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Events

  • Closing Celebration: Thao Phan and Suvani Suri performance lectures

    Join us for the Closing Celebration of ACCA’s Data Relations Summer School featuring performance lectures Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournments by Suvani Suri and Listening to Misrecognition by Thao Phan with respondents Aasma Tulika, Uzma Falak, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mehak Sawhney. The ACCA bar and exhibition will remain open throughout this event. Performance lecture: Suvani Suri, Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournnaments with…

  • 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…

  • Digital Cultures Transforming South Asia Workshop

    This one-day workshop explores the transformation that mediated lives in South Asia are undergoing in this contemporary digital moment. The emergence of the digital disrupts every sphere of our present-day lives in myriad ways. This can also be an opportunity to discuss the binaries that inhabit our current critical consensus in South Asia politically, economically,…

  • 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…

  • Colonized by Data: The Costs of Connection

    CAPTURE ALL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Join Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejías as they discuss the data colonialism thesis developed in their book The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonising Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism, and their project (with Paola Ricaurte) Tierra Común and its interventions for data decolonisation. Date and Time: Thursday…

  • Proximate Exposures: Media and Radiance Lecture by Rahul Mukherjee

    Lecture by Rahul Mukherjee on ‘Proximate Exposures: Media and Radiance’ [Critical Humanities event] on 5 March 2021 via Zoom. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. The discussant will be Veena Hariharan. Friday, 5 March 2021, 5 pm. Zoom http://bit.ly/2ZMHoJ0 CLICK TO JOIN THE LECTURE  ZOOM ID: 972 5408 4679             …

  • Book Discussion on ‘Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Culture from India’

    Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites you to a Book Discussion on Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India edited by Sandeep Mertia. Panelists: Jahnavi Phalkey | Stefania Milan | Nimmi Rangaswamy Ravi Sundaram will Chair Friday, 19 February 2021, 5pm India Time The discussion will be held on Zoom Link:…

  • Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks: Ravi Sundaram + Tiziana Terranova: Dialogue

    Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Computation 2020 Episode   09 Thursday, 10 December Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks 5 pm CET / 9:30 pm IST / 11 am EST Dialogue: >Ravi Sundaram (CSDS, Delhi) >Tiziana Terranova (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) Chair: Ezekiel Dixon-Roman [The event will be hosted on Zoom. Please click here…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 12 – Gender, Sexuality, and Desire

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the twelfth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Desire. We shall be screening three PSBT films: ‘Zara Nazar Utha Ke Dekho’ (directed by Anindya Shankar Das); ‘Ishq, Dosti, and All That’ (directed by Ritambhara Mehta, Rituparna Borah, Bhamati Sivapalan and Srishti Lakhera); and ‘Please Mind the Gap’…

  • The Mediatized Protest: Hong Kong, Cinema, Telegram, and The Lennon Wall

    The Mediatized Protest: Hong Kong, Cinema, Telegram, and The Lennon Wall Date: 17th January 2020, Friday Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 Time: 4.00 pm Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, 15 September 2019: Young citizens all around you gear up: face masks, gloves, goggles, helmets, knee and shin-pads, biking gear, backpacks and…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 11 – If She Built A Country/ Agar Wo Desh Banati

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the eleventh screening of the film series titled The Wager on Cinema: Maheen Mirza’s ‘If She Built A Country’/ ‘Agar Wo Desh Banati’.  The film’s editor Puloma Pal will be available for the discussion after the screening. The respondents for this film are Fathima Nizaruddin and Sourav Mahanta. Date:…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 10 – The Battle for Banaras

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the tenth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Kamal Swaroop’s The Battle for Banaras The respondent for this film is Ashish Rajadhyaksha. Date: 11 April, 2019 (Thursday) Time: 4:30 PM (Tea will be served at 4:00 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study…