The talk will begin on August 16th (Friday) at 3:00 PM in the CSPS Conference Room. Seating is limited, so please register to secure your spot.

About the speaker

Nadira Khatun, Ph.D., is assistant professor at School of Communications, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She was visiting assistant professor at McMaster University, Hamilton from January 2021 to January 2022. Her research and teaching interests are film studies, cultural studies, post-colonial theory, popular culture, Muslim identity, Indian cinema, media representation, and new media. She has contributed to academic journals and edited volumes on Bollywood and Muslim identity. Her book tilted, Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception (2024) is recently released with Oxford University, Press, UK. Email address of corresponding author: [email protected] or [email protected]

About the moderator

Nehal Ahmed, a Cinema Scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia, has extensively written on cinema, culture, and society for renowned publications like Al Jazeera, The Hindu, The Telegraph, The Outlook, and the Oxford Review of Books. His research interest is cinema and migration studies. He is the author of “Nothing Will Be Forgotten: From Jamia to Shaheenbagh,” a book nominated for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in English, 2023.