"The Architectures of Erotica: Political, Social, Ritual An Interdisciplinary" International Conference at JNU, , New Mehrauli Road > 10th-12th November 2010
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Event Details : 'The Architectures of Erotica: Political, Social, Ritual An Interdisciplinary' International Conference.
What constitutes the erotic ? Why is it represented with such frequency in Indian cultural practices ? How do we interpret these practices? These have been questions central to Indian art history since the very inception of the discipline, presenting us with an opportunity now to trace the historiography of interpretations / constructions of erotica. This question is once again timely in the light of current censorship debates in which paintings, sculptures, films and performances have been put under a magnifying glass. The School of Arts and Aesthetics is organizing a conference to explore the erotic within the context of religious, ritual and secular practices from pre modern through to contemporary times. Our conference will address a broad canvas of culture by involving speakers from cinema studies, theatre and performance studies, history, indology, anthropology and visual studies.
Conference Programme :
WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER, 2010
9.30–10.00 am: Registration, welcome address by the Dean SAA
10.00–11.30 am:
Panel Theme: Getting it Right: Norms and Canons for Practice and Depiction of Sex
Chair: R.N Misra
1. Naman P. Ahuja: Post-Mauryan Erotic Imagery: The Emergence of an Iconographic Canon
2. Shonaleeka Kaul: Sex and the City: Erotic love in early Indian literature
3. Sandhya Sharma: Accommodating ‘Eroticism’ in Medieval North Indian Society: Some reflections on Braj Bhasha poetry
12.00–1.30 pm:
Panel Theme: Erotic Rituals
Chair: Kumkum Roy
1. Y. S. Alone: Nairitti to Urvashi/Lajjagauri: Yoni images in the ritualistic context
2. Debashree Dattaray: A Lost Tradition: An epistemological survey of erotic songs in Karbi death rituals
3. Deo N Pathak: The Janus-faced Art-erotica of Mithila: A case study of Maithili folksongs
1.30–2.30pm: Lunch
2.30–4.00 pm:
Panel Theme: A Public Space for the Erotic
Chair: Ira Bhaskar
1. Santosh Kumar Mallik : Erotica in Temple Art of Odisha: Reflections on the Dari-Mahari-Devadasi tradition
2. Sunil Kothari: Notion of Eroticism in the Context of Tawaifs, Nautch dancers, and Mujra dance
3. Rashmi Doraiswami: Erotica in the Hindi Film Song: The cabaret, the mujra, the bazaar song
4.00–4.15 pm: Tea
4.15–5.00 pm:
Keynote Address by Devangana Desai - Karpuramanjari: The bathing beauty in art
7.00– 8.00 pm: ‘Black Candy [Iforgotmypenisathome]’ Opening of an Exhibition by Mithu Sen (10th-26th November)
Venue: The School of Arts and Aesthetics, First Floor, Old Building.
Also showing:
'Waste,' an exhibition curated by the MA students of the School of Arts and Aesthetics (On till 18th November)
Venue: The School of Arts and Aesthetics, First Floor, New Building.
For this exhibition project, part of their course On Curating, the students engaged with ragpickers and other workers involved in disposing and recycling Delhi's solid waste. They have translated their experiences and research into an exhibition.
8.00 pm: Dinner for delegates and organizing committee
THURSDAY, 11th NOVEMBER 2010
10.00–11.30am:
Panel Theme: Framing the Sacred Erotic
Chair: Parul Dave Mukherji
1. R. N. Misra: Erotica in Sacred Space: Exploring the visual and religious cultures of medieval northern Madhya Pradesh
2. Isabelle Onians: Compelled to Coitus: Buddhist erotic conundrums
3. Madhu Khanna: The Literal and the Symbolic: Decoding some ‘erotic’ representations in Shakta Tantra
12.00–1.00 pm:
Panel Theme: Scandal and Censorship: Reactions to the Erotic
Chair: Y.S Alone
1. Premjish: The Reception of Kanayi’s ‘Yakshi’ in Kerala’s Public Sphere: Exploring the fear, shock, and legends
2. Darshana Sreedhar: Representational Schematics in B-grade Malayalam Cinema: Positioning of the female body
1.00–2.00pm: Lunch
2.00–4.00 pm:
Panel Themes: Male Bodies, Male Projections?
