Symposium at The Newark Museum India: Changing the Way We See Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28, 2007
Co-sponsored by Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark; South Asian Studies Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; William Paterson University; SAJA South Asian Journalist Association and the Indo American Arts Council
Fee: Two-day subscription: $40
Saturday or Sunday only: $25 Members and students with current ID -FREE
Pre registration required; call 973-596-6613, or return registration form by
Mail: The Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102-3176
Fax: 973-642-0459
Saturday, October 27, 10:30 am-4:00 pm
Coffee Reception, 9:30-10:30 am
10:30 am-12:30 pm
A Changing India and the Global Art Scene A public conversation with Mira Kamdar, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and author of Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World and Yamini Mehta, Head of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art Department at Christie's where she oversees the sales of Modern and Contemporary Indian art in New York, Hong Kong and Dubai Moderator: Sumit Gaha, Professor, Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Director, South Asian Studies Program
12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm
Contemporary Indian Photography: The Collision of Public and Private
A public conversation with Paul Sternberger, Associate Professor of Art History, Rutgers, Newark and Co-curator of the exhibition, Barbara London, Associate Curator, department of Media, The Museum of Modern Art and Ram Rahman, photographer
3:00-4:30 pm Educators Roundtable: Teaching India for a Global Society
Co-presented by The Newark Museum and "Teach Asia" Scholars, Asia Society, Asian Studies Program, William Paterson University
Guest Speakers Each of the following presentations will be 15-20 minutes long followed by a dialogue with the audience.
Marina Budhos, well-known author and Assistant Professor of English, William Paterson University Topic: India All At Once: How Photographs Mix Up Past & Present
Rajender Kaur, Assistant Professor of English, William Paterson University Topic: Engaging India: Teaching Class and Diaspora Issues
George Robb, Professor of History, William Paterson University
Topic:The Image of India in Western Popular Culture
Jebaroja Singh, Assistant Professor of History, William Paterson University Topic:Gendered Spaces: Decoding Cultural Signs in India
(NJ professional development credit available for high school teachers)
Sunday, October 28, 2:00-5:00 pm Indian Voices, India Now! Internationally acclaimed writers, filmmakers and photographers will perform, read and screen excerpts of their work to explore their creative insights into the dynamic and often contradictory relationship between the individual, the community, millennia-old traditions and the forces of globalization in contemporary India today.
Moderator: AseemChhabra, published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Out New York and The Courier Journal, contributes to several Indian-American publications, including India Abroad, and its sister website, rediff.com, and writes a weekly New York column for Mumbai Mirror. His byline has appeared in India in The Telegraph, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India, India Today and the Indian edition of Cosmopolitan
Guest Speakers:
Marina Budhos is a widely published author and nonfiction writer. Her books include The Professor of Light and Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers and Ask Me No Questions.
Amitava Kumar is the author of Husband of a Fanatic, "Editor's Choice" book at The New York Times; Bombay-London-New York, on the list of "Books of the Year" in The New Statesman (UK); and Passport Photos, which won an "Outstanding Book of the Year" award from the Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. He has also written a book of poems, No Tears for the N.R.I. His novel, Home Products was published in early 2007 by Picador-India.
Dev Benegal's first feature English, August (1994) is acknowledged as a landmark in contemporary Indian cinema; his films are set in contemporary India and are about people caught between many cultures, speaking seventeen languages and still making sense.
Ram Rahman has shown his photographs in individual and group shows in India and around the world. He is also a founding member of SAHMAT, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust in New Delhi, which has been a leader in the resistance to communal and sectarian forces in India through its public cultural action and represents a very wide spectrum of the creative community.
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