Thursday, April 01, 2004
Language, Culture and Urban Publics Workshop
April 2-3, 2004
Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54.
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Programme
DAY ONE [Friday, 02.04.2004]
9:30 am 11:15 am
Welcome and Introduction to Workshop
Panel1: VISUAL CULTURES AS URBAN PERFORMANCE
Billboards, Common Sense and Language Games in Chennai, by Uma
Maheshwari
Kalpagam, G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad
Likho Script Apna Apna: Aesthetics of Language and Body of the City, by
Sadan
Jha, Sarai, Delhi
Mall Wonder, by Harini Narayan, Independent Researcher, Delhi
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11:45 am to 1:30 pm
Panel 2: TALKING CRIME, SUBJECTIVITY, DISABILITY
Narratives of Passion Crimes, by Vasudha Nagraj, Anveshi, Hyderabad
Language of Legal Subject, by Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh, Majlis, Mumbai
Representing Disability, by Anuroopa, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
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2:30 pm to 4:15 pm
Panel 3: KASHMIR: THE HISTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY
On the History and Politics of Kashmiri Language, by Sanaullah Mir,
Aligarh
Muslim University, Aligarh
A Language of One's Own? The Poetics and Politics of the Kashmiri
Language, by
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, University of Leeds, UK
Militarising the Narrative in Kashmir, by Basharat Peer, Journalist,
Kashmir
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4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
Film
American Splendor (2003),
Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Screening curated by Sarnath Banerjee
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DAY TWO [Saturday, 03.04.2004]
9:30 am to 11:15 am
Panel 1: PRINT CULTURES IN HISTORY
Urban Print Cultures and Children's Periodicals in early 20th Century
North
India, by Nandini Chandra, Delhi University
From Palm Leaves to Printed Page: Standardisation of Oriya in late 19th
and
early 20th century, by Pragati Mohapatra, Delhi University
Language in City, Court and Country: Co-optations of Women's Speech in
early Urdu Poetry, by Carla Petievich, Mont Clair University, New
Jersey, USA
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11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Panel 2: FILMSPEAK
Unheroic Hero: The Tramp and the City in the Movies of Charles Chaplin,
by
Simran Chadha, Delhi University
The Stranger Called Me: Sa'adat Hasan Manto's short story & Farida
Mehta's
film Kali Salwar, by Shireen Mirza, CSCS, Bangalore
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2:15 pm to 4:15 pm
Panel 3: URBAN ORAL CULTURES AND ADAPTATIONS
Private Diseases: the Depleting Stock of the Unspeakable in Delhi, by
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sarai, Delhi
The Collective Narrative, by Conrado Tostado, Poet, Mexico
Presention of Graphic Novel, Corridor, by Sarnath Banerjee, Artist,
Delhi
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4:45 pm to 6:15 pm
Panel 4: NEW TECHNOLOGIES: CONTROL, CONFLICT AND INNOVATION
ATM : From Automatic Teller Machines to Automatic Telling Machines,
by Kristoffer Gansing, K3 School of Art and Media, Sweden and Linda
Hilfling,
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Copenhagen, Denmark
Styles of Engagement, Sites of Control: Call Centres as Performance
Space in
Delhi, by Taha Mehmood and Iram Ghufran, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
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6:30 pm
A Terrible Beauty Is Born
Solo Performance by Arjun Raina
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April 2-3, 2004
Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Programme
DAY ONE [Friday, 02.04.2004]
9:30 am 11:15 am
Welcome and Introduction to Workshop
Panel1: VISUAL CULTURES AS URBAN PERFORMANCE
Billboards, Common Sense and Language Games in Chennai, by Uma
Maheshwari
Kalpagam, G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad
Likho Script Apna Apna: Aesthetics of Language and Body of the City, by
Sadan
Jha, Sarai, Delhi
Mall Wonder, by Harini Narayan, Independent Researcher, Delhi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11:45 am to 1:30 pm
Panel 2: TALKING CRIME, SUBJECTIVITY, DISABILITY
Narratives of Passion Crimes, by Vasudha Nagraj, Anveshi, Hyderabad
Language of Legal Subject, by Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh, Majlis, Mumbai
Representing Disability, by Anuroopa, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2:30 pm to 4:15 pm
Panel 3: KASHMIR: THE HISTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY
On the History and Politics of Kashmiri Language, by Sanaullah Mir,
Aligarh
Muslim University, Aligarh
A Language of One's Own? The Poetics and Politics of the Kashmiri
Language, by
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, University of Leeds, UK
Militarising the Narrative in Kashmir, by Basharat Peer, Journalist,
Kashmir
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4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
Film
American Splendor (2003),
Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Screening curated by Sarnath Banerjee
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DAY TWO [Saturday, 03.04.2004]
9:30 am to 11:15 am
Panel 1: PRINT CULTURES IN HISTORY
Urban Print Cultures and Children's Periodicals in early 20th Century
North
India, by Nandini Chandra, Delhi University
From Palm Leaves to Printed Page: Standardisation of Oriya in late 19th
and
early 20th century, by Pragati Mohapatra, Delhi University
Language in City, Court and Country: Co-optations of Women's Speech in
early Urdu Poetry, by Carla Petievich, Mont Clair University, New
Jersey, USA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Panel 2: FILMSPEAK
Unheroic Hero: The Tramp and the City in the Movies of Charles Chaplin,
by
Simran Chadha, Delhi University
The Stranger Called Me: Sa'adat Hasan Manto's short story & Farida
Mehta's
film Kali Salwar, by Shireen Mirza, CSCS, Bangalore
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm
Panel 3: URBAN ORAL CULTURES AND ADAPTATIONS
Private Diseases: the Depleting Stock of the Unspeakable in Delhi, by
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sarai, Delhi
The Collective Narrative, by Conrado Tostado, Poet, Mexico
Presention of Graphic Novel, Corridor, by Sarnath Banerjee, Artist,
Delhi
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4:45 pm to 6:15 pm
Panel 4: NEW TECHNOLOGIES: CONTROL, CONFLICT AND INNOVATION
ATM : From Automatic Teller Machines to Automatic Telling Machines,
by Kristoffer Gansing, K3 School of Art and Media, Sweden and Linda
Hilfling,
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Copenhagen, Denmark
Styles of Engagement, Sites of Control: Call Centres as Performance
Space in
Delhi, by Taha Mehmood and Iram Ghufran, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6:30 pm
A Terrible Beauty Is Born
Solo Performance by Arjun Raina
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