From dak at sarai.net Fri Nov 4 15:04:19 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:04:19 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Fwd: Text as Material 1: The Indisciplinary Essay Message-ID: <4EB3B19B.1050306@sarai.net> *Text as Material 1: The Indisciplinary Essay - Panel Discussion * *Date: Friday, 4^th November, 2011 Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS Time: 5.30- 7 P.M*/ / "The bestowal of the garland "writer" still suffices to exclude from academia the person one is praising... Due to a fear of negativity per se, the subject's effort to break through what masks itself as objectivity is branded as idleness. Everything is supposedly much simpler... Technician or dreamer, those are the alternatives." --Theodore Adorno, /The Essay as Form/ // This thing that its enemies sometimes call "academic writing": what is it, where did it come from? What formal and imaginative resources does it draw on? How does it shift in different national and local contexts? How do audiences and publics form for it, and how do the different venues in which scholars write inform and change it? This will be one of the themes explored in multiple sessions of Text as Material. In the first of these, *Nivedita Menon*, *Kaushik Ghosh*, *Ravi Sundaram* and *Shahid Amin* will start the conversation. All are welcome. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Tue Nov 8 12:33:11 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:33:11 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Harkat@Sarai 4: An Evening with Greta Mendez Message-ID: <4EB8D42F.1020904@sarai.net> *Harkat at Sarai 4: An Evening with Greta Mendez * *Date*: 10th November, 2011 *Time*: 6 PM to 9 PM. *Venue*: Sarai Basement, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 *Three short films by Greta Mendez * (1) THE VISIBLE INVISIBLE (5 minutes) A work created during Art Karavan (2) DE/MOC/ CRY/ C ( 10 minutes) (3) OPHELIA set in Kashmir (5 minutes). Greta Mendez is a performance artist, dancer, producer, director, carnivalist, and choreographer. Originally hailing from Fyzabad, Trinidad, she moved to London very early in her life to expand her horizons in dance. Over her forty-year career she has performed and choreographed worldwide, including projects in Greece, India, Italy, and China. She has received the BP & National Westminster Dance and Mime Award, a New York International Film and Video Award, a Dance Fellowship from the Greater London Arts Council, and been awarded a Travel Bursary by the Arts Council. In April 2009, she presented her performance work Ndulgence at Alice Yard. In 2010 Mendez participated in Art Karavan International, an initiative developed by artist Inder Salim. She joined the Karavan in Shimla and journeyed on to Jammu, Srinagar, and Delhi. The central premise was to involve local Indian and international artists, to find a vehicle for common expression and common ground. *The Theresa & Neha Chat Show* A live interactive work, based on identity, presented in the form of a television chat show by Inder Salim, with questions from the audience. Featuring the young emerging artist Zooni Tickoo & the Trinidadian artist Greta Mendez. *Mysticism in Kashmiri Sufi Poetry: A Short Introductory Lecture by M.H. Zaffar.* M.H.Zaffar is a well known poet and writer in Kashmir. He is Director, Institute of Kashmir Studies, Kashmir University. He has translated many ancient texts from Sanskrit to Kashmiri. All are welcome -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: