Events
PUBLIC LECTURE - Tuesday 28th October 5-6.30pm in B1.16 Warwick Business School, Scarman Road
The Centre for Human Rights in Practice invite you to the following event on
‘Ekta Parishad: A People’s Movement'
Rajagopal PV: President and Founding Member of Ekta Paishad
Ekta Parishad (Unity Forum) is almost twenty five years old and draws its membership from tribal and landless farmers, Rajagopal has gained international recognition for his persistent, Gandhian-inspired activism, a mix of walking and negotiation, to significantly change Indiaʼs national policy on land distribution. Under his leadership, Ekta Parishad which currently has about 200,000 followers, has organised several mass marches (padyatra), the first in 1999/2000, as a way for marginalised people to highlight their situation, their rights, and to attract the attention of media, policy-makers and the general public. In 2012 the Jan Satyagraha (the People’s March for Justice) saw 100,000 march from Gwailor to Delhi. It provoked legislative changes in favour of the landless. This year Ekta Parishad was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by UK and American Quakers.
Rajagopal will be speaking on the history of Ekta Parishad, its strategies and achievements and its future plans.
There will be a drinks reception after the talk.
If you would like to attend please contact A.T.Williams@warwick.ac.uk
Indian Feminist Theatre Practices since the 1980s
Date: Wednesday 20 November 2014
5pm
(Theatre Studies, Room G56, Milburn House, University of Warwick)
Professor Anuradha Kapur (Ambedkar University Delhi)
It seems to me interesting that while the performing grammar of realism has been consistently resisted by women directors of the 1980s, the secular understanding of the deep shaping effects of social history has been of recurrent interest. This body of work has often upended characterization; appropriated popular narratives and shifted them; found ways of positioning the actor’s body so as to instigate both the compositional and dramaturgical strategies of performance. This presentation will look at the imaginative reengagement with the body, as character, dispersed across, and traversing the mise-en-scene, the landscape, and the architecture; which might be seen to prompt an interaction between viewer and actor which plots and replots the story in play.
Theatre and Stratification FIRT-IFTR World Congress, University of Warwick
28 July – 1 August 2014
(School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies)
Keynote speaker: Professor Bishnupriya Dutt (Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University) presenting paper title ‘Performing Protests: Spaces of Stratified Resistance’: ‘The first anniversary of the traumatic rape incident, which shook the nation (India) and had international reverberations, was commemorated (16 Dec 2013) with wide-scale performances. It seemed that through performances around the city, following the trail of the bus which had contoured the city while the brutal crime was committed, the memory of it could be replaced by a positive wave of change and interventions. Performances and performance art created as an aftermath of the rape and the public outrage premiered throughout the year, and now joined the three-day commemoration, some in new versions (Maya Rao’s ‘walk’), and some altogether new performances as well’.