[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Dance Matters (India) (3/30/06; 8/10/06-8/11/06)
Sule Tarakcioglu
suletar@kulturad.org
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:51:01 +0200
From: nilanjana gupta <nilaguptaju@yahoo.com>
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dance Matters
The School of Media, Communication and Culture at Jadavpur University,
Kolkata,
India is pleased to announce a two-day symposium titled Dance Matters on
August 10-11 2006. This symposium proposes to bring to the forefront
innovative
approaches that have placed dance at the center of scholarly research on
body, ritual, culture, identity, history, gender, and power. Selected papers
from the symposium will be published in a book.
Dance is a vital aspect of expressive culture. It embodies the cultural
experience and expression of a particular collective identity. Notions of
culture, identity, and history are continually re-invented through dance.
Indian dance forms have emerged as an important critical lens to analyze
narratives of nationalism, transnationalism, womenˇ¦s bodies, and
postcolonial
politics. Scholarly research on Indian dance forms has spanned
disciplines such
as Anthropology, Culture studies, Performance studies, Art history,
Postcolonial
and Feminist studies. Therecent formulation of Dance studies as an academic
discipline is a result of the increased circulation of various dance
forms in
the international scholarly and art-culture circuits. This conference
will bring
scholars and practitioners together on the same platform to evaluate the
status
of Indian dance forms (ranging from classical, to folk, to Bollywood) in
shaping current discourses on culture, tradition, history, identity, human
rights and more. The topics to be covered include
�X Tradition and Globalization
�X Religion and Culture
�X Identity and Hybridity
�X Gender and Sexuality
�X Media and Popular Culture
�X Ethnography and Audience
�X Dance and Social justice
�X Ritual and Aesthetics
Please send a brief abstract (350 words) including a title, name, address,
email, phone number and institutional affiliation by March 30, 2006. Submit
abstracts and direct queries to:
Dr. Nilanjana Gupta, Director
School of Media Communication and Culture
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Email: nilaguptaju@yahoo.com
Dr. Pallabi Chakravorty
Department of Music and Dance
Swarthmore College, Pa 19096, U.S.A
Email: pchakra1@swarthmore.edu
Jadavpur University will provide local hospitality for
the speakers at the University guesthouse.
Sponsored by UGC University with Potential for
Excellence Programme: Studies in Cultural Processes.
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