Talks this week

[Usha Raman]

Dear all:

Please note the following talk by/interaction with Prof Lion Koenig of Heidelberg University who is visiting our school this week. Please note that attendance at the research round table is mandatory for research scholars:

Wednesday, February 4, 2:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Seminar Hall:

Understanding a nation through her images: an exploration into India's visual archive.

This lecture traces the conceptual development of India’s national imagery using the example of its national allegory Bharat Mata, the psycho-history underlying the continuous formative process and it strategic function as a signifier that reinforces national identity. 

Thursday, February 5, 2:30 p.m., CR3 (Research Round Table)

Communicating identities: cultural citizenship as an analytical framework for media inclusivity

Understanding citizenship as a two-dimensional concept, consisting of a legal right to the territory of a given nation-state, as well as a moral affiliation to it, the lecture investigates into the recent idea of ‘cultural citizenship’, which emphasizes the moral component of citizenship by claiming that a feeling of inclusion and being part of a nation can only arise when citizens can enter into the media discourse and contribute to its modification and development.

Dr. Lion Koenig is Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, as well as at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is an Associated Researcher at the South Asia Institute, Department of Political Science, and at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, both Heidelberg University, Germany. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at Heidelberg University, where he completed his doctoral work on the concept of ‘cultural citizenship’ in India. He is the co-editor ofThe Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (London: Routledge, 2015), of Globalisation and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and Institutions(London: Routledge: 2015), and of The Politic

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Usha Raman

Head, Department of Communication

Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication

University of Hyderabad

Gachi Bowli

Hyderabad 500034