[Reader-list] New Cultural Histories of India: Conference at CSSSC

[Bodhisattva Kar]

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Conference at the 
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 
January 5 – 7, 2010
New Cultural Histories of India 
 
 
Day One 
5 January 2010 
 
10:00 – 10:30 
INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
PARTHA CHATTERJEE 
 
10:30 – 10:45 
Tea Break 
 
PANEL 1: WHAT IS NEW? 
Chair: Partha Chatterjee 
 
10:45 – 11:45 
CHRISTOPHER PINNEY, 
‘Empire Follows Art’: A Visual and Material History of Modern India 
Discussant: Tapati Guha-Thakurta 
 
11:45 – 12:45 
MOINAK BISWAS, 
The Database Form and Cultural Histories 
Discussant: Manas Ray 
 
12:45 – 2:00 
Lunch Break 
 
PANEL 2: CIRCULATING CULTURES 
Chair: Anjan Ghosh 
 
2:00 – 3:00 
RAJAN KRISHNAN, 
MGR-Sivaji: Faciality Machine and the Many Plateaus of Tamil Popular Culture 
Discussant: Rajarshi Dasgupta 
 
3:00 – 4:00 
BODHISATTVA KAR, 
Cultural Objects?: Heads in the Naga Hills 
Discussant: Kaushik Ghosh 
 
4:00 – 4:15 
Tea Break 
 
4:15 – 5:15 
TAPATI GUHA-THAKURTA, 
Conceits of the Copy: Travelling Replicas of the Past and the Present 
Discussant: Sanjay Srivastava 
 
 
Day Two 
6 January 2010 
 
PANEL 3: PLOTTING THE POLYGLOT 
Chair: Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 
 
10:00 – 11:00 
FRANCESCA ORSINI, 
How to Do Multilingual Literary History? 
Discussant: Rosinka Chaudhuri 
 
11:00 – 11:15 
Tea Break 
 
11:15 – 12:15 
PRACHI DESHPANDE, 
Modi in the Colonial Archive: Towards a Cultural History of Scripts? 
Discussant: Bodhisattva Kar 
 
12:15 – 1:15 
ISHITA BANERJEE-DUBE, 
The Vernacular and the Sacred: On the Making of Modern Oriya Identity 
Discussant: Samantak Das 
 
1:15 – 2:30 
Lunch Break 
 
PANEL 4: SUBJECT TO TEXTS 
Chair: Keya Dasgupta 
 
2:30 – 3:30 
ROSINKA CHAUDHURI, 
Poet of the Present: The Self-Division of Iswarchandra Gupta (1812-1859) and the Bengali Modern 
Discussant: Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 
 
3:30 – 4:30 
ASHLEY TELLIS, 
Affirmative Abjection: Exploring the Dalit Subject through Autobiography 
Discussant: Anirban Das 
 
4:30 – 4:45 
Tea Break 
 
4:45 – 5:45 
GAUTAM BHADRA, 
The Bengali Almanacs in Historical Vision: Performances, Images and Reading Practices in 19th and Early 20th-Century Bengal 
Discussant: Partha Chatterjee 
 
 
Day Three 
7 January 2010 
 
PANEL 5: REGIMES OF LISTENING 
Chair: Mollica Dastider 
 
10:00 – 11:00 
KATHERINE BUTLER-BROWN, 
Towards a Historiography of Pleasure in Mughal India: Suggestions from Music History 
Discussant: Amlan Dasgupta 
 
11:00 – 12:00 
LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN, 
Constructing New Subjects: Studying the Politics of Performance in Modern South India 
Discussant: Rajan Krishnan 
 
12:00 – 12:15 
Tea Break 
 
PANEL 6: MAPPING THE CONTEMPORARY 
Chair: Manabi Majumdar 
 
12:15 – 1:15 
SRIRUPA ROY, 
Channeling Politics: Television News and Democratic Transformation in India 
Discussant: Abhijit Roy 
 
1:15 – 2:30 
Lunch Break 
 
2:30 – 3:30 
SANJAY SRIVASTAVA, 
New Urban Spaces, Post-nationalism and the Making of the Consumer-Citizen in India 
Discussant: Anjan Ghosh 
 
3:30 – 4:30 
KAUSHIK GHOSH, 
Economies of Anticipation: “Nano” the Story of the Big Small Car 
Discussant: Priya Sangameswaran 
 
4:30 – 4:45 
Tea Break 
 
4:45 – 5:45 
Chair: Tapati Guha-Thakurta 
OPEN DISCUSSION 


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