media, information, the contemporary

Conferences


  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 03

    Recordings from the third day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 02

    Recordings from the second day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 01

    Recordings from the first day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: Conference Report

    This conference was part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and was organized by The Sarai Programme to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema. The conference sought to draw on the diverse heritage of Indian cinema to highlight the importance of cinema studies in the wider architecture of disciplinary engagements. This was with a view to bringing cinema into the academy as subject matter that required not only specialist analysis, but also as something which offered fresh perspectives, methods and materials to the human sciences.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: 1913-2013 and beyond

    This international conference was hosted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) to celebrate and reflect on a century of Indian cinema. The conference was coordinated by the Sarai programme of CSDS and the CSDS/Sarai-supported South Asian screen studies journal, BioScope. It was part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Centre…

  • FD Zone Delhi and BioScope Screenings – ‘Pedagogic States’ and ‘The Act of Killing’

    Cross-posted from fdzonedelhi.   FD Zone Delhi and BioScope invite you to a screening of documentaries on Tuesday, January 07, 2014, at India Islamic Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The programme is presented by FD Zone, Delhi Chapter, The Sarai Programme at CSDS, BioScope, and the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM)…

  • Sensor-Census-Censor: A Report

    This colloquium, early in the history of the Information and Society Research Cluster at Sarai-CSDS, posits that the ‘sensor-census-censor’ triad may be a useful way in which the histories and contemporary realities of South Asia and Europe may be investigated. Here, we mean the historic affinities, networks and resonances pertinent to the traffic of information between the colony and the metropolis, especially with regard to the operations of knowledge as power. We also point towards the contemporary (and projected) operations of biometric technologies, internet filtering systems, networked surveillance, data retrieval and outsourcing systems that inflect the global traffic in information today.

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    Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics

    The past three years have seen conflicts over the regulation of information, knowledge and cultural materials increase in intensity and scope. These conflicts have widened to include new geographical spaces, particularly China, India, South Africa and Brazil. Moreover, a range of new problems, including the expansion of intellectual property protection to almost all spheres of our social life, has intensified the problem. It is important to recognize that the nature of the conflict gets configured differently as we move from the United States and Europe to social landscapes marked by sharp inequalities in Asia, Latin America and Africa.