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International Rock Art Exhibition
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A meeting of the officials of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and Union Christian College was held in the College on 11 September 2014. Dr. A. Benny Cherian (Principal), Dr. Raju.K.John (Manager), Dr B.L Malla ( Project Director Rock Art Department, IGNCA), Dr.Jenee Peter (Assistant Professor, Department of History, U.C College) and Dr. Ranbeer Singh, (Project Associate Rock Art Department, IGNCA) attended the meeting. The exhibition committee was constituted with officials from IGNCA, CHS and U.C College. Dr. Jenee Peter will be representing IGNCA for the exhibition in Kerala.
The College is a partner with IGNCA and CHS in the month long exhibition on rock art to be curated by IGNCA in Hill Palace museum premises in November- December 2014. This mobile exhibition was designed by IGNCA’s rock art department and has travelled to China, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh; Sankaradeva Kalakshetra in Guwahati, Assam; Odisha State Museum in Bhubaneswar in Orissa, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru. An expert lecture on rock art of Kerala will be delivered by Prof. M.G.S Narayanan, Director General, Centre for Heritage Studies (CHS), Tripunithura in the second week of November in the College. Two workshops for children and college students as well as two expert lectures will be held as part of the exhibition. Apart from this a few site lectures are also planned.
National Documentation on Rock art of Kerala
Union Christian College and IGNCA will enter into an MOU for the documentation of rock art in Kerala.
This was decided in the meeting of the officials of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi and Union Christian College which was held in the College on 11 September 2014. Dr. A. Benny Cherian (Principal) Dr. Raju.K.John (Manager) interacted with Dr Malla and Dr Ranbeer Singh from IGNCA’s Rock Art Department. The research project will be coordinated by Dr. Jenee Peter from the department of History. The project will start by constituting an inter-disciplinary team. There will be a one day orientation workshop in the College for the team members and a general orientation for the interested students. The duration of the project will be one-two years.
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