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literary activism

Failing and Falling

July 11, 2020 by andrew

Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. Here the critic and philosopher Michel […]

Failure, Self-Worth and Agency in Modern Liberalism

July 4, 2020 by andrew

Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. Here the political theorist Pratap Bhanu […]

Failure: A User’s Manual

June 27, 2020 by andrew

Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. Here the novelist and Professor of […]

Suicide As A Sort Of Failure

June 20, 2020 by andrew

Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. Here the Canadian novelist, essayist and […]

Failing Light

June 6, 2020 by andrew

Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. Here the poet, essayist and novelist […]

Description of a Poet’s Failure

May 30, 2020 by andrew

Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. Here the eminent Bengali poet Ranajit […]

Learning To Sing

May 21, 2020 by andrew

What is it that draws us to failing? Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions specific to failing. The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took […]

“One door closes, another door shuts”: some reflections on failure

May 8, 2020 by andrew

What is it that draws us to failing? In partnership with Ashoka University and the India International Centre, the 5th UEA symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions specific to failing; why, and how, it awakens our desire; and why it is taboo in a way quite different from […]

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