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Harbour
Cities as Intercultural Topos:
Mumbai and Hamburg in comparative media studies
The bilateral
academic and research project for the doctoral and postgraduate
students will be led by Prof. Dr. Vibha Surana (Department of
German, University of Mumbai) and Prof. Dr. Ortrud Gutjahr,
Institute of German Studies II, University of Hamburg. Having
paved the way for multifarious sea voyages and migration, the
media city of Hamburg, which has aroused attention particularly
because of its intercultural films, is considered to be the
gateway to the “new world”. Mumbai, the Gateway of India is the
hub of Indian Cinema and has been considerably shaped in its
cosmopolitan identity by its distinctive harbor. The research
project aims to study the aesthetic treatment of harbor cities
in the narratives of Bollywood and German films and their
projection as a significant space for intercultural encounter.
The cinematic semantics of these two harbour cities can be
understood as a complex commentary on Indian and German history
and culture.
Project Heads:
Prof. Dr. Vibha Surana Department of German, University of
Mumbai and Prof. Dr. Ortrud Gutjahr, Institute of German Studies
II, University of Hamburg.
A Project
promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Department of German
University of Mumbai
cordially
invites you to a seminar
on
Seascapes
in Comparative Media Studies
21st
- 23rd December, 2010
PROGRAMME
21st
December, 2010 at 2.00 p.m.
Venue: The
ICSSR Conference Hall, J. P. Naik Bhavan, University of Mumbai,
Kalina Campus, Mumbai 98.
(MEDIUM:
ENGLISH)
2.00 p.m. to 2.10
p.m.
Welcome
Vibha Surana, Department of German, University of Mumbai
& Ortrud Gutjahr, Institute of German Studies II,
University of Hamburg
2.10 p.m.
onwards
Research Presentations of the Department of German
Resource Person: Komal Nahta, Editor,
Film Information
2.10 p.m. to 2.30
p.m.
Mumbai as a Harbour City – A Historical Overview
Anvaya Sardesai
2.30 p.m. to 2.50
p.m.
Mumbai Sea in Bollywood: Mirror to Indian Socio-economic History
Sudha Ranganathan
2.50 p.m. to 3.10
p.m.
Mumbai as Harbour City in Bollywood Films of the 21st
Century
Deepti Surve, Girisha Sawant
3.10
p.m.
Discussion
22nd
December, 2010, at 10.00 a.m.
Venue: The WRIC
Conference Hall, University of Mumbai, Kalina Campus, Mumbai 98.
(MEDIUM:
GERMAN)
10.00 a.m. to
10.30 a.m. Interculturality
Ortrud
Gutjahr - Vibha Surana - Meher Bhoot
10.30 a.m. to
11.00 a.m. Intercultural Topos
Harbour City
Ortrud Gutjahr
11.00 a.m. to 1.00
p.m. Film Screening &
Discussion
(Intercultural Films depicting the Hamburg harbour)
1.00 p.m. to 2.30
p.m. LUNCH
2.30 p.m. to 2.50
p.m. German Documentary Films
on Mumbai
Ankita Karode
2.50 p.m. to 3.30
p.m. Mumbai Sea Songs in
German
Kiran Chivate, Girija Gondhalekar, Dhanshree Kavishwar,
Urmila Patil
23rd December, 2010 at 10.00 a.m.
Venue: The ICSSR Conference Hall,
J. P. Naik Bhavan, University of Mumbai,
Kalina Campus, Mumbai 98.
(MEDIUM: ENGLISH)
10.00 a.m. to 10.45 a.m.
Welcome
Vibha Surana
Department of German, University of Mumbai
Inauguration
Rajan Welukar
Vice-Chancellor, University of Mumbai
10.45 a.m.
to 11.00 a.m.
Introductory Remarks: Harbour Cities as Intercultural Topos -
Mumbai & Hamburg in Comparative Media Studies
Ortrud Gutjahr
Institute of German Studies II, University of Hamburg
11.00 a.m. to 11.30
a.m.
Sea as an Aesthetic Metaphor in Indian Tradition
Natwar Joshi
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Mumbai
11.30 a.m. to 12.30p.m.
Screening of Film and Discussion
Saacha (The Loom):
Produced by the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata
Institute of
Social Sciences
1.00 p.m. to 2.00
p.m.
LUNCH BREAK
2.00 p.m. to 2.30
p.m.
Film Montage: Seascapes in Bollywood
2.30 p.m. to 3.00
p.m. Seascapes
in "3 Sakina Manzil" and "Jazz"
Ramu Ramanthan
Playwright
3.00 p.m.
Plenary Discussion: Natwar
Joshi, Ramu Ramanthan, Jabbar Patel, Ortrud Gutjahr, Vibha
Surana,
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