Shillong, Nov 3:The history department of St. Dominic’s College, Shillong conducted an ‘International Guest Lecture’ by Prof. Andrew J. May, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia on Friday.
He spoke in detail about ‘Encounter in the Archive: Exploring culture, identity and colonialism in North East India’. The event was attended by students and faculty from St. Dominic’s College and colleges from in and around Shillong. Professor May is a social historian with expertise across Australian urban history, colonialism in northeast India, and digital techniques in the humanities, with broader critical and applied interests in cultural heritage and public history. As an urban historian he has published widely on the social experience of the Australian city, its public spaces and communal rituals, its suburban qualities, and its cosmopolitan cultures.
