[Reader-list] [Announcements] Cartoons and Icons: Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy - Shuddhabrata Sengupta

[Iram Ghufran]

Dear Friends (all members of the Reader List in Delhi),

You are cordially invited to an illustrated lecture by Shuddhabrata 
Sengupta - (see below) - this is an attempt to to mark one year of 
reflection on the 'Danish Cartoon Controversy' that came to a head 
across the world around this time last year.

The lecture is tomorrow (28th February, at 4:30 p.m.) at Sarai-CSDS

Best
Iram


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Cartoons and Icons: Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy
A Lecture-Demonstration by Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sarai-CSDS
4:30 P.M., Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS

Cartoons and Icons : Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy is
an exploration of different histories of sanctioned and illicit image
making in Islamicate societies, with a view to arriving at a more
nuanced understanding of issues pertaining to image making, freedom
of expressiona and the xenophobic and discourse around images, in
the wake of the publication of the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad
in European and other newspapers. This presentation, which takes
place exactly a year after the 'Danish Cartoon' question became an
international crisis seeks to complicate prevalent narratives of
blasphemy, heresy and ritualised iconoclasm in Islamicate societies,
as well as the ritualised demonization of Muslims in Europe by
pointing towards recalcitrant histories that defy the imperative of
narrative simplification.

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta works at the Media Lab at Sarai-CSDS. He is a
media practitioner, artist and writer with the Raqs Media Collective.]

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