CAMERA SOUTH ASIA: A Symposium on cinema and photography

Symposium Location: Lehman Auditorium and Atrium, Room 202, Altschul Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, entrance at 118th Street

Reception: 7:00-8:00pm

Reception Location:  Diana Center, Millicent Carey McIntosh Student Dining Room, 2nd floor, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, entrance at 118th Street

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CAMERA SOUTH ASIA celebrates the launch of two new anthologies on South Asian photography and cinema - Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia (ed. Rahaab Allana) and Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema (ed. Debashree Mukherjee) provoke a renewed look at questions of artistic practice and its relations to collaborative worldmaking, knowledge production, and archival memory. Join our esteemed panel of speakers-artists, scholars, curators, and filmmakers-as they discuss the histories and futures of lens-based practice in and on South Asia.

Speakers:

Iftikhar Dadi, Noam M Elcott, Chitra Ganesh, Sudhir Mahadevan, Bakirathi Mani, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, with closing remarks by filmmaker Mira Nair (see attachment for schedule).

Moderated by: Debashree Mukherjee and Rahaab Allana

Free and open to the public.

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camera-south-asia-tickets-598969833897

Sponsored by: Alkazi Foundation, Barnard College History Department, Center for Comparative Media at Columbia,  Film & Media Program at Columbia, Murthy Nayak Foundation, and the South Asia Institute at Columbia

Special thanks to: Bill Carrick, Hitanshi Chopra, and Anupama Rao