Memory, Movement and Museum
Memory, Movement and Museum
15 October 2013, KNMA Noida
A symposium organized around the exhibition
Zones of Contact: Propositoins on the Museum
Curated by Akansha Rastogi, Deeksha Nath and Vidya Shivadas
Speakers
Rama Lakshmi, Satinath Sarangi and Safreen Khan
Bhopal: Memory, Movement and Museum
Prof. Kavita Singh
Ghosts of Future Nations: The Fate of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India
Surajit Sarkar and Komita Dhanda
The Neighbourhood Museum, Shadi Khampur
Moderated by Vidya Shivadas
With case studies of Bhopal Gas Tragedy memorial, Khalsa Heritage Museum, Tibet museum in exile and neighbourhood museums, speakers deliberate on the need of community museums and different ways of memorialization of historical traumas and industrial disasters. It foregrounds the rights of the affected community to shape this memory.