"The Global 60s and its Cultural Afterlife" An Interdisciplinary International Conference at School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ), JNU, New Mehrauli Road > 4th & 5th March 2011

Time : 9:30 am onwards

Entry : Free

Place : Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ), Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU ), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067

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Event Details : 'The Global 60s and its Cultural Afterlife' An Interdisciplinary International Conference
Conference Programme
Friday, March 4, 2011
9.30 - 10.00 - Registration and Tea
10.00 - 10.15 - Opening remarks by Parul Dave Mukherji (Dean)
10.15 – 10.30 - Why the 60s? An Introduction by Ranjani Mazumdar ( Conference convenor)
10.30 – 1.30 -
Panel 1: Confronting Modernist Practice in the 1960s
Chair/Discussant: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
1. Mark Betz: Black and White in Color: The Long Front of Race in Postcolonial European Cinema
2. Nikhil Yadav: Prayer-Protest-Peace: Civil Rights Movement and the Jazz Avant-Garde in 60s America
3. Avinoam Shalem: Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Great Dam of Aswan and the surrealist artist Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar
1.30 – 2.30: Lunch
2.30 – 4.30
Panel 2:  Popular Culture and the Traces of History
Chair/Discussant: Ravi Vasudevan
1. Stella Bruzzi: Approximation: Mad Men and the death of JFK
2. Giti Chandra: Music and War: The Silence of the 60s
4.30 – 4.45: Tea
4.45 - 6.45
Panel 3: Notes from Two Indian Cities
Chair/Discussant: Tapati Guha Thakurta
1. Ranjit Hoskote: “I may yet observe my own birth”: Annotating Bombay in the 1960s, the 1960s in Bombay
2. Rajarshi Dasgupta & Mallarika Sinha Roy: A Culture of Beheading: The Theatrical Politics of the 60s in Bengal
7.00 – 8.30 – The Sound of 60s Music: Played by Five 8 and Friends.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
10.00 – 10.30 - Tea
10.30 – 1.30
Panel 4: Critical Encounters
Chair/Discussant: Gayatri Sinha
1. Geeta Kapur: Vagabondage: artandlife in the sixties
2. May Joseph: Between the Hudson River and the Yamuna: Harmattan Theatre and Riverscapes
3. Amlan Dasgupta: North Indian Classical Music and “World” Music” in the 1960s
1.30 – 2.30: Lunch
2.30 - 5.30
Panel 5: The Circuits of Cultural Exchange
Chair/Discussant: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
1. Irit Rogoff: Conceptual Art in the 1960s
2. Richard Allen: Hitchcock and the Sixties: Sexuality and Film Style
3. Greg Booth: The Hindi Film Song in a Global 1960s
5.30:   Closing and Vote of Thanks
5.45: High Tea

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