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SUMMARY:New Visual Methodologies in Teaching Modern South Asian History - 
 Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes\, University of Cambridge\, Faculty of Educati
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CONTACT:Bryony Horsley-Heather
DESCRIPTION:In the context of a steadily growing interest in investigating
  modern history with the help of visual research methods a number of histo
 rians\, anthropologists and artists (Pinney 2004\, Pushpamala N. 2004\, Ta
 n 2005\, Spencer 2011\, Kahlon 2011) have recently employed theories of vi
 sual rhetoric in the study and representation of South Asian identities. M
 oreover\, the use of visual records as primary research sources is not any
 more the prerogative of cultural historians but a pedagogical tool recurre
 ntly used by teachers and students of South Asian history. In this talk I 
 will present several teaching and learning platforms which I have develope
 d since 2011 in collaboration with British and South Asian historians. The
  talk will also include a selection of visual essays produced by thirty hi
 story teachers during a one-week workshop which I co-organised with the Az
 im Premji University\, Bangalore\, in September 2013. This workshop was a 
 pedagogical exercise that highlighted the ways in which Indian history tea
 chers could successfully use colonial amateur footage as a valid primary r
 esearch source able to complement the Indian history curriculum for classe
 s VIII-XII. The talk will conclude with a discussion on the urgency of int
 erdisciplinary research and pedagogical methodologies pertinent to reliabl
 e and long term knowledge-transfer programs within modern South Asian stud
 ies.
LOCATION:Room GS1\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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