"The Delhi Metro: A history of the present" talk by Dr. Rashmi Sadana at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th December 2011
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on
‘The Delhi Metro: A history of the present’by Dr. Rashmi Sadana, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
This talk will posit the Delhi Metro – with its undeniable and dramatic change to the city’s landscape and everyday life for so many Dilliwalas – as a way to think about how urban spaces are historicized. In this regard, the talk will present ethnographic research about the interface between several metro stations and the neighborhoods they are now part of. What is the relationship between the Metro and “the street”? Does the Metro allow for the formation of new kinds of “publics”? How do the histories of neighborhoods intersect with new technologies and modes of being that metro stations introduce? Finally, in what ways is the Metro itself becoming a kind of living archive?
Speaker : Dr. Rashmi Sadana received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University from 2003-2007. Her first book, English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India will be published by the University of California Press and Permanent Black in 2012. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on
‘The Delhi Metro: A history of the present’by Dr. Rashmi Sadana, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
This talk will posit the Delhi Metro – with its undeniable and dramatic change to the city’s landscape and everyday life for so many Dilliwalas – as a way to think about how urban spaces are historicized. In this regard, the talk will present ethnographic research about the interface between several metro stations and the neighborhoods they are now part of. What is the relationship between the Metro and “the street”? Does the Metro allow for the formation of new kinds of “publics”? How do the histories of neighborhoods intersect with new technologies and modes of being that metro stations introduce? Finally, in what ways is the Metro itself becoming a kind of living archive?
Speaker : Dr. Rashmi Sadana received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University from 2003-2007. Her first book, English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India will be published by the University of California Press and Permanent Black in 2012. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.
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"The Delhi Metro: A history of the present" talk by Dr. Rashmi Sadana at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th December 2011
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