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).