Scotland  

We warmly invite you to our upcoming online workshop “Lived Heritage and Communities of Minority Heritage in the Indian Urban Context”. The event will be hosted by Arts Lab (University of Glasgow) and colleagues from the Arts Lab interdisciplinary theme ‘Heritage, Urban Studies and Development’.

Date: Wednesday 4 November 1200 to 1315 hrs

To register, please email [email protected] 

Abstract: 

Can the increased visibility of cultural heritage – the entire gamut of performative elements, folklore, craft-lore, rituals – diminish the trauma and threats to cultural memory, belief-systems, and overall well-being that result from internal displacement and migration? How can fundamentally different heritage-minority communities survive – even grow – in a homogenising and identity-politicised urban world while also highlighting their diversity? What are the effects of intersecting gender, class, ethnic, racial and religious identities of refugees on their employment opportunities, social freedoms and livelihood outcomes? This workshop will address these and other questions in the context of Indian urban settings. Three short presentations will seek to stimulate further ideas, discussions and collaborative work. 

Speakers:  

• John Reuben Davies (Humanities, College of Arts): The heritage-minority communities of Kolkata 
• Ophira Gamliel (Critical Studies, College of Arts): The lost Jew Town of Cochin 
• Preeti Dagar (SHLC, College of Social Sciences): Sustainable livelihoods and social integration through skills development for urban refugees 

Thank you 

Srabani