71st Online Lecture Organized by Calcutta Comparatists 1919 Topic: The Episteme and the Ontology of A Centre for Memory Studies Speakers: Prof. Avishek Parui Assistant Professor (English) Indian Institute of Technology Madras Associate Fellow, UK Higher Education Academy Principal Investigator, Centre for Memory Studies, Institute of Eminence (IoE), IIT Madras Prof. Merin Simi Raj Assistant Professor (English) Faculty Coordinator, Memory Studies Research Network Indian Institute of Technology Madras Date: 07.04.2021

Diaspora Studies Forum Coordinator: Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay Topic: -Memory, Storytelling and the Situated Brain Speaker: -Abhishek Parui Indian Institute of Technology Chennai (IIT-Madras) Discussant: -Prof. Tapodhir Bhattacharya

SESSION 2: Plenary 4 Avishek Parui, Assistant Professor in English, IIT Madras; Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy “Memory, Shading, and the Storytelling Mind” Rahul K. Gairola, The Krishna Somers Lecturer in English & Postcolonial Literature, Murdoch University in Greater Perth, Western Australia “Digital Humanities and South Asian Studies Today” Chair: Nishat Zaidi, Prof. and Head, Dept. of English, JMI Rapporteurs: Aditi Das Khan and Mirza Sadaf Fatima

Dr Merin Simi Raj connects Memory, History and the formation of Modernity in the Indian context. Lecture hosted by EDL

Dr. Avishek Parui (IIT Madras)WEBINAR ON LITERATURE AND MEMORY STUDIES, MANIPUR UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE, 10 OCTOBER 2020

This is the First Memory Studies conference in India Hosted by the Memory Studies Research Network at IIT Madras https://www.memorystudiesiitmadras.com Coordinated by Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj, Assistant Professors, IIT Madras. Further details of the Conference may be found in these links: https://jbmconferenceiitm.wordpress.com https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/iit-madras-organises-annual-international-memory-studies-conference-2019/articleshow/71407016.cms https://www.educationtimes.com/article/campus-beat-college-events/71455131/Researchers-at-IIT-Madras-use-AR-VR-to-reinterpret-history-through-Memory-Studies.html