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FRAMES OF REFERENCE
Contesting Media Realities: Unpacking the Real

National Seminar
January 29 – 30, 2009

Centre for Media and Cultural Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Distinctions between the real and the imagined are often understood
in black and white. This seminar seeks to unsettle such simplistic
binaries. It will critically examine the media's representations of
'reality' and raise questions about its frames of reference. Does the
media, fictional or non-fictional, propagate certain ideas about truth,
the real and the world? The seminar will unpack representations of
reality in news, documentary and fiction films.

29th January, 2009
        
10:00 A.M.    -    Inaugural Address by Ms. Sushma Singh, Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
10:15 A.M.    -    Prof. S. Parasuraman, Director, TISS
10:30 A.M.    -    Keynote Address by Prof. Aijaz Ahmed
11:30 A.M.    -     Tea Break
11:45 A.M.    -     Panel Discussion on "Contested Media Realities : Unpacking the Real" – The mediated news.
Panelists :  Padmashree Sucheta Dalal, Dr. Prof. B. P. Sanjay, Mr. Sashi Kumar, Ms. Meena Menon, Ms. Jyoti Puniani, Ms. Pratima Joshi, Ms. Radhika Bordia
01:15 P.M.    -    Lunch
02:15 P.M.     -    Screening of Documentary of XXWhy, directed by B. Manjula
Discussants : Mr. Sree Nandu, Ms. Kalki and Dr. Shoba Ghosh
04:00 P.M.     -    Tea Break
04:15 P.M.     -    CMCS Students' Presentation
06:30
P.M. onwards    -     Hindi Play "Girija Ke Sapne" directed by Mr. M.
S. Satyu, produced by Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA)
        
        
10:00 A.M.     -    Panel Discussion on "Contested Media Realities: Unpacking the Real" – The mediated cinema.
Panelists : Prof. Moinak Biswas,  Mr. Om Puri,  Ms. Revathy, Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Mr. Sriram Raghavan
11:30 A.M.     -     Tea Break
11:45 A.M.    -     Panel Discussion on "Contested Media Realities: Unpacking the Real" - The mediated documentary.
Panelists : Prof. Shiv Vishwanath, Mr. Amar Kanwar, Mr. Stalin K. and Mr. Ajay T.G.
1:15 P.M.    -    Lunch Break
2:15 P.M.    -    Paper Presentation by Students
4:00 P..M.     -    Vote of Thanks
        
Photo Exhibition by the Thane Press Club on 26/11
 

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