Manchester

  • Writing British Asian Manchester
    Friday 16 March 2007
    Indus 5 Restaurant, Stockport Road, Longsight

    • 11.00 - 11.15 Arrival and coffee

11.15 - 11.30 Welcome and introduction to network aims - Sean McLoughlin (AHRC network/Leeds)

 

11.30 - 12.30 Session 1: Academic Writing and South Asian Manchester

Chair: Roger Ballard.

Panel: Pnina Werbner (author of Imagined Diasporas Amongst Manchester's Muslims)

Virinder Kalra (author of From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of  Migration, Labour and Social Change)

 

12.30 - 1.30 Session 2: Religious Education in Schools and South Asian Manchester

Chair: Jacqueline Suthren Hirst

Panel: John McManus (LEA Advisor to the Manchester Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education [SACRE])

Muntasir al-Hamad (Manchester SACRE member)Raman Gokal (ex-Manchester SACRE member)

 

2.30 - 3.30 Session 3: The Oral history of South Asian Manchester

Chair: John Zavos

Panel: Anandi Ramamurthy (University of Central Lancashire)

Alice Lock, Nazrul Hoque (Tameside Local Studies Unit)

 

3.45 - 4.45 Session 4: Creative writing and South Asian Manchester

Chair:  Tej Purewal

Panel: Peter Kalu (Shorelines Literary Magazine and Agency)

Basir Qasmi – Urdu Poet

Performance by Shamshad Khan, author of Meglomaniac

 

4.45 - 5.00 Final Plenary