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Asia Society India Centre Conference:
Trans-Asian Frames
September 13th - 15th, 2007
9:30 - 5:30 pm
Department of Film Studies
Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, UG Arts Building
Jadavpur University |
Programme
September 13, Thursday
Inauguration: 10:00 am to 10:30 am
Tea Break
Session One
10:45 am to 1:45 pm
Chair: Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, Jadavpur University and Roopkala Kendro, Kolkata
In/Visible Cinema, Empty Archive: Toward the Colonial Film Historiography
Kim Soyoung, Korean National University of Arts, Seoul
Querying the "Traditional" Roots of Silent Cinema in Asia: The Cases of India and Japan
Kaushik Bhaumik, Osian's, Mumbai
Vision and its Dis-contents in Post-Colonial and Post-Imperial Cinema
Earl Jackson, Korea University, Seoul
Lunch: 1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
2:30 pm to 5:00 pm (with Tea Break)
Panel One: The Travel of Asian Popular Forms: Circuits of Dissemination, Modes of Adaptation
Chua Beng-Huat (National University of Singapore), SV Srinivas, Kim Soyoung, Bhaskar Sarkar
Moderator: Lawrence Liang
Panel Two: The Artistic Adventure of Asian Cinema: Forms and Institutions
Kaushik Bhaumik, Ravi Vasudevan (Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University), Maheen Zia (University of Karachi, Karachi)
Moderator: Madhava Prasad (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
September 14, Friday
Session One
10:30 am to 12:15 pm
Chair: Anindya Sengupta, Jadavpur University
Cinema at the Edges of Digital Reproduction
Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
The Cinematic Emigration of Bangladesh to India
Zakir Hossain Raju, Independent University of Bangladesh, Dhaka
Tea Break
Session Two
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Chair: Madhuja Mukherjee, Jadavpur University
Theorizing New Asian Cinemas: Problems of the Historicist Approach
Manas Ghosh, Jadavpur University
The New Urban Space: The Case of Taiwan Cinema
Michelle Baitali Bhowmik, Jadavpur University
Lunch: 1:45 to 2:30 pm
2:30 pm to 5:30 pm (with Tea Break)
Panel Three: Asian Cinema and Its South Asian Reception
Maheen Zia, Lawrence Liang, Ravi Vasudevan, Madhava Prasad, Subhajit Chatterjee (Jadavpur University)
Moderator: Earl Jackson
Panel Four: Asian Cinema, Critical Paradigms, Film Studies
Madhava Prasad, Ashish Rajadhyaksha (CSCS, Bangalore), Neel Chaudhuri, Moinak Biswas
Moderator: Kim Soyoung
September 15, Saturday
Session One
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Chair: Abhijit Roy, Jadavpur University
Reading Telugu and Hong Kong Film Stars
S.V. Srinivas, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
Between Partition and Reunification: The Political Horizons of Recent Indian and Korean War Films
Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lunch: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
1:30 pm to 4:30 pm (with Tea Break)
Panel Five: Developing Curricula on Asian Cinema
Earl Jackson, Zakir Hossain Raju, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, S.V. Srinivas
Moderator: Chua Beng Huat
Panel Six: Institutional Initiatives: Gathering around Asian Cinema
Chua Beng Huat, George Jose (Asia Society Indian Centre, Mumbai), Kaushik Bhaumik, Abhijit Roy (Jadavpur University)
Moderator: Maheen Zia
4:30 – 4:45 pm
Closing Session
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