Spring School in Family History
Location
India
Subject Fields
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies,
Contemporary History,
Local History,
Oral History,
Public History
The Center for Public History (CPH) at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru (SMI) is pleased to invite you to participate in its inaugural Spring School in Family History. It will be held online from Monday, March 1 to Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The Spring School is the seventh edition of the two-week advanced workshop that CPH has been organising since 2013, with each edition being on a different theme relevant to Oral History or Public History. This year, we focus on Family History. We have been constrained by the pandemic to postpone our advanced workshop to March 2021. This edition is titled the Spring School in Family History. Family History is the practice of researching, interpreting and presenting stories from the past of one's own family or that of others or histories of families or family units in general. The practice, which uses methodologies of oral history, genealogy, material culture, visuality and, more recently, DNA analysis, has been gaining in popularity among amateur historians for years and, recently, among professional historians as well. Family History, which attempts to generate an understanding of the evolution of families, has become the fertile ground for the practice of oral history alongside the study of material culture through meaningful objects and heirlooms. The fascination with Family History seems to lie in its ability to situate the self in a long line of ancestors and their lives. Beyond the self, it also has the potential to prepare the ground for a broader history of a community or society from the bottom up, based almost exclusively on the collective efforts of individual family historians. The Spring School in Family History will focus on the following:
- The methods and processes of family historians
- The "audiences" of family historians
- The archives of family historians
- Family history and DNA technologies
- Social media, digital networks and family history
- The family historians and their academic counterparts
Contact Information
Srijan Sandip Mandal, PhDFacultyCenter for Public HistorySrishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru(A Constituent Unit of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal)
Contact Email
srijan.mandal@manipal.edu