"This film could not have been a novel...": this is how Satyajit Ray spoke about KANCHENJUNGHA from 1962, which tells a family story from a summer retreat in Darjeeling and was only lukewarmly received in India and beyond. In light of the colonial legacy and the complex modernity of the Indian novel, the strangely reserved […]
Lecture by Bijan Fateh-Moghadam (University of Basel) Participation via Zoom here... Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series "Climate Crisis and Criminal Law" 3rd block: "Climate Change and Criminal Law - Basics" Organizer Research Center "Normative Orders", research initiative "ConTrust - Trust in Conflict" and Institute for Criminal […]
DEVI, which Ray filmed after the Apu trilogy, is a family drama about the conflict between faith and reason. Ray fearlessly and critically tells a reversal of the Oedipus myth, in which a feudal landowner declares his beautiful daughter-in-law to be the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali and claims her for himself in the […]
The European Union is the result of a large number of successfully overcome crises. Having started out as a peace project, the EU is now an important player for peace, security and sustainability in the world. It is not only bound by its fundamental values in its internal actions; human rights, the rule of law […]
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Louis Kotzé (Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa) Participation also possible via Zoom: Here... ID code: 401979 Or by dial-in via the app: Webinar ID: 650 7980 7777 ID code: 401979
The films of Satyajit Ray's Calcutta trilogy, made between 1970 and 1976, illuminate the educated, urban burgeoisie of his hometown. Realized between PRATIDWANDI (The Rival, 1970) and JANA ARANYA (The Mediator, 1976), SEEMABADDHA (Restricted) criticizes the corruption, exploitation and moral laxity that Ray saw as accompanying the rise of a new middle class. Daniel Fairfax […]
ConTrust Research seminar "India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia" With S. V. Srinivas The rapid transformation of films into media content in the 21st century is coeval with the proliferation of screens, and sites of engagement with moving images. Interestingly, the media ecology in […]
Workshop Modern societies are critically dependent on digital infrastructure (Parks & Starosielski 2015), and this is especially evident when infrastructure fails. But beyond situations of outage, infrastructures appear to us to be "as ordinary and unremarkable to us as trees, daylight, and dirt" (Edwards 2002). Because of their size and scale, they are also largely […]
ConTrust Speaker Series Lecture by Keith Breckenridge (University of the Witwatersrand) So via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net A standard assumption of research is that trust and conflict stand in opposition and exclude one another. The ConTrust Speaker Series questions that assumption and inquires into the dynamics of trust and conflict in various contexts […]