Our Photograph becomes the theme of the Conference at University of Cambridge

This is the promotion material of the International Conference on "Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities: World Oral Literature Project 2010 Workshop" held on 10th and 11th December, 2010 at University of Cambridge. The photograph used for the poster is taken by one of our intern, Mr. Dileep Kumar. In the photograph are (From Left) Mr. Kiran Tom Sajan (Intern), Ramu (Field worker belonging to the tribal community, Mudugar) and Ranki (an elderly woman in a hamlet of Mudugar).

Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities: World Oral Literature Project 2010 Workshop

Friday, 10 December and Saturday, 11 December 2010
Location: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, University of Cambridge

This workshop explores key issues around the dissemination of oral literature through traditional and digital media. Funding agencies, including our own Supplemental Grants Programme, now encourage fieldworkers to return copies of their work to source communities, in addition to requiring researchers to deposit their collections in institutional repositories. But thanks to ever greater digital connectivity, wider internet access and affordable multimedia recording technologies, the locus of dissemination and engagement has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a diverse constituency of global users, such as migrant workers, indigenous scholars, policymakers and journalists, to name but a few.

For more details check: http://www.oralliterature.org/research/workshops.html

Creative expressions of Nisha.

This is a 4-minute video of Nisha, a 6-year old tribal (Mudugar) girl taking pictures of what she likes outside her house. Her likes and creativity is pronounced in the video. Watch it you will be surprised to see the excitement of the little girl. The video is made in Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre, Attappady, a Centre established for documenting the vanishing cultures of indigenous communities, with the World Oral Literature Project Fund of University of Cambridge, London. The video is conceived by Sachindev. P.S., cinematographed by Justin Raj and Sachindev P.S., edited and voiceovered by Rayson K. Alex.