The Institute for South Asia Studies and the Tamil Studies Initiative at UC Berkeley invite you to a talk by Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University, Usha Iyer.
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DATE: Thursday, March 4, 2021
TIME: 9am Berkeley | 5pm London | 10pm Lahore | 10:30pm New Delhi | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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Speaker Bio
Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, Stanford University, is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2020), which examines constructions of gender, stardom, sexuality, and spectacle in Hindi cinema through womens labor, collaborative networks, and gestural genealogies to produce a corporeal history of South Asian cultural modernities. Her essays have appeared and are forthcoming in Camera Obscura, South Asian Popular Culture, Figurations in Indian Film, The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, and the Women Film Pioneers Project, among others.
More about Prof. Iyer on her web page HERE.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
