From dak at sarai.net Thu Jan 10 13:12:13 2008 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:12:13 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] January 2008 Message-ID: <4785CC55.1030608@sarai.net> *Newsletter- January 2008 [[CONTENTS]] Announcement: Forthcoming - Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Film @ Sarai Sanjhi Virasat Director: Azam Q* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki Call for entries* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Comix Workshop: Third Session* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Readers, This New Year we start the month with a variety of events as always. We have a film screening, a workshop and announcements for call for entries for a film workshop next month and of course the forthcoming Sarai- Reader 7. Hope you will make yourself available for the events and access the particulars announced. *Wishing you all a very Happy New Year. * Best, Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Announcement: * *Forthcoming - Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers http://www.sarai.net/publications/reader/07-frontiers Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi and RaviSundaram Paperback, 600 pages, Rs 350, US$ 20, EUR20 ISBN 81-901429-9-2* We are happy to announce the publication of Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers. Frontiers brings together essays, accounts, notes and images to report and reflect on a world accustomed to living on the edge. This time, the Sarai Reader considers limits, borders and margins of all kind to be sites for declarations, occasions for conversation, settings for the staging of arguments, debates, recounting and reflection. Accounts of border crossings and life in frontier zones sit side by side with analyses of the actions of state power and records of transgressions. The limits and margins of literary texts, films and art works are explored together with evocations of the frontiers of the urban experience. Sarai Reader 07 invites you to consider the frontier as an open door, and as a policed gate, as a chute into something new, or the rediscovery of that which has been obscured, as a hidden tunnel that crosses under a mountain, as a porous membrane of liminal possibilities and as a zone of contact and contagion. We want to think of the frontier as the skin of our time and our world, and we invite you to read this book in order to get under the skin of contemporary experience. Authors and Contributors Include: Ana Longoni, Rosie Thomas, Irina Aristarkhova, Lamia Joreige, Cedric Vincent, Abdoumaliq Simone, Farhana Ibrahim, Georgi Derluguian, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Lawrence Liang, Jeremy Hight, Manuel Ramos Martinez, Pramod Nayar, Anuj Bhuvania, Solomon Benjamin, Aman Sethi, Gauri Gill, Chandak Sengoopta, Amar Kanwar, Mogas Collective, Angela Mitropoulos, Abhishek Hazra, Naisargi Dave and others ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Film @ Sarai Sanjhi Virasat, 2003 Director: Azam Q Length: 20 minutes 11th January, 4:30 pm Seminar Room, CSDS* About the film: Sanjhi Virasat deals with communal harmony. It attempts to depict how people of different religions can live with each other, following their own identities and yet be at peace. The film is the story of Kaluram Pandit of Badshahpur, a village in Haryana. The village was predominantly Muslim before partition but with partition most migrated to Pakistan. What remained were a few families, a mosque and an eidgah. When an individual tried to occupy the mosque forcibly, Kaluram Pandit intervened and registered a case against him. He won the case, made the land free and invited a muslim family from the village to look after the mosque and supported him with all material requirements. Today, Badshahpur is a thriving example of how if people want to ignore their differences and live together as one, they can! About the Director: Azam has done his graduation in Mass media from Jamia Millia Islamia. His passions are theatre and film making. Sanjhi Virasat(2003) is his first documentary feature. He has been hugely involved in theatre and writing for the last 5 years. He now works as a theatre instructor for the blind at the National Association for the Blind, Haus Khas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Call for entries to Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki * /Introduced and Moderated by Raqs Media Collective/ *Sarai-CSDS in Collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi 8th and 9th of February, 2:00 PM - 8:30 PM* /(8th February - at MMB, Kasturba Gandi Marg, New Delhi) (9th February - at Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054) / Harun Farocki's work provokes us to re-think our relationships to history and the politics of representation. His body of work, spanning documentary & essay films, installations and writing, is an invitation to consider the task of image-making as a philosophical undertaking. This workshop invites filmmakers, artists, writers, philosophers, political theorists, historians and activists to engage with this body of work? Through two days of intense film viewing and conversation with Harun Farocki himself. The workshop will be introduced and moderated by Raqs Media Collective. *Limited seats, please apply with a short resume introducing yourself to dak at sarai.net by the 31st of January.* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Comix Workshop: Session 3 17, 18, 19th January Venue: Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS, Facilitator: Orijit Sen * This is the third and concluding session of the comic book workshop. This session will include participants choosing either a written narrative/ audiovisual/ sound tracks. These narratives, sound tracks etc. will be exchanged. The participants would then be asked to create a four-page comic strip from the narrative. 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URL: From dak at sarai.net Thu Jan 31 23:38:23 2008 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:38:23 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] February 2008 Message-ID: <47A20E97.3090102@sarai.net> *Newsletter- February 2008* *[[CONTENTS]]* *A reading/discussion session by Priya Sarrukai Chabria on her new book Generation14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Why not Comics?'- The Comic Book Event ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki, Filmmaker and Artist ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Blog Sangat/: Bloggers Meet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film @Sarai India Untouched Directed by: Stalin K, Curated by: Chandra Nigam ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement: Call for applications for posts of Fellow and Associate Fellows (CSDS) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Dear Readers, February is the month where you should to be with us as the events that we bring you are as unique as they can be. We have a reading on a sci-fi novel, a celebration of the comic book culture in Delhi, a workshop with one of the renowned filmmakers of our times, a thought provoking documentary feature, a bloggers meet and an announcement. Hope you will make yourselves available for the events and access the particulars announced. Best, Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *A reading/discussion session by Priya Sarrukai Chabria on her new book Generation14. * *Introduced by Vivek Narayanan Venue: Seminar Room Sarai, CSDS Date: 4th February 2008 Time: 3:30 pm * *About Generation 14: * In a world where memory is forbidden and sexuality taboo, Clone 14/54/G is unique. Haunted by her past lives and caught in a struggle between the forces of oppression and those of liberty, language and love, she keeps a secret journal. Intense, poetic and erotic, Generation 14 is a dazzlingly imaginative and bizarre political satire. Set in the 24th century the novel journeys through highpoints of India's history to explore ideas of its plural identity and what it means to be human in today's polarized world. This extraordinary novel is unlike any other coming from the subcontinent, and heralds a new generation of fantasy writing from India. It is a serious and vivid reflection on repression and the fragility of freedoms. Priya Sarukkai Chabria is a poet and novelist. Her publications include the novel The Other Garden (Rupa&Co, 1995) and Dialogue and Other Poems (Indian Academy of Literature Golden Jubilee Imprint, 2005, reprint 2006) and as editor, the anthologies All Poetry is Protest (2006)and Open Spaces: 50 Poets 50Poems.(2007). She edits the website Talking Poetry India at www.openspaceindia.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *'Why not Comics?'- The Comic Book Event * *Date: 5th of February Time: 5:30- 7:00 Venue: World Book Fair Pragati Maidan Conference Hall No.6, Room No.1 (Entry by Gate no.2)* Comics in India has a history that extends a little more than 40 years, but it is only now that we are witnessing a rise in public interest towards them, with publishing houses taking the form in its modern renditions more seriously, and more readers turning into creators. In this scenario, it is imperative for a platform to exist through which a new understanding about comics might emerge. Sarai-CSDS, The French Embassy and the FIRC (French Information Resource Center) invite you to an evening celebrating the comic book culture in New Delhi, as well as the culmination of a nine-day workshop on comic books and graphic novels. Jointly produced by the YP foundation (The Youth Parliament), the event will include a first-of-its-kind dialogue between comic book artists and publishers. Join us in trying to understand the economics and the art of comics in India and be witness to a dialogue that will give you a sense of what the future holds! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki, Filmmaker and Artist Introduced and Moderated by Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS in Collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi 8th and 9th of February, 2:00 PM - 8:30 PM (8th February - at MMB, Kasturba Gandi Marg, New Delhi) (9th February - at Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054)* Harun Farocki's work provokes us to re-think our relationships to history and the politics of representation. His body of work, spanning documentary & essay films, installations and writing, is an invitation to consider the task of image-making as a philosophical undertaking. This workshop invites filmmakers, artists, writers, philosophers, political theorists, historians and activists to engage with this body of work? Through two days of intense film viewing and conversation with Harun Farocki himself. The workshop will be introduced and moderated by Raqs Media Collective. There will be two public screenings at Max Mueller Bhavan and Sarai respectively each day after the workshop. *8th February - 6:30 pm at MMB, Kasturba Gandi Marg - 'Videogram of a Revolution' 9th February - 6:30 pm at Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines - 'Prison Pictures' & 'Respite' * For more enquiries, write to dak at sarai.