[nyfoil-l] Conference on Satyajit Ray, Sat Apr 25: in conjunction with film retrospective

[Aniruddha Das]

You are cordially invited to attend a conference on Satyajit Ray:

Saturday, April 25, 2009
Furman Gallery, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center

FIRST LIGHT: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

9:00: Registration (concession stand open for coffee and light refreshments)
9:30: Robert Young, Keynote­“Ray, Ventriloquism, and Illusion”
10:30-12:00: Panel­Realism and Ray
Marcia Landy­“The Voyages of Neorealism and Ray’s Cinema”
Mira Nair­“FROM APU TO GOGOL: Saluting the Ray in The Namesake”
Ashish Rajyadhyaksha­“ Realism As Theory: Melodrama As Practice”

1:30-3:00: Panel­Ray and Global Modernity
Shyam Benegal – “Satyajit Ray, Filmmaker”
Mihir Bhattacharya – “Satyajit Ray and Modernism”
Samik Banerjee­“Cinema Reads History: A Ray Moment”

3:00-3:15: Refreshments will be available at the 
concession stand during this brief break
3:15-4:45: Panel­Ray’s Legacy and Infl uence
Michael Wood­“ The Inheritance of Time”
Moinak Biswas­“ Ray and the Shadow of Political Cinema”
Richard Terdiman­“ Fifth Avenue, 1958: How America Encountered Satyajit Ray”

4:45-6:00: Plenary discussion followed by a brief wine and cheese reception

Sponsored by: The Film Society of Lincoln Center 
in collaboration with the Institute
for Comparative Literature & Society, Heyman Center for the Humanities,
and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and
the Humanities Division of University of California­Santa Cruz. Co-sponsors:
Caliban Foundation and individual donors.

This is being held in conjunction with the film retrospective:

Satyajit Ray Retrospective I:
 From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy
April 15-30, 2009 :: Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
Conference on Saturday, April 25, 2009

This unique series of film screenings is 
presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center 
and the Institute for Comparative Literature and 
Society at Columbia University in collaboration 
with the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at 
the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the 
Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.

The Walter Reade Theater is located on the north side of West 65th Street,
between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, one flight up on the upper level.
Look for the FILM banner on 65th Street near Amsterdam Avenue to locate the
stairs, escalator and elevator to the plaza level.

For more information contact 
<mailto:inr2101 at columbia.edu>inr2101 at columbia.edu.