JOIN USThe 19th international oral history conference will be held from June 27, 5 pm onwards at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Malleswaram. The event will be on till July 1 at various venues such as the Indian Institute of Science, National Gallery of Modern Art and National Centre for Biological Sciences.
The five-day bilingual conference will have research papers presented in both English and Spanish and will incorporate masterclasses, public panels and events, film screenings, folk performances and exhibitions on the discipline of oral history. Over 150 participants, including academics, community workers, archivists, filmmakers and students, will come to the city from diverse parts of the world like Iceland and East Timor.
The conference will also bring together well-established oral historians and reputed academicians such as Meghna Guhathakurta, the executive director of Research Initiatives from Bangladesh; Donald A Ritchie, the Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate; Michael Frisch, an oral and public historian; and Robert Perks, the lead curator of oral history and director of National Life Stories at the British Library.
The event is organised by the International Oral History Association and the Oral History Association of India. This is the first time that this conference will be held in India and in Asia.
Meghna Guhathakurta will speak at the inaugural ceremony on ‘Speaking, Listening and Interpreting’.
It will be followed by a performance by the Shinde Anjaneyulu family. The performance is titled ‘Stories in Shadows’.