OHAI Conference Schedule
18th November 2013
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 12:00
12:00 – 12:45
12:45 - 13:45
13:45 – 15:30
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 – 17:00
Registration and Tea/Coffee
Inauguration Pramod Srivastava to welcome delegates and speak about the history of OHAI.
Gender and Oral History
1. Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, “Anecdotes and Gendered Histories of Politics”.
2. Dr. Malathi Ramanathan, “Relevance of Oral History to Research on Gender”.
3. Saurabh Mishra, “Oral History of women Legal Professionals in Post-colonial Indian Courts: With special reference of
District Court of Lucknow, India”.
4. Dr. Jyothsna Latha Belliappa, “Interviewing Anglo-Indian Women in the School Teaching Profession: Ethical and
Political Questions”.
(4 papers – 15 minute presentation + discussion)
Archiving Oral History
1. Dr. Soma Paul, Kishore Prahllad, Deepa Elluru, “Towards a large scale collection and automatic annotation of personal oral
histories”.
2. Dr. Lye Soo Choon, “Oral History in Archive’s perspective”.
(2 papers – 15 minute presentation + discussion)
Lunch
OHAI Plenary Session: "Experiences, Remembrance and Politics: Oral History in our Time" – Dr. Miroslav Vanek, K. Lalita,
Dr. Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Dr. Suroopa Mukherjee, Dr. Pramod Srivastava
Tea/Coffee break
Young Researchers Forum
1. Pramit Sinha, “Orality as Alternate Historicization: The Contributions of Itinerant Bengali Poet Philosophers”.
2. Rimi Tadu, “History of Injustice: Oral History and the Apatani Community”.
3. Debarati Chakrabarty, “Memories of “Desh”: A Glimpse on the Comparative Analysis of the Aftermath of Partition in Bangla
Oral and Written Narratives in West Bengal (1947-1971)”
4. Arif Reshi and Pramit Sinha, “Blooming orchards in a Burning Valley: Kashmiri Identity Politics and Oral History”.
(4 papers – 10 minutes each + 25 minutes total for discussion
19th November 2013
09:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:30
15:30- 15:45
15:45- 17:45
17:45 – 18:30
Oral History and Community
1. Dr. Mallika Saxena, “Oral History of Widows of Armed Forces in the area of Lucknow: Memories of apathy of family,
society and state”.
2. Junuka Deshpande, “Between Memory and History: Oral History in post-Tsunami Nicobar Islands”.
3. Dr. Fleur D’Souza, ““Hesitant explorations in Oral History: The Pawaras of Shirpur, history, identity and relationship
with the forest”.
(3 papers - 15 minute presentations + discussion time)
Tea/Coffee
Oral History and Oral Traditions
1. Dr. Sangeeta Krishna and Akhil Gupta, “Constructing Oral History: A Study of Mandalis and Non Mandalis in the
villages of Uttar Pradesh”.
2. Dr. Vinita Sinha and Ayisha Abrar, “Chhavr Raakh!”: Uncovering the Subversive Alternative History in Maithili Stories
and Songs”.
3. Dr. Ashish Mohan Khokar, ”Reconstructing History of Indian Dances through Oral Traditions”.
(3 papers – 15 minute presentations + discussion)
Panel Discussion: Oral History Methodology - Interpreting what we listen to: Deepa Dhanraj, Vrunda Pathare, Meena Menon,
Dr. Indira Chowdhury
Lunch
OHAI Special Lecture: Dr. Alessandro Portelli, “They Say in Harlan County: Thirty Years of Field work”
Tea/Coffee
OHAI General Body Meeting [Members only]
OHAI Elections and conclusion of AGM [Members only]