School of Social and Political Science

Description

We live surrounded by screens. To understand contemporary culture and society we need a theory of the screen that is capable of crossing between disciplines, regions and histories. This roundtable brings together film scholars, media theorists, cultural anthropologists and critical theorists of screen culture in a cross-disciplinary dialogue. Thinking from South Asia we discuss the conceptual and empirical frames by which we can come to understand the screen as a carrier of form and an infrastructure of social life today.

This roundtable features:

• Josep Almudever Chanza (Newcastle)
• Vindhya Buthpitiya (St Andrews)
• Moyukh Chatterjee (Edinburgh)
• Nusrat Chowdhury (Amherst)
• Lotte Hoek (Edinburgh)
• Delwar Hussain (Edinburgh)
• Nayanika Mathur (Oxford)
• Mathangi Krishnamurthy (IIT Madras)
• Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia)
• Kartik Nair (Temple)
• Désha Osborne (Edinburgh)
• Mattijs van de Port (Amsterdam)
• Rachel Spronk (Amsterdam)
• Sanjukta Sunderason (Amsterdam)