Pozvánka na 142. Gellnerovský seminář

Pozvánka na 142. Gellnerovský seminář
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Sobota, 29 Březen 2014 15:32 - Aktualizováno Úterý, 15 Duben 2014 07:54
Pozvánka
Masarykova česká sociologická společnost
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Česká asociace pro sociální antropologii
ve spolupráci s Etnologickým ústavem AV ČR, v.v.i.
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Katedrou sociálních studií Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Pardubice
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142. GELLNEROVSKÝ SEMINÁŘ
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Pozvánka na 142. Gellnerovský seminář
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Sobota, 29 Březen 2014 15:32 - Aktualizováno Úterý, 15 Duben 2014 07:54
Gellnerovský seminář založen Jiřím Musilem a Petrem Skalníkem v roce 1998
který se bude konat
ve čtvrtek 3. dubna 2014 od 16:30 hod
v místnosti Seifert, vedlejší budova New York University v Praze
Malé náměstí 11, Praha 1 - Staré Město (1. posch., vchod z pasáže)
Promluví
Tereza Kuldova, PhD
University of Oslo
Na téma
DESIGNING ELITE INDIAN MASCULINITIES
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Pozvánka na 142. Gellnerovský seminář
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Sobota, 29 Březen 2014 15:32 - Aktualizováno Úterý, 15 Duben 2014 07:54
FASHION, WHISKY AND COSMOPOLITAN NEO-ROYALTY
K pozvánce přikládáme teze přednášky a informaci o přednášející
Zdeněk UHEREK,v.r., Alena MILTOVÁ,v.r., Michal TOŠNER,v.r.
DESIGNING ELITE INDIAN MASCULINITIES
FASHION, WHISKY AND COSMOPOLITAN NEO-ROYALTY
Tereza Kuldova, PhD, University of Oslo
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Pozvánka na 142. Gellnerovský seminář
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Sobota, 29 Březen 2014 15:32 - Aktualizováno Úterý, 15 Duben 2014 07:54
The lecture is based on a final chapter of Tereza Kuldova’s forthcoming anthropological
monograph, Designing Elites: Fashion, Fantasy and Ideology among India’s Rich (2015).
Grounded in a long-term ethnographic research in urban North India (New Delhi and Lucknow)
among India’s leading fashion designers and their elite clientele, the lecture will present a
critical discussion of the constructions of contemporary Indian elite masculinities and of the
experiences of elite masculinity in crisis. In particular, the lecture will address the ways in which
ambiguous symbols of low class machismo, muscular politics, and goonda-ism (gangster
habitus), that are notoriously mocked and despised as much as admired and desired, become
translated into an elitist aesthetics of powerful masculinity. Furthermore, the lecture will explore
the nostalgia for warrior-hood, the re-invention of precolonial history and of the iconic luxurious
lives of the maharajas and Mughals, and the re-imaginations of the ambiguous figure of an
English gentleman that still haunts the elite men. Finally, the lecture will show how
contemporary elite Indian fashion designers both diagnose and manufacture this crisis of
masculinity, and how they promise to remedy it by joining forces with the alcohol industry and
the art world thus creating virilising event platforms, where powerful elitist masculinities can be
repetitively staged and reinforced.
Tereza Kuldova is a social anthropologist specializing on contemporary India and a
post-doctoral fellow and curator at the Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History,
University of Oslo, Norway. She received her PhD in 2013, with her thesis Designing Elites:
Fashion and Prestige in Urban North India. Among recent publications are edited volume
Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism (Oslo: Akademika Publishing, 2013) and journal article
‘Fashionable Erotic Masquerades: Of Brides, Gods and Vamps in India’ (Critical Studies in
Fashion and Beauty, vol. 3: 1&2, 2012). She has also curated an ethnographic museum
exhibition Fashion India, which opened in September 2013 at the Museum of Cultural History,
Oslo and produced several short ethnographic movies.
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