Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Dear students and colleagues, 

we cordially invite you to a joint presentation by

Sneha Singh & Pappal Suneja (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

in the framework of our BERSAS South Asia Reserach Colloquium: 

Mediating Modernism:

Cinema and Print as Agents of Design Transformation in Postcolonial South Asia 

Please note that (only) this session will be held online via HU-Zoom.

Friday, 05 Dec from 2:00-4:00pm. 

This presentation explores how cinema and print media functioned as key mediators that translated modernist architectural and design languages into everyday visual culture across post-independence South Asia. It introduces the authors’ Forschungswerkstatt project, which maps this mediated aesthetic shift through an integrated media-philosophical and architectural analysis of objects, images, and spatial imaginaries.

Sneha Singh is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where she works under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell on her dissertation examining cinema’s world-making of domesticity in post-independence India. 

Pappal Suneja is a doctoral candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, where his dissertation, Modern Indian Architecture and the Emergence of a Post-Independence Discourse: The Case of Design (1957–1988), examines media, architectural modernism, and postcolonial knowledge networks. 

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