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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: Continuing Reading
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Thursday, February 23, 2012. Ah, we are back! We, of the never-dying-spirit is back, sans the bang, but we are continuing reading. We are not reading this book again! This time, let us look at Foucault, and read attempts to contextualize his works in the South Asian context. One of the most influential and renowned venture along this line is Partha Chatterjee's lectures on the Political Society. Thank you, Prem! Reading the Original Chatterjee essay. A more elaborate summary, from a Delhi lecture. Nivedi...
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: 'Identity' Practicals
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Let us do an exercise! Stand on one leg and with the finger tip of the other, draw a few circles on the ground. Now assume an expression of coyness . We have read two articles on identity, which talked about anything but identity, and now let us try applying it to a text! Our next reading session is a movie and a discussion that should. The movie is a 2008 documentary directed by first time director Barb Lee. Read the plot summary below. Some movie, eh? So, now on to the trailer.
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: November 2009
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Monday, November 2, 2009. Natter, chatter . 'Talk to her'. Jananie (after a long gap) contributed some significant points, thereby making the discussion vivid. She notified Almodovar was a gay and indicated a certain pattern in his movies -( All About My Mother, The Bad Education, Talk To Her, Volver). They were: a. sympathetic representation of non-straight men vs possible 'villainisation' of straight men. Bsexual ambiguity of the male characters and their typification. Sunday, November 1, 2009. The rea...
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: Reading Hall and Brubaker
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Saturday, April 9, 2011. Reading Hall and Brubaker. Thus we channelled a regular class into our good old reading club, without missing a beat! Did anyone knew it happened? But oh yes, it did! So, yes, we are back in our reading club, and the themes of our reading this time around is 'Identity'. The first reading of Stuart Hall's Who Needs 'Identity? More on the essays and the authors below. Now, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Of culture at the same time. Read more on Hall and his works here.
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: February 2012
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Thursday, February 23, 2012. Ah, we are back! We, of the never-dying-spirit is back, sans the bang, but we are continuing reading. We are not reading this book again! This time, let us look at Foucault, and read attempts to contextualize his works in the South Asian context. One of the most influential and renowned venture along this line is Partha Chatterjee's lectures on the Political Society. Thank you, Prem! Reading the Original Chatterjee essay. A more elaborate summary, from a Delhi lecture. Nivedi...
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: September 2009
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Friday, September 11, 2009. Such a long gap, from the reading group! Is not good for anyone). So the month's second reading session focussing on the theme of the month, 'Region' happened yesterday. The reading of the session had three readings: 'Poetry in the time of Terror', an innovative prose-poem piece by Robin Ngangom, a Manipuri Poet, Gulabi Talkies an interesting story by Kannada writer Vaidehi (and translated by Tejaswini Niranjana) and a story from Manik Bandhopadhyay titled the 'Ascetic'. The t...
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: April 2011
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Friday, April 15, 2011. Adopted - The Movie Poster. For more details on the movie, see the previous post! Love is not enough…. LECTURE HALL, HUMANITIES. 18TH APRIL 2011, MONDAY. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Let us do an exercise! Stand on one leg and with the finger tip of the other, draw a few circles on the ground. Now assume an expression of coyness . We have read two articles on identity, which talked about anything but identity, and now let us try applying it to a text! Read the plot summary below.
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: First Post
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Thursday, July 2, 2009. This is the official blog of our unofficial reading group,. Under the theory tree. The reading group is an unofficial community of a bunch of enthusiasts from the Centre for Comparative Literature in Hyderabad Central University to read theory and fiction, watch movies, discuss them and have lots of fun in the process. The reading group meets every Tuesday from 3.30 pm - 5.00pm. The tentative venue is the lawn outside CIL. Second Week: Movie Discussion. Third Week: Theory Again.
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: July 2009
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Thursday, July 23, 2009. Of Love and Foucault. We had the third meeting on July 22nd Wednesday(postponed from tuesday due to some technical difficulties) on a Michel Foucault essay, What is Enlightenment? This was an essay written partially in response to Immanuel Kant's essay, 'What is Enlightenment? The people who attended the meeting were: Sowmya, Aparna, Bipin, Viju and Praveen. Foucault's resistance to anything universal and global was pointed out by Sowmya. The essay was not easy and the discussion...
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the Theory Tree - The Official blog of the CCL reading group of HCU: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. New Year, New Resolutions! It's been sometime, ne? Yeah, I don't even remember when the last post was (figure of speech). But here we are, in a new year. Well, we are one month done, but still a new year! We shall provide online copies of materials for each week and we are going to READ them and post comments on them and meet as well, whenever possible. :). And for the first session we are reading J. L. Austin's first lecture from How to Do Things with Words. His Lectures, or, i...