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The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia
Vortrag von Dr. Priyanka Basu, King's College London
10. Februar 2023, ab 14 Uhr, Raum 130.00.03

Die NSP-Abteilung lädt Sie herzlich zum Vortrag von Dr. Priyanka Basu ein.

Dr. Priyanka Basu ist Dozentin für Darstellende Kunst am Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London. Ihre erste Monografie, The Poet's Song: 'Folk' and its Cultural Politics in South Asia, erscheint demnächst bei Routledge (Reihe South Asian History and Culture).

Kobigaan (lit. song of the poet) is a verse-duelling and song-theatre genre practiced across the India-Bangladesh border. It is one of the many dialogic genres in South Asia highlighting the verbal virtuosity, bricolage, and storytelling abilities of performers (kobiyaals). While rural performances of this genre (most often tied with religious rituals and village fairs) can last as long as overnight sessions, Kobigaan’s other manifestations are often truncated and adapted according to diverse venues, audience tastes and artistic choices. This talk focusses on the questions of authenticity of Kobigaan as ‘folk’ genre while travelling with the performers as well as in and out of the literary archive. Caste, class, and gender, and identity politics intertwine with the larger cultural politics of ‘folk’ in the cross-border contemporary practices of Kobigaan. Consequently, several performing groups become ‘claimants’ of authentic Kobigaan as it travels from rural settings to urban festivals, and from Bengali cinema to television and the new media. Over time, the element of debate (kobir loraai) has become a synecdoche for Kobigaan. It has also come to signify people’s songs, national culture, folk heritage and even sound chronotopes (in cinema). Conflictingly, the perception of Kobigaan in Bengali cultural memory also relies on its status as ‘decadent’, ‘extinct’ or ‘obsolete’. This talk considers such varied conceptions of Kobigaan as a performance genre as it traverses local, national, and trans-national diasporic communities.

Weitere Informationen auf dem Poster.

Posted on 06 Mar 2023
Pongalo Pongal!
16. Januar 2023, ab 18 Uhr, Raum 010.00.01

Die NSP-Abteilung und Studenten der tamilischen Sprache laden Sie herzlich ein, das tamilische Pongal-Fest mit uns zu feiern.

Weitere Informationen und RSVP auf dem Poster.

Posted on 06 Mar 2023
Zweiter Deutscher Südasientag, 28.-29. Oktober 2022, Heidelberg

Nach dem ersten Deutschen Südasientag im Jahr 2019 in Bonn und pandemiebedingter Pause richtet das Südasien-Institut der Universität Heidelberg am 28.-29. Oktober 2022 den zweiten Deutschen Südasientag aus. Die Konferenz vereint dabei sowohl etablierte als auch Nachwuchswissenschaftler und -wissenschaftlerinnen aus allen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, die sich mit Forschungsthemen des neuzeitlichen und gegenwärtigen Südasiens auseinandersetzen.

Das vollständige Programm finden Sie hier. Anmeldungen als Zuhörer bis 14.10.2022 an hanni.truong@sai.uni-heidelberg.de.

Organisationsteam:

Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (Universität Heidelberg)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carmen Brandt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Dr. Ira Sarma (Universität Leipzig)

Posted on 06 Mar 2023
Book reading and discussion with author Shaheen Akhtar

Friday, Agust 18, 2022, 4:15 p.m., Hörsaal 010.01.05

We cordially invite you to a book reading and discussion with author Shaheen Akhtar on Friday, August 18th 2022. The event will take place in lecture hall 010.01.05 at 4.15.

Shaheen Akhtar is a notable Bangladeshi writer who won the “Prothom Alo Best Book Award“ in 2004 for her novel Talaash, which was translated by Ella Dutta into English as The Search and published by Zubaan in 2011. For her literary contributions, Shaheen has received the prestigious “Bangla Academy Award” (2015). In 2020 she has won the 3rd Asian Literature Award. She writes both novels and short stories. Shaheen’s works have been translated into English, German, and Korean.

Shaheen Akhtar will be present for a reading from her works and a discussion that will include aspects of translation of novels and short story from Bangla into English and German.

CATS, Vosstr. 2, enter through South Asia Institute (SAI)

More information here.

All are welcome!

Posted on 06 Mar 2023
Workshop and Roundtable - Revisiting Muharram

Mittwoch, 27.7.2022, 15 - 18 Uhr (s.t.), Raum 010.00.06


Public lecture:

Epsita Halder, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - In Search of Imam Husayn: Muharram in Kolkata from an Interdisciplinary Perspective


Roundtable discussion:

Torsten Tschacher, SAI, Heidelberg - Muharram beyond the Shia Script

Frank Korom, Boston University - Muharram Controversies in the Indo-Caribeean Diaspora

Pushkar Sohoni, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune - Ta'ziahs and Temples in the Western Deccan

Deepra Dandekar, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin - An Ethnographic Exploration of Muharram(s) in Pune

Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.

Alle sind herzlich wilkommen!

Posted on 06 Mar 2023

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