Abu Saleh: Whether to be (or not to be) Charlie Hebdo: Respecting Freedoms, Resisting Violence

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Whether to be (or not to be) Charlie Hebdo: Respecting Freedoms, Resisting Violence

The Department of Communication

Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication

University of Hyderabad, India

Invites you to a panel discussion

Whether to be (or not to be) Charlie Hebdo:

Respecting Freedoms, Resisting Violence

Opinions have been flying fast and furious, across social media, in the newspapers, and on television talk shows. Images of protest both violent and peaceful, caricature and contestation, anguish and anger, words that tumble over each other in the desire to defend free speech and equally vehement counterpoints that explain the violent responses and just barely stop short of justifying them…we live in confusing times, and the most reflective of us are defeated by the challenge of a nuanced, balanced response. Is such a balance even possible in the face of intolerance and its violent manifestations? What are the threads of fact and imagination that we can draw together to make sense of events such as the violent response to the cartoons in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, or similar events in the not-so-distant past in not-so-distant places?

Join us to explore these and related questions

When: Thursday, January 22, 2015; 4:00 p.m.

Where: C V Raman Auditorium

Science Complex, University of Hyderabad

Gachibowli, Hyderabad

Panellists

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

Journalist, film maker and media commentator

Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Broadcast journalist and writer

Jyotirmaya Sharma

Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad