Events

Intimacies of Three Continents: Cinema and Indenture, lecture by Debashree Mukherjee

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…
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…
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…
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…