‘Figurations of India’s Northeast: Cultures, histories, worldviews’ a conference at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am onwards on 19th February 2015

Time : 9:00 am Add to Calendar 19-02-2015 09:00:00 19-02-2015 16:00:00 68 ‘Figurations of India’s Northeast: Cultures, histories, worldviews’ a conference Event Page : http://goo.gl/CSdn6k Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Conference on ‘Figurations of India’s Northeast: Cultures, histories, worldviews’ in association with Dr. Manjeet Baruah, Northeast India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral, Former Fellow, NMML and
Cotton College State University, Guwahati, Assam.

Concept Note:
The conference is organised to commemorate the birth centenary of Maheswar Neog (1915 – 1995), a pioneering scholar from Assam. Maheswar Neog’s works have remained foundational in the study of cultural and historical processes of Assam. He is especially remembered for his works on pre-colonial culture of Assam, while himself belonging to a critical period in the history of post-Independence India. Between the 1940s and 1970s, his scholarship was part of the wider intellectual discourses of Indian de-colonisation. His works include studies on literature and literary history, music, performance and aesthetics. He was also one of the leading scholars on neo-Vaishnava philosophy in Assam and its 15th century saint-reformer Sankaradeva. Writing mostly in Assamese, his contributions, especially during the period between 1940s and 1970s, are widely considered path breaking.
The conference is organised around themes which were central to Maheswar Neog’s works. However, the themes are used as window to understand processes and developments wider than what Neog himself had worked on. For example, questions of writing literary history and the challenges therein, aesthetics and ideas of community, the relation between ideology and religion and its impact, and cultural geography and the issue of folk region are some of the broad themes which the conference focuses on. The speakers are from different disciplines and areas of work, such as History, Literature, Translation, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Sociology and Political Studies. 
Through these themes, the conference hopes to explore the diverse and complex nature of Northeast India. Through the themes, the conference also aims to examine the processes of knowledge production on Northeast India. The conference would end with a panel discussion on recent research trends on Northeast India, and possible areas of study which could prove crucial in the coming times.

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