Events

The Wager on Cinema, Screening 6: Chauthi Koot

The Sarai Programme invites you to the sixth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi Koot. The respondents for this film are Uma Chakravarti and Ravi Vasudevan. Date: 11 February, 2017 Time: 4 PM (Tea will be served at 3:30 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the…
Lives of Data Workshop – January 5-7, 2017

The Sarai Programme, CSDS is organising the Lives of Data Workshop on 5th to 7th January, 2017. The workshop examines the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production and circulation in India and South Asia. In the context of the Data Revolution, the workshop links emerging research on the history of statistics, new/old technological…
Workshop on ‘Privacy after Big Data’, November 12

The Sarai Programme and The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invite you to a workshop on ‘Privacy after Big Data: What Changes? What should Change?‘ on Saturday, November 12, 2016. This workshop aims to build a dialogue around some of the key government-led big data initiatives in India and elsewhere that are contributing significant new…
Social Media Research Workshop, August 12, 2016

As part of the third and final cycle of Sarai’s Social Media Research Fellowship, since March this year, short-term research fellows have been studying different aspects of digital and social media. On Friday, 12 August, 2016 we are organising a workshop for the fellows to present and discuss their research with a select group of…
The Wager on Cinema: Screening 5 – Placebo

The Sarai Programme invites you to the fifth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Abhay Kumar’s Placebo The respondents for this film are Rahul Roy and Ravi Vasudevan Date: 11 August, 2016 Time: 6 PM (Tea will be served at 5:30 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study…
The Wager on Cinema: Screening 4 – ‘Emergency Cinema’

As part of The Wager on Cinema film series, ‘Emergency Cinema’ – A Presentation on works from the Films Division by Ritika Kaushik, was organised at The Sarai Programme on 22 July, 2016. Founded in 1948, India’s primary state institution of documentaries and short films, Films Division of India had the mandate of making films…
Call for Abstracts – Lives of Data Workshop

The Sarai Programme invites submission of abstracts for the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop. Besides academic researchers, we strongly encourage media, design and software practitioners to apply for the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should be sent to dak@sarai.net by 15 September, 2016, with the subject heading ‘Proposal for the Lives of Data Workshop.’ Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by 01 October, 2016. The workshop will be held on 06-07 January, 2017 at Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi…
Call for Abstracts – Lives of Data Workshop

‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, 06-07 January 2017, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Call for Abstracts ‘Data’ has been recently termed as the new oil, new soil, new world currency and the raw material for the new industrial revolution. It has been hypothesised that the era of Big Data…
HillHacks Pre-Event – Saturday, 30 April

The Sarai Programme is excited to host the Delhi pre-event of HillHacks on Saturday, 30 April, 2016. The pre-event will be a relaxed combination of demonstrations and discussions of all things relates to hacking, making, and living in a technology-mediated world. There will be two thematic sessions focused on Art/Design/Technology and Mapping respectively. To RSVP,…
HillHacks Pre-Event – Saturday, 30 April

The Sarai Programme is excited to host the Delhi pre-event of HillHacks on Saturday, 30 April, 2016.

The pre-event will be a relaxed combination of demonstrations and discussions of all things relates to hacking, making, and living in a technology-mediated world. There will be two thematic sessions focused on Art/Design/Technology and Mapping respectively.

To RSVP, please send an email to …