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February 2, 2009

Protest against Mangalore Incident in Delhi, Feb 3


Protest against Assault on Women in Mangalore Pub and State Inaction

We condemn the brutal assault by members of the Sri Ram Sene on young women in a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka, on Saturday, 24 January 2009. We are shocked by the response of the State administration, police, and political leadership, some of whom have dismissed this as a 'minor incident', while others have blatantly justified the violence. We believe that such threats to the democratic freedom and human rights of citizens, cannot be treated as 'minor'. This incident, and the unabashed justifications of it are part of a larger trend to curb the freedoms of women in the name of a regressive and distorted notion of Indian culture and tradition.

To strongly condemn the disturbing trend of violence against women and 'moral policing' as a means to enforce a particularly regressive interpretation of culture, there will be a protest on Tuesday 3rd February, outside Karnatak Bhavan, Chanakyapuri (near Samrat hotel), Delhi, at 3 pm.

Jagori, Nirantar, Saheli, Sama

http://youngfeminists.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/protest-against-mangalore-incident-in-delhi/

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January 31, 2009

The Kabir Festival, Feb 23-Mar 1, Bangalore


The Kabir Festival, started by filmmaker Shabnam Virmani, is week long event, a festive yet critical immersion in the ideas of the 15th century mystic weaver poet Kabir, through a series of film screenings, live music concerts by folk, classical and Sufi singers from India and Pakistan, discussions, seminars, an exhibition and outreach events in colleges, institutions of higher education, socio-cultural and religious communities in and around, Bangalore.

www.kabirproject.org

http://www.thekabirfest.blogspot.com/

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January 31, 2009

Talk by Philosopher Jacques Ranciere, Feb 6-7, Delhi


From: Jeebesh
Subject: Jacques Ranciere: Revisiting Nights of Labour



Jacques Ranciere: Revisiting Nights of Labour

Sarai invites you to a public talk by renowned philosopher Jacques
Ranciere, the release of the Hindi translation of his book Nights of
Labour: Workers' Dream in 19th Century France. (Sarvahara Raatein:
Unneesaveen sadi ke Frans mein Mazdoor Swapna). The book has been
translated from the English by Abhay Kumar Dube.  This the first in a
series of translations of outstanding texts to be published by Sarai-
CSDS and Vani Prakashan.

Date:  Friday, 6th February, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: CSDS , 29 Rajpur Road

Workshop and Roundtable with Ranciere.

Saturday 7th February
Time: 10 am
Venue: CSDS , 29 Rajpur Road

Jacques Ranciere is a well known philosopher and writer. As a young
student, Ranciere, co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the
Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. Ranciere later broke with
Althusser over the 1968 uprising in France. Since the 1970s Ranciere
has produced a number of remarkable texts that range from working
class history, philosophy, education, politics, and aesthetics. His
books include  The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual
Emancipation(1991), The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge
(1994), The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible
Tr. Gabriel Rockhill (2004),The Future of the Image (2007).

Ranciere wrote The Nights of Labour after years of archival work. It
traces the world of worker intellectuals in 19th century France, who,
through their poems, music, letters, produced a world that did not
celebrate work as in conventional socialist  texts, but a life outside
it. Radical in its style and argument, Nights of Labour, offers not
just a revision of working class history, but the relation between
politics, knowledge, aesthetics and equality, all of which have become
topics of  Ranciere's future books.

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This event has been made possible by the support of the French
Embassy, Delhi.
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January 30, 2009

Public Readings at the Almost Island Conference, Feb 12-15, Delhi


From: Vivek Narayanan
Subject: Almost Island Conference between Indian and Chinese Writers



Hi all,

This year's Almost Island Dialogues has public readings in the evening
that are free to all, and morning discussions where we ask for a
registration fee of Rs. 500 (350 for students) that helps us to cover
the costs and includes lunch on all three days.  If you'd like to come
to those morning sessions, do write to Ashwini Bhat.  (See below)

Thanks
Vivek

ALMOST ISLAND DIALOGUES: THREE
INDIA-CHINA

At the India International Centre, New Delhi
Feb 12-15, 2009


Almost Island is a web journal for international literature,
(www.almostisland.com), edited by fiction writer Sharmistha Mohanty,
with the poet Vivek Narayanan as consulting editor. Each year, we also
organize a dialogue between writers from India and abroad. This year the
dialogues are between India and China, and a group of writers from China
will be coming to New Delhi from Feb. 12th-15th.

