Symposium Program

Session 1

Chair: Sanjukta Sunderason (UvA)

10.10 -10.30- Paper 1, Jenia Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), 'Co-curating water (hi)stories: Augmented artefacts and agencies from a fluid terrain'

10: 30 - 10:35 - short Q&A

10:35 - 10:55 – Paper 2: Suze Zijlstra (UvA & Scheepvaartmuseum), 'Water carrying histories: curating decolonial perspectives on the maritime Atlantic’

10:55 - 11:00 - short Q&A

11:00 - 11:10 - coffee break

Session 2

Chair: Marrigje Paaijmans (UvA)

11:10 - 11:30 – Emanuele Fantini (IHE Delft) and Roger Anis (Photographer and Visual Researcher), 'Transdisciplinary conversations between research and photography on socio-ecological relations in a Nile river island in Cairo, Egypt'

11:30 - 11:35 - short Q&A

11:35 - 11:55 – Barnita Bagchi (UvA), 'People of Water: Fictions of the Sundarbans as Sites for Imagining and Thinking through Decolonial Ecologies'

11:55 - 12 - short Q&A

12 to 12.20-Margreet Zwarteveen (IHE Delft &UvA), 'Tapping into the undercurrent? The transformative potential of feminist scholarship on care for doing water otherwise'

12.20 to 12.25- short  Q and A

Chair: Barnita Bagchi

12.25 to 12.35- Response by Stefan Niklas (University of Amsterdam)

12.35-12.45- Response by Peter van Dam (UvA)

13.00-13.30 Lunch

Please register (obligatory) by emailing b.bagchi@uva.nl by 21 May 2026