INVITATION TO ZOOM PUBLIC MEETING THIS SUNDAY – by Staff Reporter
Museums are like history’s Instagram: photos posted on walls, stories carefully recorded, and artefacts preserved and displayed to evoke memories of the past. The museums in diasporic countries are national treasures, keepers of culture, and windows to the past that connect it to the present. To most visitors, they provide visions of the future and opportunities to see history come alive. Museums serve as foundations for collective memory, cultural continuity and national development. They provide a common experience that families can share across generations, and serve as a link between revered ancestors and living people.
Indian heritage museums are few in countries in the Diaspora which experienced indentured labour from 1834 to 1920. As time progresses, the tangible aspects of the traditional culture of ancestral India are disappearing. Had it not been for the diligence of the dedicated children of girmitiyas [indentureds], our past would have long since been a faded memory. Let us hear the voices of those who conceptualised, established, manage and operate these Indian heritage museums in their respective countries.
Please join us for another ICC+AGI ZOOM Public Meeting THIS SUNDAY, February 13, 2022 at (1.00 p.m. Belize), (2.00 p.m. New York/Eastern time), (3.00 p.m. Trinidad/Atlantic time), (3.00 p.m. Guyana), (4.00 p.m. Suriname), (7.00 p.m. England), (9.00 p.m. South Africa), (Mon 12.10 a.m. India, ND), (Mon 7.00 a.m. Fiji).
TOPIC: Indian Heritage Museums in the Diaspora: Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa and Fiji
SPEAKERS:
- PROF. BRINSLEY SAMAROO (Trinidad) – Professor Emeritus of History, University of the West Indies; former chairman of the proposed Sugar Heritage Village, Archives and Museum
- SELVON NAIDOO (South Africa) – Curator and Board Director of the 1860 Heritage Centre Museum that showcases the diversity of SA’s rich heritage from Indenture to Democracy
- NALINI NAIDU (Australia/Fiji) – Vice-Chair, Global Girmit Institute Museum Project in Fiji; author of Annapurna: Gastronomic Delights from my Fiji Indian Childhood (2019)
Followed by Q+A
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Meeting ID: 862 3551 2252
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is a full-time anthropologist at the University of Guyana (UG) and Fellow of The Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library (2022-23). He is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida (UF). As a doctoral student, he won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Grant, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship.
Mahabir received a National Award (Hummingbird Silver Medal) for his contribution to education in his country in 2011. He was among 50 recipients who received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UWI Alumni Association.
Mahabir is the author of 12 books to date.