Contested Religion, Media and Culture in India: History and Theory
This presentation will specifically deal with the history and theorisation of contested religion, media & culture in India. It will begin with a brief account of some of the early structural functionalist studies that dealt with Indian (Hindu) culture that were couched mainly in ideational terms before dealing with studies that problematized the relationship between religion, media and culture within the non-Brahman movements in Maharashtra and Tamilnadu. In the context of this latter tradition one sees the beginnings of efforts by academics to capture the role played by both the ideational and the material. It will deal with the academic explorations of contested religion against the background of religious nationalism, the rise of the Hindutva movement and the upsurge in minority fundamentalisms.
Pradip Ninan Thomas is at the School of Communication & Arts, University of Queensland. He has written extensively on the media in India and on religion and media.
11.00am Friday 26 August 2016
Seminar Room, Level 4 Forgan Smith Tower,
University of Queensland, St Lucia
For further information, please contact iash@uq.edu.au or 07 334 69492
About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
The research seminar and workshop series' occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Unless otherwise advertised, the seminars occur on a Friday afternoon from 3-4 pm in the Digital Learning Space (Room 224) in the Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).
Semester 1, 2019 Seminars & Workshops
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Friday, 1 March |
Honours Welcome Level 6, Michie Building (#9) |
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| Friday, 8 March 3pm-4pm |
The Media, Populism, and Polarization in the German Context Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Bernhard Goodwin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Friday, 22 March 4:30pm |
Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building (#14) |
Katalin Trencsényi (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) |
| Friday, 29 March 3-4 pm |
Storifying Science: Translating Environment through Ecobiography Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Jessica White |
| Friday, 12 April 12noon-1:00pm |
CSC Exchange Room 208 |
Jaime A. Manalo IV Centre for Communication and Social Change |
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Friday, 12 April |
Streaming, disruption and the evolving cultures of use Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 26 April 3-4pm |
Journalism by Numbers: What the Census Tells us about Journalists and Journalism since the 1960s Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 3 May |
The Pedagogy of Listening / Listening to people in the age of investment thinking Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Linje Manyozo (RMIT) |
| Friday, 10 May 3-4pm |
The Sweden of the South: Australia's Eurovision Love Affair Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Chris Hay |
| Friday, 17 May 4-7pm |
Visual Disturbances: An Essay Film Room214, Otto Hirschfeld Building |
Dr Eric Faden (Bucknell University, USA) |
| Friday, 17 May 3-4pm |
Workshop: Tips and insights on applying for non-ARC funding Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Kelly Fielding |
| Friday, 24 May 3-4pm |
Transferring Below-the-line Skillsets Across Creative Indisutries in Early Television Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Alex Bevan |
