Alzheimer’s Through Thanmathra
Alzheimer’s through Thanmathra
Posters
Posters prepared by Research Interns at the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras as part of their Research Internship Programme.
From Page to Protest: Literary Testimony and the Reconstruction of Public Memory (Elakshi Gupta
From Page to Protest: Literary Testimony and the Reconstruction of Public Memory
Memory Through Play: Transmission of Cultural Memory Through Board Games (Akhila Rajeena James)
Memory Through Play: Transmission of Cultural Memory through Board Games
Digitizing War Memories: Through Anime and Manga (Samyukthah Anandhasayanam)
Digitizing War Memories: Through Anime and Manga
A Burning Memory: Climate and Change (Padmini)
The world is growing to be more knowledgeable on climate change, as the changes that have been brought upon are irreversible. The realisation sets forth a quest for a future that seems to be shrinking. Nothing related to climate change is pleasant, eventually raising fear and anxiety in the livelihood. The world is trying its …
A Psychological Study in Light of Memory Studies (Berdhisha)
Memory studies is an academic field of studying the use of memory as a tool for remembering the past. Memory has a great role in everyone’s life because we cannot live without memories. Psychology is the combination of two Greek words ‘psyche’ (soul) and ‘Logos’ (word or talk). So, it means ‘talk about the soul’. …
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Making Sense of a World of Nation-state: Myth and Memories in Experiences of National Belonging (Kanchan Panday)
Nationalism is the force that has brought the world to its modern form. It has claimed to alter the social and political structures in vastly different forms from their previous versions. The concept of nationalism has never gone out of vogue since its inception. However, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, myriad factors such …
Collective Memory and Hegemonic Narratives: The Ubiquity of Social Erasure (Kanchan Panday)
This poster brings into focus two things. The fallen statue of Lenin highlights the contemporary contestations of history. It aims to delegitimize certain ideals of the past that do not align with the present aspirations. Removing the statues of Lenin does not wipe out the history of authoritarianism in Russia. However, it condemns an uncritical …
A Long-Memoried Sea: Locating Memory in the Middle Passage in Fred D’Aguiar’s “Feeding the Ghosts” (Sheryl Alexander)
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?Where is your tribal memory?Sirs, in that great vault.The sea. The sea has locked them up.The sea is History Derek Walcott, The Sea is History Dubbed as a historical revisionist novel, Feeding the Ghosts is Fred D’Aguiar’s fictionalized account of the infamous Zong slave-ship massacre, an incident where more …
Turning to Visual Memory in Search of a Lost Time: Marcel Proust and the Visual Arts – Aditi Singh
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from …
Remembering Landscapes: Trauma and Memory in the face of Environmental Catastrophe – Malavika P. Pillai
The relationship between memory and landscape is often overlooked, especially while examining the impact of environmentally induced distress on people. Traditionally, grief, trauma and nostalgia were attributed to human losses in socio-political violence. But it is equally imperative in case of individual/communal memory and other emotional tribunals of natural disaster victims and climate refugees. Their …
Remembering and Forgetting: Narrative and Art in the context of Memory and Trauma – Angel Maria Varghese
In a Q&A session with the Booker Prize, Avni Doshi talked about the centrality of art in the narrative as such; “On the level of story, art plays a central role in how the characters develop in Burnt Sugar. The major conflicts between characters are framed by the artistic production of the narrator. On a …
Memory and Memoir in Intizar Husain’s Basti: A Study of Memory in Exile – Aditi Singh
The past is not dead. In fact, it is not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951) Amidst the clamorous turbulence, turmoil and tumult of the Partition, Basti sits in a sombre, solemn, albeit ruptured, landscape. At the outset, the reader encounters a mythic, almost mystic echo-chamber of voices of a reminiscing history …
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Remembering and Forgetting: Collective Memory – Angel Maria Varghese
What are collective memories of the past and how are they remembered? A. Assmann has argued that collective memories must be defined in terms of the function they play in society. “Just as autobiographical memories are individually held memories that bear on the identity of an individual, collective memories are widely held memories of community …
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Trauma and Memory through erasure or preservation of Objects and Places – Angel Maria Varghese
Episodic memory is a category of long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations, and experiences. Since every individual views and understands circumstances differently and because every person has different memories of those events, episodic memory is vital to your sense of self. In a person with Alzheimer’s, there is a decline in …
Circadian Novels within a Stream of Consciousness – Aayushi Sharma
The novelty of the Stream of Consciousness technique is its user-friendly nature. Its universal occurrence lends to its familiarity. The unpolished and unstructured thoughts are far from other pieces of literature, notably the Interior Monologue technique. Although similar, the Interior Monologue technique employs the structure and combines the Stream of Consciousness’s apparent incoherence and disorderly …
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Remembering and Forgetting: Representation of Alzheimer’s Disease in Avni Doshi’s Fiction – Angel Maria Varghese
The Girl in White Cotton is a debut novel by Avni Doshi, published in 2019 that explores the entanglements between memory, shared trauma and caregiving. The plot follows the fraught relationship between a mother and daughter, Tara and Antara. The daughter must care for her mother, as the latter is suffering from memory loss caused by the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
The Edwardian Point of View – Aayushi Sharma
While Edwardian Materialists had great storytelling, their writing doesn’t allow the reader to have the level of immersion as other modes of writing. According to Virginia Woolf, materialism is when an author dedicates the setting to descriptors of only the material world and incorporates the physical solely in the process of world-building. In her essay …
