Past Event

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

I-SHORE was delighted that our 16^th 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.

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.

We were extremely happy that our 14^th 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.

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

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.

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.

10th and the last webinar of the year ‘Intersections & Confluences 2021’ was be led by Professor Meena T. Pillai (University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram).

Dr. C.S. Venkiteswaran, eminent filmmaker and film critic, was the discussant. Dr. V. Abdul Lathief (Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady) chaired and moderated the session.

Dr. Anna Lindberg (former Director, Swedish South Asian Studies Network, Lund University) delivered the ninth lecture in the webinar series “Intersections and Confluences 2021″. Prof. J. Devika (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram) was the discussant and Dr. Abhilash Malayil (Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady) chaired and moderated the session.

Filippo Osella (Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, University of Sussex) led eighth lecture of our webinar series. Together with Johnson Jament, Max Martin, OB Roopesh and Visakh Subha, he presented a paper on the consequences of Covid-19 interventions on coastal communities in south Kerala (India). Prof. Osella also touched on wider issues which have informed his anthropological research in Kerala for the last 30 years.

Professor Janaki Abraham​(Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University)​chaired and moderated the session and Dr. Salah Punathil (Assistant Professor at the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad) was the discussant.