Moderator: Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Monday, February 19, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 3.01, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
City of Knowledge is an essay film which examines the 19th century idea of knowledge characterized by the spirit of inclusivity, of making things accessible, of literatures, literary practices, and reading cultures, of open spaces. It traces the transformation of this idea to Knowledge City, a city based on the economy of byte sized information. It tells this story through small narratives from the city of Hyderabad, in the Deccan region of India. It features the work of modernist intellectual Dr. Syed Mohiuddin Qadri Zor of the Deccan. The film was funded through an archival grant from the Asia Art Archive – Shergil Sundaram Foundation.
C. Yamini Krishna works on film history, urban history, and Deccan history. She received her PhD from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, in 2020. She is the recipient of grants from the India Foundation for the Arts (2023), Indian Council of Social Science Research (2023), Asia Art Archive – Shergil Sundaram Foundation (2022), and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (2022), as well as of the Philip M Taylor Award for best article by a new researcher in media history (2021) and Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship (2017). Her work has been published in Urban History, the Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, South Asia, and South Asian Popular Culture. Her co-edited volume Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban was published by Lexington Books in 2023. She currently teaches at FLAME University in India. Ilm Ka Shehar first started as a project of archival preservation and took new directions as a film.
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