Sunday, December 9, 2018

Kerala History Congress 2018

Fourth Annual Session

Executive committee of Kerala History Congress has decided to conduct its fourth Annual Congress from 20.12.2018 to 22.12.2018 under the aegis of Department of History, University of Kerala. We seek your whole-hearted support and active participation in the forthcoming event.

The annual session of the congress seeks to provide a common platform for teachers, research scholars and lovers of history to come together and share their research findings in different technical sessions as well as open forum. The programme of the congress session consists of invited talks, contributed papers, open forum, plenary sessions and exhibitions.

We are most gratified that the University of Kerala, Karyavattom Campus, which is one of the premier and pioneering academic institutions of Kerala has offered to host our fourth annual session. We hope that you and all other colleagues who will become members of the Kerala History Congress would be able to attend the session and contribute to its success. It gives us profound pleasure in extending you a most cordial invitation to participate in the proceedings of the Thiruvananthapuram session.

Objectives of the Congress

Promotion and encouragement of the scientific study of Kerala History;

Holding Congresses and publishing the Proceedings, Bulletins, Memoirs, Journals and other works;

Encouragement to Local history, Oral history, Family history etc;

The management and disposal of funds, property and endowments for the purposes stated above;

Performance of all other acts conducive to the fulfillment of the objectives o f the Congress;

Co-operation with other organizations in India and abroad holding similar objectives

The Sessions

Kerala History Congress is a professionalorganization of teachers and research students seeking the promotion of rational and secular history of Kerala. The annual sessions of the Kerala History Congress intent to provide platforms for discuss- ing and debating new researches and perspectives coming up in historical knowledge on Kerala. It envisages the sessions in such a way as to bring the budding scholars and erudite scholars on a common platform to offer immense possibilities of interaction and exchange of ideas between them.

Membership

Eligibility for membership of the Congress shall be limited to postgraduate History teachers of Universities, Colleges, Schools (either in service or retired) and research scholars of History who uphold the objectives of the Congress. However scholars who do not possess post graduation in history but have contributed to the historiography of Kerala can be given membership subject to the approval of the executive committee.

Types of Membership

Annual Membership - They shall pay an Admission Fee of Rs.200/- at the time of enrolment as a member, and an annual fee of Rs.250/-
Life Membership - Members paying Rs.2000/- shall become life members of the Congress.

For the queries regarding the membership, contact the State coordinators, KHC Membership campaign: Dr. Muhammedali. T, Farook College (+91 9447275947), K.A.Manjusha, MG University (+91 9447887321), K.Swapnakumar, Govt. College, Nedumangad (+91 9497060147).

Delegate Fee

Delegate fee of Rs 1500/- (Outstation Students and local participants have to pay Rs 750/- and the local students only Rs 300/-) and Annual Membership cum Admission fee Rs.450/Life Member Fee Rs. 2000 may be remitted as Demand Draft or Multicity Cheque (AC Payee) favouring Kerala History Congress payable at Thiruvananthapuram. It should be send to
Kerala History Congress,
University College,
Thiruvananthapuram,
Pin: 695034.

Papers

As is done in previous years the papers conceived and presented well will be published in the Proceedings volume in the form of a book from the prestigious House of DC Books. To add more to that, selected papers are likely to be included in an edited volume that will be published by a premier international publishing firm.

You are requested to limit your typed paper to 12 pages with adequate referencing as end notes, in MS Word (Times New Roman, 12 pt, double spaced) and send the same to keralahistorycongress2018@gmail.com on or before 15th of December 2018.
For details:
Dr. Sebastian Joseph,
Academic Coordinator,
Kerala History Congress,
Mob: 919447355190

Programme

Erudite Lectures	Sri. SitaramYachuri, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Shahid Amin, Prof. Sugatha Bose, Prof. Sucheta Mahajan
Sessional Presidents	Prof. Gopinath Ravindran, Prof. Nandakumar, Prof. Udayakumar.
Symposiums
	1. Rethinking Kerala Historiography: Themes, Issues and Problem.
	2. Governmentalities and the Indian Environment: Contestations in Historiography, Ideology and Practice.
	3. Emancipation and Enslavement: Reimagining Social Reforms.
Commemoration Lectures	Vakkom Abdul Khadar and Annie Mascarene.

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JOBS 4 HISTORY STUDENTS

Career options for students who have finished their graduation in history are quite high.Students can appear for the UPSC or the state wide PSC tests.Almost 40 % of I.A.S examination questions are taken from history.Those who like the teaching profession can get the B.Ed (after BA) or M.Ed (after MA) degree and apply for teacher or Assistant Professor positions. Many other job options are available for B A history Student. A few include:Archivists,Information Managers, Librarians, Public Relations officer,Records Managers, Teaching,Law, Research, Diplomacy,Public service,Journalism, Ministry,Insurance, Politics,Publishing,Archaeologist,Archivist,Historical researcher, Museum work,Secondary school teacher,Tour guide,University lecturer etc.

"Gandhi as the ascetic defender of property,the mascot of the bourgoisie and in actual achievement -statistics as the Jonah of Revolution"..By R P Dutt.... “I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles”.by Jacques Derrida."History is the witness of the times, the torch of the truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity."- By Cicero, Roman Oratore "All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon" By Voltaire.“D D Kosambi and R S Sharma,together with Daniel Thorner,brought peasants into the study of indian history for the first time”.Comment of Irfan Habib."I only accept awards from academic institutions or those associated with my professional work,and not state awards".[Romila Thapar on her refusal to accept padma bhshan in 1992.......]"If HUME and other English liberals hoped to use Congress as a SAFETY VALVE ,the Congress leaders hoped to use HUME as a lightening conductor".[Words of BIPIN CHANDRA...]

HISTORICAL FACTS.

1-Facts are importand for the constuction of history.2-Anything which gives us some idea about the past or present or future can be termed as fact.3-it is also called sources.4-sources are two kinds PRIMARY AND SECONDARY.5-Primary or Direct sources are anything which gives us information directly.6-Secondary sources or Indirect sources provides information indirectly.7-TERTIARY sources are used to describe a work which is a compilation of primary and secondary sources.It focused on the identification of scholarly work than on content. For example :bibliography,library catalog,directories etc.8-That is why RANKE said”NO SOURCES,NO HISTORY”.9-To Ranke “all kinds of sources should be subjected to criticism.10-HEURISTICS means searching of facts or sources.11-HERMENEUTICS aims to find out the authenticity or veracity of the sources.12-DEDUCTIVE METHOD is a type of reasoning from general to particular.13-INDUCTIVE METHOD is a reasoning from particular to general.

HISTORIAN OF THIS MONTH

K.P.PADMANABHA MENON Born in October 1857. Father: Diwan Peshkar Sankunny Menon. Mother: Parvathy Amma. K.P. Padmanabha Menon was the son of Diwan Peshkar Sankunni Menon who for the first time attempted to write the history of Travancore. Through his work Kerala Charithram (History of Kerala), Padmanabha Menon surpassed the talents of his father. Padmanabha Menon was an eminent Advocate, Judge and Historian. He also wrote Kochi Rajya Charithram (History of Cochin). He was also the Advocate General of Madras Government and member of Marumakkathayam Committee. He died on 1 May 1919.

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