TALK "Counter Seductions: The actress in the Colonial Metropolis" > 6:30pm on 24th April 2019

Venue : Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 24/04/2019 18:30 24/04/2019 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Counter Seductions: The actress in the Colonial Metropolis" Event Page : https://www.delhievents.com/2019/04/talk-counter-seductions-actress-colonial-metropolis-frontiers-history-india-international-centre.html Conference Room I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Conference Room I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Counter Seductions: The actress in the Colonial Metropolis"

As part of 'Frontiers of History' Series.

Speaker: Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature and works on performance studies, translation, children's literature and primary education. She currently teaches in the Department of English, University of Delhi. She is the author of Public Women in British India: Icons and the Urban Stage, Routledge, Delhi, 2019

Chair: Sudhir Chandra

What did work mean to the 19th century stage actress? What did she mean to the colonial metropolis? What do we make of fin-de-siècle images, personal narratives and popular print media a century later?

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