War and Peace: Audio-Visual and Artistic Responses
Reading Group 4
Part of TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities
This event is free and all are welcome.
This is a small, cohesive, and welcoming reading group interested in foregrounding a serious and sophisticated critique of war by revisiting twentieth-century responses to the increasing civilianization of military conflict from the ‘global south’ and aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary conversations within the humanities.
List of Readings:
1) Chinese Woodcutters’ Association, ‘Woodcuts of Wartime China’ (1937-1945)
2) Roti (1942), 1:45 - 5:00
3) Diego Rivera, ‘Pesadilla de guerra, sueño de paz’ or ‘The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace’ (1952)
4) Miriam Makeba, ‘Ndodemnyama’ (1965)
5) Fela Kuti, ‘Beasts of No Nation’ (1989)
6) Vivan Sundaram, ‘Long Night: Drawings in Charcoal’ (1987-1990) and ‘Engine Oil and Charcoal: Works on Paper’ (1991)
7) Maria M Litwa, ‘Inside Geneva Camp’ (2012)
8) Bani Abidi, ‘The News’ (2013), adapted from the original video of 2001
9) Rabbi Shergill and Vishwajyoti Ghosh, ‘Cabaret Weimar’ (2013)
10) ‘War and Peace’ cartoon series, Cartooning for Peace
Fourth Session Audio-Visual and Artistic Responses
To join our mailing list or other queries, please contact any of the convenors:
Suchintan Das - DPhil candidate, Faculty of History (suchintan.das@merton.ox.ac.uk)
Urvi Khaitan - DPhil candidate, Faculty of History (urvi.khaitan@history.ox.ac.uk)
Madhurima Sen - DPhil candidate, Faculty of English (madhurima.sen@hertford.ox.ac.uk)
War and Peace: Twentieth-Century Responses from the Global South Project is part of the TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities
