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Multilingualism Beyond Countability: Lecture by Akshya Saxena
Akshya Saxena will deliver a lecture on ‘Multilingualism Beyond Countability or, How Languages Live’. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 4 pm, Seminar Room and Zoom. What is lost when a language is lost? How might we read in the face of language loss? This talk moves from my first…
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Covid-19 and the Politics of Data Collection: Lecture by Ramon Rispoli
Ramon Rispoli will deliver a lecture on ‘Covid-19 and the Politics of Data Collection and Visualization’. It will be chaired by Prathama Banerjee. Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 4 pm, Seminar Room and Zoom Covid-19 “curves” and other infographics profoundly shaped how the pandemic was perceived and experienced. Treated as essential tools of crisis management, they…
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Sarai x Listening Academy | Public Sessions | 9th-15th December
The Delhi chapter of the Listening Academy is anchored to the prompt of listening as writing, sonic fictioning, and rhetorical action – thinking relations between sound, voice, writing and language, and the ways in which the entanglements of these with mediatic landscapes contribute to forms of meaning-making. While writing is mostly understood as an act…
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Sarai launched an online repository of its distributed research network
Sarai is delighted to launch an online repository of its Distributed Research Network. This repository collates information on various fellowships that Sarai has hosted over the years, including primary fellowship materials and holdings. Since 2000 onwards Sarai has supported Independent Fellowships, Student Stipendships, City as Studio fellows, FLOSS fellowships, Residencies, Social and Digital Media Fellowships,…
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Call for Internships | Sarai Programme Summer Interns 2025
We are looking for summer interns to work with our material and/or document events. Over the years, Sarai has built a rich archive of field notes, government reports, images, films and video footage, audio collections, film and trade periodicals, posters, comics and newspaper clippings through various initiatives, projects and fellowship programmes, such as Publics and Practices…
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BioScope Volume 15 Issue 1, June 2024
We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 15. no. 1. This issue of BioScope features essays, interviews, and translations that focus on phantasmatic remediations of celebrities and media platforms, language and music. Ishani Dey explores an intriguing relay between cinema and TikTok. She presents two case studies to illustrate the ways in which cell…