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BioScope Volume 8 Number 1, June 2017

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 8. no. 1. This issue of BioScope sets out to create conversations among visual and screen media that…

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Oct 23, 2017 | Sarai
Call for Applications: Researching the Contemporary 2017

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for its two-month course on ‘Researching the Contemporary’. This cross-disciplinary course will critically examine the formation of the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologies, forms and affects. The following four courses offered this year will enable participants engage with concepts, theories and methods to critically understand and analyse the contemporary…

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Apr 26, 2017 | Sarai
Lives of Data Workshop – Report & Recordings

The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop, 05-07 January 2017, brought together a diverse group of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to reflect upon the historical and emergent conditions…

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Apr 9, 2017 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
Positions for Visiting Assistant Professors at CSDS

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies offers up to 06 Visiting Assistant Professors (Lecturer) Positions. Of the total number of positions up to 50%…

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Mar 28, 2017 | Sarai
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…

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Jan 31, 2017 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
BioScope Volume 7 Number 2, December 2016

We’re happy to announce the publication of Bioscope vol. 7. no. 2.

Disregarded, disreputable, provincial, seedy, illicit, cheap, scrap, or just plain trash: there are many ways to describe the forms of screen culture that populate this issue of BioScope. From Bhojpuri action cinema to film paraphernalia sold by the kilogram by the scrap-merchant; from 1980s Malayalam soft-porn to “cracked” games consoles; these forms of screen culture inhabit a netherworld of disregard, disrespect, and, often, discontent. They are produced and circulated through intersecting infrastructures of illegitimacy…

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Jan 22, 2017 | Sarai
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…

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Dec 31, 2016 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
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…

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Nov 3, 2016 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
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…

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Aug 8, 2016 | Sumedha Chakravarthy