SEPHIS papers By using Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download the text of our lecture tour and Occassional paper publications. Click here to downoad it. "Photography, memory and the archive in Namibian history' Patricia Hayes, University of Western Cape, South Africa `Battles for Bangalore: Reterritorialising the City' Janaki Nair, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India Please have a look at photos related to the project and also note the photo exhibition organised by Dr. Janaki Nair in Bangalore,India from June 19-24, 2000. `Effective Non-violent Struggle in the Niger Delta' Dr. Ben Naanen, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Publications from Research in progress Reconstructing Garifuna Oral History - Techniques and Methods in the story of a Caribbean People Joseph O. Palacio, University of the West Indies, Belize . This paper has been published in Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Vol. 24 No. 1, March 1999 The Career of Bhanubhakta as a History of Nepali National Culture Pratyoush Onta, Centre for Social research and Development, Nepal This paper has been published in Studies in Nepali History and Society, Vol. 4 No. 1, June 1999 Radical Politics in the Times of Globalization: Notes on Recent Indian Experience, in Niraja Gopal Jayal Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India. Forthcoming in `Democratic Governance in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development and Identity' by Sage Publishers, New Delhi, India Secularism, Modernity, Nation: Epistemology of the Dalit Critique Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India. This paper has been published in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXV, No. 48, November 25, 2000. Partition Memories,'Minorization'and discourses of rootedness in Jharkhand: A comparison of cross border displaced and 'invisible refugees'in Ranchi district Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), India The Dangers of Memory and Endangered memory Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), India This paper will be published in In Review, January 2002 The `Unsaying' of Indigenous Homosexualities in Zimbabwe: Mapping a Blindspot in an African Masculinity by Marc Epprecht, University of Zimbabwe, currently employed at Queen's University, Canada This paper was also published in Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 24, Number 4, December 1998 Peasant Migration, Redefinition of the concept of work and Social Relationships between `Workers' and `Settlers' at the Office du Niger, 1930-1980 Isaie Dougnon, Point Sud, Mali. Surinam: Estado-nación y Colonialismo en las Guayanas Fernando Rosa Ribeiro, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil This paper will be published in `Region y frontera en la historia de America Latina y el Caribe: Negocios, movimientos sociales y pràcticas culturales', July 2002 Past Places/Future Spaces: Recovering Downtown Beirut Yasmeen Arif, University of Delhi, India This paper will be published in `Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life', by SARAI, CSDS (India) and The Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), February 2002 Moralizar por la Fuerza. El Decreto de Reformulación del tribunal de Vagos de la Cuidad de México, 1845 Esther Aillón Soria, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico This paper will be published in: Clara E. Lida y Sonia Pérez Toledo (comps.), Trabajo, ocio y coacción. Trabajadores urbanos en México y Guatemala en el siglo XIX, Miguel Ángel Porrúa-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, México, 2001, pp. 67-113. Making Claims for Power: A new Agenda in Dalit Politics of Uttar Pradesh, 1946-48 Ramnarayan Singh Rawat, University of Delhi, India This forthcoming paper will be published in Modern Asian Studies by Cambridge University Press Citizens and Subjects of Telugu Cinema S.V. Srinivas, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India This paper is published in Deep Focus, March 2002, pp. 63-67 Telugu Folklore Films: The Case of Patala Bhairavi S.V. Srinivas, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India This paper is published in Deep Focus, Vol. IX, No. 9, 2001. pp. 45-50 Partition Politics and Achnut Identity: A Study of the Scheduled Castes Federation and Dalit Politics in U.P., 1946-48 Ramnarayan Singh Rawat, University of Delhi, India This paper is published: Suvir Kaul (Ed.) The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India. Permanent Black, Delhi 2001 and Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2002 (US edition) Research paper 1 Goolam Vahed, School of Social Sciences and Development Studies, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa Research paper 2 Goolam Vahed, School of Social Sciences and Development Studies, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa Film, Culture, Politics and Industry S.V. Srinivas, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India Hong Kong Action Film in the Indian B Circuit S.V. Srinivas, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India The rise of national identity in early Spanish Caribbean and in Haiti Jorge Ibarra, Fundaçion Fernando Ortiz,Cuba This paper will be published in Revista del Caribe, Nov. 2003 Rehabilitación de vivdienda en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México Victor Delgadillo This paper was presented during the II International Seminar on Housing and Urbanism, organised by UNAM, Mexico. For the English text please click here Colonial Administration and the origins of the movement for Resource Control in Nigera Saawua G. Nyityo This paper has been published in Nigerian Journal of history and International Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 December 2002 South-South observations `Forgotten Connections, Unconsidered Parallels: A New Agenda for Comparative Research in Southern Africa and the Caribbean'. Prof. Alan G. Cobley, University of the West Indies, presented this paper at the University of Witwatersrand and University of South Africa (both in South Africa), at the University of Botswana (Botswana) and University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe). This paper was also published in African Studies (vol. 58, No. 2 December 1999). "Oralité et Recits de vie: Repenser l'histoire sociale et politique du Senegal" by Prof. Babacar Fall, Université Cheikh Anta Diop. This essay is one result of Prof. Fall's lecture tour trip to India. Boubacar Barry's lecture tour report This lecture tour took place in December 2000. He visited several universities in Brazil. This lecture tour was organised by Sephis and Universidade Candido Mendes, Centro dos Estudos Afro Asiaticos. "Tender puentes entre las historiografias de Africa y America Latina contribuye a establecer una relacion mas autonoma con las categorias de la historiografia occidental, revisando conceptos claves para el pensamiento de hoy, como identidad, postcolonialismo y pluralidad". Esther Aillon Soria (Mexico) interviewed Dr. Ibrahima Thioub (Senegal) during her stay in Senegal. The text is only available in Spanish. This interview was published in El Juguete Rabioso, Año 3, Número 71 del 19 de enero al 1 de febrero 2003. Report of the Lecture tour by Prof. Om Prakash (India) to Malaysia and Indonesia, organised by Prof. Salina Zainol (University of Malaya) For an impression, have a look at the photos: Group photo Attentive audience View from the back Prof. Prakash presenting Report of the lecture tour by Prof. Isabel Hofmeyr (Wits University. South Africa) to Bangalore, Kolkata and Delhi (India). For an impression, please have a look at the photos: United Theological College Campus, Bangalore Street scene in Bangalore Outside the National Library, Kolkata A workshop report written by Dr. Patricia Hayes, convenor of the workshop on Visual South: Using Sources as Alternative Histories, which was organised in Maputo, Mozambique on 13-19 September 2004. A report on the International Workshop on Gender and Visuality, which took place in Capetown (South Africa) from 26-29 August 2004 can be found here, plus a report on Gender & Visuality Statements. A report on the lecture tour through North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal) by Prof. Guita Grin Debert (Brazil) on the subject of 'Gender and Democracy' can be found here.