Bangalore conference on Identities and Resistance: Heritage in Bangalore

The Aesthetics and Critical Studies Program at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, and the Go:India Project, as well as Critical Heritage Studies at University of Gothenburg in Sweden organise a conference on "Identities and Resistance: Heritage" to take place in Bangalore between 22 – 25 February 2012. 

The conference aims at working with the national museums as a part of public space, public life, places of memory and identity building. In today's processes of globalization, regionalization and de-modernisation, the state loses its former role of representing a nation and a territory. The traditional places of memory take on new roles and their messages are often contested. New kinds of memory making are constantly invented by those groups who's past and memories had been denied and silenced by states and colonizers. The conference will focus on exploring these issues with focus on Karnataka and West Sweden. More information.
Venue: Srishti school of art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India