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TRACES OF HISTORY: Fragmentary Archives & Narratives in South Asia

How do we write academic narratives when the archives are fragmentary, with traces connected by gaps? SPEAKERS ~ Antoinette Burton is Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A historian of 19th-20th century Britain & Empire, she has used the archives of The Women's Library collection at LSE Library, and is editor of 'Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History' (2005) amongst much else. ~ Niraja Gopal Jayal is Avantha Chair Professor, King's College London, and Centennial Professor in Gender Studies at LSE. She is currently writing a biography of Hansa Mehta, for whom archival evidence is sparse especially for her time at the LSE. ~ Dr Gillian Murphy (@_gillianmurphy) is Curator for Equality, Rights & Citizenship at LSE Library. She promotes The Women's Library collection & the Hall-Carpenter Archives. ~ Daniel Payne (@politicscurator) is Curator for Politics and International Relations at LSE Library. In 2021, he curated 'Educate, Agitate, Organise: Ambedkar and LSE', an online exhibition based on documents in LSE Library. DISCUSSANT ~ Shahid Amin retired as Professor in History, University of Delhi. He is the author, most recently, of 'Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan' (2015). CHAIR ~ Dr Nilanjan Sarkar (@SAsiaLSE) is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre. This event is in collaboration with LSE Library. Image: Catarina Carvalho, 'District Archives, Leiria', Portugal, 2018, Unsplash.