Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School, 18-29 June 2018

Organized by Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and the Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore.

SUMMARY SCHEDULE

FOR SUMMARIES AND ESSENTIAL LINKS click here
All events, unless otherwise indicated, will take place at the Vivekananda Hall, Jadavpur University. All sessions, except those marked OPEN SESSIONS, are closed-door.

Week One

Monday June 18

THE CITY AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

10-10.30am: Opening, Registration
10.30-11am: Inauguration
11am-1pm: Tapati Guha-Thakurta (CSSS, Calcutta), Durga Puja Tours and Travels: The City as an Exhibitionary Realm (open session)
1-2.30pm: Lunch
2.30-4pm: Interactions & discussions with the participants around the readings and key issues raised by Tapati Guha-Thakurta
4-4.30pm: Tea/Coffee break
4.30-5pm: Anindya Sengupta: A brief introduction to Calcutta through its map, locations, and localities
6.30-8pm: Partha Chatterjee: Is Kolkata a colonial city? (open session, in collaboration with Victoria Memorial Hall)
Adda/Salon: Partha Chatterjee in conversation with Kaushik Bhaumik (SAA, JNU, New Delhi), Madhuja Mukherjee and Ashish Rajadhyaksha
9-10.30 pm: Summer School dinner, at the rooftop of the famous Lindsay Hotel, opposite the New Market, Dharmatala (https://goo.gl/maps/7Z7ANbdmUYx)

Tuesday June 19

KINETIC CITIES: TRAVELS THROUGH INTER-ASIA

11am-11.45am: Tejaswini Niranjana (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Inter-Asia Research Practices
11.45am-1pm: Audrey Yue (National University of Singapore), The Communicative City: Ambient Participation, Place-making and Urban Screens
1-2.30pm: Lunch
2.30-4pm:  Panel, Kinetic Cities: Travels Through Inter-Asia
Anjeline De Dios (Lingnan University), His Master’s Voice: Cinematic Sonicities Of Authority In The Philippine Drug War
Roberto Castillo (Lingnan University), Out of Place in a Chinese Village: Urban Transformations and Precarious Migrant Bodies
Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University), Performative Tactics: Camp or a Place that Became the Dead and Garibong’s Informal Survival
4-4.30pm: Tea/Coffee break
4.30-6.00pm: Interactions & discussions with the participants around the readings and key issues raised by Audrey Yue and the Kinetic Cities panel.
6.30-8pm: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: The Research Cluster Model.
Adda/Salon with Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore) in conversation with Tejaswini Niranjana and Samita Sen (School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University) (open session)

Wednesday June 20

CALCUTTA/CINEMA/CITY - I

1 - 2.30pm: Lunch
2.30-4pm: Interactions & discussions with the participants around the readings and key issues raised by Moinak Biswas
4-4.30pm: Tea/ Coffee break
4.30-6.30pm: Screening:
Sthaniya Sambaad/Spring in the Colony (Arjun Gourisaria/Moinak Biswas, 2009, Hindi, 105 min)
[Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8rapDVZ9Vw]  
7-8 pm: Walk around the Jadavpur neighbourhood & South City Mall/ SBLP studios

4-7 pm: Metiaburj: A Deposed King and Travelling Labour: A Walkthrough*
7.30 pm onwards: Ceremonial dinner at Metiaburj*

Week Two

Monday June 25

CITIES IN THE AGE OF UNPOPULATED ACTORS

11 am-1 pm: Nishant Shah (ArtEZ), Living in Unpopulated Spaces: Rapid Feminist Prototyping for Survival
1-2.30 pm: Lunch
2.30-4 pm: Prototyping Workshop
4-4.30 pm: Tea/ Coffee break
4.30-7 pm: Groups to present their outcomes and discussion around what the future of cities will look like in the age of unpopulated actors

Tuesday June 26

(IN)VISIBLE PUBLICS

11am-1pm: Abhijit Roy (Jadavpur University), Reality TV, Participatory Culture and the Many Locations of Bengal and Bengaliness
1-2.30pm: Lunch
2.30-4pm: Interactions & discussions with the participants around the readings and key issues raised by Abhijit Roy
4-4.30pm: Tea/ Coffee break
4.30-7pm: The Chitpur Local: A Walk Through North Calcutta 
Bus ride to Chitpur and walk conducted by Ruchira Das and Hamdasti Team (see link)
7.30pm onwards: Dinner at Eau Chew (arguably Kolkata’s oldest operating Haka-Cantonese styled food joint) https://goo.gl/maps/3jJFkR4Eew72

Wednesday June 27

PRINTED WORLDS

11am-1pm: Rosinka Chaudhuri (CSSS, Calcutta), The City as Poetic Image: Then and Now
1-2.30 pm: Lunch
2.30-4 pm: Interactions & discussions with the participants around the readings and key issues raised by Rosinka Chaudhuri
4-4.30 pm: Tea/ Coffee break
4.30–7 pm: Vyasa: The Graphic Novel
Adda/Salon with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and Sanhka Bannerjee in conversation with Ranabir Chakravarti (Centre for Historical Studies, JNU) and Rimi B. Chatterjee (JUDE) (open session)
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pisO4prZWh0

Thursday June 28

VOICES OF THE OUTSIDERS

11 am-1pm: Firdous Azim (BRAC University, Dhaka), The Varying Voices of Women and Literary Texts
1 2.30 pm: Lunch
2.30-4pm: Interactions & discussions with the participants around the readings and key issues raised by Firdous Azim
4-4.30pm: Tea/ Coffee break
4.30–7pm: Public performance: Moushumi Bhowmik with Satyaki Banerjee, City as Field in Bengal: The Germination and Dispersal of Songs.(See: The Travelling Archive: Field Recordings and Field Notes from Bengal: http://www.thetravellingarchive.org/home.php) (Open session)

Friday June 29