INMS (Indian Network for Memory Studies) was launched by IIT Madras and has been formed under the aegis of the international Memory Studies Association (MSA) in Amsterdam.

INMS of IIT Madras will coordinate complex engagements with memory from different institutes including cultural studies centres as well as neuroscience laboratories and industry research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related fields.

Dr. Avishek Parui and Dr. Merin Simi Raj are the founders of INMS of IIT Madras.

INMS of IIT Madras

They are Assistant Professors (English), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, who will also be its Chairpersons.

Dr. Parui is also a nominated member of the Advisory Board of the International Memory Studies Association.

INMS of IIT Madras has emerged from the Centre for Memory Studies located at IIT Madras, which has been funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

The other funding to the current projects in this research cluster comes from XR Lab, TCS Chennai, and Anglo-Ink, Chennai.

Speaking at the event to inaugurate INMS of IIT Madras, Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi said ‘I wish this effort a speedy success.’

Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi is the director of IIT Madras.

INMS of IIT Madras has already built a commendable critical mass which reflects its relevance and reach success in this case will be to get the activities going, establish lot of collaborations, conferences, workshops and form a community of people working in this field, said Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi.

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Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi further said the fact that there are so many participants from India too has shown that this network has not come a day too soon.

There is enough work going on in India to warrant the creation of such a Network.

There is a good base for creating this network in India and it can plug into the huge global network, said IIT Madras director.

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The vision for INMS of IIT Madras include:

Ø Offering an India-centric model of memory studies departing from the established Eurocentric models in theory and practice.

Ø Producing and promoting an innovative interdisciplinary engagement with the complex cognitive, cultural, and machinic modes of memory.

Ø Examining the processes of encoding and effacement that simultaneously inform acts of remembrance and re-construction in private as well as shared orders, and how such processes may be recorded as well as represented by a range of fields such as fiction, history, media, urban geography, and technology.

Ø Producing exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and special journal issues on a range of themes in Memory Studies, in collaboration with partners from academia and industry.

Ø Re-creating Indian and South-Asian pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial events and identities using the model of memory as reconstruction, foregrounding the textuality and the technology informing processes of remembering.

Speaking on ‘The Pleasures of Memory Studies,’ Professor Astrid Erll, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Director, Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, identified the pleasures of memory studies in its ‘internationality,’ ‘interdisciplinarity’ and ‘ongoingness.’

He spoke on how INMS of IIT Madras synthesises the tools of literary studies with newer forms of technology.

Professor Erll said his definition of memory studies would be an interplay of present, past and future in socio-cultural contexts.

Memory is a biological, social, material and cultural phenomenon and increasingly a technological phenomenon, said Professor Erll.

What has happened in the last two decades is that Memory has become more and more instutionalized, said Professor Erll.

In 2016, a group of memory scholars realized that they needed to have a global platform, he said.

‘Hence, for the past five years, we have an International Memory Studies Association to facilitate this global collaboration. MSA India is the latest entrant to this association.’

The moment turned special when Dr. Avishek Parui and Dr. Merin Simi Raj formally inagurated the official website of INMS of IIT Madras, membership form and the newsletter.

Chairperson of INMS of IIT Madras Dr. Merin Simi Raj said they are moving away from the big-event model of memory studies and instead are examining the dailyness of remembering and forgetting through the innovative incorporations of the literary as well as the technological lenses.

‘At the INMS of IIT Madras we are particularly interested on researching the Indian landscape of memory studies, and in so doing integrate the immediate, the local, and the international through an interdisciplinary theoretical lens’ he said.

INMS of IIT Madras through the research conducted at the Centre for Memory Studies would facilitate departures from Eurocentric approaches in terms of theoretical framework and worldviews.

It will also open up research and internship opportunities for Indian students as well as international scholars through an annual membership programme in collaboration with the International Memory Studies Association.

The schedule to submit applications for JEE Advanced 2025 has been announced along with that of AAT 2025 registration,

Application process for AAT starts after result declaration of JEE Advanced. This year too, the trend is no different.

Who will conduct AAT 2025?

AAT 2025 will be conducted by IIT Kanpur and is expected to see a participation in impressive numbers. The same institution is conducting JEE Advanced 2025.

Details about the exam are available on the official website mentioned above. Students who pass AAT 2025 will be able to study BArch in IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur and IIT (BHU) Varnasi.

Who can take up AAT 2025 registration?

Students who have passed JEE Advanced 2025 with required qualifying marks can take up AAT 2025 registration. Applying for JEE Advanced requires a pass in JEE Mains.

Candidates who have passed plus two with maths, physics and chemistry as subjects will be able to take up JEE Mains registration. The process to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration is online.

1. The URL has to be typed into the browser and the webpage has to be allowed to download.

2. Once the website is available, students should click the link for JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and enter JEE Advanced 2025 registration number, their date of birth, mobile number and email address.

3. Post providing the above details, applicants will be asked if they are interested in AAT. Students have to answer ‘Yes’ to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

4. Candidates have to provide the required information and choose the centers where they wish to write the exam and submit the form.

5. They will receive message indicating successful completion of JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

The message has to be downloaded and a printout of it has to be taken and preserved for use in future. This could be of use during the admission process.

Website for JEE Advanced 2025/AAT 2025 Registration is Here

Exam pattern

Candidates who have completed JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration must also know the exam pattern if they are to score good marks.

Those who have taken up AAT 2025 registration can take up the exam which will be held in offline mode, as a pen and paper mode test.

Candidates will have three hours time to answer all the questions. The medium of the test is English.

The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

Syllabus for AAT 2025

The next thing to do after completing AAT 2025 registration is focus on preparing for the test.

The subjects to be studied while preparing for AAT 2025 are mentioned below. Candidates can also refer the official website for more information on syllabus when the registration for the exam begins:

Geometrical Drawing

Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, etc. Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.

Freehand Drawing

This would comprise of simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its component parts in appropriate scale.

Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.

Three dimension perception

Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation. Visualization through structuring objects in memory.

Architectural Awareness

General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations – both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

Imagination and Aesthetic Sensitivity

Composition exercise with given elements. Context mapping.

Creativity check through innovative uncommon test with familiar objects. Sense of colour grouping or application.

The medium of the test is English. The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

The admit cards obtained for JEE Advanced 2025 can also be used to gain entry into the test centers for AAT 2024.

Point to remember

Candidates can visit the official website of JEE Advanced exam for more information on JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and other related topics.

The students have to quickly take up the AAT 2025 registration as the time left would be very short.

Like JEE Advanced exam where the registration is open for a longer duration, that of AAT 2025 registration is open for only a short period.

The details about AAT 2025 registration provided above are for general understanding purpose of the students.

There could be some changes in the exam, students can visit the official website of the exam at regular intervals to receive updates.

More information could be provided as the time for AAT 2025 registration would commence, till that time, students can refer other sources also.

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