The UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, Department of English, will be the Archival Partner for the Endangered Archives Project (EAP) of the Culture at Risk Unit, the Digital Humanities Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. The EAP aims to inventory and digitally document endangered Armenian inscriptions in India, specifically in Madras, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. As an Archival Partner, the Chair will receive for free the digital database of approximately 300 high-resolution photographs of inscriptions and their metadata. The Chair will host the archive on its site as a free resource.

This project is helmed by Professor Hamest Tamrazyan of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This collaboration fits with the Chair’s mandate of studying cultural vulnerability and the UNESCO’s mandate for cultural heritage preservation, and multiple SDGs (11, 8, 4, 12 and 16).

The UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies,  a “teaching and research unit” consists of the Chairholder (Pramod K Nayar), and two Faculty Fellows (Anna Kurian of English and Md. Zahidul Haque of Urdu).

UNESCO Chair: https://ucvulnerabilitystudies.uohyd.ac.in