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Dr. Veena Hariharan - 'Multispecies Life, Postcolonial Cities'
The first FTV Research Seminar of the Autumn term will take place on Weds of Week 3 (Oct 22) at 4.30pm in the FAB cinema.
We will be joined by Dr. Veena Hariharan of Jawaharlal Nehru University, who will give a paper entitled 'Multispecies Life, Postcolonial Cities'. A flyer for this talk is attached.
All are welcome and the talk will be followed by a Q&A.
Dr. Veena Hariharan
After completing her PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, she taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India where she is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics. Her articles and chapters on non-fiction film, the environment and non-human animals have appeared in anthologies and journals. She was recently Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies at the Goethe Universit盲t, Frankfurt. Her book, Embers of Reason: Contemporary Indian Documentary and the Secular Imagination is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Selected publications include:
'Contagious Aesthetics: Bios, Politics and Cinema in Contemporary Kerala' in 鈥淐inema of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics鈥� CISA (Centre for Indian Studies in Africa) Journal, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, (2022).
'The Shikar Film and Photograph: Hunting in Colonial India' in Blackwell Companion to Indian Film edited by Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar (Blackwell, 2021).
'At home in the Empire: The Colonial Home Movies of Edgar S Hyde' in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. 5(1): 49-61, (2014).