2018年亞際文化研究暑期學校

Calcutta: City/Contemporaneity

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School 2018 @ Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Dates: 18- 29 JUNE 2018.

Think modernism, political strife, street fighting, literature, theatre, and cinema – and think one Indian city. This Summer School is set in, and is about, one of the most emblematic of them all: Calcutta. Returning to the original name before it was changed in 2001, we refer to the colonial port city that was once capital of British India, and the city where, through the twentieth century, some of the most intense debates in history were played out: around colonialism, nationalism, partition, suffering, refugeehood, along side its intense articulation through literature, theatre and cinema.

Calcutta: City/Contemporaneity is a two-week multidisciplinary Summer School hosted by the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, which celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2018. The School uses several converging spaces that make up the moving image across South Asia both physically and metaphorically meaningful. From College Street, the local book publishing area, to famous ‘Tollywood’ movie studios, and from the Kalighat temple, site of one of India’s best known ‘bazaar’ painting traditions, we engage with spaces where modern public life emerged, and morphed into new spaces for making and distributing diverse cultural contents. On the way we will encounter architecture, film, contemporary literary modes, public art, musical forms, television, video and other media, from print through to digital.

The course features several contemporary debates that have informed the city’s intellectual traditions as much as they have defined the spaces of their action: its streets and public spaces, its coffee houses, bazaars, and its universities. Lectures on scholarship on the city, its political history, culture, and contemporary media practices, will take place alongside walks in actual spaces showing how Calcutta’s twentieth century unfolded, and where its key present-day struggles lie. While the city’s past and present will be the main focus, our sessions will address the intense Inter-Asia links and will include discussions of comparable Asian locations such as Dhaka, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Manila, Taipei and other ports and cities.

2018年亞際文化研究暑期學校將在印度思想、政治、文學、電影等方面最具代表性的城市加爾各答（Calcutta）舉行，由賈達普大學電影研究系（Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University）主辦。為期兩周的多學科課程以“加爾各答：城市/同時代”（Calcutta: City/Contemporaneity）為切入點，使用其舊稱（2001年後改為Kolkata）也有意表明這座港口城市作為英屬印度首都的歷史，以及貫穿整個20世紀印度圍繞殖民主義、民族主義、隔離制度等方面的激烈辯論和文學藝術表達。

課程將重點關注那些形塑城市知識傳統和行動太空的當代辯論，例如街道和公共場所、咖啡館、集市（bazzaar）以及大學，通過實地走訪，了解加爾各答的政治歷史文化、當代媒體實踐以及現時抗爭的源流。課程中也會闡釋亞際（Inter-Asia）的緊密聯繫，並將在和達卡、香港、上海、首爾、馬尼拉、台北和其他港口和城市的比較中展開討論。

Speakers include Partha Chatterjee, M. Madhava Prasad, Tejaswini Niranjana, Stephen Chan, Melani Budianta, Soyoung Kim, Moinak Biswas, Abhijit Roy, Firdous Azim, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Nishant Shah, Madhuja Mukherjee, Audrey Yue, Naifei Ding, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, and many others.

Course fees:

USD 200 for international participants.

This would include ‘double-sharing’ accommodation at Jadavpur University Guest House (June 17th check-in, June 30th check-out), welcome dinner, lunches (during classes/ week days), tea/ coffee, and transportation for most off-campus tours.

USD 100 for local participants. (Local participants will not be offered accommodation).

Fee Waiver: Very limited ‘Fee Waiver’ is available for those in need.

(In such cases the participants will not be offered accommodation. However, we can help you find cheap/ reasonable accommodation).

Note, IACS Society will not be able to support your travel.

Important Dates:

Application deadline – 2^nd February 2018
Acceptance announcement – 24^th February 2018
Deadline of offer confirmation by students – 24^th March 2018

Application Procedure:

Please provide the following information in your application form and send it to the IACSS Society Office by email to [email protected] before 2^nd February 2018

Name, age, sex
Affiliated Institution and current programme of study / teaching position
Areas of academic / research interests
Have you participated in previous IACSS Summer Schools? If yes, where and when?
Reasons for joining this particular Summer School
Expectations from this Summer School
Reference letter from your supervisor /an appropriate senior colleague (Please attach pdf )
If you need fee waiver please write to us about your needs.

Download: 2018 IACSS Summer School Application Form

原文見http://culturalstudies.asia/calcutta-citycontemporaneity/