In June 2019, Professor Anne Murphy was in residence at the L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/Le Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris to deliver a series of four papers on Punjabi Studies.
The topics of the four papers were:
“Locating a Punjabi classic: Regional and Linguistic Affinities in Waris Shāh’s Hīr (18th c.)”
In seminar: Histoires de soi, histoires des autres : questions de traduction et d’historiographie. 6 June 2019.
“Punjabi and the possibility of the secular in India and Pakistan,” In seminar on recherche en Asie du Sud, 11 June 2019.
“The work of memory: Engaging the severed past along the Indo-Pakistan border.” In seminar: Partitions territoriales: imaginaires et représentations, 14 June 2019.
“A language and a cause: Progressive politics, gender, the Punjabi literary.” In Séminaire mensuel du projet DELI: Littératures d’Asie du Sud, 21 June 2019.
Dr. Murphy has long-standing scholarly relationships with colleagues in Paris. She was the Editor/Lead for Punjabi-language entries for the Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures de l’Inde (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Indian Literatures), lead by Anne Castaing, Nicolas Dejenne, Claudine Le Blanc and Ingrid Le Gargasson (CNERS/THALIM & Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle). Classiques Garnier (Paris), forthcoming in 2020. This included managing the production of a total of 49 entries on Punjabi literary topics, by multiple authors; of these entries, 13 were written, 2 co-authored, and 5 translated by Dr. Murphy. Multiple colleagues from Le Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud have published with Dr. Murphy: Nicolas Dejenne contributed an article to Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia (Routledge, 2011); Anne Castaing and Michel Boivin contributed to Partition and the Practice of Memory (co-edited by Churnjeet Mahn and Anne Murphy, Palgrave, 2018); and Dr. Murphy is co-editing a book with Dr. Boivin and Phillip Zehmisch (LUMS) on conceptualizations of the “region” in South Asia, based on a panel in the European Conference for South Asian Studies in 2018.
