H-Net HumanitiesFEATURED JOB: Faculty Fellow, Department of Religious Studies - New York University Arts and Science
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ScienceOpen🆕📑 'From Kabuliwala to Kesari: Mapping the (Mis)representations of Afghans in Hindi films' - an article published in Pluto Journals ReOrient on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/reorient.9.2.0007
#CriticalMuslimStudies #FilmStudies #MediaRepresentation #SouthAsianStudies
From <i>Kabuliwala</i> to <i>Kesari</i>: Mapping the (Mis)representations of Afghans in Hindi films
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d3587695e121">Indians and Afghans have shared memories, cultural and historical linkages. Besides Kabul being a part of the Mughal Empire for a long time, more than half of the Pashtuns living to the east of the Durand Line were part of undivided India (present-day Pakistan) during the British rule. With most Indian cities having significant Afghan residents, Afghans/Pashtuns got special attention in popular narratives, including in Hindi films. In movies like <a class="xref-link" href="#reorient.9.2.0007-b47"> <i>Kabuliwala</i> (1961) </a>, <a class="xref-link" href="#reorient.9.2.0007-b52"> <i>Khuda Gawah</i> </a> (1992), <a class="xref-link" href="#reorient.9.2.0007-b46"> <i>Kabul Express</i> (2006) </a>, <a class="xref-link" href="#reorient.9.2.0007-b51"> <i>Kesari</i> (2019) </a>, and <a class="xref-link" href="#reorient.9.2.0007-b66"> <i>Panipat</i> (2019) </a>, Bollywood has presented different shades of Afghans on celluloid. The popularity of Indian films among Afghans is well known, but there is hardly any academic deliberation on the representation of Afghans in Hindi films. Drawing upon Stuart Hall’s Representation and Edward Said’s Orientalism theories, the paper seeks to fill this gap. Using a semiotic approach and critical discourse analysis this paper flags the tropes of misrepresentation of Afghans in Hindi films. This paper foregrounds the majoritarian discourse around Afghans in the popular imagination in India drawing upon the binaries of loyal/traitor, rational/brutal, benevolent/vengeful, patriots/potential dangers, and sophisticated/tribal. The paper concludes that Islamophobia and the larger anti-Muslim rhetoric playing out in India have contributed to the vilification of Afghans on screen even though the two countries shared cordial political relations. </p>
DoomsdaysCW#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism
Trump intervention at Columbia alarms defenders of academic freedom
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other policies. Federal officials wrote in a letter Thursday that the university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” It must also ban masks on campus meant to hide the wearer's identity, adopt a new definition of antisemitism and abolish its current process for disciplining students. The letter marks a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to impose sweeping changes on academic institutions.
IDHNThe 28th European Conference for #SouthAsianStudies will take place in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1st to 4th of October 2025.
The call for panels is open until 24.07.2024.
More information: https://ecsas2025.com/
A #talk by Dr. Amir Theilhaber (Bielefeld/Detmold) on
Repositories of #SouthAsianStudies between Detmold and Tübingen:
Archival, Library and Museum Collections from Two Centuries of #Indology
Wednesday, 24. January 2024 || 6:15 pm
HYBRID:
Nauklerstr. 35, room 1.06 (Tübingen) OR via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99811356511?pwd=bUJGNkI3VmF4RUdvYmhoL0xucjlHQT09 
Meeting-ID: 998 1135 6511 | Kenncode: 691192
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The #SouthAsianStudies Association will hold its annual conference March 1, 2, and 3, 2024 at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco and online.
https://www.southasianstudiesassociation.org/announcements/call-for-papers-2024
Vitus AngermeierNext #IIGRS will be in Cambridge, UK! https://iigrs.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
#indology #graduates #southasianstudies
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Petr NuskaDastavezi | The Audio-Visual South Asia
"Dastavezi the Audio-Visual South Asia is an international peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, which seeks to reposition the audio-visual as a central mode of knowing and thinking about South Asia."
Deadline: 15/03/2023
https://networks.h-net.org/node/15531/discussions/12295159/dastavezi-audio-visual-south-asia-journal
#VisualAnthropology, #Anthropology, #ArtHistory, #VisualStudies, #Film, #FilmHistory, #SouthAsianStudies
Here is the table of contents from the forthcoming #Puṣpikā volume. Heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed! @[email protected] @wattelier_bricout_amandine @DominikAHaas and many others. #SouthAsianStudies #Indology #OpenAccess
Publication date confirmed! Puṣpikā 6 will be available in print and online as of January 26, 2023: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/preview #OpenAccess #Puṣpikā #HASP #IIGRS #Indology #SouthAsianStudies #SouthAsia