by mesaas | Feb 8, 2021 |
“Ambedkarite Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Practice” a conversation with Yashadatta Alone (JNU) and Prabhakar Kamble (Mumbai-based artist and curator)moderated by Anupama Rao, ICLS Associate Director Thursday, February 11, 2021 10:00-11:45 AM EST on Zoom....
by mesaas | Feb 4, 2021 |
In this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian...
by mesaas | Feb 3, 2021 |
The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims...
by mesaas | Feb 2, 2021 |
[Registration is Required] “Passing and Personhood: Dalit Writings on Caste Concealment.” Joel Lee (Williams College) and K. Satyanarayana (EFL University, Hyderabad) moderated by Balmurli Natarajan (William Paterson University) The Ambedkar lecture series is...
by mesaas | Jan 22, 2021 |
Filmmaker and School of the Arts faculty member Ramin Bahrani (CC ’96) discusses his new film, The White Tiger — an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Aravind Adiga — with Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and...
