[Urban-Media] Social Space

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet on Wednesday 19 April in MIT Building E-51 Room 393 from 7.30-9.30 p.m. to discuss the following texts:

Walter Benjamin, Berlin Chronicle
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/benjamin_berlin.pdf

Ismat Chugtai, Bombay to Bhopal
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chugtai.pdf

Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chugtai
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/manto.pdf

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Adda
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chakrabarty_adda.pdf

In addition to these, Sarah Waheed will present a draft paper called "Bombay and the Adeeb: Exploring Spaces of Sociability amongst Urdu Intellectuals, 1899-1965", which will be addressed to questions of urban social spaces explored in the other readings for this session. 

Best, 


S.K.
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Shekhar Krishnan
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143, Albany Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.

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