[Reader-list] JNU - Cinema Studies International conference 10th-12th Jan 2013

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School of Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Presents
An International Conference
The Indian Cinema Century:Film Technology and theContemporary
At the SAA Auditorium
January 10-12, 2013
 
ALL ARE WELCOME
 
Conceptand Programme
 
Since its emergence within the complex visual and social matrixof modernity, cinema’s journey has been one of constant negotiation andre-negotiation with the contemporary. The cinema of today bears littleresemblance to that modern invention which captured the imagination of theworld at the turn of the century, and this is due to cinema’s protean felicityto assimilate contemporary technologies and discourses into an ever-expandinglandscape of the “cinematic”. The apocalyptic pronouncements of the “death ofcinema” that followed every major upheaval caused by the advent of newtechnologies (the coming of sound, color, anamorphic proportions, panchromaticfilm stock, TV/VCR technologies, 3D, piracy and most recently the digital turn)with the attendant critical discourses of medium specificity, nostalgia for thelost object, formal purity and transnational flows - have been belied bycinema’s infinite capacity for constant self-renewal. 

As a first of a series of events that will start off the centenary celebrationsof Indian Cinema, this three day conference will engage with Indian cinema’sproduction practices, transnational and domestic circulation, encounter withnew technologies and mediums, the culture of stardom, the role of music and newindustrial and non-industrial formations. The aim is to come all the way to thecontemporary digital explosion and reflect on some of the key transformativemoments that have occurred prior to the digital. Thus issues related to thetransition from silent to sound cinema, the relationship to Hollywood’s widespread presence before theSecond World War, the transition to colour, and the transformations in filmexhibition will feature at the conference. We will also aim towards adiscussion of new methods of research and archiving possibilities. The role ofCinema Studies as a discipline within a changing landscape of film and mediaculture will be addressed to signpost new directions for the future.

Participants for this workshop will come from Europe, the United States, Calcutta,Bangalore and Hyderabad. We hope a conference of this kindwill enable dialogue and collaborative research agendas across institutions,continents and regions. Conference schedule and other details will be updatedon this page shortly. 

Conference Convenors:
Ira Bhaskar , Veena Hariharan, Ranjani Mazumdar
 Programme
 
DAY  I - 10th January     9.00am – 9.30 am – Registration
9.30 am – Welcome – Vice Chancellor JNU and Dean, SAA
Session I
10.00 am – 11.30 am : Cinema and Location
Chair : Nitin Govil
Speakers: Priya Jaikumar, Ranjani Mazumdar
 11.30-12.00 – Coffee Break
Session II
12.00 – 2.15 pm : Exhibition, Audiences and Early Cinema
Chair : Ravi Vasudevan
Speakers:  Steve Hughes, Bindu Menon,Rajan Krishnan
 2.15 pm – 3.15 pm – Lunch
 
Session III
3.15-4.45 pm : The Logics and Circulation of Stardom
Chair: Neepa Majumdar
Speakers: Sabeena Gadihoke, Kaushik Bhaumik
 4.45-500 pm Tea
Session IV
5.00-6.30: The Enchantments of Bombay Film Music and
Dance
Chair: Stephen Hughes
Speakers: Shikha Jhingan, Neepa Majumdar,
 6.30 –  Tea
 DAY II - 11th January
Session V
9.30 am – 11.45 pm: Transnational Circuits andEarly
Cinema
Chair: Priya Jaikumar
Speakers: Ranita Chatterjee, Nitin Govil, RosieThomas
 
11.45 am - 12.15 pm : Coffee Break
 
Session VI
12.15 pm – 1.45 pm : Experimenting with Time and theArchive
Chair: Ira Bhaskar
Speakers:  Rashmi Doraiswamy, LalithaGopalan
1.45 pm – 2.45 pm – Lunch
 
Session VII
2.45 – 4.15 pm : Stardom, Anger and Badness
Chair: Rosie Thomas
Speakers: Rachel Dwyer, Shohini Ghosh
 4.15 -4.45 pm Tea
 Session VIII
 4.45 – 6.15 pm: New Industrial Formations: Success, Idea
and Image
Chair: Rachel Dwyer
Speakers: Tejaswini Ganti, Rashmi Sawhney
6.30 pm – Tea
 DAY III - 12th January
 Session IX
9.45- 11.15 pm : Alternative Histories of the Documentary,
Home Movies
Chair: Madhava Prasad
Speakers:  RaviVasudevan, Veena Hariharan
 11.15- 11.45 : Coffee Break
 Session X
11.45 – 1.15: Experimental Cinemas: Irreverence,Time
and Space
Chair: Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Speakers: Madhuja Mukherji, Subhajit Chatterjee,
 
1.15 pm – 2.15 pm – Lunch
 
Session XI
2.15 pm – 3.45 pm: Digital Technologies, New Archiving
Practices and Film Historiography
Chair: Ravi Sundaram
Speakers:  Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Lawrence Liang
3.45 – 4.15 pm – Tea
 
Session XII
4.15- 6.15pm: Panel Discussion – The Changing Film
Archive – Ashish Rajadhyaksha, NeepaMajumdar, Rosie Thomas, Ravi Vasudevan,Madhava Prasad, Lawrence Liang, Ira Bhaskar (Moderator)
 
6.15 pm  - Vote of thanks – VeenaHariharan
 
6.30 pm - Tea