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Media and Information Infrastructures


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

    Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014   Detailing Technology A Difficult Geography: Bombay Cinema’s Move to Colour Ranjani Mazumdar, School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehu University Recording not available. “No Blue”: On the Colour of Sensation in Tamil Cinema Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins…

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

    Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014   Histories: Cities I Early Film-going as Heterotopic Mobility: Urban Journeys, Public Space and Cinema Theatres in Chennai Stephen Putnam Hughes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Download: OGG and MP3. Cinema in the Colonial City: Early…

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

    Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014   Histories: Connections and Comparisons Intimacy and Industry: Close Encounters Between Hollywood and Bombay Nitin Govil, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Download: OGG and MP3. Asian Cinergy: Chinese Film in the Age of the International Blockbuster and…

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    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…

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    The Social and Cultural Life of Information Workshop: Discussions

    The Social and Cultural Life of Information workshop was held in Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, on November 14-16 2013. It brought together a select group of media scholars, historians, anthropologists and geographers for an intensive three days workshop, and aimed at bringing together research on colonial and postcolonial information infrastructures, with…

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    The Social and Cultural Life of Information Workshop: Discussions

    The Social and Cultural Life of Information workshop was held in Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, on November 14-16 2013. It brought together a select group of media scholars, historians, anthropologists and geographers for an intensive three days workshop, and aimed at bringing together research on colonial and postcolonial information infrastructures, with a strong South Asian component. Here are the recordings of discussions that followed the presentations…

  • Lives of Information Workshop – Participants

    Amlan Das Gupta Amlan Das Gupta is Professor of English in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. His current research interests are classical and renaissance European literature and thought and the history of Christianity. For the last few years he has been working on creating an archive of North Indian classical music at the School…

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    Lives of Information Workshop – Participants

    Amlan Das Gupta is Professor of English in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. His current research interests are classical and renaissance European literature and thought and the history of Christianity. For the last few years he has been working on creating an archive of North Indian classical music at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. In 2010 he assumed charge of the School as its Director and is in overall charge of its current programmes. He has also written on digital archiving and the history of North Indian classical music.

  • Lives of Information Workshop, February 21-22, 2014

    The Sarai Programme is organising the *Lives of Information* workshop to gather an inter­‐disciplinary group of researchers to discuss information practices, cultures, infrastructures, and histories with a specific focus on post-colonial contexts. The workshop will be held in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies on February 21-22, 2014. Registrations Please pre-register here if…

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    Lives of Information Workshop, February 21-22, 2014

    The Sarai Programme organised the *Lives of Information* workshop to gather an inter‐disciplinary group of researchers to discuss information practices, cultures, infrastructures, and histories with a specific focus on post-colonial contexts. The workshop examined topics of colonial and post-colonial strategies of archiving identification, storage and informatic governance; bureaucratic cultures and politics of document and media forms; information infrastructures and networked politics; user-created content cultures and anxieties of mediated lives; and more.