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Events

  • Research Methods After the Digital: A Roundtable

    This roundtable will engage with the way in which the arrival and expansion of the digital has impacted research methods. It enters research methods after the digital by asking us to consider the relationship between social lives and media technologies from a vantage point that places the digital in a longer continuum of media. Thus,…

  • Call for Proposals: Digital Ethnography & Social Media Research: Methods for Investigating Informal Work, Local Cultures, and Digital Practices on Social Media

    Proposals are invited for a collaborative three-day in-person workshop ‘Digital Ethnography & Social Media Research: Methods for Investigating Informal Work, Local Cultures, and Digital Practices on Social Media‘ organised by the University of Naples and CSDS, Delhi.   Date of the event: February 3-5, 2026. Time: 9 AM – 6 PM Venue: CSDS, 29 Rajpur…

  • 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…

  • The Listening Academy Delhi

    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…

  • 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

    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…

  • Call for Papers: Twenty-First Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds and Collectives

    In the last two decades, digital media infrastructures have spread worldwide, including the global South. Despite inequalities of access, low-cost mobile devices and cheaper broadband have connected large subaltern populations to media infrastructures. The effects are increasingly planetary, initiating a series of debates in media scholarship and cultural theory. Mediatisation has emerged as a material…