THE OCEANVALE WORKSHOP: AUTUMN 2022
STUDENT SEMINAR
DAY 1: 2 November 2022
- Session 1: Disability Stereotypes in Bollywood: 10:00 A.M.-11: 30 A.M.
- Speaker 1: Md Adnan: Able Baddies in Disabled Bodies: Analyzing Fear Constructed through Disabled Villains in Hindi Cinema (Group D)
Interjectors: Sneha Gupta (Group B), Anmol Sharma (Group A), Khyati Bhardwaj (Group C)
- Speaker 2: Saihaj Kaur Madan: Un-Reeling the Hidden: Exploring the Disabled-Threat in Hindi Cinema Through Gangs of Wasseypur (Group D)
Interjectors: Himani Wadhwa (Group A), Shaoni Dutta(Group C), Siddhidarti Pande (Group B)
- Speaker 3: Yajush Priyam: Accuracy of Exaggeration: Understanding Comedy and Disability in Golmaal Series (Group B)
Interjectors: Aditi Jain (Group C), Aditi Chauhan (Group D), Debapriya Sarkar (Group A)
- Tea Break: 11:30 A.M. -11:45 A.M.
- Session 2: Disability, Text and Performance: 11:45 A.M. -1:15 P.M.
- Speaker 1: Srimoyee Chakraborty: Horrors of the Mind: Representation of Psychological Disability in Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Phobia (Group A)
Interjectors: Ayush Tripathi (Group D), Adrit Banerjee (Group C), Yajush Priyam (Group B)
- Speaker 2: Siddhidarti Pande: The Silenced Witness: Juxtaposing blindness and inverted-noir in “Andhadhun” (Group B)
Interjectors: Saihaj Kaur Madan (Group D), Srimoyee Chakraborty (Group A), Astha Bansal (Group C)
- Speaker 3: Khyati Bhardwaj: A Curious Case of “Cripping Up” in Hindi Cinema (Group C)
Interjectors: Pragyansh Goswami (Group B), Himani Wadhwa (Group A), Sanya Chandra (Group D)
- Lunch Break: 1:15 P.M. -2:30 P.M.
- Session 3: Disability, Romance and Relationship: 2:30 P.M. -4:00 P.M.
- Speaker 1: Aditi Chauhan: The Problematic Romanticization of Disability Issues in Barfi! (Group D)
Interjectors: Siddhidarti Pande (Group B), Debapriya Sarkar (Group A), Aditi Jain (Group C)
- Speaker 2: Aditi Jain: (Dis)abling Navigation in Relationships: Examining the Representation of Disability in Relationships through Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh (Group C)
Interjectors: Aditi Chauhan (Group D), Anmol Sharma (Group A), Sneha Gupta (Group B)
- Speaker 3: Astha Bansal: Did they have a happily ever after: Problematising Love and Disability in Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh (Group C)
Interjectors: Srimoyee Chakraborty (Group A), Pragyansh Goswami (Group B), Sanya Chandra (Group D)
- Tea Break: 4 P.M. -4:15 P.M.
- Session 4: Disability, Sexuality and Desire: 4:15 P.M. -5:30 P.M.
- Speaker 1: Pragyansh Goswami: Ableism, the Broken Needle in the Compass for Masculinity: A Study of the Intersection of Disability, Ableism and Masculinity in Sparsh (Group B)
Interjectors: Debapriya Sarkar(Group A), Shaoni Dutta (Group C), Md Adnan (Group D)
- Speaker 2: Aadrit Banerjee: Disabled Desires: Looking at Margarita with a Straw and 15 Park Avenue (Group C)
Interjectors: Yajush Priyam (Group B), Saihaj Kaur Madan (Group D), Himani Wadhwa (Group A)
- Speaker 3: Sanya Chandra: Navigating the Contours of Disability, Sexuality and Queerness in Margarita with a Straw (Group D)
Interjectors: Adrit Banerjee(Group C), Srimoyee Chakraborty(Group A), Siddhidarti Pande(Group B)
DAY 2: 3 November 2022
- Session 5: Disability and Cultural Negotiations: 10:00 A.M. -11:30 A.M.
- Speaker 1: Debapriya Sarkar: DISABILITY AND ITS CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH AGEING Looking at Piku and its Insinuations on Disability (Group A)
Interjectors: Md Adnan (Group D), Khyati Bhardwaj(Group C), Sneha Gupta (Group B)
- Speaker 2: Shaoni Dutta: Interrogating Belongingness: Bollywood’s Disabled Subject vis-à-vis Religiopolitical Identities (Group C)
Interjectors: Anmol Sharma (Group A), Ayush Tripathi (Group D), Pragyansh Goswami(Group B)
- Speaker 3: Sneha Gupta: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (Group B)
Interjectors: Sanya Chabra (Group D), Aditi Chauhan (Group D), Astha Bansal (Group C)
- Tea Break: 11:30 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.
- Session 6: Alternative Modes of Perception: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
- Speaker 1: Anmol Sharma: Textures of Blindness: Touching, Feeling and Knowing in Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh (Group A)
Interjectors: Khyati Bhardwaj (Group C), Md Adnan (Group D), Aditi Jain (Group C)
- Speaker 2: Ayush Tripathi: Ways of Seeing: The Embodiment of Assistive Technology in Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus (Group D)
Interjectors: Astha Bansal (Group C), Yajush Priyam(Group B), Adrit Banarjee (Group C)
- Speaker 3: Himani Wadhwa: Re(con)figuring the Human Subject: Tradition, Technology, and Disability in Rakesh Roshan’s Koi… Mil Gaya (Group A)
Interjectors: Shaoni Dutta (Group C),Saihaj Kaur Madan (Group D), Ayush Tripathi (Group D)
- Lunch: 1:30 P.M.-2:30 P.M.
- Nazar ya Nazariya: A Disability Sensitization Workshop: 2:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
- A workshop conducted by Mr George Abraham, CEO of Score Foundation.
- Valedictory Session: 4:30 P.M. -5:30 P.M.
