IFA@Kolkata | Day 1 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.

For the full conference schedule, click here.

Day 1 | Conference Schedule

Friday, December 02, 2022

09:30 AM to 10:00 AM | Registration

10:00 AM to 10:10 AM | Introduction and Opening Remarks
Arundhati Ghosh (Executive Director, IFA) | Ushmita Sahu (Director and Head Curator, Emami Art) | Ritwika Misra (Programme Officer: Archives and Museums Programme, IFA)

10:10 AM to 11:00 AM | Opening Keynote Address
Indira Chowdhury (Scholar-in-Residence, Centre for Public History, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru)

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

11:30 AM to 01:30 PM | Panel I: Retelling from Absences
Keshav Waghmare | Subasri Krishnan | Mario D’Souza | Arjun Motwani
Moderator: Latika Gupta

01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | Break

02:30 PM to 04:30 PM | Panel II: Rethinking Public History
Ammel Sharon | Aishwarya Amar Kirit | Madhuja Mukherjee | Nobina Gupta
Moderator: Partho Datta

04:30 PM to 06:00 PM | Tea Break

06:00 PM to 07:30 PM | Performance: The Aahvaan Project 
Based on the Nirguna philosophy of love and the works of Sufi saints, the performance draws on oral traditions, archival materials, and conversations and showcases them through storytelling and music.
Vedi Sinha | Sumant Balakrishnan

You can download/view the concept note 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 Sophie Charlotte Belnos collection, Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH), Kolkata

*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.