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, […]
Realisiert im Abstand von drei Jahren erzählen Rays Mahanagar (The Big City, 1963) und Ritwik Ghataks Meghe Dhaka Tara (Der Wolkenbedeckte Stern, 1960) beide Geschichten von Frauen im Berufsleben. Die beiden Filme zeigen sich überkreuzende, aber radikal unterschiedliche Sichten Kalkuttas nach der Unabhängigkeit und der Aufteilung in Indien und Pakistan. Ghataks Zugang zum Kino und zu Bengalen lässt Rays […]
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 film-maker. In this […]
Satyajit Rays Charulata (1964) handelt von der Einsamkeit einer jungen Frau, deren ver- mögender Mann in seinen Politik- und Verlagsprojekten aufgeht. Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee) wird dabei zur Figur der Moderne selbst, insofern ihr neugieriger Blick nach Außen zu einem innerlichen Blick wird, der ihre Einsamkeit, ihre Selbstwahrnehmung und Empfindungswelt freilegt. Priyadarshini Shanker ist Assistant Professor für Filmwissenschaft an […]
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 as […]
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 in public institutions more generally. Global consultancies like McKinsey and Deloitte sell trust measurement and trust building as part of their portfolio. The scholarly field […]
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 polizeiliche Lagebilder und medial stark beachtete Fälle den Eindruck erwecken, dass eine erhebliche Bedrohungslage besteht, erfolgt aus der Zivilgesellschaft und Wissenschaft Kritik an dem Konzept […]
Conference of the Research Project “Police Accountability: Towards International Standards“ / ConTrust Praxisforum In times of expanding police powers as well as increasing discussions about legitimacy and problems within the police, the question of police accountability and control becomes vital. How is police accountability organised? How are police complaints bodies dealing with complaints? What are […]
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 Indian film-maker, cultural writer, and novelist based in Kolkata. Shot on 16 mm, both films reimagine the form of the essay film to propose new […]