The Chinese writers will be led by the Chinese poet in exile and several
times Nobel nominee, Bei Dao, one of China's foremost poets, and will
include Xi Chuan (poet), Ge Fei (fiction), Zhai Yongming (poet), Li Tuo
(critic), and Ouyang Jianghe (poet). These are writers associated with
Jintian (Today), a journal begun by Bei Dao and some other poets of his
generation in 1978.

 The Indian writers will be Kunwar Narain, K. Satchidanandan, Vinod
Kumar Shukla, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Irwin Allan Sealy, Joy Goswami,
Sharmistha Mohanty, Vivek Narayanan, and Ashis Nandy.

Past participants in these two conferences have been, George Szirtes,
winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, Nobel nominee Claudio Magris and poet
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, among others. There are discussions in the day
to which a handpicked audience is invited. The audience is sent some
work by the writers beforehand. In the evenings there are public
readings. These are small conferences, held over three days, at Delhi's
India International Centre, where an enquiry happens into fundamental
questions in literature. Almost Island does not seek to do a literary
"festival", but rather something much more intimate and rigorous. The
emphasis is on dialogue between writers, and an interface with a
serious, interested public, where numbers are not the determining factor.

MORNING DISCUSSIONS

There will be three closed-door discussions, on the mornings of Feb. 13,
14, and 15th. For these three morning discussions, there is a combined
registration fee of Rs. 500, (Rs. 350 for students) that covers all
three days, and includes lunch at the IIC after the discussions.

Once you have confirmed your participation in the morning sessions, we
will e-mail you the subject of the discussions, some writing by the
Chinese writers, and those Indian writers whose work may not be widely
available.

Please contact Almost Island Editorial Assistant Ashwini Bhat at
ashwinibhat00@yahoo.co.in  in order to register.

PUBLIC READINGS

The public readings are free and open to all.


Thursday, Feb. 12th:
 6.30pm. India International Centre, Conference Room II

 Xi Chuan (poet), Rukmini Bhaya Nair (poet), Zhai Yongming (poet),
Kunwar Narain (poet)

Friday, Feb.13th:
6.30pm. India International Centre: Annexe: Lecture Hall

Vivek Narayanan (poet), Ge Fei (fiction), K. Satchidanandan (poet)

Saturday, Feb.14th:
6.30pm. India International Centre: Annexe: Lecture Hall

Ouyang Jianghe (poet), Sharmistha Mohanty (fiction), Irwin Allan Sealy
(fiction)


Sunday, Feb.15th:
6.30pm. India International Centre, Conference Room II

Joy Goswami (poet), Vinod Kumar Shukla (poet), Bei Dao (poet)


All work will be read in the original and in English translation. These
readings are open to all.

If you have any queries please contact :

Ashwini Bhat, Editorial Assistant for Almost Island at:
ashwinibhat00@yahoo.co.in

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January 28, 2009

Film Fest in Bhopal, Jan 31-Feb 1

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From: Tultul Biswas tultulbiswas@yahoo.com

Doston,

Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch (MPMM) - an autonomous, non-funded women's group - is organising a two-day festival of films made by women. Though many of you are situated out of Bhopal, we thought you would be interested and the festival being on a weekend may allow you to participate in it.

Please do come to:
MAHILA MATINEE
on 31st Jan and 1st Feb 2009 (Saturday and Sunday)
at Bharat Bhavan
from 2.00 pm onwards

A detailed schedule is attached, both in Hindi and English.
We also need your contributions -- monetary as well as volunteer time at the venue. Kindly help us in whatever way you can.

Do circulate this to all your friends and acquaintances.
With warm regards,
Pinki, Maheen, Seema, Rinchin, Shivani, Tultul, Manisha, Neeti, Pragya, Sudeepa, Smita...
on behalf of MPMM

(The attached file - film fest schedule - opens with Adobe Reader.)



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January 27, 2009

Nigah Queer Writing Workshop (Feb 1) and Open Mic (Feb 13) in Delhi


http://nigahdelhi.blogspot.com/

Nigah invites you to a queer writing workshop:

Inviting writers of any genre, gender or generation to come, read, write, listen and subvert the ways in which we imagine/are supposed to imagine our many genders and sexualities. We will discuss how our queerness and writing affect each other and try some writing exercises so do bring along your pens!

