[ecrea] panels for ASA 2012 & ECSAS 2012 - filmic visions, digital practices and representation

Dear colleagues,

we would like to draw your attention on two panels that we are =
organizing in the coming spring/summer activities of ASA 2012 (Arts and =
Aesthetics in a Globalizing World, Delhi, 3-6 April) and ECSAS 2012 (the =
22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon, 25-28 July).

These panels verge around the topics of filmic visions, digital =
practices and representation in the Indian subcontinent. The panel for =
ASA explicitly focuses on the role of contemporary digital practices in =
offering new forms of representation of/in India. The one for ECSAS =
articulates itself as both a panel and an exhibition of visual projects =
and aims at challenging conventional visual gazes upon South Asia.

Our wish is to use these two opportunities to develop an edited volume =
on the politics of changing practices of image-making in South Asia =
which would be the first book of the sort. We are particularly =
interested in papers that directly deal with the craft of digital =
image-making and in its power to let new theoretical approaches emerge.

Please find below the short abstracts for each panel and the links to =
the conferences pages (where you can find the long abstracts for the two =
panels as well as more details about the conference).

If you want to propose a paper, please follow the links provided by the =
web-pages.

Delhi, ASA:

Screening India through digital image-making

This panel explores the role of digital image-making in contemporary =
India. Bringing recent debates in visual anthropology, in touch with the =
Indian boom in digital experimentations, it will enquire the extent to =
which such practices are offering new forms of representing India.

Deadline for paper proposal December 7, 2011.

http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/

Lisbon, ECSAS:

=46rom the inside looking out=85 Filmic visions of South Asia's tacit =
"other"

This exhibition/panel aims to provoke the logic that has characterized =
conventional visual gazes upon South Asia. Approaching the subcontinent =
as a place to "look from" rather than to "look at" it aims to attract =
all kinds of visual presentations able to re-think conventional =
approaches to South Asia.

Deadline for paper proposal February 15, 2012.

http://nomadit.co.uk/easas/ecsas2012/panelproposal.php5?Stage=3DProposal

The convenors are:

Paolo Favero - Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Research in =
Anthropology (CRIA) and Associate Professor at the Lisbon University =
Institute; Paolo is also a filmmaker and directs the post-graduation in =
Digital Visual Culture. He is the director of the film =93Flyoverdelhi=94 =
and author of the book =93India Dreams=94.

Giulia Battaglia - Teaching Fellow for the Centre for Media and Film =
Studies (SOAS, University of London) and PhD Research Fellow in Social =
Anthropology  (SOAS, University of London); Giulia works on Documentary =
Film Practices in India and worked as a filmmaker in collaboration with =
film practitioners from India. Along with other academics, she recently =
curated the festival/conference Persistence/Resistance: Documentary =
Practices in India, London, November 2011.

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