5 Jan 2010. 7 p.m.
Slavoj Žižek on “Tragedy and Farce”
Interlocutor: Nivedita Menon
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

This evening see how Slavoj Žižek, in a talk ostensibly on 11 Sept 2001 and the crisis in capitalism (the Tragedy and the Farce), manages to speak on Ambedkar, caste, Gandhi, shit, manual scavenging and the Laws of Manu…

Prof Nivedita Menon will critically engage with  Žižek’s book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, and his talk.

Come early to ensure seats.

The rest of the schedule of his India tour is as follows:

7 Jan 2010. 11 a.m. Lecture
“Capitalism and Particular Life-Worlds: In Defense of Universalism”
Interlocutor: Madhava Prasad
ICSSR Auditorium, English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

9 Jan 2010. 5 p.m. Lecture and Panel Discussion
“Whither Left?”
Panelists: Usha Zacharias, Ravikumar, Sashi Kumar (Chair)
Town Hall, Kochi, Kochi Life 2010