CEPT Archives Talk Series
Internationational Archives Week 2024
June 8th, 2024 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm IST
Online Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3XcpM8u
Speaker’s Introduction
Allure of the Archive: Ensuring the Survival of Historical Records
A talk by Lisa Trivedi | 6:30 to 7:30 pm IST
Dr Lisa Trivedi is the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History at Hamilton College in Clinton New York, where she has taught for 25 years.
She is a cultural and social historian of modern South Asia. Her first monograph was titled Clothing Gandhi’s Nation: Homespun and Modern India (Indiana, 2007). She has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Pembroke College, where she began research on her second monograph, Bound By Cloth: Women Textile Workers in Bombay and Lancashire, 1890-1940. She has published in the history of medicine, women, photography, and soon urban planning.
Trivedi is an archival historian whose work has been undertaken in the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and India. She has worked in a range of public and private archives, including family foundations, national and municipal collections, as well as international organisations, and most recently museums.
Engaging Community through Museums, Archives, Curation, and Repatriation
A talk by Roshan Mishra | 7:30 to 8:30 pm IST
Roshan is the Director of Taragaon Next and a Kathmandu-based visual artist. He oversees the Nepal Architecture Archive (NAA), which is run by the Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture, a Taragaon Museum patron organisation. He has been affiliated with the Museum for almost 8 years, working with its permanent collection, launching the Contemporary Art Gallery, and creating an archive and a library.
Roshan is the founder of the Global Nepali Museum, Nepali Art, and an initiator of the Mishra Museum. He is a visiting faculty at the Kathmandu University, Art and Design Faculty for research, documentation and archiving programs. He studied Fine Arts in Nepal, Japan and the UK, and holds a Master's Degree in Digital Art.
Roshan is now actively involved in the Nepal Heritage Repatriation campaign (NHRC) to bring back lost and stolen Nepali heritage.
