Ritwik Ghatak 30 Oct 2007 6PM

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo
- a film by Ritwik Ghatak
(national award winner 1974)
- 120 mins.

Event Info Name: Bengali Film
Tagline: Ritwik Ghatak
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cinema Goldsmiths
City/Town: New Cross, United Kingdom



All Welcome. No Charge.

Goldsmiths Stop the War 24 Oct 2007

Stop the War teach-in sponsored by Goldsmiths Students
Union and Goldsmiths UCU on Wednesday 24 October.

Full timetable:

The Demonisation of Islam?
1-2.30pm MB139
Suhail Malik (Visual Art): Visual representations of Abu Ghraib
Bart Moore-Gilbert (English): Representations of fundamentalism
Les Back (Sociology): The War on Terror and the politics of misrecognition

Truth: The first casualty of war
1-2.30pm MB355
Peter Lee –Wright (Media): Reporting the war
Des Freedman (Media): Silencing the media
Natalie Fenton (Media) The media and mobilisation

Palestine under occupation
3-4.30pm MB355
Kay Dickinson (Media): Resistant media in Palestine
Ahmed Masoud (PhD candidate, English): Education in Palestine
Eyal Weizman (Visual Cultures): De-colonising architecture

The war at home
3-4.30pm MB139
John Hutnyk (Cultural Studies): Anti-war hip hop and the 7/7 bombings
Angela McRobbie (Media): War in the domestic context
Nirmal Puwar (Sociology): Memorialisation and violence

Plenary: Stop the War
5-6.30pm Small Hall
Chair: Hannah Bullivant (GCSU President)
Alberto Toscano (Sociology)
Mehraj Miah ( GCSU Black & Ethnic Students Officer)
Stop the War speaker
Grace Lally (GCSU Campaigns Co-ordination officer)

(note - The image I chose here is not the mage chosen by GCSU or UCU, but its sentiment is interesting).

Mrinal Sen Film, Tues 23 Oct. 07. @ 6.30

6.30 in the Cinema, tuesday 23rd October (after Keith Hart lecture in IGLT)

Antareen - by Mrinal Sen (1993 - 91 mins)

Another great Bengali film, this time with Dimple Kapadia (seen on the original flyer)

All welcome, in the Goldsmiths Cinema - no charge -

Akaler Shandhaney (In Search of a Famine) 16 Oct 07

Aakaler Sandhane: In September, 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the “famine-seekers”!

All welcome 6pm Cinema, Goldsmiths.

More Bengali Films at Goldsmiths

Tuesday's CCS Film Night 6pm–9 pm RHB SH/Cinema Goldsmiths

Its 150 years since the 1857 uprisings, 60 years since Independence (for Pakistan and India) and 40 years since Naxalbari (see, dialectics!)... In a kind of angular appreciation of these anniversaries, the film slot for CCS in Autumn term 2007 will be a series of great Bengali films.

We will start with Satyajit Ray's "The Chess Players" on the 2nd of October


16 October - Aakaler Sandhane - Mrinal Sen
23 October - Antareen - Mrinal Sen(will start one hour later because of Keith Hart's Inaugural Lecture in IGLT (at 5.30)

Then in the following weeks, some Ritwik Ghatak, films by Arparna Sen and one by Buddhadeb Dasgupta - dates to be announced (but its nearly every tuesday at 6)

All welcome.

Tim Mangin 4-6pm Tuesday 9 October 2007

CCS special seminar

Tim Mangin RHB141 from 4-6pm Tuesday 9 October – all welcome

Cosmopolitanism in Senegal: Jazz and Rap

This paper explores how Senegalese local popular culture thrives not in spite of transnational influences and processes, but as a result of them. Popular music scholars and social scientists have increasingly begun to study the impact of popular African diasporic musics in Africa such as jazz and Latin musics in West, South, and Central Africa. However, the meaning and role of black U.S. pop musics in identity formations in Francophone West Africa has received less attention. This paper addresses this problem by examining how Senegalese have used diasporic musics since the 1940s as one way to assert their modern cosmopolitan identities. Based on fieldwork conducted in Saint Louis and Dakar, Senegal, I explore how jazz and rap have become vitally cultural expressive practices for negotiating national and black identities.


Tim Mangin, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University, studies transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in African diasporic popular musics and culture. His masters thesis explores collaborations between DJs, rappers, visual artists, dancers, and jazz musicians in underground hip hop clubs in New York City and his dissertation is an ethnography of mbalax, the popular music of Senegal.