From dak at sarai.net Wed Mar 4 15:34:13 2009 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:34:13 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] March- 2009 Message-ID: <49AE521D.5080302@sarai.net> *Newsletter - March 2009 [[CONTENTS]] Announcement Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain now available* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Film at Sarai Bad Boy Bubby A film by Rolf de Heer Curated by Safina Uberoi* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are happy to announce the availability of *SARAI READER 01: THE PUBLIC DOMAIN *from our online bookseller. Long out of print, *Scholars without Borders* has reproduced a special edition in response to popular demand. *SARAI READER 02: THE CITIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE* is also in line for a reprint edition. Our film screening this month is Bad Boy Bubby (Director Rolf de Heer) which will be curated by Safina Uberoi. The film depicts the protagonist as the sufferer of a variety of social deviances like bad parenting and sexual abuse, but one who comes out trumps by his sole determination to live life beyond such oddities. This film is one of the many original nonconformist films from Australia which examines social issues critically. Best, Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Announcement* *SARAI READER 01: THE PUBLIC DOMAIN*, can now be bought online from *Scholars Without Borders*, who has also reprinted it. To *read more about it* visit http://swblogs.blogspot.com/2009/02/ipod-back-in-public-domain.html To visit their *website* click http://www.scholarswithoutborders.in/ To *order* visit http://www.scholarswithoutborders.in/item_show.php?code_no=MED033&ID=undefined&calcStr= *SARAI READER 01: THE PUBLIC DOMAIN* Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab *Editoral:* Coordinator: Raqs Media Collective (for Sarai) + Geert Lovink (for SONM) Additional Input: Ravikant, Awadhendra Sharan *Design:* Design: Pradip Saha Design Co-ordinator: Monica Narula Assisted by: Mrityunjoy chatterjee, Ruchika Agarwal Graphics: Pradip Saha Marginalia: Monica Narula Additional Photography: Pradip Saha *Production:* Co-ordinator: Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Assisted by: Ashish Mahajan Copy Editing: Ravikant, Awadhendra Sharan, Rana Dasgupta, Saumya Gupta Printing Co-ordinator- Pradip Saha *Published by* Sarai: the New Media Initiative A programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 29- Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, India + The Society for Old and New Media (SONM) De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4 1012 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands Delhi/Amsterdam 2001 ISBN Number: 9789066172869 Price: *INR 350, US$ 20, EUR 20* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Film at Sarai Bad Boy Bubby Directed by Rolf de Heer Cast Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Nicholas Hope, Rachael Huddy, Carmel Johnson, Norman Kaye, Celine O'Leary etc. Length: 114 mins Language: English Curated by Safina Uberoi Date: 27th March, 2009 Time: 4:30 pm Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS* This Australian cult film draws extremely dark humor from the story of Bubby, a man who has spent the first 35 years of his life locked in a disgusting basement by his abusive, controlling mother. Having been taught that the outside air is poisonous and that leaving home is sinful, he only realizes the truth when his long-absent father returns to disrupt the already twisted family unit. A tragic confrontation follows, forcing Bubby into the real world. Knowing nothing about life, and undoubtedly suffering from mental disturbance, he stumbles about the city, speaking in a rambling monologue made up mainly of overheard phrases. His behavior is interpreted in different ways by the people he encounters: some think him insane, while others equate his strange speech and erratic behavior with brilliance. The edgy lead performance by Nicholas Hope is key to the film's success, managing to make Bubby a figure that is both sympathetic and at times quite frightening. Bad Boy Bubby will be curated by Safina Uberoi, a well known Indian filmmaker based in Australia. Safina Uberoi trained at the Mass Communication Research Center in Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. In 1995 she left India to study in the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Her short films made there include the award winning Nonno Peppe is a Video Head and Guru. She has taught in Australia at the Macquarie University, the Australian Film TV and Radio school, the Sydney International Film School, the National Institute of Dramatic Art. In india, she has taught at The National School of Drama and given lectures at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia. Internationally, she has screened her films and conducted master classes at a number of Universities including New York University, De Paul University in Chicago, University of Los Angeles, University of Westminster and the London School of Economics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Fri Mar 27 15:21:46 2009 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:21:46 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Short-term research positions: Asian cultural studies Message-ID: <49CCA1B2.10000@sarai.net> *Short-Term Research Positions: Asian Cultural Studies* The Cultural and Material life of media piracy is a three-year project carried out by the Sarai programme of the CSDS, Delhi, India in collaboration with the Alternative Law Forum Bangalore, India. The project seeks open a different debates on piracy other than simply that of enforcement and criminality in Asia. We hope to generate discussions of cultural needs, community practices of sharing and circulation in societies of high inequality. We will also look at media industry approaches to piracy and enforcement strategies. In addition, there will be ethnographic and quantitative work on media use in neighborhoods. The main research node spans South Asia, with comparative work in China and South East Asia. The Sarai-ALF teams of researchers work in tandem with an international project on media piracy with fellow researchers in Brazil, South Africa and Russia coordinated by the SSRC (New York). The project is supported by the IDRC (Canada) We are looking for bright, energetic and qualified researchers who can work in collaboration with a regional and international team. Applicants must demonstrate abilities to research and write on the subject. A familiarity with the debate on piracy, intellectual Property and the creative commons is preferable. Social science and humanities applicants should have completed postgraduate degrees, law students a four-year programme. The position is ideal for researchers working on their Ph.d/M.Phil, wanting to combine it with ongoing research and interest in media, law and cultural studies. Independent researchers with a clear, demonstrable research capacity and experience may also apply. *Researcher One: Beijing* The researcher will be media and copy culture circuits in China post video/VCD and the relationship to the international legal regime. Research will be fieldwork based. Researchers must be bi-lingual in Mandarin and English. *Researcher Two: Hong Kong* The researcher will be looking at Hong Kong Media industries after video and the worlds of piracy in South China. Researchers should be fluent and bi-lingual in Cantonese and English. Remuneration will be approximately *USD 5000 for a six-month period*. A publication quality research paper is expected at the conclusion of the research period. Interested applicants may send their CV and a written research sample to *researchjobs at sarai.net* by *April 20th, 2009*. *Applications without a written research sample will not be entertained. 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