👍 On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 02:51, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Concept Note (see detailed programme attached) > > The Past and Memory: Locations of Indian History Memory consciousness > emerges under the sign of what has already happened and is integral to our > social world. Memory, as the womb of history, remains the guardian of the > past and harbours a range of affects, meanings, and unspoken stories that > constitute people’s imaginative possibilities and horizons of expectation. > Similarly, memory can be strategic—it can signal action, power, capacity, > and identity. > > Discussions of memory need to distinguish among its three dimensions: > individual, public, and archival. Memory consciousness is integral to > personal identity, and exchanges occur between individual and public > memory. Should the memory be certified and accredited? It is here, during > the documentary phase, that the process of making an archive begins, and > the trustworthiness we assign to the archive is generated in this process. > What is now known as testimony is the transformation of oral testimony into > archival form. More importantly, a physical, spatial, and social space is > created for memory to be inscribed, preserved, and externalised as > testimony. Similarly, when memory contributes to an archive, it passes from > being personal to being a public claim about the past. Exploring the nature > of memory thus becomes another means of exploring the nature of truth in > history. > > This national conference aims to explore memories as a resource for > understanding the past, and this requires that we raise more questions and > explore possibilities across the realms of the interpersonal, social, and > historical. The conference aspires to initiate a collective reflection on > memory and the locations of history through the sharing of reflections by > scholars working in various Indian regions in an interdisciplinary mode. It > would be organised around the following themes. > > Memory and archives > Memory and identity > Memory and migration > Memory and forgetting > Memory and cultural history > Memory and heritage > Memory and the process of forgetting > Memory, truth, and falsehood > Memory, commemoration, rememoration > Memory and literature > Memory and Political economy > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا > _/ AUDIO https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha > _/ http://goa1556.in +91-9822122436 784 Saligao Goa > _/ Goanet :: 30 years of discussions. [email protected] > _/ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CA%2Bmqab_%2BavwqMUHtrzug7mc%3DqYXorf4%2BV8n1UryRehjEQLFbRw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CA%2Bmqab_%2BavwqMUHtrzug7mc%3DqYXorf4%2BV8n1UryRehjEQLFbRw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAEV9ODyjyq-0QhNsmYuGdwVcQ1dJ0-Pyp5VbbixFV_K_h3sUag%40mail.gmail.com.
