"Texts, Critics and the World: Conversations in the Humanities" conference at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am onwards on 18th & 19th March 2013

Time : 9:00 am onwards

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Conference 'Texts, Critics and the World: Conversations in the Humanities' in association with Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago.

Concept note:
The textual and the visual have been prominent preoccupations of the humanities. How do traces of the past speak to contemporary concerns and shape our viewing and reading? How do events from our times produce traces which demand new approaches and new forms of critical attentiveness? What histories of circulation and proscription, custom and innovation, discipline and resistance press upon our present? This two-day conference is conceived as a conversation between contemporary explorations in history, political science, literary studies and visual theory, where scholars from the University of Chicago and from various institutions in India present and discuss their recent work. Papers address themes ranging from Asokan edicts and Dara Shukoh to the inhabitation of religious and gendered selfhoods, the histories of the book in India, and to contemporary events that shook the world like the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.

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