[Reader-list] Fwd: Žižek in India: 24 Dec 2009--9 Jan 2010

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From: Events Navayana <events at navayana.org>
Date: 21 Dec 2009 17:45
Subject: Žižek in India: 24 Dec 2009--9 Jan 2010
To: navayana publishing <navayana at navayana.org>

Navayana presents preeminent Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek in its 1st
Annual Lecture series. The lectures, beginning 4 Jan 2010, are preceded by
screenings of films on/with Žižek starting 24 Dec 09. All the events are
open to public.


24 Dec 2009. 3 p.m to 7.15 p.m. Screenings
"The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," in 3 parts. 150 mins, to be followed by
"Žižek!", 71 mins.
Sarai-CSDS. 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi

2 Jan 2010. 7 p.m. Screening
"Žižek!" A feature documentary directed by Astra Taylor, 71 mins.
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

4 Jan 2010. 5 p.m. Lecture
"Ideology in the Post-ideological World: The Case of Hollywood"
Sarai-CSDS. 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi

5 Jan 2010. 7 p.m. Lecture
"Tragedy and Farce"
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

7 Jan 2010. 11 a.m. Lecture
"Capitalism and Particular Life-Worlds: In Defense of Universalism"
ICSSR Auditorium, English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

9 Jan 2010. 5 p.m. Lecture and Panel Discussion
"Whither Left?"
Town Hall, Kochi.


Žižek's latest book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce <
http://navayana.org/?attachment_id=768>, already available in bookstores,
will be for sale at all venues.


Also available from 24 Dec 2009: *In Pursuit of Ambedkar* by Bhagwan Das <
http://navayana.org/?p=801>


And launching on 2 Jan 2010, the first title in the "Navayana Ambedkar
Library" series.


*Thus Spoke Ambedkar, Volume 1
A Stake in the Nation*

Edited and Selected by Bhagwan Das
With annotations


7.5" x 7.5"
Hardback with dust jacket, 224 pages
ISBN 9788189059187
Rs 395

*'In India, there are castes. These castes are antinational.'*

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Navayana presents the first ever annotated edition of Bhimrao Ramji
Ambedkar's speeches. This is the first of the four volumes selected and
edited by Bhagwan Das, a veteran chronicler of the dalit movement who in
1955-56 worked as a research associate with Ambedkar. The twenty speeches
here showcase the wide range of issues one of modern India's founders
engaged with. Delivered between 1930 and 1956, they unravel a story that is
jettisoned by mainstream 'nationalist' narratives that valorise the 'idea of
India'.

At times like a gorilla fighter who hacks away at everything around him,
sometimes like a swordsman who strikes to defend but not wound, and at other
times like a surgeon who seeks to get rid of the one single rotten organ -
caste - that endangers the entire body, Ambedkar grapples with questions of
inequality, democracy, labour, minority rights, constitution-making and
brahminism in speeches that address various publics: dalit workers in
Nashik, British lawmakers in London, and college students in Jalandhar. The
prose spans different registers--lyrical and polemical, combative and
poignant, of reason and affect.

This volume, the first in the Navayana Ambedkar Library series, is essential
reading for anyone keen on understanding India.


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