10:00 am--3:00 pm | Friday, April 19, 2019
10th Floor, Weiser Hall
Sponsors: Center for South Asian Studies and the Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan
10:00 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Will Glover, Director, Center for South Asian Studies
10:05 am-10:30 am Media Entertainment in Digital India, Tupur Chatterjee and Aswin Punathambekar
10:30 am-12:00 pm Panel 1
Tejaswini Ganti
Finding and Creating that 'Local Connect':The Centrality of Audiovisual Translation in Contemporary Entertainment Media in India
Meheli Sen
Between Bollywood and a Hard Place: Gender and Politics in Indian Web Series
Sriram Mohan
Platforming The Regional: Satire, Streaming Video and Everyday Politics in South India
Chair and moderator:
1:00 pm-2:15 pm Panel 2
Paromita Vohra
Ankur Khanna
Chair and moderator: Aswin Punathambekar
3:00 pm-6:00 pm: Film Screening at Michigan Theater
Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain), 2019
6:00-6:30 pm: Q & A with Ankur Khanna, Producer, RSVP Films & Paromita Vohra, documentary filmmaker
