This roundtable will engage with the way in which the arrival and expansion of the digital has impacted research methods. It enters research methods after the digital by asking us to consider the relationship between social lives and media technologies from a vantage point that places the digital in a longer continuum of media. Thus,…
Proposals are invited for a collaborative three-day in-person workshop ‘Digital Ethnography & Social Media Research: Methods for Investigating Informal Work, Local Cultures, and Digital Practices on Social Media‘ organised by the University of Naples and CSDS, Delhi. Date of the event: February 3-5, 2026. Time: 9 AM – 6 PM Venue: CSDS, 29 Rajpur…
Debashree Mukherjee will deliver a lecture on ‘Intimacies of Three Continents: Cinema and Indenture’. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Date: Friday, January 9, 2026 Time: 4 pm Location: CSDS Seminar Room, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054. In 1933, Mr. S. Partap from Suva was exhilarated when he watched the silent film Anarkali. Fiji Indians…
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,…
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…
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…