Events

The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema

November 16-18, 2023

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 201 and Cobb Hall 307

Screenings

Thursday and Friday, November 16-17

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 201

Conference

Saturday, November 18

Cobb Hall 307

We celebrate Mrinal Sen‘s birth centenary and his legacy on radical artistic practice with screenings of Bhuvan Shome, Padatik, Akaler Sandhane, and Khandahar; talks by Anustup Basu, Moinak Biswas, Supriya Chaudhuri, Manishita Dass, Sanghita Sen, Meheli Sen, Rochona Majumdar, Neepa Majumdar, Parichay Patra, Masha Salazkina; a closing roundtable featuring Kunal Sen and Anjan Dutt; and an exhibition of Sen‘s memorabilia, photographs, and papers.

This event is free and open to the public. A schedule and registration can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-guerrilla-fighter-mrinal-sen-and-the-legacies-of-radical-cinema-tickets-722853693857?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Presented by 3CT, Committee on South Asian Studies, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Film Studies Center, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections, National Film Archives of India, National Film Development Corporation of India, Nicholson Center for British Studies, and University of Chicago Center in New Delhi.

For more information, please contact Rochona Majumdar (rmajumda@uchicago.edu) or Dan Morgan (drmorgan@uchicago.edu).