Video Gallery: Conference
Opening Keynote Address
Indira Chowdhury | Scholar-in-Residence, Centre for Public History, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
Panel I: Retelling from Absences
Keshav Waghmare | Writer, researcher and Executive Editor of Anvikshan, a Marathi quarterly magazine
Subasri Krishnan | Filmmaker, Head of Media Lab, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore
Arjun Motwani | Doctoral candidate, Department of English, Jadavpur University
Mario D’Souza | Curator, critic, journalist and researcher
Moderator: Latika Gupta | Curator, researcher and writer
Panel II: Rethinking Public History
Ammel Sharon | Doctoral candidate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Aishwarya Amar Kirit | Writer, museologist and archivist
Madhuja Mukherjee | Artist, and Professor, Film Studies, Jadavpur University
Nobina Gupta | Director, Disappearing Dialogues
Moderator: Partho Datta | Historian, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Panel III: Reimagining Access and Outreach
Meera Krishnamurthy | Animation filmmaker
Kevin Fernandes | Assistant Professor of English, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research, Bengaluru
Akash Srinivas | Prehistoric archaeologist, postdoctoral research fellow at Ashoka University
Moderator: Shaleen Wadhwana | Curator, writer
Panel IV: Museums and Archives: Renewed Entry Points
Namita Waikar | Co-founder of and Managing Editor at the People’s Archive of Rural India
Radhika Hegde | Curator, SL Bhatia History of Medicine Museum, Library & Archives
Natasha Fernandes | Curator, Museum of Christian Art, Goa
Jayanta Sengupta | Director, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Moderator: Anant Maringanti | Director, Hyderabad Urban Lab Foundation
Closing Keynote Address
Shuddhabrata Sengupta | Artist and curator, Raqs Media Collective
Performance: The Aahvaan Project
Vedi Sinha | Writer, storyteller, vocalist and performer
Sumant Balakrishnan | Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter