Oral History in the Digital World
organized by
Oral History Association of India
in collaboration with
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
March 4-5 2022
Online
Day 1 | Mar 4, 10.30am – 5:30pm
CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION & INTRODUCTION TO OHAI: 10:30am
Debarati Chakraborty, Vice President, OHAI
OPENING REMARKS
By Professor Samantak Das, Pro-VC, Jadavpur University
Facilitator/ Moderator: Dr. Rahi Soren, Jadavpur University
OPENING TALK: 11am – 12:15 pm
Oral History: A Digital Turn
Vrunda Pathare, Head, Godrej Archives
Facilitator/Moderator: Nandini Oza
Lunch 12:15pm – 1:15 pm
Session I: 1.30pm – 2.45pm
The Paradox of Orality and the Advent of the Digital
Harshita Bathwal
School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ethical & Legal Challenges of Digital Oral History
Heeba Din
Media Education Research Center, University of Kashmir
Of Interstitial Spaces: Memorializing Oral History in the Digital Turn
Shachi Vijay
PG Student, MA Comparative Literature, EFLU, Hyderabad
and Dr. Rimika Singhvi
Asso. Prof. & Head, Dept. of English, IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur (Raj.)
Facilitator/Moderator: Aniket Alam
Session II: 3pm – 4:15 pm
Beyond Immediate Research Objectives: Exploring Orality and Digitality of Partition History
Shaifali Arora
Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University
The Narrator, the Interviewer, and the Listener: Affective Listening and Digital Oral History Archives
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
Doctoral Fellow, IIT Delhi
Memoire of 1984 in Sikh Oral History & Popular Visual Cultural Practice in Indian Punjab
Sayan Gupta
PhD candidate in Visual Arts, Jawaharlal Nehru University of New Delhi
Facilitator/Moderator: Debarati Chakraborty
Session III: 4.30pm – 6pm
Curating oral history recordings for public engagement
Chitra Vishwanath
Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Aparna Ramachandran, Astha Pandya, Avni Pattani, Praful Panchal, Soham Patel – Pattani Archives
S Fiona Evangeline
Audio-visual Editor, Research project on tracing the journey of women practitioners in Indian architectural history
Facilitator/Moderator: Ishita Shah
Public Talk: 6.30 pm
Dr. Doug Boyd in conversation with Venkat Srinivasan
Facilitator/Moderator: Venkat Srinivasan
DAY 2 | Mar 5, 11 am – 6:00 pm
Session IV: 11 am – 12:15 am
Interviews for Interviews’ Sake: Building a digital oral history archive
Malvika Bhatia
Archive Director, The Citizens’ Archive of India
Roadmap for Building a Collaborative Ground Up Digital Community Archive
Mrinalini Singha
Co-founder & Design Researcher, Himalayan Folk Collective
Digital Oral History in Toronto
Mukti Patel
University of Toronto
Facilitator/Moderator: Sanghamitra Chatterjee
Lunch: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Session V: 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Politics of Colonial Cataloguing of Tribes in India: With Special Reference to Janajatikaran of Adivasis in Assam
Bipasha Rosy Lakra
Department of Political Science, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
Chronicling Mizo Pasts: Digital Social Media Conversations and Oral History Practice
Lalrinawmi Colvom Lulam (Renee)
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
Exploring Common Pool Resource Management in Rural Assam: The Oral Histories Experience
Rima Kalita and Parvathy Sailesh
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Session VI: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Medium, Matter and Maintenance: At the Intersection of Pandemic and Oral History
Sonali Verma
Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The East Indian Community of Bombay- Reviving and Highlighting Oral History through Digital Means
Sharon Misquitta
University of Mumbai
Bakkarwals and Gujjars: Categories of Inclusion
Wasif Ali
Ashoka University, Sonepat
Facilitator/Moderator: Avehi Menon
Session VII: Special Session: 4:30pm – 5.45 pm
Orality, Oral Traditions and Oral History in the Digital World
Rahi Soren
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Surajit Sarkar
Ambedkar University, Delhi
Vinita Sinha
Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi
Facilitator/Moderator: Aniket Alam
PUBLIC TALK 2: 6:00 pm
Exploring History and Memory in Oral Epics of India
Tanuja Kothiyal
Department of History, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Facilitator/Moderator: Saaz Aggarwal