PUKAR Winter Institute - 2005
Schedule
Theme: Urban Knowledge, Language and the Research
Process
Date: January 6-9, 2005
Partners: Department of Communications and Journalism,
University of Mumbai and KATHA, Delhi.
Venue: Room 144, Department of
Communications and
Journalism
University
of Mumbai, Fort Campus, Mumbai - 400 001
Dear Friends,
The PUKAR Winter Institute 2005 is
envisioned as the second in a series of three such annual Institutes, designed
as opportunities to bring together research scholars from various Mumbai based
research centers (across disciplines and sectors) to engage in a dialogue with
scholars, writers, translators and practitioners.
The Theme this year is 'Urban Knowledge, Language and the
Research Process'
The sessions are as follows:
Day 1
Thursday 6 January 2005
10 30
Introduction
by Rahul Srivastava - Co-Director, PUKAR and
Vyjayanthi Rao - Co-Director PUKAR and Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, New School University, New York.
10 45
Language and Urban Knowledge; Notes from the PUKAR Project:
'Mumbai's Cosmopolitan Archive'
by Project Director Abhay Sardesai -
PUKAR Associate and Editor, Art India, Mumbai.
11 30
Tea
11 45
The KATHA-PUKAR collaboration: 'The Literary
City'
Discussion with acclaimed writers on their work set in
Mumbai:
Telugu - Mohammad Khadeer Babu (Hyderabad)
English - Ashok
Srinivasan (Delhi)
Malayalam - N S Madhavan (Patna)
13 00
Lunch
14 00
The KATHA-PUKAR collaboration: 'The Literary City', Session
II:
Marathi - Dilip Chitre (Pune)
Urdu - Sajid Rashid (Mumbai)
15 15
Tea
15 30
Panel Discussion
'Language, Cinema and the City'
Participants:
Javed
Akhtar - poet, lyricist and script writer
Shabana Azmi - actress, activist
Rachel Dwyer - Chair of the Centre of South Asian Studies at
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London
16 45
Conclusion
Day 2
Friday 7 January 2005
10 30
Review and Discussion on 'Language, Media and the Research
Process'
With students of the Post-Graduate Department of Communications
and Journalism.
11 15
Tea
11: 30
Talk
'Masculinity and Linguistic Nationalism in
Bangalore/Karnataka'
by Tejaswani Niranjana - Senior Fellow, Centre for
Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
Discussion moderated by Shilpa
Phadke, PUKAR Associate and Doctoral Candidate at Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai.
12: 45
Lunch
14 00
Presentation
'Typocity: On Signs and Urban Landscapes'
by Vishal Rawlley and Kurnal Rawat - A SARAI Fellowship Project
15 00
Tea
15 15
Presentation
'Kannada Theatre in Mumbai: A Historical
Perspective'
by Suma Dwarkanath - Doctoral Candidate, University of
Mumbai
16 00
Two Presentations:
'Konkani Print and the Ways of the City',
by Rochelle Pinto - Senior Fellow, KATHA Centre, SNDT
University, Mumbai
'The Female Body and Voice in Performance'
by
Deepa Punjani - Senior Fellow, KATHA Centre, SNDT University,
Mumbai
Discussison Moderated by Mitra Parekh, Head,
Department of English, SNDT University,Mumbai
17 15 Conclusion
Day 3
Saturday 8 January 2005
10 30
Update from PUKAR's Documentation Project:
'Gujarathi, Tamil and Sindhi in Mumbai'
by Aditya Pant, Project Co-ordinator PUKAR
11 00
Panel Discussion
'The City Reported: Representations of Mumbai in
Media'
Facilitated by Sameera Khan, Journalist and PUKAR
Associate
Panelists:
Shishir Joshi - Bureau Chief, AAJ TAK
Kumar Ketkar - Editor, LOK SATTA and PUKAR Advisor
Sajid Rashid - Editor, HINDI MAHANAGAR
Kalpana Sharma - Deputy Editor and Bureau Chief,THE HINDU
and PUKAR Advisor
13 00
Lunch
14 00
Panel Discussion:
'The Death of Language?: Technology,
Language and Globalisation Space'
Coordinated and moderated by
Vyjayanthi Rao
Participants:
Prathibha Maria - Executive in a BPO in
Mumbai
Yashoda Singh and Lakhmi - SARAI Cybermohalla Project,
Delhi
1500
Presentation:
'Antagonisms and Abstract machines'
by
Angad Singh Choudhry - PhD student, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London
15 45
Tea
16 00
Concluding Discussion
Language, Urban Knowledge and the Research Process
by Rahul Srivastava
16 30 Conclusion
Day 4
Sunday 9 January 2005
Please Note Change of Venue:
PUKAR Office, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road,
Fort, Mumbai 400 001
10 00
Participant Presentations
11 00
Tea
11 15
Presentations on PUKAR Projects
13 00
Conclusion
PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge
Action and Research)
Mumbai
Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala
Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001
Telephone:: +91 (022) 5574
8152 / +91 (0) 98204 04010
Email:: pukar@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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