[Reader-list] [Announcements] Invites you to a Golden Jubilee lecture by Veena Das on 14 January 2013, 5 pm at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societie
invites you to Golden Jubilee lecture

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*Meaning, Emotion, and the Poetic Voice*

by* **Veena Das***





Monday, 14 January 2013, 5 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
Please join us for tea at 4.30 pm



How is the poetic voice constructed in Indian aesthetics? The lecture
explores the theories of meaning in dhwani theorists and questions how the
relation between explicit meaning and suggested meaning carves an
understanding of language that provides a different route to the
understanding of figures of speech than the classic discussions of truth
conditions underlying metaphor and metonymy. Taking some key examples, the
speaker would show the centrality of syntax in the construction of time,
space and emotion and trace some surprising affinities on the way grammar
defines what something is in Wittgenstein and Cavell and the place of
grammar in creating poetic meaning in dhwani theorists.



Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and
Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. She has researched extensively on
collective violence, everyday life and social suffering. Currently she is
engaged in a longitudinal study on urban poverty in Delhi, India. Her most
recent books include *Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the
Ordinary* and a co-edited book, *Philosophy and Anthropology: Affinities
and Antagonisms* (forthcoming). She received the Anders Retzius Medal of
the Royal Society of Geography and Anthropology, Sweden in 1995 and an
honorary doctorate in Letters Humaine from the University of Chicago in
2000.
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
Fax: 91-11-23943450
www.csds.in
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