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Base de données des enseignements et séminaires de l'EHESS

• 5 novembre de 15 h à 17 h : salle 3.10, centre de colloques
• 3 décembre de 15 h 30 à 18 h 30 : salle 3.11, centre de colloques
• 7 janvier de 15 h à 18 h : salle 3.06, centre de colloques. La séance a été annulée en raison du mouvement social qui se déroule dans tout le pays
• 4 février de 15 h à 18 h : salle 0.007, bât. Recherche Nord La séance a été annulée en raison du mouvement social qui se déroule dans tout le pays
• 3 mars de 15 h à 18 h : salle 0.007, bât. Recherche Nord
• 5 mai de 15 h à 18 h : salle 3.06, centre de colloques

This seminar is about studying, in a comparative framework, the ideas, power dynamics and institutional structures that could help in apprehending the contemporary political conjecture around the world. South Asia provides an interesting focal point for the purpose of comparison. Because the presence of multiple religious traditions, numerous ethnic identities and distinct regional histories this is a key region to study the formation of modern polity. South Asia provides a distinct lens to compare the process and phenomenon like formation of modern state systems, hybrid identities, and collectivities (caste groups) and their transformation in the modern epoch.

This seminar will provide a platform and invite doctoral students to present their research exploring the regional histories, ideas, ideologies and institutions in constituting the contemporary political conjecture in other cultural and geographical areas.

Mardi 5 novembre 2019 : « South Asian cinema(s): Power, citizenship and imagined communities »

Abstract

For the past thirty years, much has been written on the global outreach of Indian cinema in its « Bollywoodian » form. Through the work of researchers such as Rachel Dwyer (2000 ; 2002 ; 2006), scholarship has focused on the strong political messages found in this post-colonial artistic industry, and the many electoral uses of cinema. Recently, the « saffron wave » of Narendra Modi’s India has extensively relied on the support of superstars as political brokers between the BJP and Indian voters, as well as agents of the Hindutva project for « western » audiences.

Drawing on this scholarship, the seminar session aims to question the hegemonic discourses at work in the study of « Bollywood. » Our discussions aim to centre cinema(s) of South Asia, and the ways it helps in constructing the civil identities (based on gender, caste and class) and collective imaginaries (community and nation,) in  multiple regional and sub-national contexts.
This session is open to any researcher interested in South Asian history, Political sciences, Cinema and cultural studies.

Speakers :

• Bhavna Rajpal (Sindhi cinema in India)
• Asad Ur Rehman (Speaking the Unspeakable, From Partition to Blasphemy in Punjabi Cinema of Pakistan

• We are not Hindu, but we are Muslim Hindus: The Case of Sami Community of Sindh, Pakistan — Saba Sindhi (PhD(C) CEIAS)
• Infusing democracy with Emotions? Religion and politics in Latin America — Jose Egas (PhD(C) CEIAS)
• Segments, Beliefs, and Identity in a Punjabi Village — Asad ur Rehman (PhD(C) CEIAS)

3 mars : "Coloniality of knowledge and social science in Latin America" Luis Martinez Andrade* 

*Luis M. Andrade is currently a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales, as part of a Gerda Henkel Fellowship. He works under the direction of Françoise Vergès and Geoffrey Pleyers on the subject "Social progress and global justice through the prism of the" Epistemology of the South". The theology of liberation and the "decolonial turning point" in Latin America