[Reader-list] Navayana presents Žižek in India: 24 Dec 2009 to 9 Jan 2010

[Navayana Publishing]

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 2009. All the events are
open to public. Come early to get a seat!

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 4 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.’*

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 swordsman who strikes to defend but not wound, and at other
times like a surgeon focused on eliminating 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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