Events

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…
Call for participation | The Listening Academy Delhi

The Listening Academy Delhi Organised and facilitated by Brandon LaBelle, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Suvani Suri in collaboration with Sarai-CSDS Concept In her publication Resonant Alterities, literary and cultural theorist Sylvia Mieszkowski explores the literary articulations of aural phenomena and processes of hearing, which have been transported by (written) words. Through a study of specific fictional…
Modulating Realities | Report

Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking 14th and 15th December, 2023 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi A detailed report of the symposium is available here. The programme booklet with abstracts is available here. Concept Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking came together as the closing chapter of the existing project Capture All: A Sonic Investigation –…
Call for Proposals: Researching the Digital: Digital Methods for Qualitative Research

Proposals are invited for a collaborative one day masterclass, ‘Researching the Digital: Digital Methods for Qualitative Research‘ organised by University of Naples and CSDS, Delhi.
Sonic hallucinations and media archaeologies

Sonic hallucinations and media archaeologies Public evening with Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP), Ravi Sundaram and Shikha Jhingan The session will discursively move through certain nodes and ideas of working with sonic materials, hybrid media, data sets and information flows that produce unexpected mediatic encounters and contingent moments. What are the archaeologies that can sense this kind…
Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking

This symposium foregrounds and critically examines the multiplicity of sites and forms of sonic practice and thought that emerge from contemporary conditions in India, South Asia and Australia. The two-day programme ‘Modulating Realities’ takes off from the existing project Capture All: A Sonic Investigation– a collaboration between Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, and Sarai, Centre for the…
Books in the Biosphere: Lecture by Isabel Hofmeyr

Date and Time: 5 December, 2023 at 5:00pm. Location: Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi Nearest Metro Station: Civil Lines Zoom: https://bit.ly/3QJ7qbB Isabel Hofmeyr will deliver the 24th B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture on ‘Books in the Biosphere: Print Culture in the Anthropocene’. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Like disciplines across…
Law at Large: The News Event in Public Mediations of Community – Lecture by Francis Cody

Francis Cody will deliver a lecture on ‘Law at Large: The News Event in Public Mediations of Community’. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Friday, 28 July 2023, 4.30 pm, Seminar Room and Zoom https://bit.ly/43dFv6t CLICK TO JOIN THE LECTURE ZOOM ID: 88461683987 PASSCODE: csdsdelhi Excerpted from a chapter of The News Event: Popular Sovereignty…
Data Relations Summer School

Thursday 16 – Monday 20 February 2023 (excluding Sunday 19 February) ACCA is pleased to open our call out for enrolments to Data Relations Summer School. Taking the exhibition Data Relations as a point of departure, Data Relations Summer School comprises a series of experimental workshops, discussions, performances and talks at ACCA and other venues, with an emphasis on pedagogy…
Book discussion ‘Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond’

Book discussion of Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond by Ravi Vasudevan published in the ICAS:MP –SAGE Open Access series ‘Politics and Society in India and the Global South’. About the book: This volume features the writings of leading media scholars from South Asia and Europe on the topic of how media articulates political energies and…