Writing British-Asian Bradford
The Gallery, Mumtaz Restaurant, Great Horton Road, Bradford, BD7 3HS
11am – 5pm, 6 June 2006

11.00 – 11.15 Registration and Coffee

11.15 – 11.30 Welcome and introduction to the programme and the network / project
Kim Knott, Director, AHRC Diasporas, Migration & Identities Programme
William Gould, History, University of Leeds, & Emma Tomalin, Theology & Religious Studies, University of Leeds.

11.30 – 12.15 Multiculturalism – a mixed blessing? Council policy and voluntary organisations in Bradford, 1950 – 2002 (Session Chair – Marie Macey, Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Bradford)
Ramindar Singh, MBE, former Joint Deputy Chair, CRE, & former Chair, BREC, former Head of Contemporary Studies at Bradford College, author of a number of books on South Asian heritage communities in Bradford including The Struggle for Racial Justice (2002).

12.15 – 1.00 Writing a British-Asian city: journalists, ethnographers and travel writers in Bradford from the 1960s to the 1990s (Session Chair – John Zavos, Religions and Theology, University of Manchester)
Seán McLoughlin, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, author of several articles on Pakistani and Kashmiri heritage Muslims in Britain, based on work in Bradford.

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 2.45 Open discussion (Session Chairs – John Eade, Sociology & Anthropology, Roehampton University & Yunas Samad, Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Bradford)

2.45 – 3.30 ‘Asian Bradford’, reflections on oral history and other qualitative research (Session Chair – William Gould, History, University of Leeds)
Irna Qureshi, Cultural Diversity Consultant and Researcher, Bradford Heritage Recording Unit’s Here to Stay (1994) / Home from Home (1997) oral history projects and work for the BBC, GLA, V&A and others; Trish Lawson, archivist, West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, including work on the projects West Yorkshire Cosmos (2000) and This is Our History (2005).

3.30 – 3.45 Tea

3.45 – 4.30 ‘Asian Bradford’ and the work of two local novelists (Session Discussants – Ananya Kabir, English, University of Leeds and Aki Nawaz, founder member of Fun`da`mental & co-founder of Nation Records)
Tariq Mehmood is author of Hand on the Sun (1983) and Where There is Light (2003) and a PhD candidate, English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster; Yunis Alam is author of Annie Potts is Dead (1998) and Kilo (2002) and a University Teacher, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Bradford.

4.30 – 5.00 Final discussion and reflections (Session Chair – Emma Tomalin, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds)