"Writing India’s Northeast: The poetics and politics of representation" a workshop in association with Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 30th September 2013
Time : 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Workshop on ‘Writing India’s Northeast: The poetics and politics of representation’ in association with Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral, Fellow, NMML.
Concept Note : The workshop would aim at addressing various issues that form the bases for scripting and narrating the Northeast of India to the rest of the country in the present times. The intellectual, imaginative and socio political strands that have come together to represent the contemporary northeast makes available a textured discourse that needs to be closely examined to understand the region better. Also pertinent is the need to challenge the easy construction of a totalizing and often homogenous idea of India’s northeast which in turn is responsible for the kind of skewed and contentious perceptions that have come to imbricate typical responses to the region. The category ‘Northeast India’, itself a relatively recent coinage and an accepted label now to collectively represent the eight states of the region has been subject to reconsideration and calls for a review of the attendant politics, history and its memory already available in the national imaginary. The debates over its colonial histories and attempts to demystify certain stock notions about the Northeast, thus, revision the present issuing out of the intertwined and fraught relationships of a postcolonial nation and its frontier. The troubling contexts and circumstances that define and determine critical engagements with its recent history add a significant dimension to the increasing academic, cultural and strategic importance of Northeast India Studies. The thoughts and concerns of the panels of this workshop are ideally intended to be an exercise at writing the emergence of this contemporary Northeast from its usable, if contested, past.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Workshop on ‘Writing India’s Northeast: The poetics and politics of representation’ in association with Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral, Fellow, NMML.
Concept Note : The workshop would aim at addressing various issues that form the bases for scripting and narrating the Northeast of India to the rest of the country in the present times. The intellectual, imaginative and socio political strands that have come together to represent the contemporary northeast makes available a textured discourse that needs to be closely examined to understand the region better. Also pertinent is the need to challenge the easy construction of a totalizing and often homogenous idea of India’s northeast which in turn is responsible for the kind of skewed and contentious perceptions that have come to imbricate typical responses to the region. The category ‘Northeast India’, itself a relatively recent coinage and an accepted label now to collectively represent the eight states of the region has been subject to reconsideration and calls for a review of the attendant politics, history and its memory already available in the national imaginary. The debates over its colonial histories and attempts to demystify certain stock notions about the Northeast, thus, revision the present issuing out of the intertwined and fraught relationships of a postcolonial nation and its frontier. The troubling contexts and circumstances that define and determine critical engagements with its recent history add a significant dimension to the increasing academic, cultural and strategic importance of Northeast India Studies. The thoughts and concerns of the panels of this workshop are ideally intended to be an exercise at writing the emergence of this contemporary Northeast from its usable, if contested, past.
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"Writing India’s Northeast: The poetics and politics of representation" a workshop in association with Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 30th September 2013
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