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FACULTY
OF ARTS----Film Studies
FACULTY OF
ARTS----Film Studies
Conference/Convention/Workshop/Symposium Related Information
National Seminar on
Reading Indian
Cinema: Contemporary Perspectives
on November, 1998.
International Seminar on Satyajit Ray and the Legacy of Realism,
organized by the Department in March, 2000
International Symposium on
‘Encountering Theory: The Experience of the Indian Academia’
was organised
in
September 2003. Prof. Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck College,
London, delivered
the keynote address.
An
International
Conference
titled ‘Television in India: Issues in History,
Theory and Culture’ was held in December, 2004.
A National Seminar titled ‘Currents in Popular Cinema:
Liberalisation and
after’
was held in November, 2005.
A National Seminar titled ‘Sound Cultures in Indian Cinema’ will be
held
on November
7
and
8,
2006.
The
Friday Seminar
series in the Department
regularly
organizes
Some
of the recent ‘Friday
Seminars’alks
by Prof.
Michael Taussig
(Columbia University), Javed Akhtar (eminent poet-lyricist-scriptwriter), Dr. Sangita Datta (Birkbeck
College, London).
Anya Alo Anya Andhar
a film
by
Shankar Karmakar
on the life and times of Binoy
Majumdar, Poet.
Additional Information
The
Department has organized
two widely attended Refresher Courses: Film, Mass Culture and Globalsiation
in the Indian Context’ (2001), and Cinema and the Emerging Codes of
Popular Culture' (2002). A UGC sponsored short course under the
Retraining of College Teachers Program, entitled "Reading Cinema: An
Introduction, was also held between January 3 and 6, 2006.
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