Chair: Ranjani Mazumdar
1. Kavita Singh: Congress of Kings: Thoughts on paintings of kings having sex
2. Shikha Jhingan: The Erotics of the Gangster’s Song
3. John Xaviers: The Naked Emperor and Nude Subjects: Subodh Gupta in Indian men exposed
4. Diepiriye Sungumote Kuku-Siemons: Virtual Privacy among MSM in Delhi: An ethnography of the construction of gay erotica through fashioning the erotic self in the parallel virtual world
4.00–4.15 pm: Tea
4.15–5 pm:
Keynote Address by Kalpana Ram: The Shifting Affects of Eroticism as Sringara Rasa: Class tensions around ‘taste’ and modernity
6.30 pm: ‘Man of the Heart’: A Performance by Sudipto Chatterjee in collaboration with Soumya Chakrabarti and Mriganabhi Chattopadhyay
FRIDAY 12th NOVEMBER 2010
10–11.30 am:
Panel Theme: A ‘National’ Erotic? Part 1
Chair: Gayatri Sinha
1. Parul Dave Mukherji: The Clothing and Unclothing of Shakuntala: Through the eyes of Kalidasa, Dushyanta and Ravi Varma
2. Niharika Dinkar: The Female Nude: Erotics of the naked and the clothed in nineteenth century India
3. Rimli Bhattacharya: Bringing back the Apsaras
12–1.30pm:
Panel Theme: A 'National' Erotic? Part 2
Chair: Sudipto Chatterjee
1. Priyanka Basu: Viewing the ‘Erotic’, Mapping the ‘Aesthetic’: The ‘sanctified’ body in Indian dance
2. Joppan George: Talk of the Town: Eroticism and morality in the 1930s popular film magazines
3. Aarti Wani: The Fifties’ Film Song: Explorations of the erotic
1.30–2.30: Lunch
2.30–4pm:
Panel Theme: Refuting the National Erotic: Provocations
Chair: Jyotindra Jain
1. Sumanta Banerjee: Erotica Quarantined: Bengal’s experience under colonial rule
2. Sabeena Gadihoke: Naughty Girls: The pin up in Blitz
3. Ranjani Mazumdar: Global Travel, Eroticism and Love in 1960s Bombay Cinema
4–4.15 pm: Tea
4.15–5.00pm
Keynote Address by Ebba Koch: Shah Jahan as Majnun
SATURDAY 13th NOVEMBER 2010
10–12pm:
Panel Theme: Mediums of Desire
Chair: Kavita Singh
1. Jutta Jain-Neubauer: A Brahmin's Head and a Courtesan's Foot: Erotics, morality and caste in a fifth century Sanskrit Play
2. Rakhee Balaram: Fearful Symmetry: Amrita Sher-Gil’s Two Girls
3. Smita Mitra: Scandalous Love: Eroticism in/and popular Bangla love films of 1950s.
4. Ira Bhaskar: Shringar and Ishq: The Idiom and affect of the erotic of Bombay cinema
12–12.30 pm: Tea
12.30–1.30 pm:
Panel Theme: Altered Sexualities, Trans-gendered Erotica
Chair: Naman P. Ahuja
1. Alka Pande: The Pleasures of Sartoria—The Dandy Nawab—Wajid Ali Shah
2. Deb Kamal Ganguly: Polysemic Pictograms: The lure of androgyny in the 19th century bazaar art in Bengal
1.30–2.30pm: Lunch
2.30–4.30 pm:
Panel Theme: Presence and Absences of Erotica in India
Chair: Rakhee Balaram
1. Gourab Ghosh: Rani Kahini: Tales of the “queer” erotica
2. Agastaya Thapa: Why the Fan Girls Want More: Homo/eroticism and Yaoi in India
3. Shohini Ghosh: Camp, Style and Testimony: The emergence of queer independent film
Vote of Thanks
4.45 pm: Trip to Jamali Kamali and Mehrauli archaeological park, arriving at the Qutub Minar, to see it after sundown
Related Events : Talks
Place : Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ), Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU ), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Hauz Khas'
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What constitutes the erotic ? Why is it represented with such frequency in Indian cultural practices ? How do we interpret these practices? These have been questions central to Indian art history since the very inception of the discipline, presenting us with an opportunity now to trace the historiography of interpretations / constructions of erotica. This question is once again timely in the light of current censorship debates in which paintings, sculptures, films and performances have been put under a magnifying glass. The School of Arts and Aesthetics is organizing a conference to explore the erotic within the context of religious, ritual and secular practices from pre modern through to contemporary times. Our conference will address a broad canvas of culture by involving speakers from cinema studies, theatre and performance studies, history, indology, anthropology and visual studies.
