Event Category: South Asia Seminar Series

Thursday, April 4, 2024 – 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto The arrival of talkies in the early 1930s was an important historical juncture in the aesthetic and economic reformation of Indian cinema. The talk will explore this eventful period of anticipation and arrival through a centrifugal […]

Thursday, April 11, 2024 – 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Laetitia Zecchini, Director of the IRL ‘Humanities’ CNRS, University of Chicago This presentation discusses the role played by print – and especially periodical – culture – during the Cold War. “Pressing the Fight” (Barnhisel & Turner) often happened via magazines on both sides of the Iron […]

Thursday, May 2, 2024 – 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison In the 1990s, India’s mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy, soft-porn films that emerged in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In this talk, the author examines local and transnational influences such as […]