What happens when a community is determined to control its own history and you, the researcher, are a crucial agent they want to deploy as witness?
In this presentation, Dr. Ravina Aggarwal, will draw from her extensive fieldwork in the Himalayan borderlands of Ladakh to provide insights on ethnography as a method of historical knowledge production. She will outline the strategies, tools, and ethical challenges of doing research in a place where historical truth is deeply contested and the very identity of a social group is at stake.
The lecture will be followed by a participatory exercise.
This program will inaugurate the 'Historical Methods Seminar Series' co-hosted by the Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai and the South Asia Institute at Columbia University in partnership with the Mumbai History Teachers Academy.
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