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Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Centre for Memory Studies recently hosted virtually Asia’s first International Memory Studies Workshop. It precedes the official launch of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS), and brought together participants from all over the world.
A number of participants acknowledged the academic as well as the deeply existential need to engage with the field of Memory Studies in the current pandemic world where memory, connectivity and empathy emerge as vital human attributes. Conducted from 26th to 30 April 2021, the workshop had 108 registered participants.
This international workshop on Memory Studies, the first of its kind in Asia, precedes the official launch of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS), the first national network in the field in Asia under the aegis of the International Memory Studies Association, Amsterdam. The launch of the INMS will take place in mid-June 2021 through a virtual event at IIT Madras
Andreas Treske and Emel Ozdora-Aksak ⢠Assistant Professors, Bilkent University
âThe aim is to host interdisciplinary backgrounds and students from different areas all togetherâ
Emel Ozdora-Aksak (left) and Andreas Treske (right)
Cineuropa talked to assistant professors
Andreas Treske and
Emel Ozdora-Aksak, faculty members of Ankara-based Bilkent University s Department of Communication and Design. The Turkish educational institution is part of both GEECT (European Grouping of Film and Television Schools) and CILECT (International Association of Film and Television Schools).
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Cineuropa: When was the department established?
Andreas Treske (AT): The Department of Communication and Design of Bilkent University was founded in 1998. It was the first department of its kind in Turkey, so we were born under the growing influence of communication and design teaching of the late 1990s.
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When all that stood between me and respectability were 100 beautifully bound pages
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When all that stood between me and respectability were 100 beautifully bound pages
Not many folks know I actually went to college. I don’t blame them. I haven’t given anyone the impression of having been to one.
This piece is about that difficult time in my life, and is actually a belated thank you to that one person who was the sole reason I have a degree certificate, my proudest possession, in my cupboard today (sitting right next to my third-place certificate in the lemon-and-spoon race in Class 3, the cease-and-desist order from one of my editors, and my grandfather’s Padma Bhushan.)