From dak at sarai.net Mon Oct 9 03:48:38 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 03:48:38 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] OCTOBER 2006 Message-ID: <010BC580-0C8B-4EE8-807A-58E245EEC7DC@sarai.net> ************************************************************************ ************************************ ***************************************** SARAI NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2006 *********************** ************************************************************************ ************************************ 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] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ [[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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ [[EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS]] ==================== Workshop @ Sarai ==================== 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. ============================================== Seminar @ Sarai: FLOSS Fellowships Final Presentations ============================================== 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ [[FILM]] ===================================== Film @ Sarai: October – November 2005 ===================================== 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.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ [[RESEARCH]] ======================================== Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellowships Programme ======================================== 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ [[CONFERENCES]] ====================== Sensor-Census-Censor ====================== 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 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ END OF NEWSLETTER The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.net Info: dak at sarai.net To subscribe: send a blank email to newsletter-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. Directions to Sarai: We are ten minutes from Delhi University. Nearest bus stop: IP college or Exchange Stores. You can also take the Metro - get off at Civil Lines station. See Calendar and Newsletter online: http://www.sarai.net/calendar/ newsletter.htm The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.net Info: dak at sarai.net.To subscribe: send a blank email to newsletter- request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. Directions to Sarai: We are ten minutes from Delhi University. Nearest bus stop: IP college or Exchange Stores See Calendar and Newsletter online: http://www.sarai.net/calendar/ newsletter.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Fri Oct 27 04:01:26 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (dak at sarai.net) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:31:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Film@ Sarai: Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi Message-ID: <36563.203.190.159.3.1161901886.squirrel@mail.sarai.net> [[FILM]] ====================================== Film @ Sarai: October – November 2005 ====================================== 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.]