Public Lecture on South Asian Diaspora and Cultural Studies

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South Asian Diaspora and Cultural Studies: Representation of International and Regional Conflicts

Thursday 14.04.2016 at 14.00 and on Friday 15.04.2016 at 14.00. Both lectures will be in room M-135 and end before 17.00.

Abstract

Nowadays, international relations are mostly discussed, identified, researched and named following timelines and pieces of news published on different media platforms. The present seminar aims at suggesting a new leap forward by focusing on dance, short stories and films to sketch a different, yet the same, path to analyse an international conflict and its parts. Thus, the session will offer multidisciplinary materials to answer the following questions: What is diaspora? Which nations are gathered under the term South Asia? How old is the current division of South Asia? How can Artistic Representations let us map the history, the roles and the conflicts of different intertwined nations in an international agenda?

Bio

Dr Jorge Diego S谩nchez is associate professor at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio where he teaches courses on Regional Studies and Foreign Policy in Asia, Africa and the European Union. His research focuses on South Asian Diaspora in English with a postcolonial and gender studies approach.. He has published articles in many fields connected to international relations as well as on the cinema of Gurinder Chadha, Deepa Mehta or  Mira Nair; writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Sarojini Naidu and popular culture representations such as Kumars on the 42.  He has been speaker in many different international conferences as well as visiting professor at Jadavpur University (Kolkatta, India) and University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, India).