We invite scholarly contributions for a session dedicated to exploring the intersection and dynamic interplay between Heritage and Memory-scape.

The word ‘Heritage’ contains diverse socio–political and cultural milieus across the period and is always intertwined with our daily lives, manifesting both in tangible and intangible manners. Although heritage scholarship is extensive, it yields a wider analytical horizon when it connects with memory, including storytelling at the societal, individual, place-based and household levels. Too often omitted in decolonial scholarship, this perspective foregrounds how communities, rather than relying solely on the “deep past” as reconstructed from material and scientific evidence, have sustained and transmitted historical understanding through oral traditions, performance, ritual, and place-based memory. Such narrative practices yield textured accounts of ancestral beings, landscapes, and relationships that frequently challenge dominant archaeological readings.  Therefore, this session aims to create an Indo-Pacific Asiatic platform by welcoming research papers and fostering dialogue among peers, addressing diversity in memories and material culture across timelines and disciplines. The topics for this session include:  

·   Heritage and Memory through monuments and ‘non-monuments’.

·   Culinary Heritage

·       Storytelling and Memories at the community and household level

·   Migration, Displacements and Inheritance

·   Lullabies, Folksongs, Memory-scape and Heritage

·   Heritage and Memorials

·   Relevance of Heritage in the Era of Global Integrations