Conference Programme :
WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER, 2010
9.30–10.00 am: Registration, welcome address by the Dean SAA
10.00–11.30 am:
Panel Theme: Getting it Right: Norms and Canons for Practice and Depiction of Sex
Chair: R.N Misra
1. Naman P. Ahuja: Post-Mauryan Erotic Imagery: The Emergence of an Iconographic Canon
2. Shonaleeka Kaul: Sex and the City: Erotic love in early Indian literature
3. Sandhya Sharma: Accommodating ‘Eroticism’ in Medieval North Indian Society: Some reflections on Braj Bhasha poetry
12.00–1.30 pm:
Panel Theme: Erotic Rituals
Chair: Kumkum Roy
1. Y. S. Alone: Nairitti to Urvashi/Lajjagauri: Yoni images in the ritualistic context
2. Debashree Dattaray: A Lost Tradition: An epistemological survey of erotic songs in Karbi death rituals
3. Deo N Pathak: The Janus-faced Art-erotica of Mithila: A case study of Maithili folksongs
1.30–2.30pm: Lunch
2.30–4.00 pm:
Panel Theme: A Public Space for the Erotic
Chair: Ira Bhaskar
1. Santosh Kumar Mallik : Erotica in Temple Art of Odisha: Reflections on the Dari-Mahari-Devadasi tradition
2. Sunil Kothari: Notion of Eroticism in the Context of Tawaifs, Nautch dancers, and Mujra dance
3. Rashmi Doraiswami: Erotica in the Hindi Film Song: The cabaret, the mujra, the bazaar song
4.00–4.15 pm: Tea
4.15–5.00 pm:
Keynote Address by Devangana Desai - Karpuramanjari: The bathing beauty in art
7.00– 8.00 pm: ‘Black Candy [Iforgotmypenisathome]’ Opening of an Exhibition by Mithu Sen (10th-26th November)
Venue: The School of Arts and Aesthetics, First Floor, Old Building.
Also showing:
'Waste,' an exhibition curated by the MA students of the School of Arts and Aesthetics (On till 18th November)
Venue: The School of Arts and Aesthetics, First Floor, New Building.
For this exhibition project, part of their course On Curating, the students engaged with ragpickers and other workers involved in disposing and recycling Delhi's solid waste. They have translated their experiences and research into an exhibition.
8.00 pm: Dinner for delegates and organizing committee
THURSDAY, 11th NOVEMBER 2010
10.00–11.30am:
Panel Theme: Framing the Sacred Erotic
Chair: Parul Dave Mukherji
1. R. N. Misra: Erotica in Sacred Space: Exploring the visual and religious cultures of medieval northern Madhya Pradesh
2. Isabelle Onians: Compelled to Coitus: Buddhist erotic conundrums
3. Madhu Khanna: The Literal and the Symbolic: Decoding some ‘erotic’ representations in Shakta Tantra
12.00–1.00 pm:
Panel Theme: Scandal and Censorship: Reactions to the Erotic
Chair: Y.S Alone
1. Premjish: The Reception of Kanayi’s ‘Yakshi’ in Kerala’s Public Sphere: Exploring the fear, shock, and legends
2. Darshana Sreedhar: Representational Schematics in B-grade Malayalam Cinema: Positioning of the female body
1.00–2.00pm: Lunch
2.00–4.00 pm:
Panel Themes: Male Bodies, Male Projections?
