"Roland Barthes: Today, Here" organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi in collaboration with The Institut Francais en Inde
The venue and lunch are restricted to 100 persons, and will be made available on a first come-first serve basis
Day 1: 10 December, 2015
9.30 am: Coffee & Tea
9.45 am: Introduction
Angelie Multani, IIT-Delhi
Ravinder Kaur, Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi)
François Vandeville, Director, Institut Français en Inde
10 am: Dead Writing: Barthes and Posterity
Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University; Respondent: Deepak Mehta, Shiv Nadar University
11.15 am: Barthes in the Digital Era
Alexandre Gefen, CNRS-CELLF, Paris-Sorbonne; Respondent: Rukmini Bhaya Nair, IIT Delhi
12.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: Memory, Mimesis and Self-Reflective Storytelling: Reading Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Avishek Parui, IIT Guwahati; Respondent: Divya Dwivedi, IIT Delhi
2.45 pm: Volatile Scales, Whispering Bodies: Tracing the ‘Grain’ in Asha Bhosle’s Voice
Shikha Jhingan, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Respondent: Sanam Khanna, Kamla Nehru College
4 pm: Coffee & Tea
4.15 pm: Lacan, Four Discourses and ‘A’ Lover’s Discourse: Between Barthes and Badiou
Anup Kumar Dhar, Ambedkar University; Respondent: Nikhil Yadav, IIT Delhi
Day 2: 11 December, 2015
9.45 am: Coffee & Tea
10 am: Languages at War: Roland Barthes on Signs, Culture(s) and Politics
Philippe Roger, CNRS-EHESS; Respondent: Alok Rai, (Retd.) University of Delhi
11.15 am: "Remember, Body": Homoerotic Textual Intercourse between Roland Barthes' Incidents and the Poetry of Constantine Cavafy
Niladri Chatterjee, University of Kalyani; Respondent: Sandhya Devesan Nambiar, Jesus and Mary College
12.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: From Comic Book to Chitrakar Performance: A Case of Intermedial Inscription
Roma Chatterji, University of Delhi; Respondent: Simona Sawhney, IIT-Delhi
2.45 pm: Coffee & Tea
3-4.30 pm: Round Table
Chair: Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
Myths Beyond Borders? On Teaching Barthes in Delhi
Maya Joshi, Lady Shri Ram College
Roland Barthes and the Cinematographic Experience: The Enjoyment of the Amateur Spectator
Gabriela Trujillo, L'Ecole de Louvre
The Republic of Signs: Becoming Animals in Contemporary India
Satish Poduval, EFL University
OPEN DISCUSSION
11 December 2015, 6.00 pm
Living in Language: Roland Barthes and the Adventure of Modernity
with Supriya Chaudhuri, Alok Rai, Alexandre Gefen
CHAIR: Leila Choukroune, Director, CHS
Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi, (CSH)
2 APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi 110011 India
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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Institut Francais en Inde
Indian Council of Social Science Research-Northern Regional Centre
Organising Committee
Angelie Multani (Literature)
Divya Diwivedi (Philosophy, Literature)
Farhana Ibrahim (Sociology)
Simona Sawhney (Literature)
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi