Donnerstag | 18.00 Uhr | „No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao” Sovereign Performance: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ambulatory and the Aquatic. Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg, Centre of East Asian Studies This lecture discusses singular events in the life-stories of Gandhi and Mao when their bodies were efficaciously used in a performative politics that served as assertions of somatic sovereignty on the part of both men. In Gandhi’s case, we have chosen his famous Salt March in 1930 when the barely-clad Mahatma walked more than 200 miles from Sabarmati to Dandi to make a fistful of salt at the ocean’s edge with which he challenged the legitimacy of British rule. The March, more than any other prior act, brought Gandhi’s bare-and-spare—and mobile—body to global visibility, and attracted a bevy of journalists to the scene of action. We focus on how the March captured the artistic imagination in India and abroad, then and since, with a view towards comparing the Mahatma’s ambulatory performance on land with Mao’s aquatic theatrics. Adresse Völkerkundemuseum VPST Hauptstraße 235 69117 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung Veranstalter Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS); Völkerkundemuseum VPST Alle Termine der Veranstaltung '„No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao”': This lecture series "No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao" focuses on the two hyper-visible men of the twentieth century, Mahatma Gandhi and Chairman Mao, who had also been the object of Walter Bosshard’s fascination. It considers how these men have been transformed over the course of the last century through the work of visual imagery and image-events into globally recognizable “bio-icons.” Situated at the intersection of the visual politics of masculinity and the cultural politics of fatherhood, the talks seek to illuminate how the corporeal is critical to the affective and ethical reach of such bio-icons within the imagined communities of their respective nations. Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2019, 18.00 Uhr Producing Charisma: Clothing and Unclothing the Fatherly Body Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg, Centre of East Asian Studies
Prof. Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University (USA), History Department Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2019, 18.00 Uhr Sovereign Performance: Toward an Aesthetic of the Ambulatory and the Aquatic. Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg, Centre of East Asian Studies
Prof. Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University (USA), History Department Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2019, 18.00 Uhr Absent Presences: Death of a Father. Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg, Centre of East Asian Studies
Prof. Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University (USA), History Department |