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, 2019 Seminars & Workshops
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Friday, 26 July |
School Forum |
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| Friday, 2 August 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 16 August 3-5 pm 3:00pm-4:00pm (Panel) 4:00pm- onwards (CAPS launch event) |
CommArts Postgraduate Society Panel: “How to Write a Journal Article and Target the Right Journals” Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Angela Hannan (SCA Librarian) Dr Elena Danilova (Scholarly Publishing, Library) Dr Ted Nannicelli (Editor, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind) Associate Professor Kelly Fielding (Communication scholar) Dr Jennifer Clement (Literary Studies scholar) Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (Communications, Media and Cultural Studies scholar) |
| Friday, 23 August 3-5 pm |
All in One Quire: Emotional Communities in John Donne's Easter Sermons Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 6 September 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Aparna Hebbani and Mairead MacKinnon |
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Friday, 13 September |
CANCELLED AustLit and BlackWords—Platforms for Storying Research Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Kerry Kilner and The AustLit Team |
| Friday, 27 September 3-4pm |
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Hosted Roundtable: The State of Australian Arts Criticism The Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio
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Dr Stephen Carleton with panellists Miriam Cosic, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Kathryn Kelly |
| Friday, 4 October 3-4pm |
Enacting a Sense of Home Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Shuang Liu |
| Friday, 11 October 3-4pm |
Selfies, Affordances, and Situational Properties Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Katrin Tiidenberg, Tallinn University |
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Friday, 18 October |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 25 October 3-4pm |
POSTPONED UNTIL 2020 - TBA Why Paintings Matter: Filming Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Andrea Bubenik |