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A Complete Calendar for the Midnight's Children Humanities C olumbia U niversity RECORD March 7, 2003 7 A Complete Calendar for the Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival March 2 at 1:00 p.m., Casa Italiana Anjali Jay and Assistant Director/Live Music Director A Matter for Us: Post-Colonial Nations and Color March 11 at 7:00 p.m., Riverside Church Aileen Gonsalvez reveal the process of working on a Lines—The multiple international significance of the Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani History: scene from the play. Co-Sponsored by the King’s Crown color line in formerly colonized nations—its personal Bangladesh—Gowher Rizvi, Tariq Banuri. Shakespeare Troupe. and political meanings—are discussed by Patricia Williams, Gauri Viswanathan and Manning Marable, March 12 at 7:00 p.m., Miller Theatre March 27 at 7:00 p.m., Miller Theatre experts on the politics of race and language and colonial Writers’ Roundtable—Writers Vikram Chandra, Michael High Art and Low Art: The Mix of Language and culture studies. Cunningham, Farzana Moon and Neil Bissoondath read from Class in Literature—Two cultural commentators, a their work and discuss ideas and genres related to Salman Shakespearean, and a scholar on Yiddish language look March 4 at 7:00 p.m., Riverside Church Rushdie’s novels, such as magic realism, non-linear narrative, at the way contemporary and historical writers have The Colonial Context of Midnight’s Children—with and the relationship between film and the novel. Moderated mediated between the high and the low. John Rockwell, Nicholas Dirks. by Jayme Koszyn. Jim Shapiro, Jeremy Dauber, Margo Jefferson. Moder- ated by Ben Cameron. March 5 at 7:00 p.m., Casa Italiana March 13 at 7:00 p.m., Riverside Church Dialogue with Edward Said—moderated by Akeel Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani History: March 30 at 7:00 p.m., Miller Theatre Bilgrami. A State of Emergency—Partha Chatterjee. The Performed Novel—Actors read passages from Midnight’s Children. March 6 at 7:00 p.m., Riverside Church March 17 at 6:30 p.m., Asia Society, 725 Park Ave at Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani His- 70th Street March 24-April 5, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print tory: A Tryst with Destiny. Gyan Pandey, Aamir Mufti. Midnight’s Children: Musings of the Past/ Envisioning the Studies, Dodge Hall Future—This inter-generational panel of South Asians will The Broken Mirror: The Midnight’s Children Exhibi- March 7 at 7:00 p.m., Casa Italiana include those who were involved in the independence move- tion—The Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival Writers and Oppression—Writers concerned with the ment of India and the founding of Pakistan. Panelists will dis- hosts a visual arts exhibition, curated by Chitra Ganesh issue of literary and intellectual freedom, including Inter- cuss the history and legacy of these movements and their and featuring the work of Rina Banerjee and Yuken national Parliament of Writers President Russell Banks, impact on local and global communities. ($7 Asia Society Teruya. The Broken Mirror will present paintings, sculp- Coco Fusco, Michael Scammell and Eduardo Machado Members, Students and Seniors; $10 General. For further ture, and installations by nine contemporary artists from debate their views. information on this event, or speakers call 212-517-ASIA.) South Asia and the United States who investigate the relationship between history and myth. Exhibition is free March 8 at 1:00 p.m., Riverside Church March 22, at 1:30 p.m., Altschul Auditorium, Interna- and open to the public, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 South Asia, Salman Rushdie and the Media—Journal- tional Affairs Building p.m., Saturday noon – 6:00 p.m. ists and cultural commentators, Todd Gitlin, Sreenath Interview with Salman Rushdie—Conducted by Columbia Sreenivasan and Tunku Varadarjan, examine the devel- President Lee C. Bollinger. The Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival is pro- opment of the image of South Asians and South Asia in grammed by Jayme Koszyn Consulting. Unless other- the American media, both before, during and after the March 22 at 3:30 p.m., Altschul Auditorium wise noted, all tickets are $5 and are available through “Rushdie Affair.” From Novel to Dramatic Presentation—Salman Rushdie, the Miller Theatre Box Office, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Simon Reade and members of the creative team who adapted Street), 212-854-7799, or online at www.midnightschil- March 9 at 1:00 p.m., Casa Italiana the Midnight’s Children discuss the journey from the novel to drenNYC.com. Complete Festival information and par- Religion and Politics—Amaney Jamal, Rachel the stage. ticipant bios are also available on this Web site. McDermott and E. Valentine Daniel have expertise in the faiths of the Middle East and South Asia and talk about March 25 at 7:00 