[Reader-list] Fwd: FINAL SCHEDULE for SEMINAR ON CENSORSHIP & FREEDOM

[Ranjani Mazumdar]

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>Dear Friends,
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>Please find below the programme schedule of the seminar on censorship 
>being organized by the Delhi chapter of Films For Freedom as part of the 
>month long September festival. The seminar is scheduled from 2-4 September 
>at the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. We look forward to the active 
>participation of FFF members. Needless to say we would be delighted if 
>members from outside Delhi join us in these celebrations.
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>In Solidarity
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>Amar, Rahul, Ranjani, Saba, Sabeena Gadihoke, Sanjay Kak, Shikha Jhingan, 
>Shohini, Vani
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>Resisting Censorship /Breaking Silences:
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>Celebrating Freedom of Expression
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>September 2, 3 & 4, 2004
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>Location: Indian Social Institute (ISI)
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>(Behind Sai Mandir, near Lodi Road)
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>Day I: September 2, 2004 10:00 AM -11:00 AM
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>Inauguration & introduction: Amar Kanwar & Shohini Ghosh
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>Reading from Proscribed Literature by Gauhar Raza and Shefali Bhushan
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>Film Screening: To be announced
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>Lunch: 1:00 PM to: 2:00 PM
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>PANEL I: The Freedom of Press & Moments of Crisis: Business, politics and 
>censorship
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>(2PM- 3PM)
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>Digant Oza, Ahmedabad :
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>Siddhartha Varadarajan, The Hindu, Delhi
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>Rajendra Yadav, Delhi :
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>D. Vinod, Delhi
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>Chair: Amit Sengupta, Tehelka, Delhi
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>3PM-3: 30PM: Discussion
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>Break: 3:30PM-4PM
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>Panel II: Theatre and Free Speech (4PM-4: 40PM)
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>Sudhanva Deshpande, Delhi :
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>Hiren Gandhi, Ahmedabad :
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>Chair: Sanjay Maharishi
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>4:40-5PM: Discussion
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>5PM-5: 30PM: Plenary Speaker:
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>Vrinda Grover, Lawyer, Delhi: "Lying for the sake of the Nation"
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>5:30PM- 6PM: Break
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>FILM: To Be Announced
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>Day II: September 3, 2004
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>Panel II: Sexuality, Identity and censorship (10AM- 11AM)
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>Charu Gupta, Delhi: Gender, identity and the politics of everyday sphere
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>Hasina Khan, Aawaz-e-Niswaan, Mumbai: The complexities of multiple 
>identities- breaking boundaries
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>Akshay Khanna & Ponni (PRISM & Nigah Media Collective), Delhi: Censorship 
>from a queer perspective
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>Chair: Gargi Sen
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>11AM-11: 30 AM: Discussion
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>Break: 11:30PM-12PM
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>12PM-1PM: FILM - TBA
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>Panel III: Censorship & the Women's Movement (2PM-3: 30PM)
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>Manjeet Rathi (AIDWA), Delhi:
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>Laxmy Murthy (Saheli), Delhi:
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>Nandinee Bandopadhyay (Durbar Mahila Samanway Samiti), Calcutta
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>Chair Sabeena Gadihoke
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>Break: 3:30PM-4PM
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>4PM-4: 30PM: Plenary Speaker:
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>Shohini Ghosh, Delhi: "Looking in Horror & Fascination: Sex, Violence and 
>Spectatorship"
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>5:00 PM: Introduction: Vibodh Parthasarathy & Mukhtiyar Ali
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>Sufi singing from Bikaner
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>Day III: September 4, 2004 Panel IV: Resisting Censorship (10AM-11: 
>30PM)Dunu Roy, Delhi
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>Sudha Bhardwaj ( Chattisgarh Mukti Morcha ) TBC
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>Vimal Thorat, Delhi (TBC)
