2019 Fall Hindi-Urdu Workshop
Location: Cherpack Lounge, Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Time and date: 9–4:30, Nov. 16
Description:
The Workshop will be organized by Gregory Goulding (Assistant Professor, Department of South Asia Studies) and is supported by the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Anyone who is interested in reading Hindi and Urdu is encouraged to attend.
The Penn Hindi-Urdu workshop will be modeled on the annual Spring Hindi–Urdu workshop at Columbia University. Sessions will consist of collaborative reading of selected and pre-circulated readings. There will be four sessions in the morning and afternoon, alternating between Hindi and Urdu.
This year's theme will be "The 1930s." The years from 1930 to 1940 are significant from multiple points of view: as a transition towards the modernism that would become prominent in both Hindi and Urdu from the 1940s onwards; as the inaugural moment of the Progressives, with the foundation of the All-India Progressive Writers Association in 1936; and as the period during which the political question of language between Hindi and Urdu became unavoidable in the lead-up to Independence. For all these reasons, the 1930s are an ideal period to consider these two literary registers together, and to find common ground for future study. Readings will include journalism, prose, and poetry, and will reflect the diversity and dynamism of this unique period in literary history.
Texts for the workshop will be distributed ahead of time, and will be made available in both the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts.
https://pennhindiurdu2019.
The event is open to all, but please RSVP at:
If you have any questions, please e-mail Gregory Goulding at ggouldin@sas.upenn.edu.