Four tourists from the city travel to the Bengal countryside and experience the ecology of the forests, the tribal life of the indigenous people and their village festivals. The journey away from the city becomes an exploratory journey into the life of the soul, in which the travelers' self-image is at stake and which leads […]
Ranjani Mazumdar (Jamaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) The complicated workings of various kinds of production infrastructures typically shape cinema's topographical motivations and sense of scale. Through a comparative analysis of a set of films shot in and around Bombay with films shot in iconic locations outside India, I will establish how the aesthetic drives of vertical, […]
ConTrust Research seminar "India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia" This presentation will examine the use of locations in Bombay cinema since the turn of the 21st century. The complicated workings of various kinds of production infrastructures typically shape cinema's topographical motivations and sense of […]
author-meets-criticsProf.Dr. Tilo Wesche (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) discusses with Dr. Andreas Gutmann (University of Kassel) & Prof. Dr. Doris Schweitzer (Goethe University)Participation also possible via Zoom: Here... ID code: 401979 Or by dialing in via the app: Webinar ID: 650 7980 7777 ID code: 401979 An event by Dr. Johan Horst (Max Planck Institute […]
Public lecture The Basic Law contains comprehensive guarantees of freedom. From the very beginning, constitutional practice has developed a wide range of concrete content from the openly formulated fundamental rights. The result is a constitution of freedom that is unique in Germany to date. In it, freedom is not without its obligations. The Basic Law […]
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz (Professor of Public Law with a focus on constitutional law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
APARAJITO tells two intertwined stories, that of a boy's exciting departure into the world and that of the loss of his mother at his departure. The film can be seen in the light of Satyajit Ray's own biography and a life experience of cosmopolitanism with strong roots in a particular, hybrid cultural milieu in Bengal. […]
2024 European Copyright Society Conference The European Copyright Society (la Société européenne du droit d'auteur) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law and policy. Its members are scholars and academics from various countries of Europe, seeking to articulate and promote […]
Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London) The talk explores some of the methodological challenges and insights that Dass has encountered and gained, respectively, while working on Left Luggage, her book-in-progress about the cinematic legacies of the vibrant left cultural movement spearheaded in the 1940s by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), the cultural wing […]