The symposium convenes not to unveil certainties, but to examine the contours of erased histories and forgotten doctrines. Within the folds of these palimpsests lies the sediment of lost narratives, layered and obscured, waiting to be excavated. Such is the paradox of historiography: each page of history, once inscribed, becomes a tenet — immutable and paradoxically fleeting.
"Within the vaults of forgotten time, a symphony of whispers echoes the unsung past." - an anonymous historian
A prominent example is the Cultural Palimpsest of the East, where empires have risen and fallen, each leaving an indelible, yet often obscured, mark. The tenets of these civilizations were revered as eternal truths, bound in monuments and manuscripts, only to be overwritten in ink and blood — a cyclical narrative of erasure and revelation.
Erasure serves not only as destruction but as a prelude to renewal. Each historical eraser discourses upon the existential tenet that identity, so fiercely bound to the present, is but a flickering shadow of memory and potential memory.