THF TALK SERIES

The THF Talk Series is envisioned as the public facing programming for the Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners, organised by FICA. The topics explored are collated through the recurring topics of interest from within the cohort of Creative Practitioners, which are then expanded and opened up through a myriad of perspectives, conversation and formats.

THF TALK SERIES #2 : Dialogues

With the second edition of the Fellowship we announced THF Dialogues, a set of sessions building on the first edition of the THF Talk series, featuring three conversations with eminent speakers that draw from themes pertinent to the current cohort’s interests.

The dialogues will centre around critical questions of identity, mental health, and infrastructure. We will think through identity via meditations on memory, continuity, transmission, museological impulses, the gaps in and around archives, and thinking about the role creative practitioners play in mediating absences. The conversation on mental health looks into the intersections of ecoanxiety, systemic structures, cultural models of healing, and the psyche.

With infrastructure, we are keen to look closely at the ground realities of accelerated development, exploring grassroot efforts in the Himalayan region. Alongside this, we will also be drawing on questions of indigeneity, while also tracing international tangents situating these enquiries within larger global contexts.

Dialogues 1
Beyond Display: Reframing Identity, Memory, and History
with Arkotong Longkumer and Bazik Thlana
moderated by Donskobar Junisha Khongwir

THF TALKS

For the first edition of the Fellowship, we hosted a series of six online lectures, exploring indigenous knowledge systems, forms of writing and language, modernity and colonial thought in the region, as well as locally rooted insights into filmmaking. Our speakers included GN Devy, Stephen Alter, Elika Assumi and Anna Moulton, Joy Pachuau, Maisam Ali and Stanzin Dorjai Gya.