Chair: Ranjani Mazumdar
1. Kavita Singh: Congress of Kings: Thoughts on paintings of kings having sex
2. Shikha Jhingan: The Erotics of the Gangster’s Song
3. John Xaviers: The Naked Emperor and Nude Subjects: Subodh Gupta in Indian men exposed
4. Diepiriye Sungumote Kuku-Siemons: Virtual Privacy among MSM in Delhi: An ethnography of the construction of gay erotica through fashioning the erotic self in the parallel virtual world
4.00–4.15 pm: Tea
4.15–5 pm:
Keynote Address by Kalpana Ram: The Shifting Affects of Eroticism as Sringara Rasa: Class tensions around ‘taste’ and modernity
6.30 pm: ‘Man of the Heart’: A Performance by Sudipto Chatterjee in collaboration with Soumya Chakrabarti and Mriganabhi Chattopadhyay
FRIDAY 12th NOVEMBER 2010
10–11.30 am:
Panel Theme: A ‘National’ Erotic? Part 1
Chair: Gayatri Sinha
1. Parul Dave Mukherji: The Clothing and Unclothing of Shakuntala: Through the eyes of Kalidasa, Dushyanta and Ravi Varma
2. Niharika Dinkar: The Female Nude: Erotics of the naked and the clothed in nineteenth century India
3. Rimli Bhattacharya: Bringing back the Apsaras
12–1.30pm:
Panel Theme: A 'National' Erotic? Part 2
Chair: Sudipto Chatterjee
1. Priyanka Basu: Viewing the ‘Erotic’, Mapping the ‘Aesthetic’: The ‘sanctified’ body in Indian dance
2. Joppan George: Talk of the Town: Eroticism and morality in the 1930s popular film magazines
3. Aarti Wani: The Fifties’ Film Song: Explorations of the erotic
1.30–2.30: Lunch
2.30–4pm:
Panel Theme: Refuting the National Erotic: Provocations
Chair: Jyotindra Jain
1. Sumanta Banerjee: Erotica Quarantined: Bengal’s experience under colonial rule
2. Sabeena Gadihoke: Naughty Girls: The pin up in Blitz
3. Ranjani Mazumdar: Global Travel, Eroticism and Love in 1960s Bombay Cinema
4–4.15 pm: Tea
4.15–5.00pm
Keynote Address by Ebba Koch: Shah Jahan as Majnun
SATURDAY 13th NOVEMBER 2010
10–12pm:
Panel Theme: Mediums of Desire
Chair: Kavita Singh
1. Jutta Jain-Neubauer: A Brahmin's Head and a Courtesan's Foot: Erotics, morality and caste in a fifth century Sanskrit Play
2. Rakhee Balaram: Fearful Symmetry: Amrita Sher-Gil’s Two Girls
3. Smita Mitra: Scandalous Love: Eroticism in/and popular Bangla love films of 1950s.
4. Ira Bhaskar: Shringar and Ishq: The Idiom and affect of the erotic of Bombay cinema
12–12.30 pm: Tea
12.30–1.30 pm:
Panel Theme: Altered Sexualities, Trans-gendered Erotica
Chair: Naman P. Ahuja
1. Alka Pande: The Pleasures of Sartoria—The Dandy Nawab—Wajid Ali Shah
2. Deb Kamal Ganguly: Polysemic Pictograms: The lure of androgyny in the 19th century bazaar art in Bengal
1.30–2.30pm: Lunch
2.30–4.30 pm:
Panel Theme: Presence and Absences of Erotica in India
Chair: Rakhee Balaram
1. Gourab Ghosh: Rani Kahini: Tales of the “queer” erotica
2. Agastaya Thapa: Why the Fan Girls Want More: Homo/eroticism and Yaoi in India
3. Shohini Ghosh: Camp, Style and Testimony: The emergence of queer independent film
Vote of Thanks
4.45 pm: Trip to Jamali Kamali and Mehrauli archaeological park, arriving at the Qutub Minar, to see it after sundown
Related Events : Talks
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