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Meaghan Morris: In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters
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The Golden Jubilee Lecture by Meaghan Morris ‘In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters: Community, Change and Cliché in Trans-local Action Cinema’ was delivered on 27 March 2014 at the CSDS Seminar Room. Film scholars oriented towards...
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Claudio Lomnitz : Mexico Fantasy of the Family, Fantasy of Rule of Law
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:(B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture)
The 17th B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture was delivered by Claudio Lomnitz on ‘Mexico: Fantasy of the Family, Fantasy of Rule of Law’ at CSDS on 20 February 2015. In July 2014 Mexico’s Federal Police raided an orphanage in a traditionally...
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Lecture on 'Mapping Melodrama' Cancelled
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The lecture by Kathryn Hansen on ‘Mapping Melodrama: Global Theatrical Circuits in the Later Nineteenth Century’ scheduled for 3 March 2015 at CSDS Seminar Room has been cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. Inconvenience caused is...
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The Wonder that was Cylinder: Earliest Gramophone Recordings
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A lecture demonstration by A N Sharma on ‘The Wonder that was Cylinder: Earliest Gramophone Recordings’ was held at CSDS on 18 February 2015 at CSDS. It traced the history of the tin foil phonograph machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison...
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The Continuing Saga of the Nuclear Deal
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R.Rajaraman delivered a lecture on ‘The Continuing Saga of the Nuclear Deal’ on 24 February 2015 at CSDS. The lecture was chaired by Aditya Nigam. The lecture outlined the story of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal from 2005 all the way up to the...