| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, February 28, 2013 | 11:00AM - 1:30PM | External Event, Media Commons Room 1, Robarts Library, University of Toronto |
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Bhaskar Sarkar, “Cosmoplastics: Indian Video Cultures,” and
Bishnupriya Ghosh, “An Unhomely Sense: The Spectral Cinema of Globalizing India”
Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to numerous essays, she is the author of “When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel” (Rutgers UP, 2004) and “Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular” (Duke University Press, 2011). She is currently working on a third monograph on the spectral life of the postcolonial in contemporary cinemas, “The Unhomely Sense: The Spectral Cinema of Globalization.”
Bhaskar Sarkar is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of “Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition” (Duke University Press, 2009), and co-editor of a volume of essays, “Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering” (Routledge, 2009), and special issues of “The Journal of Postcolonial Studies” (“The Subaltern and the Popular,” 2005) and “BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies” (“Indian Documentary Studies,” 2012).
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