Crisis, Community and Oral History
organized by
Oral History Association of India
in collaboration with
Department of Humanities and Languages, Flame University, Pune
March 6-7, 2021
ONLINE
Mar 6, 10am – 5:30pm
CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION & INTRODUCTION TO OHAI: 10:00am
Nandini Oza, President, OHAI
OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Maya Dodd
Assistant Dean and Associate Professor
FLAME University, Pune.
OPENING TALK: 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Oral History’s Bad Timing – Crisis in Bhopal, Disability and RTI Movements
Rama Lakshmi
Facilitator/Moderator: Nandini Oza
Session I: FILMS AND CRISES: 11:15am – 12:00pm
Tabdeeli, 24 min.
Film, followed by discussion with filmmakers:
Anmol Saini, Anna Binu, Rishika Revo, Sankarsan Behera, Vyshakh Balachandran
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Facilitator/Moderator: Avehi Menon
Session II: CITIZEN AND THE STATE: 12:15pm – 1:00pm
Understanding the scars of erasure of people from the National Register of Citizens in Assam through Oral History
Debasreeta Deb
University of Otago, New Zealand
Finding Voices of Denotified Tribes
Megha Poonia
NIAS, Bangalore, India
Facilitator/Moderator: Abhineety Goel
Lunch: 1:00pm – 1:45pm
Session III: GENDER: 2pm – 3:15pm
Buddhist Nuns of Spiti: (Re-) Claiming Spiritual Space
Neekee Chaturvedi, University of Rajasthan
Kesang Thakur, ICSSR Project on on Continuity and Change in Spiti
Aniket Alam, IIT-Hyderabad
Aman Panta, ICSSR Project on on Continuity and Change in Spiti
Narrativising #MeToo Beyond the Media Storm
Nithila Kanagasabai
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
You can’t just stick them in an archive: taking care with the Panos Women and Conflict testimonies
Siobhan Warrington
Oral History Unit and Collective, Newcastle University
Facilitator/Moderator: Sanghamitra Chatterjee
Session IV: COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE AND CRISIS, Part 1: 3:15-4:15pm
Panel: Reimagining Santal Heritage through Oral History
Rahi Soren, Jadavpur University
Daniel Rycroft, University of East Anglia
Nishaant Choksi, IIT-Gandhinagar
Facilitator: Hari Sridhar
Moderator: Rahi Soren
PUBLIC TALK 1: 4:30PM – 5:30pm
Rob Perks, former lead curator of oral histories, British Library
In conversation with Indira Chowdhury
Facilitator/Moderator: Fleur D’Souza
Mar 7, 10am – 6:30pm
Session V: DISPLACEMENTS: 10am – 11:15am
Revisiting the 1947 Partition and Displacement: Subjective and “Intangible” Experiences of Hindu Migrants of Bahawalpur
Shaifali Arora
IIT Indore
Crossing Over – Women’s Oral Histories of Settlement in the Andaman Islands
Raka Banerjee
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
The 1971 War of Bangladesh in the Diaspora: Some Reflections on Documentation, Ethics and Politics
Paramita Purkayastha
Jadavpur University
Facilitator/Moderator: Debarati Chakraborty
Session VI: COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE AND CRISIS, Part 2: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Panel: The Ownership of Public History in India: The TOPHI Project
Maya Dodd, FLAME University
Aparna Vaidik, Ashoka University
Ranjani Prasad, Keystone Foundation
Faisal Rehman, Keystone Foundation
Facilitator/Moderator: Dr. Poonam Gandhi
Lunch: 12:45pm – 1:30pm
Session VII: COVID-19 & ORAL HISTORIES: 1:45pm – 3:00pm
COVID-19 and Mutual Aid – temporary phenomenon or chance for a better society?
Alison Atkinson-Phillips and Silvie Fisch
Oral History Unit and Collective, Newcastle University
Confronting the Nightmare: Covid and Women Carers in Pakistan.
Furrukh Khan
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Painting the Pandemic: Crisis and Memory in the works of Patachitrakars
Indira Chowdhury
Centre for Public History, Srishti
Facilitator/Moderator: Sudebi Thakurata
Session VIII: TOWARD ORAL HISTORIES: 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Indian Community Cookbooks: Archiving Food Histories
Ananya Pujari, Muskaan Pal and Khushi Gupta
FLAME University
Of unearthing voices and writing histories: Exploring the oeuvre of Kalyani Dutta
Krishnendu Pal
Jadavpur University
Understanding the orality associated to the Temple of Jawalamukhi; a Shaktipeetha (Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh)
Asmita Vaid
Panjab University
The Role of Oral Narratives in History: A Case Study of Tanks in Southern India
Chaitanya Mamidi
Ashoka University
Facilitator/Moderator: Vrunda Pathare
Session IX: CHANGES AND PEDAGOGY: 4:30pm – 5:15pm
Participatory Oral history as an exercise to reflect on cross-generation resilience
Elisa Sevilla
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
The Crisis of Colonialism: Memories and Legacies of European Imperialism in Student OH Projects
Derek Elliott
Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
Facilitator/Moderator: Nidhi Kalra
PUBLIC TALK 2: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Jason Kelly. COVID-19 Oral History Project
IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University
Facilitator/Moderator: Dr. Maya Dodd