*Indian Popular Visual Culture*
Goa University resumes its Visiting Research Professor Programme in the second half of the academic year with Professor Jyotindra Jain’s course on INDIAN POPULAR VISUAL CULTURE. Professor Jyotindra Jain, a Mario Miranda Chair Visiting Professor in Fine Art/Painting/Illustrative Cartooning, etc., will be at Goa University from 2nd to 14th December. Sparked largely by a widespread use of media images in Hindu religious forms of representation in contemporary India, the visual image has attracted much attention among scholars of modern South Asia. The *Picture *is a mode for representing and organising the perceptual world into a sensible unity. With no words, it speaks more than the words. The *Picture *is also a mode of controlling, a form of representation introduced in India through British colonialism. Recognising the dominance of the visual culture, in the printed image, photography, propaganda industries, fashion, and around trade and urbanism, etc., this Course offers a critical understanding of the role of popular Indian visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries in the construction of cultural, social and national identities. Prof. Jyotindra Jain is an Indian art and cultural historian and museologist. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the Director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, Member Secretary and Professor (Cultural Archives), at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, and also Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His teaching and research encompass the entire breadth of folk and tribal art, Indian popular visual culture, ritual dynamics and cultural institutions of the 19th and 20thcenturies. He has published a number of books on Indian folk art, including, *Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting*, *Other Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India* and *Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World*. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a Homi Bhabha Fellow and a visiting Professor at the Center for the Study for World Religions, Harvard University, USA, and was awarded the Prince Claus Awards in 1998. For registration please log on: *www.unigoa.ac.in <http://www.unigoa.ac.in/>* or *http://unigoa.wordpress.com <http://unigoa.wordpress.com/>* [ Parag Datta Parobo, Dept. of History, Goa University, Course Coordinator] -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal Moira, Bardez Goa, India E pinto...@gmail.com P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350
