Past Event

We are organizing a public seminar on an integrated approach towards the early modern history of Kerala on the basis of sources from multiple languages. The event initiates a dialogue between specialists in Dutch, Malayalam, Syriac and Arabic sources produced in/on Malabar during the so-called “Dutch period” between the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Speakers would explore how diverse sources with arguably different cultural provenances could potentially construct or deconstruct different epochs in regional and global histories.

The seminar follows three masterclasses-cum-workhop led by Prof. Jos Gommans, Dr. Lennart Bes and Dr. Binu John Mailaparambil on using the Dutch archives to study Kerala’s past. In the workshop, 13 researchers from different Indian and international universities would participate.

Please join us today and tomorrow in Mattanchery!

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.

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

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

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.