Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join ROAAr for the launch of the Missing Voices: a website that explores how South Asian women create their own archives today, and how they use and experience colonial archives made by European women in India over 200 years ago. We’ll hear from New York Times journalist Alisha Sawhney as she recounts her experience making the podcast Lost Voices: An Untold Story of the South Asian Diaspora, which invites young women in Canada to share their perspectives of history, identity and memory. We’ll speak with Minakshi Menon, a scholar whose work explores colonial sciences in South Asia, about her experience working with the Gwillim Archives. We’ll also hear from Deborah Thiagarajan and Rekha Vijayashankar, of the DakshinaChitra Museum in Chennai, who undertook a re-photography project to link places and scenes in Chennai today to images in the Gwillim Archives, creating a contemporary archive of new images.
Table of Contents:
02:05 - Lauren Williams, McGill Library
07:30 - Victoria Dickenson, McGill Library
14:56 - Alisha Sawhney
25:38 - Minakshi Menon, Max Planck Institute
39:05 - Rehka Vijayashankar, DakshinaChitra Museum
42:09 - Deborah Thiagarajan, DakshinaChitra Museum
52:11 - Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Library
Join ROAAr for the launch of the Missing Voices: a website that explores how South Asian women create their own archives today, and how they use and experience colonial archives made by European women in India over 200 years ago. We’ll hear from New York Times journalist Alisha Sawhney as she recounts her experience making the podcast Lost Voices: An Untold Story of the South Asian Diaspora, which invites young women in Canada to share their perspectives of history, identity and memory. We’ll speak with Minakshi Menon, a scholar whose work explores colonial sciences in South Asia, about her experience working with the Gwillim Archives. We’ll also hear from Deborah Thiagarajan and Rekha Vijayashankar, of the DakshinaChitra Museum in Chennai, who undertook a re-photography project to link places and scenes in Chennai today to images in the Gwillim Archives, creating a contemporary archive of new images.
Table of Contents:
02:05 - Lauren Williams, McGill Library
07:30 - Victoria Dickenson, McGill Library
14:56 - Alisha Sawhney
25:38 - Minakshi Menon, Max Planck Institute
39:05 - Rehka Vijayashankar, DakshinaChitra Museum
42:09 - Deborah Thiagarajan, DakshinaChitra Museum
52:11 - Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Library
