'Learning with Kabir' Workshop in Bangalore

Those who can't pay to meet workshop expenses are also welcome to participate in the workshop. 

Learning with Kabir - 2011*

 ‘Learning with Kabir’ is a four-day residential workshop for educators, offering a lyrical and critical immersion in the poetry, songs and ideas of Kabir, the 15th century mystic whose voice speaks in powerful ways to our contemporary worlds. The intention is to bring together a diverse group of educators who are seeding and growing ideas for journeying with Kabir into a variety of learning contexts—schools, colleges, universities, non-formal education and children’s publishing – to explore ideas related to mystic poetry, folk music, oral traditions, the politics of knowledge, the divide between self and other and the power of direct experience as opposed to received truths.

While being an immersion in the poetry of Kabir, we also want this workshop to be a platform for educators to share with each other their explorations with Kabir in the classroom. We are aware that each learning context has its own flavour, strengths and challenges; yet we hope there will be synergies by interactions with a wider community of fellow educators. While participants would primarily be persons/institutions who are already partnering in some way with the Kabir Project (www.kabirproject.org), we are equally excited about making new friends and partners. 

The workshop will combine structured group exercises with spaces for quiet individual reflection, and there will be lots of singing! 

Workshop Facilitators – Shabnam Virmani & Chintan Girish Modi

Invited Folk Singer Resource Person – Mahesha Ram ji, Rajasthan When: May 18-21, 2011 

Where: The School of Ancient Wisdom, Devanahalli, Bangalore 

We would like to limit the number of participants to 20 in the spirit of keeping it intimate and interactive, so please mail us at the earliest saying why you would like to join in, along with a brief paragraph or two about your interests, work, and expectations from the workshop. 

Mail Chintan at chintan.backups AT gmail.com, or call up at +9-97427 15913 

 Travel expenses to and from Bangalore will have to be borne by the participants. Participants with institutional resources to support workshop expenses are encouraged to contribute.

Film Appreciation Course at FTII, Pune from 16th May to 11th June, 2011

A four-week full-time course in FILM APPRECIATION will be held at Pune from 16th May to 11th June, 2011 under the joint auspices of National Film
Archive of India and Film & Television Institute of India. The course is primarily designed to meet the needs of teachers interested in introducing film study activities in educational institutions, film society organisers, film critics, journalists, film researchers, Govt. officials handling films and others interested in films. The curriculum includes theoretical and practical study of the art and history of film and the development of cinema as a medium of art and communication. Film classics both Indian and International will be used for critical analysis and study. 1. The medium of instruction would be English. 2. The applicant should have completed 21 years of age as on 01.04.2011 3. The course fee of Rs.7,500/- should be remitted by Demand Draft in favour of "Accounts Officer, Film & Television Institute of India, Pune" only after the confirmation of selection. Fees once paid will not be refunded. 4. This is a non-Residential Course. However, participants will be assisted in availing of boarding facilities in nearby hotels or lodges at concessional rates.  Advance copy of the duly filled in application in the prescribed format can be submitted through e-mail to nfaipune AT gmail.com. Hard copy of the application alongwith administrative fee of Rs.200/- (Rupees two hundred only) by Crossed Demand Draft payable to Accounts Officer, FTII, Pune should reach the following address on or before 04.04.2011 : The Director, National Film Archive of India, Law College Road, Pune - 411 004. N.B. -The application will be considered only on receipt of Administrative fee.   DOWNLOAD FORMS: FORMAT OF APPLICATION: http://www.ftiindia.com/forms/FORMATFAC2011.pdf

Post-symposium Workshop on Subjectivity - A Report

Department of English and Media Studies, Christ University organised a post-symposium workshop on Subjectivity on Sunday, 6 March 2011 from 9.00 am to 1.30 pm in the Conference Hall, III Floor, Block II, Christ University. Anup Dhar, Associate Professor, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, New Delhi was the Resource Person. The workshop was organised as a follow up of the National Symposium on Subjectivity held on February 9 and 10, 2011 at Christ University. The workshop was attended by the symposium participants, students and faculty of English and Media Studies, Law, and Psychology of Christ University, and students and staff of Mountfort College, Bangalore and members of the general public. 

The workshop elaborated on the keynote address of the symposium and addressed the various questions and concerns that emerged in the two-day symposium. 

Anup reflected on the symposium and mentioned that the symposium took a strong social science turn and did not take the philosophic questions on subjectivity on board. He then located the polemic positions that occurred in the symposium on subjectivity, one coming from science, where it was argued that there was no subjectivity issue, and that other defense of subjectivity from social science. Anup traced these positions within the structure of universities, which give rise to these polemic positions. He stressed the need to bridge this gap and tried to show through Derrida, as to how this gap was shown and bridged by Derrida in his work, especially through Derrida's critique of Heidegger. He took another route to demonstrate how it is important to bridge the two polemic positions by invoking neurobiology. He concluded saying the two dominant positions - the objective relations to the world and the subjective relation to the world - displayed twoness of human engagement with the world. 

Post-symposium Workshop on Subjectivity

Department of English and Media Studies, Christ University is organising a post-symposium workshop on Subjectivity on Sunday, 6 March 2011 from 9 am to 1 pm in the Conference Hall, III Floor, Block II, Christ University. Anup Dhar, Associate Professor, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, New Delhi is the Resource Person.

The workshop will elaborate on the keynote address of the symposium and address the various questions and concerns that emerged in the two-day symposium. 

Those who attended the National Symposium on Thinking Subjectivities on February 9 and 10, 2011 and those who are interested in the domain of subjectivity are welcome. 

Please feel free to forward this information to those who might be interested in the workshop.

National Workshop on Contemporary Indian Drama by Mahesh Dattani

Department of English, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore, Karnataka is organizing a two-day National Workshop on Contemporary Indian Drama on 7 & 8 January 2011. Mahesh Dattani, the noted playwright, is the resource person.

For more information please email to sacenglishworkshop@gmail.com, or swamysac at yahoo.com Website:http://sacenglishworkshop.hpage.com
Mobile- +919448744522

Workshop on Art and Architecture Criticism

Department of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous) Bangalore

Workshop on Art and Architecture Criticism

Date: 16, 17, 18, 19 April 2007

Time: 9.30 -1.00 pm

Venue: Christ College

Max no of participants: 15

Course Fee: 500

(Includes course material, certificate, tea)

For registration and details contact:

Visit: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com/

Or

Mail to : ajpinto42 at yahoo.co.in

or

Meet: Anil Pinto, Dept of Media Studies

Following is the rough syllabus. A detailed syllabus will follow.

Module I

Elements of art and architecture

Analyzing visual material

History of art and architecture through the concept of Beauty

The role of art in society and history

The performance of architecture in society and politics

Module II

Frameworks of criticism

Types of writing

Aspects of journalism

Module III

Field visits to two architecturally rich sites and two art galleries will be a part of the course.

Instructor

Kaiwan Mehta
Architect and Urban Researcher; Research scholar – Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore; Senior Lecturer - K Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai; Assistant Editor - Indian Architect & Builder.