WHEN: Sunday 1st February 2009
WHERE: India Coffee House, Mohansingh Place, Connaught Place
TIME: 5 pm to 7 pm

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Nigah presents>>
QueerCafe - the fourth annual open mic

Voices that challenge, queer, and subvert the ways in which we
imagine/are supposed to imagine our many genders and sexualities.

Friday, 13th February, 06.30 pm
The Attic, Regal Building
Connaught Place, New Delhi

Inviting readings, performances, poetry, songs, video, films, mimes,
erotica, rants, raves, elegies, odes, limmericks, nazms, what have
you. Your audience is waiting.

Open to all and entries invited in any language.
Time slot per participant: 10 minutes
To sign up or for questions, write to us: contact@nigah.org

We hope that the evening will bring together some of Delhi's most
exciting performances that will delight audiences of all genders and
sexualities.

Do join us, participate and spread the word!

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January 22, 2009

Talk on Inheritance of Alphanumeric Characters, Jan 24, Bangalore

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pranesh Prakash pranesh AT cis-india.org
Subject: CIS Event | Abhishek Hazra: Inheritance of Alphanumeric Characters

Dear All,
CIS and Abhishek Hazra welcome you to a talk on 'Inheritance of
Alphanumeric Characters', Abhishek's recent body of work currently on
display at Gallery SKE, Bangalore. These works attempt to engage with
the social history of science and the way the practice of science is
deeply contextualised within the larger discourse of power and
knowledge systems. It is also about negotiating with the 'inheritance'
of discourses like Orientalism or Stalinism and finding ways of
engaging critically with that legacy.

At one level, the title, 'Inheritance of Alphanumeric Characters' can
be parsed as an allusion to the centrality of language in this entire
process. It is also a reference to the phrase 'Inheritance of Acquired
Characters', a popular one-liner on Lamarkism, an influential early
19th century theory of evolution that was discredited by the
Darwinian-Mendelian paradigm. Abhishek uses multiple modalities -
video and spoken word performance to artist's books and large-scale
digital prints – to articulate his ongoing explorations.

Date and Time: Saturday, 24 January 2009, 5.00 pm - 6.00 pm
Venue: Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff
Chambers, 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560052
Phone: +91 80 4092 6283

Artist Profile:

Abhishek Hazra is a visual artist based in Bangalore. His work
explores the intersections between technology and culture through the
narrative device of a 'visual fable'. He is also interested in the
social history of scientific practices, and his current, ongoing
project attempts to explore the history of science research in
colonial India. Abhishek works with animated shorts and digital
slideshows that often integrate textual fragments drawn from fictional
scenarios. He is also interested in the way in which the languages of
science journalism and information visualisation participate in the
complex dynamics of 'knowledge dissemination' and 'translation'.
Recent shows include First Left, Second Right, a 3 person show at
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York with Yamini Nayar and Kiran Subbaiah;
Horn Please. Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art (Curated by
Bernhard Fibicher and Suman Gopinath), Kunstmuseum Bern and Ghosts in
the Machine and other Fables: an exhibition of video, sound and
interactive works at Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi (Curated by
Pooja Sood). A brief overview of some of his works can be found here:
http://abhishekhazra.blogspot.com/


Regards,
Pranesh

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January 22, 2009

Asia Society India Centre's Upcoming Events


From programs@asiasociety.org.in

The Asia Society India Centre is pleased to announce its involvement in the following events.

 

Jaipur Literature Festival January 21st-25th, 2009, Jaipur, Rajasthan

The festival programme includes readings, talks, literary lunches, debates, performance, children's workshops and interactive activities. Entering its fourth year, the festival will be hosting some of the best-known national and international writers including Vikram Seth,  Pico Iyer, Simon Schama, Colin Thubron, Patrick French, Tina Brown, Mohammed Hanif, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Coleman Barks, Chetan Bhagat, Charles Nicholl, Hari Kunzru, Michael Wood, Nandan Nilkeni, Paul Zacharia, Prasoon Joshi, Shashi Tharoor, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Tarun Tejpal, Wendy Doniger, U R Ananthamurthy , among many others with music from DJ Cheb I Sabbah and Paban Das Baul.

