Past Event, Past Events, Talking Texts, Webinar Series

Talking Texts

Written by Ishore AdminDecember 6, 2022

We are delighted to announce our first event of this year: two eminent historians discuss two latest books on South Indian history.

Gopinath Ravindran (Vice Chancellor, Kannur University) would discuss Abhilash Malayil’s “Ryotwari: Company State and Political Economy” and N.J. Francis (Professor, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit) would discuss Lennart Bes’s “The Heirs of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India”. Both authors would respond to the questions and comments.

Noted academic and activist, Dr. Rekha Raj would chair and moderate the session.

This event is our first offline event and will be held in Cochin in collaboration with the Aazhi Archives.

Please join us at Mattancheri on Friday at 6 pm!

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Thinking the Region Transnationally

Written by Ishore AdminDecember 5, 2022

We are happy to announce that our 20th webinar would be led by Prof. Ritty Lukose (New York University, USA) on Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022 at 7 pm IST. She will talk about feminist and anthropological trajectories of thinking about the region transnationally (see Abstract below). Dr. Mythri Prasad (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA) would be the discussant.

​For the session, we are also delighted to collaborate with the departments of History and Political Science at the Government College Madappally, Kerala. Dr. Jineesh PS from the college would chair and moderate the session, and Umesh K will propose the vote of thanks.

Abstract

The frame of the “region” has been a productive site for unsettling embedded national framings in literary and historical analysis within and beyond South Asia. This talk draws attention to itineraries of the “the region” within feminist and anthropological approaches to the “global”. How does “region” configure and/or disrupt conceptions of the “global” in feminism? What are the itineraries of “region” in anthropologies of the “global”? Situating a discussion of the transnational trajectories of the “Kerala Model of Development” within such questions, this talk explores shifting frames of locality across the regional, national and the global.

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Migration, Cast and New Spatialities

Written by Ishore AdminDecember 5, 2022

We are extremely happy to announce that Professor P. Sanal Mohan (School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam) would lead our next webinar on migration, caste, and new spatialities on November 17, 2022, at 7.00 pm IST. Dr. Jayaseelan Raj (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen) would be the discussant.

We are equally happy to collaborate with the Sullamussalam Science College Areekode for the event. Dr. Haskerali EC from the college would chair and moderate the session.

Please register by emailing ishorekerala@gmail.com

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Caste and Christianity in the Malayalee Diaspora

Written by Ishore AdminDecember 5, 2022

We are extremely happy to announce that Sonja Thomas (Associate Professor and Department Chair, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Colby College, USA) would lead our next webinar. She would talk about her latest research into the Malayalee/Indian Christian diaspora in the United States, specifically on Indian Catholic priests serving in rural areas and their engagements with questions of race and caste. Irene Promodh (University of Michigan) would be the discussant.

We are equally happy that we’ll collaborate for this event with three departments of the Maharaja’s College, Eranakulam. Rekha Karim (Head of the English Department) would chair the session and A.M. Shinas (History Department) would moderate.

Please register by sending your name and address to ishorekerala@gmail.com

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