Schedule of Meetings
All meetings are from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. in the Program in Science Technology & Society (STS) in Building E51, Room 195 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To join our meetings and receive updates about our activities please join our mailing list at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media
Spring 2008 Reading Group
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Kidambi, Prashant. The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1860-1920. Ashgate, 2007.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Glover, William J. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Hazareesingh, Sandip. The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity : Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay City 1900-1925. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Legg, Stephen. Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. Routledge, 2006.
Wednesday 28 May 2008
Nair, Janaki. The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Fall 2006 Workshop
12 December 2006
Tulasi Srinivas. “Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 29, no. 3 (2006): 321.
5 December 2006
Eric Lewis Beverley, “Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad”
14 November 2006
Anand Vivek Taneja, “The Archaeology of Myth: The Myth of Archaeology: The Pasts and Present of the Purana Qila” and “History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric: The Changing Landscapes of Delhi’s ‘First City’, 1995-2005 (or, Who Can Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?)”
31 October 2006
Nikhil Rao, “An Indian Suburbia”
Spring 2006 Workshop
10 May 2006
Nikhil Rao, “The City as Subject: The Acquisitions of the Bombay Improvement Trust”
Ashish Rajadhyaksha, “The Contrasting Case of Bombay” (unfinished) chapter from forthcoming book Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: Indian Evidence 2005-1925 (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2007)
3 May 2006
Svati Shah, “Sex Work and Secrecy” and “The Red Light Area: Producing the Spectacle of Sex Work” from forthcoming book Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai.
19 April 2006
Sarah Waheed, “Bombay and the Adeeb: Exploring Spaces of Sociability amongst Urdu Intellectuals, 1899-1965″
5 April 2006
Nikhil Rao, “The Bourgeois Street in Bombay”
15 March 2006
Nikhil Rao, “House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay in the 1930s” and “Caste, Community and the Cooperative Society: The Emergence of Dadar-Matunga as Ethnic Neighbourhood in Bombay”
1 March 2006
Eric Lewis Beverley. “Cosmopolitanism from Charminar to Cantontment: Urban Hyderabad and Colonialism”