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Conferences


  • Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking

    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…

  • Revisitations: The Long 1990s: Panel Discussion

    Panel discussion on ‘Revisitations: The Long 1990s’. The panelists include Ravi Sundaram, M. Madhava Prasad, Prathama Banerjee, Hilal Ahmed and Ashish Rajadhyaksha. CLICK TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION ZOOM ID: 81926037416                        PASSCODE: csdsdelhi India’s Nineties – at once close and impossibly distant – pose a curious…

  • What Time Is It? | 14-16 December 2017 – Report

    What Time Is It? Technologies of Life in the Contemporary 14th, 15th and 16th December, 2017 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi #whattimeisit A detailed report of the conference is available on this LINK. Conference Programme: http://sarai.net/what-time-is-it-14-16-december-2017/ Concept Have we finally entered the End of the End of History? (E-flux, Journal #57 –…

  • What Time Is It? | 14-16 December 2017

    What Time Is It? Technologies of Life in the Contemporary 14th, 15th and 16th December, 2017 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi #whattimeisit Have we finally entered the End of the End of History? (E-flux, Journal #57 – Sept 2014). Recent media technological transformations have thrown into confusion many existing political and social…

  • ‘The Question is Democracy’ – A Seminar in Honor of Rajni Kothari

    For Rajni Kothari, one of the most influential political analysts of postcolonial India, the idea of democracy remained central to his intellectual concerns and to his political engagements as an intellectual-activist. He did not offer any fixed meaning of democracy and instead attempted to capture those context-specific ideas and practices, which are often described as…

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 03

    Recordings from the third day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 02

    Recordings from the second day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 01

    Recordings from the first day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: Conference Report

    This conference was part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and was organized by The Sarai Programme to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema. The conference sought to draw on the diverse heritage of Indian cinema to highlight the importance of cinema studies in the wider architecture of disciplinary engagements. This was with a view to bringing cinema into the academy as subject matter that required not only specialist analysis, but also as something which offered fresh perspectives, methods and materials to the human sciences.

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    The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: 1913-2013 and beyond

    This international conference was hosted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) to celebrate and reflect on a century of Indian cinema. The conference was coordinated by the Sarai programme of CSDS and the CSDS/Sarai-supported South Asian screen studies journal, BioScope. It was part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Centre…