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IIT Madras To Host International Conference in Memory Studies
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras Centre for memory studies is conducting an International Conference on Memory in a Digital Age from August 23-25, 2022. The conference is being organized in a hybrid mode, featuring over 160 speakers from the USA, Poland, UK, Australia, Israel, Poland, and India.

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IIT Madras: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras Centre for memory studies is conducting an International Conference on Memory in a Digital Age from August 23-25, 2022. The conference is being organized in a hybrid mode, featuring over 160 speakers from the USA, Poland, UK, Australia, Israel, Poland, and India.



IIT Madras is also connecting with an all-women-led technology company, Vizara Private Limited from Delhi, to produce research on digital humanities and heritage studies. The conference spotlights inclusive talks by Dr. Rebekah Vince- Queen Mary, University London, Dr. Anupama Mallik- CEO, Vizara Technologies, and Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar- Memory and Neurodynamics Lab.



On August 23, the Honorable Minister for Finance and Human Resources Management, Government of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, inaugurated the conference in the presence of Professor V. Kamakoti, Conference Faculty Coordinators Dr. Avishek Puri and Dr. Merin Simi Raj, besides Professor Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.



FIRST AR-BASED MOBILE APP

The conference also witnessed the release of the first-ever AR-BASED mobile app capturing the history and life of the transnational Anglo-Indian community across 500 years- MemoryBytes. The app will offer an animated, augmented, and interactive experience of maps, photographs, and archival documents during the physical-cum-digital exhibition held during the conference at the IC & SR Building of IIT Madras.



Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, who also launched the Conference Book and MemoryBytes mobile app, stated that Tamil Nadu is within the top 3 states where we have instituted a computer in every MLA's desk. Each debate, bill, and budget will be made available so that MLAs can remove it in real-time and contribute to the debate so that they do not have to depend on their internal memory.



The conference will be observed by the creation of Campus Chronotopes- the first VR-based 360-degree stereoscopic video capturing the spirited life and human-nature interfaces in the IIT Madras campus via omnidirectional cameras. The conference will spotlight an AR-BASED physical and digital presentation at the IIT Madras campus featuring the history and journey of Anglo-Indian communities, directly demonstrating the experience of memory in a digital age.



The conference aims to provide a cultural, liberal, scientific, and cultural study of memory and its evolution in a digital age with all its experiential and qualitative intricacies. The conference will indulge in an understanding of the future of memory.



The conference will present the research done at the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras while enabling adaptive, authentic, and dynamic learning experiences via portable XR tools or products accessible to researchers, students, and the general public.



The Centre for Memory Studies aims at embarking on a significant project- Re-membering Mamallapuram which will provide an AR/VR-enabled re-creation and study of the famous trade town in all its historical significance, contributing to the efforts by the Centre to study and re-present Indian history and heritage via the theories of memory and technology.



News Source: India Today


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