media, information, the contemporary

Author: Sarai


  • Call for Applications: Internships at the Sarai Archive

    The Sarai Programme invites applications for internships for a period of 2 months (18th February to 19th April 2019) at the Sarai archive. Over the years, we have 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…

  • Call for Applications: Position for Research Assistant (Data Support)

    The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for the post of Research Assistant for Data Support. The qualifications and eligibility criteria for the position would be as follows: Essential Requirement: 1. Graduate in any subject from a recognized university. 2. Data analysis on software with management skills. 3. Good understanding of Data…

  • Call for Applications: Mainstream and the Margins Workshop

    CSDS invites applications for the annual workshop for research scholars on ‘Mainstream and the Margins: Theory, Practice and Methods’ to be held at CSDS between 13-26 February 2019. The workshop supported by ICSSR, New Delhi is designed to hone research skills, impart theoretical knowledge and build methodological capacity. This year’s workshop will address the broad…

  • Call for Researchers: ICAS:MP, Media and the Constitution of the Political (TM 7)

    ICAS:MP, TM7 (Thematic Module 7), invites applications for junior researcher positions. These are for archival collections, ethnographic research and interviews, and legal research, under the supervision of module coordinators Ravi Vasudevan (CSDS) and Srirupa Roy (University of Goettingen). The thematic focuses of the research include: Social Media, Data and Information Infrastructures This project looks at…

  • BioScope Volume 9 Issue 1, June 2018

    We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope Vol. 9. No. 1. The articles in this issue of BioScope explore the ongoing conundrum of how to access historical spectatorship when records are scarce or non-existent. Our authors examine traces left on radio-listening in small town India, letters in Bangladeshi film magazines, emotionally charged memories linked…

  • Call for Applications: Researching the Contemporary 2018

    The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for its two-month course on ‘Researching the Contemporary’. This cross-disciplinary course will critically examine the formation of the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologies, forms and affects. The following three courses offered this year will enable participants to familiarize themselves with concepts, theories and methods…

  • BioScope Volume 8 Number 2, December 2017

    We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope Vol. 8. No. 2. The articles featured in this issue of BioScope are interested in questions of how popular cinema, state-sponsored documentary, or sensational television news programs produce significant orientations of social relations and attitudes. The articles also implicitly suggest that we approach media as historically situated…

  • मुख्यधारा और हाशिए का समाज – हिन्दी कार्यशाला 2018

    अनुसूचित जाति/जनजाति कोटि के मौजूदा शोधार्थियों के लिए भारतीय सामाजिक अनुसंधान परिषद द्वारा समर्थित दक्षता-कार्यशाला ‘मुख्यधारा और हाशिए का समाज: सिद्धांत, व्यवहार और प्रविधि’ में चयन के लिए आवेदन निमंत्रित किए जाते हैं। स्थान: सीएसडीएस तारीख़: 5-13 मार्च 2018 कार्यशाला में निम्नांकित फ़ैकल्टी सदस्यों के व्याख्यान होंगे: अभय कुमार दुबे आदित्य निगम आशुतोष कुमार हिलाल…

  • Regular Positions for Faculty at CSDS

    The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for the following regular positions: • Professor – Total Positions- 5 (General -3, SC-1, ST-1) (Scale: 37400-67000, AGP 10000) Preferred Themes: • Urban Environmental Studies • History of Political Ideas • Genealogies/Ethnographies of Inclusion and Exclusion • Associate Professor -Total Positions- 2 (General -1, SC-1)…

  • Positions for Senior Research Assistant and Documentation Officer

    Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), a leading social science research institute based in Delhi invites applications for the posts of Senior Research Assistant and Documentation Officer. The qualifications and eligibility criteria for the post would be as follows: 1) Senior Research Assistant Essential Requirement: 1. Graduate in any subject from a recognized…