Upcoming Event, Webinar Series

The Genesis of Indian Contemporary: Art Collectives and Manifestos

We are extremely happy to announce that Prof. Shivaji Panikkar (former dean of Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; and professor at Ambedkar University, Delhi) would lead our 22nd webinar. As an Art Historian, he will talk about Indian art collectives in the 1980s (see the abstract below).

Dr. Kavitha Balakrishnan (Govt. College of Fine Arts, Thrissur) would be the discussant, and Sudheesh Kottembram (RLV College of Music and Fine Arts) would chair and moderate the session. We are equally happy to collaborate with Govt. College of Fine Arts for this event.

Please register by sending an email to ishorekerala@gmail.com.

Abstract:

For several reasons early to mid-1980s can be located as defining years for contemporary Indian art. The social responses through art threw open the limits of “social art” in the exhibition Place for People (1981), a very significant moment when Indian art turns political and takes a turn towards global alignments. Starting with the manifesto of Group 1890 by J. Swaminathan, two other art manifestos namely Place for People exhibition catalog essay written by Geeta Kapur and Questions and Dialogue (1987), the manifesto/exhibition catalog essay of the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association written by Anita Dube will be considered as path-breaking towards the formations of extreme political ideals and aspiration in the art field. The presentation will argue that without a robust notion of subjectivity and an avowal of the agency of the radical artist persona, there is no relevance of individual freedom and liberation, no locus of struggle and opposition, and no agency for progressive political transformation, which are manifested in newer ideological positions of Feminists, Queer and of the subalterns.

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Upcoming Event, Webinar Series

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES & OCEANIC RESEARCH

(I-SHORE) Calicut, Kerala

in collaboration with

Government College, Madappally, KERALa

invites you to Webinar Series

Confluences 2023

21st Lecture

Thursday 7.00pm IST

26 January 2023

The Muziris Papyrus and the Indo-Roman Pepper Trade

Federico De Romanis

Università di Roma, Italy

Discussant:

Prof. Pius Malekandathil

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair & Moderator:

Dr. Jinesh PS

Government College, Madappally, India

Only for Registered Participants

E-mail your full name, address and mobile number to ishorekerala@gmail.com

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Past Event, Webinar Series

ANCIENT INDIA: CULTURE OF CONTRADICTIONS

We were delighted that Professor Upinder Singh (Ashoka University, Sonepat), one of the most noted Indian historians, led our 17th webinar with his lecture.

Dr. Sanjukta Datta (Ashoka University) was the discussant and Dr. Manu V. Devadevan (Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi) chaired and moderated the session.

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Past Event, Webinar Series

CHANGING THEORY: DOING SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

I-SHORE was delighted that our 16th webinar was led by Dilip Menon (Professor of History, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa). Dr. Mahvish Ahmad (Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, London School of Economics, UK) was the discussant.

We were equally happy that the event was organized in collaboration with the Department of Malayalam, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit.

Dr. M.C. Abdul Nasar, Associate Professor at the Koyilandi Centre, chaired and moderated the session.

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Past Event, Webinar Series

THE DIVERSITY OF INDIAN CULTURE

Prof. K. Satchidanandan, well-known poet, cultural critic and President of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, delivered the lecture at our 15th webinar.

We were equally happy that the lecture was organized in collaboration with the Thunchan Memorial Government College, Tirur. For the session. Dr. Dayanandan K., Head of the Malayalam Department at the college, chaired and moderated the event while Dr. Vinni Rani Krishna, Assistant Professor at the Department of English, was the discussant.

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Past Event, Webinar Series

THE LOST JEW TOWN IN KOCHI: REWINDING HISTORICAL ERASURE AND ORIENTALIST FALLACIES

We were extremely happy that our 14th webinar was led by Dr. Ophira Gamliel (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) together with Meydad Eliyahu Kallingal (Jerusalem), Yehoshua Eliyahu Palliparambil (Haifa) and Orna Eliyahu Oron (Seattle). The session contrasted the historical evidence of the lost Jew Town of Kochi with the historiographical fallacies that obfuscate their significance.

We were equally delighted that the event was coordinated in collaboration with Union Christian College, Aluva. Dr. Jenee Peter from its Department of History chaired and moderated the session.

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Past Event, Webinar Series

AURAL AWAKENINGS: AFFECTIVE VOCALITY AND MALAYALAM FILM PUBLICS (1900-1950)

We were super-excited that Dr. Bindu Menon (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Azim Premji University, Bangalore) led our 13th webinar.

The noted historian Professor Lakshmi Subramaniam (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa) was the discussant, and Dr. Saji Mathew (School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam) chaired and moderated the session.

Event was organized in collaboration with the School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University.

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Past Event, Webinar Series

INTERPRETING ARYANISATION AS BRAHMAN INVASION: A HISTORICAL PROBING INTO EARLY INDIA

We were happy that Professor Rajan Gurukkal (Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Higher Education Council & Former Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University) led our twelfth webinar. With a fresh probing into the source materials on Aryanisation and Brahman invasion in the context of early Kerala, he questioned the existing historiographical representations and repressed indicators of aggression.

Dr. Manu V. Devadevan (Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi) was the discussant, and Dr. T. Mohammed Ali (Farook College, Kozhikode) chaired and moderated the session. The Program was organized in collaboration with Farook College, Kozhikode.

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WHEN TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION DECONSTRUCTS THE NOVEL FORM: LANGUAGE IN SEARCH OF SPACE

We were delighted that we started our webinar series of 2022 with a talk by the eminent Comparative Literature scholar, E.V. Ramakrishnan (Professor Emeritus, Central University of Gujarat), titled “When Transnational Imagination Deconstructs the Novel Form: Language in Search of Space”

Dr. Manu V. Devadevan (Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi) was the discussant and Dr. Josy Joseph (Associate Professor, SB College, Changanassery) chaired and moderated the session.

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