Vortrag
Trusting as a skillful act: a critical reconstruction of the sociological theory of trust
Lecture by: Gil Eyal (Colombia University) „Trust“ has become one of the keywords of our time. Politicians and the media bemoan the decline of trust in science and experts, as well as […]
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Horror and the Political in Contemporary South Asia
Meheli Sen (Rutgers University, New Jersey) This talk looks at genre cinema particularly the horror film-to situate it within India’s contemporary media cultures. In the face of totalitarian discourses that detine […]
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The Territorial Fragments of Globalisation in Contemporary Bombay Cinema
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 […]
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Shadow Lines: Tracing the Cinematic Legacies of the 1940s Indian Left Cultural Movement
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 […]
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Mapping the networks of gendered performance, labor, and mobility
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 […]
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Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993)
Ruchir Joshi (film-maker, columnist and writer based in Calcutta) This program includes two essay films Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993) by Ruchir Joshi, an […]
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The Pedagogy of the Piratical
Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara) Even as techno-nationalist fantasies fuel India’s dreams of superpowerdom, inserting the country into a universal narrative of global ascension via market liberalization, this talk […]
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Transitioning into Noise: 1930s Film Technology Debates in India
Lecture Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh) Using film excerpts, ads for sound recording and projection equipment, sound technicians’ columns, as well as reports by and about salesmen-technicians, such as the Americans […]
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Generalverdacht – Gesellschaftliche Konflikte um sogenannte Clankriminalität
Vortrag und Diskussion Mit Mohammed Ali Chahrour (Mitherausgeber des Buchs „Generalverdacht“) und Dr. Robert Pelzer (TU Berlin) Seit einigen Jahren hat sich der gesellschaftliche Diskurs um sog. Clankriminalität insbesondere in deutschen Großstädten zugespitzt. Während […]
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Persistente Unterschiede: Einstellungen zu Migration und Geschlecht in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow (Professorin für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt „Quantitative Analysen gesellschaftlichen Wandels“, Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Normative Orders) und Dr. Mirko K. Braack (Post-Doc am Frankfurter Teilinstitut des Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher […]
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Was heißt „kolonial“? Zur Bedeutung einer historischen Qualifizierung
Dan Diner (Professor Emeritus für Moderne Geschichte an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem) im Gespräch mit Miloš Vec (Professor für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Wien) Das Wort vom „Kolonialen“ findet heute eine derart […]
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Lunchtalk for women and Early Career Researchers with Grada Kilomba
In an informal lunch setting, we aim to open a space for Grada Kilomba to talk about her experiences and insights into knowledge production within and without academia and the […]
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