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Public Defence: Ram Krishna Ranjan, Artistic Practice (Film)

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Public defence of Ram Krishna Ranjan’s PhD titled "Cuts and Continuities: Caste-subaltern imaginations of the Bengal famine of 1943"

Dissertation
Date
1 Nov 2023
Time
14:00 - 17:00
Location
HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, Vasagatan 50, X-Library
Participants
Opponent: Professor Petra Bauer, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Organizer
HDK-Valand – Högskolan för konst och design

There are two events in conjunction with the public defense.  

Film screening of Fourth World

Date and time: Tuesday 31 October, at 18.00
Venue: Bio Valand, Storgatan 43

The film documents the various facets and stages of a creative-collaborative practice that attempted to foreground and engage with Dalits’ experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943. To stage a layered and complex set of complementing and contesting narratives about the famine, the film weaves together fieldwork footage, poetry, oral histories and traditions, and essayistic writing.

Public defence

Date and time: Wednesday 1 November, at 14.00–17.00
Venue: X-Library, HDK-Valand, Vasagatan 50

The research investigates how film practice can be mobilised to explore negotiated imaginations of the Bengal famine of 1943 from a caste-subaltern perspective.

Read and download the thesis here

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