media, information, the contemporary

Author: Sarai


  • 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…

  • BioScope Volume 8 Number 1, June 2017

    We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 8. no. 1. This issue of BioScope sets out to create conversations among visual and screen media that work with a documentary premise. Bringing together work on photography, film, and video will, we hope, help us to think about specificities and overlaps in how these different media…

  • Call for Applications: Researching the Contemporary 2017

    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 four courses offered this year will enable participants engage with concepts, theories and methods to critically understand and analyse the contemporary…

  • Positions for Visiting Assistant Professors at CSDS

    The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies offers up to 06 Visiting Assistant Professors (Lecturer) Positions. Of the total number of positions up to 50% will be reserved for candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC.  Candidates applying for the reserved positions should clearly state the category they belong to. Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Preference…

  • BioScope Volume 7 Number 2, December 2016

    We’re happy to announce the publication of Bioscope vol. 7. no. 2.

    Disregarded, disreputable, provincial, seedy, illicit, cheap, scrap, or just plain trash: there are many ways to describe the forms of screen culture that populate this issue of BioScope. From Bhojpuri action cinema to film paraphernalia sold by the kilogram by the scrap-merchant; from 1980s Malayalam soft-porn to “cracked” games consoles; these forms of screen culture inhabit a netherworld of disregard, disrespect, and, often, discontent. They are produced and circulated through intersecting infrastructures of illegitimacy…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 3 – What The Fields Remember

    How do we estimate the value, aesthetic force, and meaning of cinema today? As media experience, technological change has transformed it beyond recognition, its material forms altered by analog and digital video formats, and the modes of circulating, viewing, accessing cinema and making it have expanded exponentially. And yet, the dream and ambition of cinema as we have known it has not dissipated, the desire to congregate audiences to participate in a distinct world of experience, whether to excite, amuse, to move or to solicit reflection and engagement, to bear witness and to mobilize…

  • Short Term Research Projects in Social Media: Selected Proposals 2016

    The Sarai Programme is committed to developing a public architecture for creating knowledge and creative communities. In keeping with this commitment, we seek to develop a community of scholars, writers and practitioners who are motivated to make the materials and outcome of research available for public access and circulation, with the understanding that an imaginative…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 2 – The Factory

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the second screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema: Rahul Roy’s ‘The Factory‘. The respondents for this film are Jeebesh Bagchi and Prabhu Mohapatra. Date: 30 March, 2016 Time: 4PM (Tea will be served at 3:30PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing…