Hi friends though it has nothing to do with traditional notions of disabilities. But issues are more complex to be discussed in the seminar. Those who can make it to reach there, will be greatly benefitted. Best way to enjoy weekend.☺ Delhites specially, those who are in academics, go there.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: NMML CCS03 <nmml.cc...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:14:42 +0530 Subject: NMML Workshop on 'Love and Revolution' in collaboration with Dr. G. Arunima, 20-22 January 2012 To: *The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library* *cordially invites you to a Workshop* * * at 9:30 a.m. on Friday to Sunday, 20 to 22 January 2012 in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building on *'**Love and Revolution**' * * * in collaboration with *Dr. G. Arunima* (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) To date two small conference have been held, in Cape Town (October 2010) and Minneapolis (March-April 2011), with a third projected for Delhi (January 2012). This series of research meetings in designed to bring the histories and theories of politics and emotion (and/or affect) into the same analytical frame. Most work has focused so far on the complexities of subject-positions within nationalist struggles and revolutions in the second half of the 20th century. A strong sense has emerged of transnational affective communities, and shared revolutionary texts and figures across oceans and continents that present a common intellectual ground, for instance across South Asia and parts of Africa. Discussions have also highlighted the ways structural adjustment, the Cold War and neoliberalism have in recent years cast into doubt the ostensible certainties and lost possibilities of these earlier forms of political struggle. This allows scholars to draw upon old questions and rethink them in the light of the challenges of the 21st century. The ongoing Love & Revolution exchanges have been intensified by the events unfolding in Egypt and elsewhere in north Africa and the Middle East, but remain grounded in research and theorisation from different locations mainly in the4 global south. In the forthcoming discussion in Delhi, we hope to engage with what the theme might mean for the global south, with its commonalities and dissonances, as indeed how this might help us re-theorize changing politics in contemporary times. *Programme Schedule* *Friday, 20 January 2012* *9:30 - 9:35 a.m.* *Welcome* *Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML* * * *9:35 - 10:00 a.m.* *Opening Remarks* * * *Patricia Hayes, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick and * *G. Arunima* * * *10:00 - 11:30 a.m.*** *PANEL 1* * * *Events of Memory and the Politics of Reconciliation in Sri Lanka* *Malathi de Alwis*, Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo, Sri Lanka *Laughter and Hurt. A Note on Criticism After Apartheid* * * *Suren Pillay*, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * * *Discussant: Mohinder Singh*, Department of Political Science, Delhi University *11:30 - 12:00 noon* *Coffee Break* * * *12:00 - 1:30 p.m.* *PANEL 2* * * *Family and Marriage: Thinking the Impossible**.* * * *Sanal Mohan*, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala *Compound Portraits of Namibian Contract Workers, 1984* *Patricia Hayes*, History Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * * *Discussant: Janaki Nair*, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi *1:30 - 2:30 p.m.* *Lunch* *2:30 - 3:00 p.m.* *PANEL 3* * * *The Joke in Postcolonial Whiteness: 'Racial Degeneracy' and its Vicissitudes'* * * *Ross Truscott*, Doctoral Fellow, Project in Social Change, University of Fort Hare, South Africa *Transnational Intimacies: Kwame Nkrumah, the African Revolution, and the Women in Question* *Jean Allman,* History Department, Washington University, USA * * *Discussant*: *Divya Dwivedi*, Adjunct Faculty, Department of English, Delhi University *4.00- 4.30 p.m.* *Coffee Break* *Saturday, 21 January 2012* * * *9:30 - 11:00 a.m.* *PANEL 4* * * *The Romantic Manifesto: Gender and ‘Outlaw’ Emotions in the Naxalbari Movement** * * * *Mallarika Sinha Roy,* Women’s Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi *Open Secrets, Off the Record. Audience, Intimate Knowledge and the Crisis of the Post-Apartheid State* *Jon Soske*, History Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada * * *Discussant: Ruchi Chaturvedi*, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York & Visiting Fellow, Centre for Humanities Research, UWC *11:00 - 11:30 a.m.* *Coffee Break* * * *11:30 - 1:00 p.m.* *PANEL 5* * * *Reading Bhagat Singh Today* *Simona Sawhney*, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, USA *Eros and Politics: Desire in the Face of Armed Struggle* * * *Kavita Panjabi*, Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta * * *Discussant: Prathama Banerji*, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi *1:00 - 2:00 p.m.* *Lunch* * * *2:00 - 3:30 p.m.* *PANEL 6* * * *National Longing, Political Belonging and the Politics of Affect in a South African Liberation Movement* * * *Ciraj Rassool*, History Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa *Comrades in Love: A Fragment of Communist History in India* *Rajarshi Dasgupta*, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi* * * * *Discussant: G. Arunima*, Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi *3:30- 4:00 p.m.* *Coffee Break* *4:00 - 5:30 p.m.* *PANEL 7* * * *The Predicaments of Exile and the Liberation Archives in South Africa, 1960 to the Present** * * * *Helena Pohlandt McCormick*, History Department, University of Minnesota, USA *Ghosts of the City: Joseph Denfield and the Photograph of Ruin* *Phindi Mnyaka, *Doctoral Fellow, Project in Social Change, University of Fort Hare, S. Africa* * * * *Discussant: Baidik Bhattacharya,* Department of English, Delhi University *Sunday, 22 January 2012* * * *9:30 - 11:00 a.m.* *PANEL 8* * * *Problems of Women, Work and Emancipation** * * * *Martina Rieker*, Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University at Cairo, Egypt *Remembering Socialism in Eastern Europe. Why Affect Matters* *Tanya Petrovic*, Department for Interdisciplinary Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia* * * * *Discussant: Premesh Lalu*, Centre for Humanities research, University of the Western Cape* * * * *11:00 - 11:30 a.m.* *Coffee Break* * * *11:30 - 1:30 p.m.* *PANEL 9* * * *The Photograph as Intimate Event: South African Documentary Photographs, Portraiture and the Subject in History** * * * *Gary Minkley,* Chair in Social Change, University of Fort Hare, South Africa *Impossible Inhabitations: Love and the Subject in C. Ayyappan's Short Stories * *Udaya Kumar*, Department of English, Delhi University* * * * *Where Does Sadness Come From* * * *Pramesh Lalu** * * * *Discussant: Sanil V*., Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi *1:30 - 2:30 p.m.* *Lunch* *2:30- 3:30 p.m.* *FINAL SESSION* * * * * *Roundtable: Rapportage and Discussion* ___________________________________________________________________ * * *All are welcome but advance intimation will be much appreciated as it will help us with arrangements including lunch.* Address: Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi. Note: *There is an elevator for the First Floor for those who may need to use it.* -- "The best things and most beautiful things in the world Cannot be seen or even touched. 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