Colloquium

Listening in: Sounds of South Asian Histories

Join us for our Summer Colloquium to hear about the Sonic Turn in South Asian histories, drawing on recent and emerging international research on cinema, oration, song, and radio. The series will be held on Tuesdays fortnightly on Zoom from April 20th until July 13th, at 4:15 pm (CEST).
Click on each talk to find the corresponding registration link.

Our program:

• 20.04 | Impassioned Speech: Cinema & Sonic Individuation in Colonial India
  Debashree Mukherjee - Columbia University


• 4.05 | Let’s Tune in: South Asian Prisoners of the First World War
  Alaka Atreya Chudal - University of Vienna


• 18.05 | The Fire-Eater Maulana: Bhashani and the Kagmari Festival, c. 1957
  Layli Uddin - Kings College London


• 1.06 | The Sounds of Muslim Nationalism in Colonial India: From Political Songs to Gramophone Records and Brass Bands
  Gianni Sievers - University of Pennsylvania


• 15.06 | Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Radio, Rumor and Radio Broadcasting in Wartime India
  Isabel Huacuja Alonso - Columbia University


• 29.06 | Warm Wavelengths in the Cold War: Radio Berlin International and its ‘objects of love’ in India
  Anandita Bajpai, ZMO Berlin


• 13.07 | Locating the auditory and the sensory in late colonial India (Cancelled)
  Vebhuti Duggal - Ambedkar University