Anupama Tadanki

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I watched Anupama present her paper at the TO conference. Her paper was about different social classes, and how they can be seen in the art that each social class produces. Her paper was centered around a quote by Pierre Bordieu, which states that different classes designate themselves by by the different kinds of art they produce. Forster, an anthropologist and author, writes about how artistic production manipulates peoples perception of others, and how this can be carried over to a societal level. She draws from A Passage to India, Forster's novel, and a story that is told within the novel. Overall, Anupama's argument was extremely compelling. I enjoyed her speech!