Events

Past Event

Global Ritwik Ghatak?

November 3, 2019
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
America/New_York
Buell Hall, 515 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027 East Gallery
Global Cultural Studies and the School of the Arts at Columbia present a conference on the works of the great Bengali filmmaker, Ritwik Ghatak. Participants include: Nora Alter, Dudley Andrew, Moinak Biswas, Stefan Jonsson, Udaya Kumar, Surya Parekh, Richard Pena, Deborah Poole, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Gabriele Schwab, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 9:30 AM Gayatri Spivak Introduction 9:40 AM Gabriele Schwab "Looking at 'Titas' again" 9:55 AM Ngugi wa Thiong'o "Titas' for our world" 10:10 AM Anjuli Raza Kolb "'Titas': alluvial ecology" 10:25 AM Nora Alter "Sound and noise in Ghatak's films" 10:40 AM Deborah Poole "Rethinking 'Ajantrik'" 10:55 AM Richard Pena "Reflections on the Inanimate: Ghatak's AJANTRIK." 11:10 AM Surya Parekh Quest for Gold: Exploring Bari Theke Paliye 11:25 AM Stefan Jonsson "Feet moving in Ghatak, historical conciousness of our problems with migration" 11:40 AM Udaya Kumar "Narrative, emotion and image in "Subarnarekha'" 11:55 AM Dudley Andrew "Theater Treated by Cinema" 12:10 PM Moinak Biswas "Theatre, Music, Autobiography: Komal Gandhar and Jukti Takko Aar Gappo'" 12:30 PM Discussion The related retrospective, "Poetry and Partition," takes place at Film at Lincoln Center, November 1-6, 2019.

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