Asian Cultural Research :
First Session: Discussing Cinema in India and Iran
First Session: Discussing Cinema in India and Iran
Speakers: Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Claire Cooley
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Ashish Rajadhyaksha is co-editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema with Paul Willemen, and the author of Ritwick Ghatak: Return to the Epic, Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, and A Very Short Introduction to Indian Cinema. He is a Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University.
Claire Cooley
Claire Cooley is a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University. Her research focuses on film historiography in the Global South; sound studies; south-south media flows; and media infrastructures and racialized labor in the Gulf. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including Jump Cut, Film History, and Spectator. She is currently writing a book on the interconnected history of cinema in the Middle East and South Asia from the turn of the 20th century to the 1960s.
Time: 26 May, 2022, 6pm IST (India), 5pm (Tehran), 8:30 AM (EST, US
Zoom ID: 94604758003
Passcode: 330514
The Center for Inter-Asian Research is a leading research center in India, Ahmedabad University, headed by the prominent cultural, literary and music history scholar, Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana. The Center has been organizing and leading cutting-edge collaboration and research with universities and academics in Asia and beyond.
Mardomnameh is an independent People’s History Journal published in Tehran, Iran. It is headed by the Iranian historian, Prof. Dariush Rahmanian (also a faculty member at the history department of the University of Tehran). The journal's board consists of leading Iranian historians in Iran, Europe and the United States.
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