Between the Lines: Negotiating South Asian LBGT Identity
Between the Lines is the first event of its kind to be organized in the Boston/Cambridge area.
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Radhika Gajjala
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 144 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesConsuming/Producing/Inhabiting South Asian Digital Diasporas with Radhika Gajjala.
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Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesCombining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990's Britain. Featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun-Da-Mental, Anjali, DJ Ritu, Black Star Liner and many others.
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Cultural Politics of the South Asian Diaspora: Popular Cultural Responses to the “War on Terror”
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRajini Srikanth and Vijay Prashad discuss two South Asian popular cultural responses to 9-11 and 'the war on terror': M.I.A.'s 'Born Free' music video, and the Bollywood film 'My Name is Khan'.
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Contemporary Issues in South Asian Diasporic Popular Culture
Shilpa Dave, Dhiraj Murthy, and Helen Kim on contemporary issues in South Asian pop culture, with a focus on youth cultures and cultural translation.
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Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesInstead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
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New Histories of the South Asian Diaspora
MIT Building E51, Room 325 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA reading and discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur and Vivek Bald.
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Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesVivek Bald will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.