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /*Blog Sangat:*/ *Bloggers Meet* *Date: 13th February, 2008 Venue: Sarai, CSDS Time: 2:00 pm* /Blog Sangat/ is a continuation of the blog workshop we had in December. Here we invite Hindi bloggers to share their experiences and ideas on blog writing and the problems they face while blogging. This meet can also work as a catalyst for blog enthusiasts who will get an opportunity to interact with some of the initiators of Hindi blogging. This programme is open to all. You can write to dak at sarai.net to be a part of this event. This will help us to organize the meet better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Film at Sarai: India Untouched Director: Stalin K Length: 110 mins Language: Hindi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalm with English sub-titles Curated by: Chandra Nigam Date: 15th February, 2008 Time: 4:30 pm Venue: Seminar, CSDS* *About the Film: * India Untouched will make it impossible for anyone in India to deny that untouchability is still practiced today. Director Stalin K and his spent four years traveling the length and breadth of India to bear witness to the continued exclusion and segregation of those considered as 'untouchables'. Accepted wisdom in India holds that caste only exists in 'backward' rural areas, but the film exposes caste discrimination across all sections of societies-within the urban middle classes, poor and prosperous villages, the communists in Kerala, other religious groups such as Sikhs, Christians and Muslims and within some of India's most revered academic and professional institutions. In an age where the media projects only one image of 'rising' or 'poised' India, this film reminds us how for the country is from being equal society. Traveling through eight states and four religions, this film is perhaps the deepest exploration of caste oppression ever undertaken on film. * About Chandra Nigam:* Chandra is an advocate at the Tis Hazari Court and a coordinator with the Legal Cell, SAFAR. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for applications for the posts of Fellow and Associate Fellows (CSDS)* The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for the following regular and visiting faculty positions: Fellow (12000-420-18300) Associate Fellow (8000-275-13500) There are two faculty positions and two positions for Visiting Fellows. Visiting positions are for only one year and carry salary protection for those in service. Areas of Specialisation: Faculty positions are meant for scholars who work under the following rubrics that the Centre has focused on: . Democratic politics and social change . Development, alternatives and futures . Culture, state and society . Ethnicity, diversity and violence . History of ideas and social practices . Indian political thought and theory Under these rubrics, the Centre would like to encourage the following emerging themes: . Globalisation and democracy . Identity, culture and nationalism . Media and popular culture . Gender and society . Law and society . Urban experience . Peace and security . Environment and society The Centre will also consider any outstanding scholar who proposes research on a theme not mentioned above. Qualifications: The essential qualification for all positions is a demonstrated capacity to undertake high quality, independent research. Evidence of published work of high quality shall be considered more important than formal academic record, degrees or experience. In addition, the desirable qualifications for the various positions are: Fellow: Doctoral degree or equivalent published work in the relevant field AND research/teaching experience of 5years Associate Fellow: Good academic record with doctoral degree or equivalent published work. Preference: The Centre will give preference to women scholars, scholars from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, other Backward Classes and minority communities. If you belong to any of these categories, please mention it clearly in your CV. Selection Procedure: The candidates short-listed by the Centre will be asked to appear for an interview with the Selection Committee. The Selection Committee is free to consider scholars who may not have applied for a higher position, or may not appear for the interview. Application: Applications on plain paper, specifying the position applied for, should be sent to the Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054 in an envelop marked " Faculty Positions". Please indicate if you would wish to be considered only for a visiting position. The application must be accompanied by: . Curriculum Vitae including academic record and a full list of publications (copies of certificates not required at this stage) . Two samples (chapters from the book or research articles) of published work . A short statement (of about 500 words) of current and proposed research . Names and addresses of three referees Last date of receipt of applications: February 29, 2008: Emailed or faxed applications will not be entertained. 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