Global Ghatak?
Poetry and Partition: The Films of Ritwik Ghatak
November 1 - 6, 2019
A symposium on the work of Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak will be held at Columbia University. This symposium includes such speakers as the Kenyan activist intellectual Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Swedish investigative journalist and cultural theorist Stefan Jonsson, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and film theorists such as Nora Alter and Dudley Andrew.
Sunday, November 3, 9:30am-1pm
Please note this event will take place at Columbia University, in the East Gallery of Buell Hall. See more information here.
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