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The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

cordially invites you to a

Conference

at 9:00 a.m. on Monday-Tuesday, 18-19 March 2013

in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building

Texts, Critics and the World:

Conversations in the Humanities

in association with

Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

Concept note:

The textual and the visual have been prominent preoccupations of the humanities. How do traces of the past speak to contemporary concerns and shape our viewing and reading? How do events from our times produce traces which demand new approaches and new forms of critical attentiveness? What histories of circulation and proscription, custom and innovation, discipline and resistance press upon our present? This two-day conference is conceived as a conversation between contemporary explorations in history, political science, literary studies and visual theory, where scholars from the University of Chicago and from various institutions in India present and discuss their recent work. Papers address themes ranging from Asokan edicts and Dara Shukoh to the inhabitation of religious and gendered selfhoods, the histories of the book in India, and to contemporary events that shook the world like the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.