There is this seminar about Region in our university: Theorizing Region.
I should have worked out a paper for that, but could not because I was too busy with my pregnancy. [and yesterday in a symbolic act Nisa chew up the invitation to the seminar as well, poor thing! she is too young to understand symbolism.]

But jokes apart, If I were there……how could I have theorized region?

It is something similar to what I had posted in South India, asking what it means to be a South Indian.
For Geography, region could be a spatial entity; for History it would a recollection of some evolution; for Cultural Studies, it could be what is represented through some medium, etc. etc.

If I were to present a paper there, what would’ve been my working definition of region?
A spatial entity that exists not only in terms of space but also in the imaginations of many who are related to it. Spatial entity would be the topography, land and the boundaries that determine the region as in Kerala is the south western part of a subcontintent called India, which again is part of Asia etc. But the imagination of that region for each person could be different. [Sounds Andersonian?] The non-resident nostalgic dream of a mamalakalkku appurathu marataka pacha….., for example.
But what would you do when each person imagines it to be a totally different thing?