Benegal Narsing Rau and the issue of upper houses in India and Ireland

·     Rupsa Banerjee, ‘The Great Irish Famine: A Critique of Britain's Colonial Law through Famine Literature’

To register and request zoom link – please email Eugene McNulty: eugene.mcnulty@dcu.ie