Friday,
June 13
8:00 pm
Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall
AN
EVENING OF INDIAN MUSIC
Caranatic
Concert by Mokkapaty Lalitha Devi
Mokappaty
Lalitha Devi is an accomplished Carnatic vocal artist. Winner
of several awards, she has performed all over Andhra Pradesh and
on All India Radio for decades. Accompanying Lalitha will be Rama
Gurupalli on Vina and EG Nadhan on Mridangam.
June 27-29,
2003 - Pyle Center Room 235
702 Langdon Street
Arts and Modernity in Islamic South and Southeast Asia
The
conference will bring together international and local artists
and scholars to explore and discuss the local and trans-local
conventions of Islamic aesthetics in South and Southeast Asia.
The workshop will be held in the summer to allow for the participation
of approximately 60 graduate students from campuses across the
country studying at intensive summer language programs (SEASSI
and SASLI)
during the Summer 2003.
SOUTH
ASIA SUMMER FILM SERIES
June 19 - August 7
Thursday
June 19, B130 Van Vleck
"Monsoon
Wedding"
(Directed by Mira Nair, 2001 - India, English/Hindi/Punjabi)
Amidst the modern upper-middle class of India, a western lifestyle
mixes with old traditions, in this highly entertaining story of
an arranged wedding, involving multiple love stories
Thursday
June 26 - 3:30pm
19 Ingraham
"Earth"
(Directed by Deepa Mehta, 1998 - India, English/Hindi)
Set in Lahore, 1947, this powerful film depicts the fate of a
group of working class friends from different religions as the
partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given
to Pakistan
July 10,
3:30pm - 19 Ingraham
"Father,
Son, and Holy War"
(Directed by Anand Patwardhan, 1994 - India, English/Rajasthani/Gujarati)
This stirring narrative, in two parts, explores relations between
religion, violence, and male identity. Winner of the Jury Prize
at the 1994 Vancouver Film Film Festival.
July 16,
5:00 pm - 1641 Humanities
"Devdas"
(Directed
by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2002, Hindi)
Beauty, passion and tragedy lie at the heart of Sanjay
Leela Bhansali's Devdas. Every frame, every breathe of dialogue,
every nuance is steeped in romance and artistry, resulting in
an epic film and an exquisite piece of cinema.
The film tells
the story of Paro's (Aishwarya Rai) enduring love for her childhood
sweetheart Devdas, (Shah Rukh Khan) the son of a lawyer and landowner.
While the love the two share is legendary, Devdas' family object
to the alliance on the basis that Paro hails from a family of
entertainers, and she is married instead, at her mother's behest,
to the elderly widower Zamindar Bhuvan (Vijayendra Ghatge).
As the dejected
Devdas sinks into despair over his lost love, he becomes acquainted
with a courtesan named Chandramukhi (Madhuri Dixit) She in turn
loses her heart to the zealous Devdas, who becomes evermore consumed
by his love for Paro.
Thursday
July 17 3:30pm - 19 Ingraham
"Fire"
(Directed
by Deepa Mehta, 1996 - India, English/Hindi)
In this controversial film, Sita, a beautiful and intelligent
young woman in a loveless arranged marriage, and Radha, Sita's
sister-in-law whose husband has taken a vow of celibacy, develop
a physical and emotional relationship more satisfying than their
marriages.
Thursday
July 24
3:30pm - 19 Ingraham "War
and Peace"
(Directed
by Anand Patwardhan, 2002 - India, English)
Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and
the United States, following India and Pakistan's 1998 nuclear
tests, this film by India's leading documentary filmmaker examines
the current epic journey of peace activism in the face of global
militarism and preparations for war
Thursday
July 31,
3:30pm - 19 Ingraham
"Bend it like Beckham"
(Directed by Guinder Chadha, 2002 - UK, English/Hindi/Punjabi)
In this very entertaining and heartwarming film, two 18 year olds
with their hearts set on careers in professional soccer bend the
rules around tradition and gender, as well as British and Sikh
social norms.
Conversation
Tables
| Hindi |
Mondays |
4:00 - 5:00 pm |
TITU
|
| Hindi |
Wednesdays |
12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Van Hise
|
| Urdu |
Tuesdays |
4:00 - 5:00 pm |
TITU
|
| Tibetan |
Wednesdays |
4:30 - 5:30 pm |
TITU
|
| Marathi |
Fridays |
12:00 - 1:00 pm |
TITU
|
| Telugu |
Fridays |
4:00 - 5:00 pm |
TITU** |
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