 

Asia Society Sponsored Panel Discussion

Defining Diaspora

With Authors Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Tahmima Anam, and Tash Aw

January 22nd, 2009 3:30pm

Mughal Tent, Diggi Palace, Jaipur

 

 

Archiving the Art Histories: Exigencies and Challenges in Pedagogy and Research; February 5th-7th 2009, Vadodara, Gujarat

 

Drawing on theoretical understandings that have led to a rethinking of the archive and archiving practices, the conference proposes to focus on two key concerns: the first is to survey the history and the presently existing archiving, research and teaching practices of art history in the art schools in India. Secondly, the conference is directed towards thinking through and devising ways of improving the present state of visual archives in the art teaching institutions in the country. Thus the conference will be a step towards evolving a plan for intervening in arts teaching and research institutions in helping them to build visual archives in order to further research in the Visual Arts and the Humanities. Among this year's attendees are Savithri Preetha Nair and Philip Dodd.

 

Asia Society Sponsored Events:

 

Savithri Preetha Nair, New India Foundation Fellow 2008-09

At the Interface between Art and Science: Tanjore's Response to the Colonial Encounter, 1798-1832

February 2nd, 2009 6pm

The School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

 

Philip Dodd, Founder, Made in China

Lifestyle China: The Global Rise of China's Creative Industries

February 4th, 2009 6pm

National Gallery of Modern Art Auditorium, Colaba, Mumbai

 

For more information regarding these events, mail them.

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January 21, 2009

Lecture on 'Western Secularisation & Globalisation', Jan 30, Delhi


From: Rajesh Ramakrishnan <rajeshr@csds.in>
Subject: B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture- `Western Secularisation and Globalisation'; Jose Casanova



*Friday, 30th January, 2009*


Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) cordially invites you to
the



*13th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture** *



*`Western Secularisation and Globalisation'*



By *Professor* *Jose Casanova***


at *5 PM *at the *Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054*

* *

*José Casanova* is one of the world's leading scholars in the sociology of
religion. Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
Georgetown University, he also heads the Berkley Center's Program on
Globalisation, Religion and the Secular. He has published works in a broad
range of subjects, including religion and globalisation, migration and
religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His
best-known work, *Public Religions in the Modern World* (University of
Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field.



Professor Casanova has taught at the New School for Social Research from
1987 to 2007, where he occupied numerous distinguished positions including
Chair of the Sociology Department and of the Committee on Historical
Studies. In addition to his primary appointments, he has held visiting
academic positions at New York University, at the Harriman Institute of
Columbia University, at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in
Vienna, at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, at the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and at the Central European University in
Budapest.



His most recent research has focused primarily on two areas: globalisation
and religion, and the dynamics of transnational religion, migration, and
increasing ethno-religious and cultural diversity. In studying religion and
globalisation, his research has adopted an ambitious comparative perspective
that includes Catholicism, Pentecostalism and Islam within its scope. His
work on transnational migration and religion explores the incorporation of
minorities and the construction of transnational networks, identities and
structures.



*B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lectures* are instituted in memory of the
distinguished economist-intellectual Professor B.N. Ganguli, former Chair,
CSDS Board of Governors. Earlier speakers in the series include Professors
Charles Taylor, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Raimundo Panikkar, Bhikhu Parekh,
Ernest Gellner, Ali Mazrui, Roberto Unger, Michael Walzer, John Keane, Amit
Bhaduri, Giorgio Agamben and Bina Agarwal.

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January 21, 2009

Bangalore Cycling Inclusive Planning Workshop, Jan 30-31

 

Workshop details can be seen at:

http://rideacycle.org/?page_id=53


Excerpts from Pradeep B V's mail:

RideACycle Foundation is pleased to invite you to participate in the Bangalore Cycling Inclusive Planning Workshop on the 30th and the 31st of January 2009.

The workshop will be held at the KSRTC central office on KH Double Road, Shanthinagar, Bangalore.

Cycling Inclusive Planning Workshop Bangalore - Why, What and How


The objectives and goals of the workshop are to:
       1. Understand the current International and Indian discourses on cycling friendly cities in order to formulate a base awareness of the issues involved, among the various stakeholders
       2. To reach an informed consensus together with all stakeholders as to what approach would work best for the city of Bangalore
       3. To formulate a base structure for capacity building of the city of Bangalore and outline a plan for inputs needed to make the city self-sufficient to implement plans on cycle inclusive transport systems.
       4. To put together an action plan and get commitment from the stakeholders to their roles in its implementation

If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

Sincerely,
Pradeep B V
RideACycle Foundation
www.rideacycle.org
Bangalore




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