[Sarai Newsletter] OCTOBER 2006
The Sarai Programme
dak at sarai.net
Mon Oct 9 03:48:38 IST 2006
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Dear All,
This month at Sarai, Saba Dewan screens her new documentary Delhi-
Mumbai-Delhi, we invite applications for a one day workshop on online
pornography and the FLOSS fellows make their way to sarai for their
final presentations. Do also keep a look out for the details of the
conference on Information and Society in November.
We hope many of you will be able to make your way to Sarai. :)
A very happy Diwali and Id Mubarak to all!
Warmly,
Aarti Sethi
[Outreach]
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[[CONTENTS]]
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
1. Workshop @ Sarai: Beyond Pleasure and Disgust: Contextual Readings
of Online Pornography, Susana Paasonen
2. Fellowship @ Sarai: FLOSS Fellowships Final Presentations
FILM
3. Film @ Sarai: Delhi- Mumbai-Delhi, Saba Dewan
RESEARCH
4. Call for Applications: Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellowships Programme
CONFERENCES
5. Sensor-Census-Censor: An International Colloquium on Information,
Society, History and Politics
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[[EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS]]
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Workshop @ Sarai
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Beyond Pleasure and Disgust: Contextual Readings of Online Pornography
Facilitated by Susana Paasonen
11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Satruday, 14 October 20056
Seminar Room
Sarai-CSDS
This one day workshop addresses the politics involved in feminist,
cross-cultural studies of (online) pornography and possible
departures from the still influential legacy of North-American sex
wars of the 1980s. With specific attention on location and
theorisations of affect, we will discuss the critical possibilities
of context-specificity and 'other pornographies'.
[Susanna Paasonen, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Digital Culture at
the University of Jyväskylä and Reader in Universities of Turku and
Tampere, Finland. Her research interests include Internet research,
feminist theory, studies of popular culture and pornography. She is
the author of Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women and Cyberdiscourse
(Peter Lang, 2005), and the co-editor of the anthologies Women and
Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency & Identity (Lang, 2002) and
Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (Berg, forthcoming
in 2007).
Url: http://www.translocal.net/susanna/]
To register, please send a short note about yourself and why you wish
to attend the workshop to dak at sarai.net by 12 October 2006.
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Seminar @ Sarai: FLOSS Fellowships Final Presentations
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28 and 29 October 2006
Seminar Room
Sarai-CSDS
The Independent FLOSS Fellowships enable programmers to research and
develop different kinds of open source software-based applications.
Typically, these are projects of concrete and practical value,
especially for social and educational ends. They are also the kinds
of projects that would not usually find support in formal,
institutional or market-driven settings, either because of the
intent / nature of the goal or because of the 'open' nature of the
knowledge thus produced/created.
The FLOSS Fellowships seek to tie software developments into existing
requirements for software within the social sector, and support the
writing and dissemination of well-researched technical papers in key
areas of research.
The final workshop-presentation is a forum for fellows to present
their work to the larger community. All are invited and we hope many
will make their way to Sarai to make for enriching discussions.
The Sarai- CSDS FLOSS Fellows 2006:
Abhishek Choudhary from Kolkata
Implementing/ Porting Hindawi, Romenagri, APCISR etc. to Linux / FLOSS
environments
Baishampyan Ghose - Kohlapur(Maharashtra) / Kenneth Gonsalves -
Udagamandalam(Tamilnadu)
Panini - Integrated Translation Management System.
Ravishankar Srivastava - Ratlam (M.P.)
Hindi Localization of OpenOffice.Org2.2 Help Contents
Sharad Maloo - Mumbai
Open Source Parallel Database.
Subramanya Sastry - Bangalore
Newsrack - Automating News Gathering and Classification
Supreet Sethi / Amit Sethi - Delhi
Search Interface Driven Archive
Surekha Sastry/ Srinivasa Raghavan - Bangalore
"Indic B2B" Localization Modules
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[[FILM]]
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Film @ Sarai: October – November 2005
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Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi
A film by Saba Dewanm
5:30 P.M., Friday, 27 October 2006
Sarai-CSDS
Riya dances in the beer bars of Mumbai to make a living. The
documentary follows her from her home in Delhi to Mumbai where
hundreds of working class girls come in search of work and a future.
