[Reader-list] @JNU:: The Global 60s and its Cultural Afterlife
Iram Ghufran
iram at sarai.net
Sat Feb 26 13:50:52 IST 2011
*The Global 60s and its Cultural Afterlife*
An Interdisciplinary International Conference
School of Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067
*March 4 and 5, 2011*
*Conference Programme*
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*Friday, March 4, 2011*
*9.30 - 10.00* - Registration and Tea
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*10.00 - 10.15* - Deans Opening Remarks
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*10.15 -- 10.30* - Conference Convener's Remarks
*10.30 -- 1.30*
*Panel 1*: *Confronting Modernist Practice in the 1960s*
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Chair/Discussant*: *Shuddhabrata Sengupta
1. Mark Betz: Black and White in Color: The Long Front of Race in
Postcolonial European Cinema
2. Nikhil Yadav: Prayer-Protest-Peace: Civil Rights Movement and the
Jazz Avant-Garde in 60s America
3. Avinoam Shalem: Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Great Dam of Aswan and the
surrealist artist Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar
*1.30 -- 2.30: Lunch*
*2.30 -- 4.30*
*Panel 2*:*Popular Culture and the Traces of History*
Chair/Discussant: Ravi Vasudevan
1. Stella Bruzzi: Approximation:/ Mad Men/ and the death of /JFK/
2. Giti Chandra: Music and War: The Silence of the 60s
*4.30 -- 4.45: Tea*
*4.45 - 6.45*
*Panel 3: Notes from Two Indian Cities*
Chair/Discussant: Tapati Guha Thakurta
1. Ranjit Hoskote: "I may yet observe my own birth": Annotating Bombay
in the 1960s, the 1960s in Bombay
2. Rajarshi Dasgupta & Mallarika Sinha Roy*:* A Culture of Beheading:
The Theatrical Politics of the 60s in Bengal
*7.00 -- 8.30* --* The Sound of 60s Music: Played by Five 8 and Friends.*
*Saturday, March 5, 2011*
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*10.00 -- 10.30 - Tea*
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*10.30 -- 1.30*
*Panel 4: Critical Encounters*
Chair/Discussant: Gayatri Sinha
1. Geeta Kapur: Vagabondage: artandlife in the sixties
2. May Joseph: Between the Hudson River and the Yamuna: Harmattan
Theatre and Riverscapes
3. Amlan Dasgupta: North Indian Classical Music and "World" Music" in
the 1960s
*1.30 -- 2.30: Lunch*
*2.30 - 5.30*
*Panel 5: The Circuits of Cultural Exchange*
Chair/Discussant: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
1. Irit Rogoff: Conceptual Art in the 1960s
2. Richard Allen: Hitchcock and the Sixties: Sexuality and Film Style
3. Greg Booth: The Hindi Film Song in a Global 1960s
*5.30: Closing and Vote of Thanks*
*5.45: High Tea*
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