Lecture Series: Modernity and the Syrian Christians of Malabar
Lecture Series: Modernity and the Syrian Christians of Malabar
Modernity and the Syrian Christians of Malabar
Date: Wednesday 07 November 2018 - Wednesday 21 November 2018
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: 4 The Square Ground Seminar Room 205
Category: Academic events
Speaker: V. J. Varghese
Document: Modernity and the Syrian Christians of Malabar poster
Guest lectures, three lectures on Wednesdays 7, 14, and 21 November, 17:30-19:00
Speaker: V. J. Varghese, Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, Edinburgh and University of Hyderabad
Three lectures on the transformation of the Syrian Christian community of the Malabar Coast, South India, under the weight of modernity through the routes of migrations, land reclamation and agrarian expansion. The lectures explore the historical context that engendered a land-centric development discourse, its technologies of legitimisation and the cultural imaginations around this exigent material change. At a broader level, it also insinuate at the apparently conflicting orientations--local and imperial/global, religious and secular, traditional and modern, and pre-political and political--involved in the production of modern subjectivities in the erstwhile colonies of the global South.
7.11.18 5.30 pm
Agricultural Expansion and Economic Transformation from the Mid-19th Century
14.11.18 5.30 pm
Political Theologies of Land Reclamation: Dissonant Moralities of Agrarian Migrations
21.11.18 5.30 pm
The Making of Modern Subjectivities: Kerala’s Literary Domain and Production of the Migrant