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>Soe Myint, ( Mizzima News & Burmese Media Association )
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>Chair: Dilip Simeon
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>11:30AM-12PM: Discussion
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>12PM-12: 30PM: Break
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>12:30PM-1: 15PM: Plenary Speaker:
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>Sudhir Patnaik, Orissa: "Development, Politics and Censorship"
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>1:15PM-2PM: Lunch
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>Panel V: Censorship & the Problematic of Hate Speech (2PM-3PM)
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>Shuddhabrta Sengupta, Delhi
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>Lawrence Liang, Bangalore
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>Tanika Sarkar, Delhi
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>Chair: Shohini Ghosh
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>3PM-3: 30PM: Discussion
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>3:30PM-4PM: Break
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>4PM-4: 30PM: Plenary Speaker:
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>Lawrence Liang: "Law, Cinema and censorship"
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>5PM-6PM:
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>Panel VI: Future Directions for Films for Freedom: Open House
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>Anand Patwardhan, Mumbai (TBC)
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>Surabhi Sharma, Bangalore
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>Sanjay Kak, Delhi
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>Gargi Sen, Delhi
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>Chair: Rahul Roy
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>6:00 PM: Closing Film: To be Announced
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>*Films For Freedom is an action platform of over 300 Indian documentary 
>filmmakers who came together in August 2003 to work on issues of free 
>speech by promoting the screening of documentaries and generating 
>discussions on the form, politics and aesthetics of documentaries.
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>All over the world, as channels of the mass media become a part of the 
>corporate structure, television and image-making have increasingly 
>withdrawn into an artificial world of make-believe and propaganda, and it 
>has increasingly been left to documentary films to tell the other stories.
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>Documentary films have the ability to enter the real lives of people, and 
>the inner spaces of people's struggles, their triumphs and setbacks. They 
>have ripped apart the facades created by the propaganda machines of 
>industrial and political empires, they document important social events 
>and present reflective journeys that question, disturb and inspire. And 
>since they challenge, and seek to free, it is obvious that attempts will 
>be made to control them, bind them and prevent their dissemination.
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>The Delhi chapter of the Films For Freedom has announced that September 
>2004 will be the Month of Free Speech. Beginning with a seminar at the 
>Indian Social Institute, the screenings will run through the month in 
>collaboration with Academic Departments and Student Bodies in the three 
>Universities (Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Jawahar Lal Nehru 
>University), ANHAD, Nigah Media Collective, School of Arts and Aesthetics 
>(JNU), Pravah, AISA, with activist and voluntary groups, as well as at 
>schools in collaboration with Spic-Macay.
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>2-4 September, 2004/10 AM to 7:30 PM/ Indian Social Institute (Behind Sai 
>Mandir, near Lodi Road): Resisting Censorship /Breaking Silences: 
>Celebrating Freedom of Expression.
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>Speakers include - Nandinee Bandhopadhyaya on struggles for the rights of 
>the sex workers and the women's movement, Lawrence Liang on Censorship, 
>the Law and Cinema, Sudhir Patnaik on Development, politics and 
>Censorship, Digant Oza on Censorship and the Gujarati Press, Lakshmi 
>Murthy from Saheli on the women's movements and censorship, Dr. Tanika 
>Sarkar and Shuddhabrata Sengupta on censorship and hate speech, Vimal 
>Thorat on dalit literature an censorship, Shohini Ghosh on censorship and 
>the complexities of looking, Dunu Roy on censored citizenship, Vrinda 
>Grover on Lying for the sake of the Nation, Hiren Gandhi on censorship and 
>theatre, Sudhanwa Deshpande on marathi theatre and censorship, Soe Myint 
>on censorship in Burma, Siddharth Vardarajan on censorship and the Press, 
>Rajendra Yadav on Emergency and Censorship, Akshay Khanna and Ponni on 
>Censorship from a queer perspective, Charu Gupta on Gender, identity and 
>the politics of everyday sphere.
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>Readings from proscribed poetry and prose. Sufi singing from Bikaner. Film 
>screenings
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>FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: delhifilmarchive at yahoo.com
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