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 2, 2018 Seminars & Workshops
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Monday, 23 July |
Strategic communication in the age of global information warfare: How it works Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 3 August 3-4pm |
Algorithmic cultural recommendation: the coded gaze and Google’s face match up Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 17 August |
Host community acculturation orientations, ethnic minority communication, and perceptions toward ethnic minorities: Studies of Chinese Hongkongers Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Prof Ling Chen |
| Friday, 24 August 3-4pm |
TBA Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 31 August |
TBA Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Beth Driscoll |
| Friday, 7 September 3-4pm |
TBA Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Ted Nannicelli |
| Friday, 21 September 3-4pm |
TBA Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Kim Wilkins |
| Friday, 5 October 3-4pm |
TBA Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Marg Henderson |
