From dak at sarai.net Thu Jan 1 16:07:35 2009 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:07:35 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] January- 2009 Message-ID: <495C9CEF.6000102@sarai.net> *Newsletter- January 2009 [[CONTENT]] Talk at Sarai Theorizing Caste Violence in Postcolonial India: Thoughts from Maharashtra by Anupama Rao ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Dear Readers, We wish you all a very happy new year. This month we continue with the 3rd in our series of talks on dalit issues. This talk among others is an event planned as a collaboration between The Sarai Programme and Navayana Publications. Hope you will make yourselves available for the event. Best, Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Talk at Sarai Theorizing Caste Violence in Postcolonial India: Thoughts from Maharashtra by Anupama Rao Date: 12th January 2009 Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS Time: 3:30 pm* This talk takes up the relationship between symbolic politics and political violence as they have influenced changing repertoires of caste violence and Dalit politics in Maharashtra, from the namantar struggle of the 1970s to the present. Anupama Rao is trained as an anthropologist and historian, and teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of /The Caste Question: Dalits and Politics in Modern India/ (University of California Press, forthcoming); contributing editor of /Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality and Colonialis/ (Duke Uniersity Press, 2006), as well as /Gender and Caste/ (Kali for Women, 2003), and the author of numerous publications, including "Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition," /Subaltern Studies XII/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Thu Jan 29 16:50:30 2009 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:50:30 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Ranciere in Delhi Message-ID: <498190FE.8090206@sarai.net> *Newsletter- February 2009 ------------------------------------ * *Jacques Ranciere: Revisiting Nights of Labour* Sarai invites you to a public talk by renowned philosopher Jacques Ranciere, the release of the Hindi translation of his book /Nights of Labour: Workers' Dream in 19th Century France. /(/Sarvahara Raatein: Unneesaveen sadi ke Frans mein Mazdoor Swapna/). The book has been translated from the English by Abhay Kumar Dube. This the first in a series of translations of outstanding texts to be published by Sarai-CSDS and Vani Prakashan. *Date: Friday, 6th February, 2009* *Time: 6:00 pm* *Venue: CSDS , 29 Rajpur Road* Workshop and Roundtable with Ranciere. *Saturday 7th February* *Time: 10 am* *Venue: CSDS , 29 Rajpur Road* Jacques Ranciere is a well known philosopher and writer. As a young student, Ranciere, co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. Ranciere later broke with Althusser over the 1968 uprising in France. Since the 1970s Ranciere has produced a number of remarkable texts that range from working class history, philosophy, education, politics, and aesthetics. His books include The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation(1991), The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge (1994), The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Tr. Gabriel Rockhill (2004),The Future of the Image (2007). Ranciere wrote The Nights of Labour after years of archival work. It traces the world of worker intellectuals in 19th century France, who, through their poems, music, letters, produced a world that did not celebrate work as in conventional socialist texts, but a life outside it. Radical in its style and argument, Nights of Labour, offers not just a revision of working class history, but the relation between politics, knowledge, aesthetics and equality, all of which have become topics of Ranciere's future books. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *This event has been made possible by the support of the French Embassy, Delhi.* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope you will make yourself available for the event. Best, Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS 29-Rajpur Road Civil Lines Delhi- 110 054 Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: