Thinking Through Heirlooms: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

"Thinking Through Heirlooms" is an interdisciplinary symposium exploring how inherited objects carry cultural memory, material history, and emotional significance across generations. The event features keynote speaker Prof. Soumhya Venkatesan from the University of Manchester and invites scholarly contributions from anthropology, history, art history, and material culture studies. It examines the unpredictable fate of heirlooms—whether preserved, discarded, or repurposed—as a lens for understanding heritage and intergenerational transmission.

Categories heirlooms objects histories narratives