Riya’s future is unpredictable and the present is marked with its own
difficulties. The police harass her family in Delhi, there is
constant pressure from her agent in Mumbai to attract more tips and
the work itself is demanding. However, there are other girls to have
fun with, there is money to dress well and then there are men…
admirers promising the moon. The documentary is an intimate portrait
of the everyday in the life of the girls, their agents and their
neighbourhoods.
Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi, shot in the backdrop of the Maharashtra
Governments’ controversial move to ban girls from dancing in beer
bars, interweaves stories of gender, labour, sexuality and popular
culture within an increasingly globalized economy.
Saba will be present for a discussion after the screening.
Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi
Duration: 63 Minutes
Year of Production: 2006
Director: Saba Dewan
Producer: Rahul Roy
Camera: Rahul Roy
Sound: Asheesh Pandya & Sunder
Editor: Anupama Chandra
[Saba Dewan did her masters in film and TV production from the Mass
Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in
1987 and since has been making independent documentaries. Her work
has focused on communalism, gender and agricultural labour. Delhi-
Mumbai-Delhi was supported by the Jan Vrijman Fund and she is
currently working on a film on tawaif (courtesan) art and sexuality
under a fellowship from the India Foundation of the Arts.]
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[[RESEARCH]]
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Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellowships Programme
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Call for Proposals: Sarai-CSDS Independent Research Fellowship Programme
Applications are invited for the upcoming cycle of Sarai-CSDS
Independent Research Fellowships.
The Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellowships allow the time for individuals
from diverse backgrounds to either begin or continue research into
specific aspects of media and urban culture and society, broadly and
creatively defined, and to also think carefully and rigorously about the
various public forms in which their research might be rendered. We
are also interested in using the materials generated through the
research to
continue to build up our thematic archive of research on the city.
Thus, we see the fellowship as an important source for this archive.
Finally,
an important purpose of the fellowship program is to spark, overlap
and allow access to newly emerging research networks across disciplines,
academic and non-academic institutions, organisations, practices,
geographical locations and professional backgrounds.
For the detailed call for proposals and details of past projects, as
well as guidelines on application, visit:
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2006-September/008050.htm
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[[CONFERENCES]]
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Sensor-Census-Censor
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SENSOR-CENSUS-CENSOR : Investigating Circuits of Information,
Registering Changes of State
An International Colloquium on Information, Society, History and
Politics
New Delhi, November 30, December 1 & 2, 2006 at Sarai CSDS
Are you interested in the history of fingerprinting and passports? Do
you want to know about the relationship between citizenship and
databases? How do papers and documents shape your life in the city?
What do CC TV cameras and telephonic surveillance shape your public
and private existence? If you are interested in questions like these
then SENSOR-CENSUS-CENSOR will be of interest to you.
SENSOR-CENSUS-CENSOR : Investigating Circuits of Information,
Registering Changes of State is an International Colloquium on
Information, Society. Politics and History that will critically
examine and investigate regimes and technologies of information
harvesting, management, circulation and deployment as they have
developed in India and Europe from early modernity till today. The
Colloquium will focus on Surveillance, Identification documents like
Passports, Governmentality, Censorship and other issues pertaining to
the production and circulation of information.
Presenters include eminent Historians and Social Scientists - Jane
Caplan, Radhika Singha, Leo Lucassen, Chandak Sengoopta, Vazira
Zamindar, Deep Kanta Lahiri Chaudhuri and Kirstie Ball, Legal
Theorist - Lawrence Liang, Curators and Artists - Charles Merewether,
Ewan Chardronet, Babak Afrassiabi, New Media Critics and Researchers
- Wendy Chun, Mansour Yacubi, Sebastian Lutgert, Felix Stalder and
Researchers/Practitioners based at Sarai-CSDS - Shuddhabrata
Sengupta, Taha Mahmood, Awadhendra Sharan, Mahmood Farooqui, Shveta
Sarda, Sadan Jha.
Register to attend the workshop by writing to <dak at sarai.net>
Last date for registration - November 15, 2006.
We will not be able to support outstation travel and accommodation
Programme details, and conference schedules will be made available soon.
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