Filming the Nation into Being. Wednesday, June 6th Roberts Building, Room G08

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1 Filming the Nation into Being Wednesday, June 6th Roberts Building, Room G08 The Films Division of India, established by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting year after independence, disseminated documentaries and short films across the country in public interest: where Apathy decried the lack of civic decency in Indian cities, A Daughter is as Good as a Son was a plea for gender equality. The films remarkable range and often modernist execution was due to the Division s founders, who studied avant-garde Soviet and German filmmaking and sought to build the new nation through film. This free, public event is part of the UCL Festival of Culture; for details of the full series of events:

2 UCL South Asia ECR Programme 2018 Day 1: Thursday, June 7 th Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground Registration and Welcome Panel 1: Culture and Cosmopolis The Key to the Hearts of Beginners: gender, movement and multilinguialism in late eighteenth-century Persian text Zahra Shah (Government College University, Lahore) Peeking Under the Asian Iron Curtain: Tajik-Pakistani cultural exchanges as invisible histories of movement Aeron O Connor (University College London, UK) Painters With a Camera (1968/69): In search of the photography exhibition in India Diva Gujral (University College London, UK) Panel 2: Subalternity

3 Tracing the Indian Avant-Garde: a study in the poetics and politics of Naxalism Moinak Bannerjea (JNU, India) Seaborne Anti-Colonialisms? The political imaginations of Indian Ocean seafarers under late capitalism Naina Manjrekar (SOAS, UK) India, Indophiles and Indenture: cultural politics of a transnational discourse, Somak Biswas (Warwick University, UK) Adivasi and the Raj: Birsa Ulgulaan (rebellion) in colonial India Rahul Ranjan (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK) Keynote Lecture 1 Creating an Impression: Corruption and the Archive in late colonial north India Professor William Gould (Department of History, University of Leeds) hrs Wine reception Day 2: Friday, June 8 th Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground Keynote Lecture 2 Communism and the Art of Anticolonial Liberation Professor Rebecca Gould (School of Languages, Culture, Art History and Music, University of Birmingham)

4 Panel 3: Narration and Imagination Exploring Conceptions of Indian Youth through Autobiographical Writings Tom Wilkinson (LSE, UK) Kodachrome in India: learning to read Raghubir Singh Alisha Sett (Courthauld Institute of Fine Art) Itibritto and Upokarita: tracking a historically conscious narration of chemistry in 19 th century Bengali periodicals Sthira Bhattacharya (JNU, India) - LUNCH hrs Panel 4: Mobilizing Urban Worlds Experiments in Policing: crime and time in colonial Delhi ( ) Satakashi Sinha (JNU, India) We were never subalterns! Valmikis in Delhi and the quest for urban revanchism Aditya Mohanty (University of Aberdeen, UK) Confinement: mobility and its opposites in contemporary Colombo Alessandra Radicati (LSE, UK)

5 hrs Panel 5: (Im)Mobilities Itinerants in the Archives: traders, thieves and vagabonds Aditi Saraf (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany) A Sea of Gold: migration, smuggling and politics in the Western Indian Ocean after Empire Nisha Matthew (National University of Singapore, Singapore) This little art the amateur photographic encounters of Debaline Majumdar and Manobina Roy Mallika Leuzinger (UCL, UK) - BREAK - The Poetry of Protest and Partition Wednesday, June 6th IAS, Common Ground A performance of revolutionary poetry and song composed during the Indian Independence movement and Partition. Songs and poetry by Amrita Pritam and Kazi Nazrul Islam will be performed by Saida Tani and Dave Kukadia. This free, public event is part of the UCL Festival of Culture; for details of the full series of events: