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<div><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">THE LOSS OF HISTORY:
</span></b><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">Memory, Humanity and Peace after 1971</span></b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 4:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">Room 1208, Conrad Grebel University College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">Dr. Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Professor of History at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her recent book <i>Women,
War and</i> <i>the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 </i>(2011) has won numerous awards and been the subject of an international speaking tour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">The “hidden” narratives of men and women of the 1971 war offer an entry point to reflect on the dilemma of sexual violence and memory in Bangladesh and Pakistan today. Men’s personal recollections
of the war experiences have not been entered into the official records of history and women’s experiences of sexual violence being relegated to the margins as “lies” and/or “shame” discourage public engagement. The complex story of the construction of the
Other in gendered, ethnic and religious terms is fearfully remembered today in private spaces in Pakistan and Bangladesh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">Reception to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';">Sponsored by: </span>
</i><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Book';"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/peace-conflict-studies/">Peace & Conflict Studies</a>, <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/history/">History</a>, and <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/womens-studies/">Women’s Studies</a> at
the University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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