SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 13
08:30-9:00 Breakfast
09:00-9:20 Introduction: Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California Santa Barbara
Session I
Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California Santa Barbara
09:20-10:20 Anustup Basu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Satyajit Ray and Brahmo Worldliness
10:20-11:20 Manishita Dass, Royal Holloway
Wonder, Wanderings, and World-Making: Cosmopolitan Projections in Satyajit Ray’s Fiction and Films
11:20-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
Figures for the Political: From Raja to Hirak Raja
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Session II
Moderator: Sara Pankenier Weld, UC Santa Barbara
2:00-3:00 Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis
Ray and the Lens of Childhood
3:00-4:00 Meredith Bak, Rutgers University
Wonder and the Childhood Imaginaries of Satyajit Ray
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
Session III
4:15-5:30 Ray Field Notes
Moderator: Patrice Petro, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amrita Biswas, Goethe University
Cinephilic Wonder and Anxiety: The Sacred Value of the Apu Trilogy OCNs
Trinankur Banerjee, University of California, Santa Barbara
Must We Capture What Makes Us Wonder? On the Comic Vision of Satyajit Ray
Ray’s poster for Devi ( aka The Goddess, 1960)
Friday, October 14
09:00-09:30 Breakfast
Session IV
Moderator: Utathya Chattopadhyaya, University of California, Santa Barbara
09:30-10:30 Priyadarshini Shanker, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Madhavi Mukherjee Performs the Modern: Satyajit Ray’s Wondrous Woman
10:30-11:30 Suvadip Sinha, University of Minnesota
Magic, Modernity, and the Unresolved Question of Optimism in Parash Pathar
11:30-11:40 Break
11:40-12:40 Brinda Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sapiophilic Imaginaries
12:40-2:00 Lunch
Session V
Moderator: Naoki Yamamoto, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00-3:00 Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
The Optical Field: Seeing in Ray’s Cinema
3:00-4:00 Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University
The Eye and the Veil: Ray’s Discoveries
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
Session VI
4:15-06:00pm Reflections and Speculations
Moderator: Anna Brusutti, University of California, Santa Barbara
Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara
Charles Wolfe, University of California, Santa Barbara
Raja Guhathakurta, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title page illustration for Ray’s story Corvus, featuring the scientist Professor Shonku; first published in the annual puja issue of Anandamela (October 1972).
Saturday, October 15
09:00-09:30 Breakfast
Session VII
Moderator: Anjali Arondekar, University of California Santa Cruz
9:30-10:30 Meheli Sen, Rutgers University
Uncanny Ray: The Horrific and the Wondrous from Khagam to Monihara
10:30-11:30 Projit Bihari Mukharji, UPenn/Ashoka University
Reincarnating Ray: Outlines of an Indian Cosmism
11:30-11:40 Break
11:40-12:40 Hannah Goodwin, Mount Holyoke College
Deep Time in the Cinema of Satyajit Ray
12:40-2:00 Lunch
Session VIII
Moderator: Cristina Venegas, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00-3:00 Pinaki De, Raja Peary Mohan College
A Fine Balance: Form and Technique in the Graphic Designs of Satyajit Ray
3:00-4:00 Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe University
Genealogies of Wonder. The Art Documentaries of Satyajit Ray
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
Session IX
4:15-5:30 Roundtable: Archiving Ray in Print
Moderator: Regina Longo, Brown University
Ray’s poster for Aranyer Din Ratri (aka Days and Nights in the Forest, 1970)
The Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder Conference 