Join a live, guided tour of Ways of Seeing, a digital archive built with and about Adivasi (Indigenous) communities in the Kolhan region of Jharkhand, India. Rather than a lecture, this online session opens the archive on screen and walks through it together: photographs, films, and community media; how the collection is organized; and the choices behind who is seen, who speaks, and who decides how images circulate. Arpit Gaind will show how the site was built, what it means to design a digital archive around Indigenous media sovereignty, and how students can use open digital tools in their own research and creative work.

The session runs about 40 minutes, followed by an open Q&A. Students interested in Indigenous studies, South Asia, film and media, anthropology, archives, and digital humanities are especially welcome.

About the Speaker

Arpit Gaind is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and an ethnographic filmmaker with roughly a decade of practice. His dissertation, Palimpsests of the Ocular, examines Adivasi media sovereignty, digital culture, and visual archives. He holds a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities from UCLA.