[Reader-list] [Announcements] Sarai Film and History workshop

[sadan]

Dear all, 
Sarai is organising a three day workshop to explore the field of 'film and 
history. We have a limited number of seats available for those who wish to 
attend the workshop. Kindly get registered by sending a mail and a brief on 
why you are interested to attend the workshop latest by monday,08 December 
2003. send your request to sadan at sarai.net or ranita at sarai.net
Thanking You,
Sadan Jha.

The programme schedule of the workshop is given below:


Film and history workshop @ Sarai, 
11-13 December 2003
 
 Thursday, 11 December

03.30 P.M. Introduction to the workshop (Ravi Vasudevan) followed by 

Lecture: "The Woman who Refused to Die", Leni Reifenstahl and Historical Myth  
by Sabina Gadihoke

04.15  P.M. Tea

04.30 P.M.: Film: The wonderful, horrible Life of Leni Reifenstahl


Friday, 12 December

10.00 A.M.-11.00A.M: Lecture: Film and history by Ravi Vasudevan

11.00 A.M.   Tea
Friday, 12 December

Film as historical source
11.20 A.M. Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Umrao Jaan
12.00 A.M. Saswata Bhattacharya, Colonizing the clinical space: Arogyaniketan 
reconsidered
12.40 A.M. Nandini Chandra, History, time and innocence in the child-centric 
films of Bollywood (1950-1980)

01.20 P.M.-200 P.M. Lunch Break

Film, postmodernism and history
02.00 P.M. Anurag Tyagi, Heritage cinema and The Hours
02.40 P.M. Debasmita Mazumdar, `Any resemblance to a person dead or alive is 
not coincidental’ (On Shakespeare in Love)
03.20 P.M. Anand Taneja, `The past flashes up at a moment of danger’: Walter 
Benjamin and Wolverine
04.00 P. M.  Tea


04.30 P.M.Film Screening: Dharamputra ( Dir.Yash Chopra, 1961) OR Chhalia 
(Dir.Manmohan Desai, 1960).

Saturday, 13 December 

10.00 A.M.-11.00 A.M. Lecture: Partition in history, literature and film by 
Ravikant

11.00 A.M.  Tea

Traumatic histories: Partition and its afterlife in the cinema
11.20 A.M. Sadan Jha, Representations of mass violence: the transformation of 
character and landscape in Partition films
12.00 P.M.  Nadim Asrar, Pakistan, Partition and Politics in Indian Cinema
12.40 P.M.  Ambarien Alqadar, Reinventing the nation and denial of history: 
Muslims as agents of violence in Hindi Popular Cinema, 1992-2002

01.20 P.M.-02. 00 P.M.  Lunch break

Film and the histories of nationalism
02.00 P.M. Manoj Sharma, National movement and themes and trends of Hindi 
cinema of 1930s and 1940s
02.40 P.M. Irfan Ahmed, Bhagat Singh in film
03.20 P.M. Smita Banerjee, Mapping the nation via the `New Indian Woman’: 
Popular Hindi Cinema of the 90s and David Dhawan’s Biwi No. 1

04.00P.M.   Tea


04.30  P.M. Lecture: Images of terrorism and the simulated documentary by 
Shuddhabrata Sengupta 

05.30 P.M.  Film screening: The Crying Game (Dir. Neil Jordan, 1992) OR 
Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima).

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