Roland Barthes: Today, Here
an interdisciplinary workshop
On 10-11 December, 2015
Senate Hall (First Floor, Main Building, IIT Delhi)
November 2015 marks a hundred years since the birth of the thinker Roland Barthes, and provides an opportunity for us to recall Susan Sontag’s claim: “Of all the intellectual notables who have emerged since World War II in France, Roland Barthes is the one whose work I am most certain will endure." Barthes’s writings cannot be neatly slotted in genres and academic disciplines because their genealogy is a testimony to his persistence in puncturing the sedimental, the ideological, and the banal. However, unmistakable in the tumult of what is called post-structuralism, his 'voice' lingers as his trace in the very shifts that marked his intellectual itinerary: from écrivant/écrivain to ouvrage/texte to lisible/scriptable to plaisir/jouissance to studium/punctum.
10 December, 2015
9.30 am: Coffee & Tea
9.45 am: Introduction
Ravinder Kaur, Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi)
10 am: Dead Writing: Barthes and Posterity
Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
Respondent: Deepak Mehta , Shiv Nadar University
11.15 am: Barthes in the Digital Era
Alexandre Gefen, CNRS-CELLF, Paris-Sorbonne
Respondent: Rukmini Bhaya Nair, IIT Delhi
12.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: Memory, Mimesis and Self-Reflective Storytelling: Reading Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Avishek Parui, IIT Guwahati
Respondent: Divya Dwivedi, IIT Delhi
2.45 pm: Volatile Scales, Whispering Bodies: Tracing the ‘Grain’ in Asha Bhosle’s Voice
Shikha Jhingan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Respondent: Sanam Khanna, Kamla Nehru College
4 pm: Cofee & Tea
4.15 pm: Lacan, Four Discourses and ‘A’ Lover’s Discourse: Between Barthes and Badiou
Anup Kumar Dhar, Ambedkar University
Respondent: Nikhil Yadav, IIT Delhi
11 December, 2015
9.45 am: Cofee & Tea
10 am: Languages at War: Roland Barthes on Signs, Culture(s) and Politics
Philippe Roger, CNRS-EHESS
Respondent: Alok Rai, (Retd.) University of Delhi
11.15 am: "Remember, Body": Homoerotic Textual Intercourse between Roland Barthes' Incidentsand the Poetry of Constantine Cavafy
Niladri Chatterjee, University of Kalyani
Respondent: Sandhya Devesan Nambiar, Jesus and Mary College
12.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: From Comic Book to Chitrakar Performance: A Case of Intermedial Inscription
Roma Chatterji, University of Delhi
Respondent: Simona Sawhney, IIT-Delhi
2.45 pm: Coffee & Tea
3-4.30 pm: Round Table
Chair: Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
Myths Beyond Borders? On Teaching Barthes in Delhi
Maya Joshi, Lady Shri Ram College
Roland Barthes and the Cinematographic Experience: The Enjoyment of the Amateur Spectator
Gabriela Trujillo, L'Ecole de Louvre
The Republic of Signs: Becoming Animals in Contemporary India
Satish Poduval, EFL University
PANEL DISCUSSION
11 December 2015, 6.00 pm
Living in Language: Roland Barthes and the Adventure of Modernity
with Supriya Chaudhuri, Alok Rai, Alexandre Gefen
Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi, (CSH)
2 APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi 110011 India
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Organising Committee: Angelie Multani, Divya Dwivedi, Farhana Ibrahim, Simona Sawhney