IFA@Kolkata | Day 2 at Facing History and Ourselves: A Two-Day Conference | Emami Art, Kolkata | December 02-03, 2022

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in association with Emami Art
presents
Facing History and Ourselves*
Revisiting Archives and Museums in the 21st Century India
under the Archives and Museums programme

 Friday, December 02 & Saturday, December 03, 2022
Amphitheatre, First Floor, Emami Art
777, Anandapur, EM Bypass, Kolkata – 700 107

Join us today at Facing History and Ourselves: Revisiting Archives and Museums in the 21st Century India, organised as part of the Archives and Museums programme at IFA, held at Emami Art, Kolkata. Witness artists, curators, scholars, practitioners, musicians and heads of archives and museums take part in discussions, keynote addresses and a performance to address what museums and archives mean today, how interventions at these sites can change the way we think of them, and how we can reimagine these institutions to be more diverse and inclusive. 

Register here to attend the conference.

Day 2 | Conference Schedule

Saturday, December 03, 2022

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM | Registration

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Tea Break

11:30 AM to 01:30 PM | Panel III: Reimagining Access and Outreach
Meera Krishnamurthy | Akash Srinivas | Kevin Fernandes
Moderator: Shaleen Wadhwana

01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | Break

02:30 PM to 04:30 PM | Panel IV: Museums and Archives: Renewed Entry Points
Namita Waikar | Radhika Hegde | Natasha Fernandes | Jayanta Sengupta
Moderator: Anant Maringanti

04:30 PM to 05:00 PM | Tea Break

05:00 PM to 05:50 PM | Closing Keynote Address
Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Artist and curator, Raqs Media Collective)

05:50 PM to 06:00 PM | Valedictory Session
Arundhati Ghosh | Ushmita Sahu | Ritwika Misra

You can download/view the concept note, conference schedule and detailed bios of institutions and speakers of Facing History and Ourselves: Revisiting Archives and Museums in the 21st Century India.

The conference is free and open to all and will have Indian Sign Language interpretation.

For more information and queries regarding the conference, please write to contactus@indiaifa.org

Image: From the collection at Museum of Christian Art (MoCA), Goa

*The title of the Conference is partly taken from the Foundation Project of the same name with Subasri Krishnan, implemented by IFA under the Archives and Museum programme in collaboration with People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI).

The conference is made possible with support from Titan Company Limited, Kshirsagar Apte Foundation and Parijat Foundation.

The Archives and Museums programme in 2020-21 and 2021-22 was part-supported by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi and Parijat Foundation.