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Dear all, 

this email is to inform you about two Calls for Papers for two upcoming conferences (see below and attachment).

If you are interested, please follow the links provided by the websites.

Best, 

Giulia

  
Dear colleagues,we would like to draw your attention on two panels that we are organizing in the coming spring/summer activities of ASA 2012 (Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World, Delhi, 3-6 April) and ECSAS 2012 (the 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon, 25-28 July).These panels verge around the topics of filmic visions, digital practices and representation in the Indian subcontinent.
 The panel for ASA explicitly focuses on the role of contemporary 
digital practices in offering new forms of representation of/in India. 
The one for ECSAS articulates itself as both a panel and an exhibition 
of visual projects and aims at challenging conventional visual gazes 
upon South Asia.Our wish is to use these two opportunities to develop an edited volume on
 the politics of changing practices of image-making in South Asia which 
would be the first book of the sort. We are particularly interested in 
papers that directly deal with the craft of digital image-making and in its power to let new theoretical approaches emerge.Please
 find below the short abstracts for each panel and the links to the 
conferences pages (where you can find the long abstracts for the two 
panels as well as more details about the conference).If you want to propose a paper, please follow the links provided by the web-pages.


  
Delhi, ASA:
Screening India through digital image-makingThis
 panel explores the role of digital image-making in contemporary India. 
Bringing recent debates in visual anthropology, in touch with the Indian
 boom in digital experimentations, it will enquire the extent to which 
such practices are offering new forms of representing India.Deadline for paper proposal December 7, 2011.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1114
Lisbon, ECSAS:
From the inside looking out… Filmic visions of South Asia's tacit "other"This
 exhibition/panel aims to provoke the logic that has characterized 
conventional visual gazes upon South Asia. Approaching the subcontinent 
as a place to "look from" rather than to "look at" it aims to attract 
all kinds of visual presentations able to re-think conventional 
approaches to South Asia.Deadline for paper proposal February 15, 2012.

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easas/ecsas2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1121


  
The convenors are:
Paolo Favero -
 Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Anthropology 
(CRIA) and Associate Professor at the Lisbon University Institute; Paolo
 is also a filmmaker and directs the post-graduation in Digital Visual 
Culture. He is the director of the film “Flyoverdelhi” and author of the
 book “India Dreams”.
Giulia Battaglia -
 Teaching Fellow for the Centre for Media and Film Studies (SOAS, 
University of London) and PhD Research Fellow in Social Anthropology  (SOAS,
 University of London); Giulia works on Documentary Film Practices in 
India and worked as a filmmaker in collaboration with film practitioners
 from India. Along with other academics, she's recently curated the 
festival/conference Persistence/Resistance: Documentary Practices in 
India, London, November 2011. 

Giulia Battaglia
 
PhD Candidate
Dept of Anthropology and Sociology
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
 


 
 


 		 	   		  

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