This is the second of three weeks designed around the CIMS Colloquium. We’ll have an opportunity to address the theories and concepts — including difference, diaspora, and representation — and methods — including, most likely, textual analysis and interviews — central to Professor Aswin Punathambekar’s work.
NOON: CIMS COLLOQUIUM with Aswin Punathambekar, “New Ethnicities, Again: Notes on Diasporic Worldmaking in a Digital Era,” 330 Fisher Bennett Hall
WE’LL MEET AT 4:30pm TODAY
VISITOR, 5-6:30pm: Aswin Punathambekar, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication @ Penn
TO PREPARE FOR TODAY:
- Read Aswin Punathambekar, Introduction to From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (New York University Press, 2013): 1-23.
- Read Aswin Punathambekar and Padma Chirumamilla, “Televisual Drag: Reimagining South Asian Film and Media Studies,” Television & New Media 24:2 (2023): 123-38 [reflects on “film and media studies” as a formation in the South Asian context].
- Read Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel, “Area Impossible: Notes Toward an Introduction,” GLQ 22:2 (2016): 151-71 [speaks to the promises and perils of queering academic disciplines].