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  • Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
    Events at Stanford - 16:57 Dec 13, 2021
    Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Webinar (Pacific Time) Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India, by Professor Jisha Menon, Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of the Indian economy. Taking the once idyllic “garden city” of Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, the book explores how artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as a “structure of feeling” permeating aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life. Read more about the book >> In conversation with Samer Al-Saber, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, and Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University -- Jisha Menon, Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature, is the Sakurako and William Fishe...