[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by by Nadja-Christina Schneider on 17 October 2017 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*Transnational Reproduction on Screen*

Documentaries on Commercial Surrogacy in India

by *Nadja-Christina Schneider*





*Ravi Vasudevan* will Chair

Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 5 pm
                              *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar
Room,
                         Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
              Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 4.30
pm
       email:
jaya at csds.in





A number of documentary films such as ‘Google Baby’ (2009), ‘Can we see the
baby bump, please?’ (2012) or ‘House of Surrogates’ (2013) have clearly
functioned as a starting and major reference point for the debate about the
complex issue of assisted reproductive medicine and transnational surrogacy
in India. However, not much attention has been paid to the existing body of
documentary films, especially with regard to intertextual references and
reiterations which have added to the establishment of more or less
‘standardized’ stories and visual representations. This lecture argues for
the need to pay more attention to the specific situatedness of documentary
films as it forms the basis of our quest for more knowledge and
understanding the transnational entanglements in the field of assisted
reproductive technologies.



*Nadja-Christina Schneider* is Professor in Gender and Media Studies for
the South Asian Region at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her areas of
interest include Area Media Studies, Gender and Mobility Studies and Urban
Studies. She is currently preparing a book on the visualization of new
reproductive technologies and changing family constellations in fictional
and documentary films.



Her recent publications include *Studying Youth, Media and Gender in
Post-Liberalisation India: Focus on and beyond the ‘Delhi Gang Rape’*
(co-edited with Fritzi-Marie Titzmann) and *New Media Configurations and
Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World* (co-edited with Carola
Richter).



*Ravi Vasudevan* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.

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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
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