Talks at CSCS 2008-2009 — Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

Home » Events at CSCS » Talks at CSCS 2008-2009

Conferences and Workshops

List of conferences and workshops held at and conducted by CSCS in recent years.

Visiting Fellows

CSCS provides affiliation to Indian and international researchers for varying periods of time. In addition CSCS also invites academics to interact with faculty and students and to present their work at the Centre.

Fellowships at CSCS

The CSCS Fellowships Programme began in 2002 to make its substantial library and faculty resources available to a range of researchers outside the institution.

Current State: Published

Talks at CSCS 2008-2009

• Work shop:Regional Language Resources

Organized by Higher Education cell

• Ascetic Masculinity: The Politics of Communist Selfhood

Talk by Rajarshi Dasgupta

• CSCS Seminar on Peter Fitzpatrick's Forthcoming Book 'Foucault's Law'

Tenth Anniversary Seminar. Book co-written with Ben Golder.

• Certificate Handing Over for Rethinking Media Laws Certificate Course

• Discussion with Pirate Cinema

Digital Archives and the Future of the Image

• Faculty Seminar on the Works of Upendra Baxi

Tenth Anniversary Seminar. Retrospect on Indian Constitutionalism.

• Film Screening

A Beautiful Mind (English/2001/Dir:Ron Howard) Hamsa Geethe (Kannada/1975/Dir:G.V.Iyer)

• Film Screening

16 mm: memories, movement and a machine (Documentary/Malayalam/2007/40mts; Dir: K.R.Manoj)

• Film Screening

New Women: Her First Song (Documentary/63 Minutes/Dir: Kim Soyoung)

• Film Screening

Deepa Dhanraj's film on "K. G. Kannabiran

• Film Screening

Jashn-e-Azaadi by Sanjay Kak

• Film Screenings

Johnny Gaddar (2007; Dir: Sriram Raghavan) No Smoking (2007; Dir: Anurag Kashyap)

• Film Screenings

Manorama Six Feet Under (2007; Dir: Navdeep Singh) Ek Chaalis ki Last Local (2007; Dir: Sanjay Khanduri)

• Law/Psychoanalysis/Subjectivity

Session 1: Anup Dhar

• Ph.D in Cultural Studies

Interview

• Prathama Banerjee

*Renunciation?: questions from turn-of-the-century political imagination, Bengal 1890s-1910s*

• Seminar on Christopher Pinney's Forthcoming Book 'The Coming of Photography in India'

Tenth Anniversary Seminar.

• Talk by Arvind Narrain

The Global War on Terror: Challenging the Human Rights Paradigm

• Talk by Ashis Nandy

The Return of the Sacred:The Language of Religion and the Fear of Democracy in a Post-Secular World

• Talk by Christopher Pinney

Tenth Anniversary Talk: "Lessons from Hell: Punishment and Governmentality in Popular Indian Visual Culture"

• Talk by Dattathreya Subbanarasimha

Betwixt and Between: Culture and Criticism Between 'Reactionaries' and 'Progressives'

• Talk by Dipika Mukherjee

"Its really nice...you can see in the movies": The landscape of loss in the language of Surinamese-Hindustani women in the Netherlands.

• Talk by Earl Jackson

The Intensional Image: Towards a Political Phenomenology of East Asian Cinemas

• Talk by Lata Mani

Body Politic(s)

• Talk by M. Madhava Prasad

Titled "Enthusiasm and Indian Politics: Problems in the Analysis of Aural Culture."

• Talk by Mayur Suresh

Shadow Citizens: How we inhabit the world when we're all terrorists

• Talk by Milind Wakankar

On 'System and Allegory: Kabir in the Indo-Islamic Millennium.'

• Talk by Namita Malhotra

The World Wide Web of Desire - Pornography and Technology

• Talk by Peter Fitzpatrick

Tenth Anniversary Talk: 'And are we still not modern? Politico-legal Formation and the Future of the Humanities'

• Talk by Ponni Arasu

Habeas Corpus and Queer Women in India

• Talk by Ranabir Samaddar

The Materiality of Politics

• Talk by S.V. Srinivas

Titled “NTR’s Election Campaign”

• Talk by Sanil V.

Cinema: The Logic of the Prosthetic

• Talk by Sharachchandra Lele

On: 'The Ethical Breadth of Environmentalism'

• Talk by Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh

The Erotics of Helplessness

• Talk by Siddharth Narrain

The Broadcasting Bill 2007 and its Implications

• Talk by Sitharamam Kakarala

Titled “ Culture and Constitutionalism”

• Talk by Uma Bhrugubanda

Beyond Secularism and Syncretism: Thinking About Islam and Muslims in South India

• Talk by Upendra Baxi

Tenth Anniversary Talk: "The Indian Constitution as an Act of Theft and the Theft of the Indian Constitution: A Retrospect on Indian Constitutionalism"

• Talk by Vivek Dhareshwar

Titled “How Not to Study Indian Politics”