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 […]
55th Römerberg Talks Saturday, May 25, 2024 The uniqueness of the Shoah and Germany's special responsibility are part of the identity of the old Federal Republic of Germany: the protection of Jewish life as the last resort of German domestic and foreign policy stems from the murder of millions of European Jews. At the latest […]
Public lecture The event will present the results of the DFG research project KviAPol (Assault in Office by Police Officers) , which ran from 2018 to 2023. Based on a quantitative survey of victims with over 3,300 participants and over 60 qualitative interviews with experts from the police, justice system and civil society, the project […]
Symposium / ConTrust Practice Forum One year after the publication of the book "Gewalt im Amt. Übermäßige polizeiliche Gewaltanwendung und ihre Aufarbeitung", the team of the research project KviA-Pol together with the research initiative "ConTrust - Vertrauen im Konflikt" is organizing a symposium on 29 May 2024 from 10 am - 5.30 pm at the […]
International Conference How does publicity shape and transform politics, cultural experience and governance in the Long 20th Century? How have the institutions and practices of publicity evolved through changing media environments, governmental forms and commodity worlds to configure the political in a broad and multi-sited way? This international conference has a twin focus on India, […]
Made three years apart, Ray's Mahanagar (The Big City, 1963) and Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Covered Star, 1960) both tell stories of women in professional life. The two films show intersecting but radically different views of Calcutta after independence and the division into India and Pakistan. Ghatak's approach to cinema and Bengal sheds […]
ConTrust Research seminar "India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia" With Ruchir Joshi Ruchir Joshi joined the film world in India in the early 1980s, when he was in his early twenties, first as an assistant director and then as an independent documentary and essay […]
Satyajit Ray's Charulata (1964) is about the loneliness of a young woman whose wealthy husband is absorbed in his political and publishing projects. Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes a figure of modernity itself, insofar as her curious outward gaze becomes an inward gaze that exposes her loneliness, her self-perception and her emotional world. Priyadarshini Shanker is […]
Priyadarshini Shanker (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) This talk intervenes in three prevailing frameworks of Indian film and media studies - auteurist approaches, history of film movements, and digital media studies - through three case studies that centralize the optics of feminist performances. Shanker proposes corporeal intervention that potentially recasts the historiography of Indian cinema […]