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.