Culture Politics and the City

Morning Plenary:
The Darkness of the City

01. Opening Comments: Ravi Sundaram, Sarai/CSDS
02. Chair: Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai/CSDS
03. The Darkness of the City: Ashis Nandy, CSDS
04. The Darkness of the City: Discussion

Morning Sessions

Panel 01:
Space and the Politics of Cultural Knowledge in Calcutta

01. Chair: Partha Chatterjee, CSSS
02. Inciting Space: Representing the Culture of Protest in Calcutta c. 1905: Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California
03. Re-Inscribing City Space: Keya Dasgupta, CSSS
04. Puja as Performance: Transgressing Public Spaces: Anjan Ghosh, CSSS
05. New Spaces of the Popular: Changing Aesthetics of Durga Puja in Contemporary Calcutta: Tapati Guhathakurta, CSSS
06. Space and the Politics of Cultural Knowledge in Calcutta: Discussion

Panel 03:
Urban Ethnographies

01. Chair: Shail Mayaram, CSDS
02. Home and the World: Masculinity and Communal Violence in India: Deepak Mehta, Delhi University
03. The Semiotics of Solicitation on Mumbai Street Corner: Work, Gender, Sex and Honour: Svati Shah, Columbia University
04. Mohalla Matters: Urban Spaces, Commodity Cultures and the Bajrang Dal Boy: Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University [incomplete]
05. Urban Ethnographies: Discussion

Afternoon Sessions

Panel 01:
Delhi: Contemporary Transitions

01. Discussant: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
02. Delhi: Contemporary Transitions: Discussion

Panel 03:
Kathmandu

01. Taking Place: The Space of Class in Kathmandu: Mark Leichty, University of Illinois
02. Urban Spectacle and Political Power: The Bandh in Kathmandu: Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago
03. The Arrest of a Journalist: Forensic Texts for a Contemporary History of Kathmandu's Commercial Media: Pratyoush Onta, Historian
04. Kathmandu: Discussion

Evening Plenary:
The Future of Urban Research: History, Geography and Urban Studies

01. Chair: Sujata Patel
02. Indian Urban Histories and Heritages - Different Perceptions: Narayani Gupta, Jamia Millia Islamia
03. Trans-national Delhi Revisited: The Spatial Language of Three Modernities: Anthony King, Binghamton University
04. The Future of Urban Research: History, Geography and Urban Studies: Discussion