Hello everybody!
There has been a recent unfortunate development-Antiquity’14 has been cancelled due to the college’s Annual Academic Congress, scheduled for the 5th, 6th and 7th of March.
Its sad, especially because we had all worked so hard towards it. But don’t lose hope guys, we are trying our best to make the individual events happen-just not under the aegis of Antiquity. So for all those who had sent their entries- we are going to make the individual events that you had applied for happen- we will intimate you with the details at the earliest. Hope to see you soon!
Antiquity 2014’s events are as follows: (Entries closed on the 4th of January, 2013)
1. Paper Presentations – On the theme ‘Popular Culture through Ages’
Time limit: 15mins (13mins+2mins question answer session)
Please email us on history.lsr@gmail.com for the Concept Note for the same.
2. Online event- Essay Competition
Pick a famous historical personality, pull them away from their comfortable surroundings and push them into either a completely different place or a completely different time/era.
For instance, what would have happened if instead of France, Marie Antoinette lived in Brazil? Well, one thing’s for sure-there would have been no cakes to cause problems for her!
What if Mahatma Gandhi had been born in South Africa? Would Mandela and he be friends or foes?
Come up with your own wacky ideas and help us create a completely new brand of history! Conjure up a creative piece-a poem, story, essay, diary entry, anything-in not more than 3000 words and mail them to history.lsr@gmail.com, furnishing the email with necessary details, no later than the 4th of January, 2014, midnight
3. Online event- Photography Competition
Photography since its inception has been an important element in recording and documentation of events, so much so that, it has become a source for historical reconstruction of the 20th and 21st Century. This year at Antiquity we propose to use the Art of Photography for refining our understanding of Popular Cultures through ages.
Themes:
1. “Popular cultures in Streets and Urban Spaces.”
Just a walk through any Indian street would bring forward a tapestry of customs and practices that reflect the numerous popular cultures woven into fabric of our society. Streets and Urban spaces form a micro-cosmos of their own and have provided a distinct space for expression of Public and the Individual. Beliefs and trends are reflected in Street Art and Clothing to predominant Eating practices. And what better way to record the hullabaloo of city spaces than Photography!
2. Traditions and Popular Culture
Traditions and customs have a two way relation with popular cultures; they borrow from each other and are often assimilated into one another. Sometimes traditions also become grounds for contention between High and Popular culture of a given time. For example Marriages in contemporary times follow traditions and conventions but at the same time are influenced by the trends of the present. This follows for Traditional forms of Visual and Performing Arts as well.
The Themes although described are open to interpretation and creative insights and perspectives is what we seek through this competition.
Rules-
-Entries should not carry watermarks.
-Photographs must be the original work of the participant and plagiarism shall lead to immediate disqualification.
– Participants are requested to caption their photographs and also send in a 100 word description.
-Photographs may be monochromatic or in colour.
-Only basic editing (like cropping, brightness and contrast) is allowed. Heavy editing and manipulation of the image may lead to disqualification.
-Participants may send in a maximum of 1 entry against each theme to history.lsr@gmail.com with the following details: Name, College name, Email id and Phone number.
-Entries should carry the following subject title NAME_COLLEGENAME(Theme), so if you are sending in entries for both themes please send two different mails.
Please register for the events through this form. Please note that for paper presentation, you will only be considered registered once we receive your abstract.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AiDZtGVUGfLQ04UkhpY0hkxdjZTzqaoPq6-C2jkdu0I/viewform
Looking forward to your participation!
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