p.m., Riverside Church Columbia University Venue Addresses religions’inextricable ties to politics. Moderated by Peter India and Pakistan: Culture and Society—The intersection Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between W. Awn. amongst diverse aspects of contemporary South Asian society 116th and 118th) is addressed by a cross-disciplinary group of experts on India Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue (between W. March 9 at 3:30 p.m., Casa Italiana and Pakistan, including: Anupama Rao, Arvind Rajagopal 120th and 122nd St.), Assembly Hall Bombay: The Power of Place and the Idea of the and Syed Nauman Naqvi. Miller Theater, 2960 Broadway (northeast corner of City—The centrality of Bombay in the novel Midnight’s W. 116th and Broadway) Children inspires a discussion among Gyan Prakash, March 26 at 7:00 p.m., Black Box Theater in Alfred Altschul Auditorium, located in the lobby of the Inter- Janaki Bakhle and Homi Bhabha about the dynamic Lerner Hall national Affairs Building: 420 W. 118th Street (and power of a world city that is as palpable in the imagina- Open Table Rehearsal—Midnight’s Children cast mem- Amsterdam) Black Box Theater, Alfred Lerner Hall, tion as it is in reality. Moderated by Nicholas Dirks. bers Zubin Varla, Syreeta Kumar, Selva Rasalingam and Broadway at W. 115th Street. Wallach Gallery Presents First U.S. Retrospective of French Artist Jean Fautrier Paintings, works on paper, most sophisticated exemplifica- the art of Jean Dubuffet and sculptures, original multiples tions of the informel, or form- l'art informel in Europe, and and illustrated books by Jean less. abstract expressionism in Fautrier, one of France's most In other paintings— of nudes, America, particularly the work important wartime and postwar animal carcasses and land- of Jackson Pollock. artists, are on display at the scapes—Fautrier evoked a world In conjunction with the exhibi- Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art of darkness and violence while tion, the Wallach Art Gallery, in Gallery, 8th Floor Schermerhorn pushing the boundaries of tradi- cooperation with Columbia's Hall, through Mar 29. “Jean tional representational art further Maison Française, will sponsor a Fautrier: 1898–1964” is the first and further into abstraction. This related symposium on Saturday, retrospective of Fautrier's work exhibition introduces new audi- Mar 8, from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 in the United States and will ences to a major French mod- p.m. in Room 501, Schermer- include more than 60 works ernist who has been largely horn Hall. Serge Guilbaut, pro- from public and private collec- overlooked in the United States. fessor of art history at the Uni- tions in Europe and the United The exhibition is curated by versity of British Columbia, will States. Karen K. Butler, a Ph.D. candi- deliver the keynote address. Fautrier is one of the few date in Columbia's Department Bois, Buchloh, Butler, Carter modern artists to have addressed of Art History and Archaeology, and Perry will participate, as will with profundity the horrors of and Curtis L. Carter, the director Ames Hodes, Ph.D. candidate in war. His series of works the of the Haggerty Museum of Art Columbia’s French department; Otages (Hostages)—semi- at Marquette University. The Anna-Louise Milne, indepen- abstract paintings of partially exhibition is jointly organized dent scholar, and Eric Trudel, obliterated or disfigured faces by the Wallach Art Gallery, the Bard College faculty member. and bodies of victims of Nazi Haggerty Museum of Art and the The event is free and open to the atrocities—grew out of his Fogg Art Museum at Harvard public. Reservations are not direct experience with the mur- University. required. der of French citizens during The exhibition catalogue, the Support for the exhibition and Nazi occupation. first major publication on symposium is provided by the Writing about these works in Fautrier in English, includes Sterling Currier Fund, the Flo- the catalogue, Benjamin translations of critical writings rence Gould Charitable Trust, Buchloh, art history professor at by French writer and Resis- the Central-National Gottesman Barnard and Columbia, says, tance hero André Malraux, and Foundation and Dr. Lee Mac- “Fautrier’s images generate a Jean Paulhan, French philoso- Cormick Edwards and friends of profound experience of psychic pher, writer and cultural critic. the gallery. revolt and physical revulsion.” Linking Fautrier's postwar Gallery hours are Wednesday, In another essay Yve-Alain work to its greater cultural con- Friday and Saturday 1:00 p.m. to Bois, art history professor at text, the catalogue documents 5:00 p.m.; Thursday 1:00 p.m. to Harvard University, proclaims his impact on contemporary 8:00 p.m. The exhibition is also that Fautrier’s art is one of the artistic and literary movements: free and open to the public. Bouquet of Flowers, 1927 by Jean Fautrier .
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