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Podcast: The Divine Stories of Early Buddhism
No full textDiscover the powerful teachings on philosophy and faith woven into the classical stories of early Buddhism. In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast we meet Andy Rotman, professor of religion and Buddhist studies at Smith College and chief editor for Wisdom’s Classics of Indian Buddhism series. An expert in the field of Buddhist literature, Andy shares with us the important role of narratives in monastic and lay life in South Asia, and how they were used to cultivate wisdom and compassion. We also hear some of Andy’s favorite tales from his translations of Divine Stories (Divyāvadāna), one of the most important collections of ancient Buddhist narratives. Find out what to expect in the second volume of his translations—Divine Stories, Part 2
Seda Ilter on Andy Smith, ‘Dematerialising Theatre’
No full textThis is a blog piece for the Birkbeck English and Humanities Blog. It critically reviews theatre-maker Andy Smith's talk at the Birkbeck Arts Week 2017 and his approach to theatre
Andy Smith
No full textPortrait (three-quarters-length) of a seated young man with moustache, wearing a baseball uniform; identified as Andy Smith, telegraph operator for the A & P railroad; mounted on cardboar
Guía de estudio núm. 87. Andy Warhol: Mr. America
No full textAnte una de las exhibiciones más grandes organizadas por el Banco de la República, que para esta ocasión fue en colaboración con el Museo Andy Warhol de Pittsburgh, esta guía de estudio contextualiza al público sobre el panorama del origen y desarrollo del movimiento artístico Pop Art en Estados Unidos, en la década de los sesenta del siglo XX, centrándose en el peculiar y triunfante carácter estético y técnicas de la obra de Andy Warhol, su máximo exponente. Adicionalmente, ilustra la influencia del Pop Art en la configuración actual del arte popular en Colombia. Incluye imágenes de seis obras
Andy Smith Family
No full textThe Andy Smith family standing outside a house. The child can be seen sitting on a horse. The home later became the Waddell Place
Andy Smith Family
No full textThe Andy Smith family standing outside a house. The child can be seen sitting on a horse. The home later became the Waddell Place
Panel Discussion: Amar Akbar Anthony
No full textAmar Akbar Anthony was a Bollywood blockbuster when it was released in 1977 and has become a classic of Hindi cinema and a touchstone of Indian popular culture. Delighting audiences with its songs and madcap adventures, the film follows the heroics of three Bombay brothers separated in childhood from their parents and one another. Beyond the freewheeling comedy and camp, however, is a potent vision of social harmony, as the three protagonists, each raised in a different religion, discover they are true brothers in the end.
The film screening was followed by a panel discussion with the authors of Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation: William Elison (Religious Studies, UCSB), Christian Lee Novetzke (International Studies, University of Washington) and Andy Rotman (Religion, Smith College). In their co-authored book they offer a sympathetic and layered interpretation of the film’s deeper symbolism, seeing it as a lens for understanding modern India’s experience with secular democracy
Chercheur de l’intégration européenne
Full text linkArrivé en France il y a près de 20 ans, Andy Smith est tombé dans le giron de la recherche par le biais de l’enseignement. Il a toujours eu le goût de l’ailleurs. Déjà dans son enfance, il a vécu en Nouvelle-Zélande, aux îles Fidji et au Nigeria. En réalité, Andy Smith n’aura passé que neuf ans dans sa terre natale, l’Angleterre
Podcast: Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation
No full textAmar Akbar Anthony is a film like no other. When you see it you cannot forget it. Filled with music, comedy, drama, and love it captures audiences in multiple ways. But what can we learn from a deeper look at this classic of Hindi cinema? William Elison, Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, Christian Lee Novetzke, Professor at the University of Washington, and Andy Rotman, Professor at Smith College offer a layered analysis of the 1977 blockbuster in Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2016). The authors examine the film through each of the narratives three brothers, as well as their mother. All four perspectives offer a new vision of modern India. Through their investigation they explore questions of religion and secularism, Indian nationalism, cinematic genres and Bollywood, politics, urban architectural space, and gender. They also examine the film as a powerful allegory of the nation, where differing religious identities, specifically Hindu, Muslim, and Christian, can produce a generative social harmony. Overall, the authors provide a rich portrait of this amazing film and a useful model for the interdisciplinary analysis of cinema
SUMMIT:A play by Andy Smith
No full textWritten and co-directed by Andy Smith, SUMMIT was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Fuel. For more information please visit:https://fueltheatre.com/past-project/?project=320The play tells a story of an international meeting (the summit of the title), assembled to address an as unnamed global crisis. The play tells this story in three acts, with three performers in three different languages (including fully integrated BSL).The play addresses three primary strands of investigation from a practice-as-research perspective. Firstly, the play forms part of Smith’s ongoing interrogation and research into how we might create work for theatre that thinks effectively towards socio-political change in the current, fluid context – a context that has been variously described or referred to, for example, as an era of ‘Liquid Modernity’ (Zygmunt Bauman) or as ‘end times’ (Zizek). Inspired by ideas presented in Jodi Dean’s book ‘The Communist Horizon’ as well as Ranciere's 'The Emancipated Spectator', the approach of thinking towards rather than offering clear and fixed points to reach is one that looks to offer an agency of personal thought and potential action to an audience rather than try to direct and dictate their thought and behaviour. Secondly, the play emerges in a time where notions of accessibility and equality have been high on the agenda of arts organisations, the play explored and successfully integrated different languages and registers into the fabric of its performance, most obviously through its use of integrated British Sign Language. The production was also conscious in its casting and production by creating a team with a female bias as well asemploying actors from BAME backgrounds. Finally, the play is part of Andy Smith’s wider and ongoing research into what he refers to as a ‘dematerialised theatre’. A theatre that — like the processes of conceptual art that inspired the name — attempts to do more with less. Smith has written and presented widely on this concept, and this instance is no exception. This submission is a portfolio of work including the published playtext with afterword (from Oberon Books), a short essay on the process of the play that appears in the book ‘Stages of Resistance’ (No Passport Press), as well as examinations of the methodologies that led to it in ‘The 21st Century Performance Reader’ (forthcoming from Routledge).<br/
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