Visiting Fellows
CSCS provides affiliation to Indian and international researchers for varying periods of time. In addition CSCS also invites academics to interact with faculty and students and to present their work at the Centre.
Conferences and Workshops
List of conferences and workshops held at and conducted by CSCS in recent years.
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Current State: Published Course for students of the Eugene Lang College, New School, New York - June 16-July 12, 2008 Course Coordinator: Anup Dhar This is a ‘post-cinema’ course. It makes the following proposition, that one way of looking at the cinema’s role in India is to ask this question: what are the spaces that the cinema institution used to occupy? What has replaced it in those spaces? India’s metropolitan public spaces are today hugely mediatized – for example, by the architectures of cyberspace re-introduced into physical reorganization of everyday life, or the cultural translation of ‘connectivity’ into networked neighbourhoods through cable television or various forms of ‘local area networks’. Can these recent phenomena also tell us something about how the cinema – as their ancestor, and the most distinctive example of technological mediation of the public sphere in the 20th Century – went about its business? Bangalore, on which the present course focuses its inquiry, is a useful place to begin. Bangalore is of course well known (some would say notorious) as the ‘back office’ of global IT services. The city has a long history going back to pre-colonial times, and to several economies apart from the one it is best known for: Business Process Outsourcing (or BPO). It has a number of significant cutting-edge initiatives in various media. Many of these initiatives are, we may say, ‘underground’ or, as some would call them, ‘invisible’. The course will focus mainly on three kinds of such invisible media: film, cable TV and the internet. In each, we will investigate the physical spaces that these media occupy, and have historically occupied. We will do a kind of ethnography of mediatized space in these areas. And at all times we will track our insights back into what the cinema may say to them, to what the cinema ‘used to be’. I: Post-Cinema: City/Media Day 1: Introduction to the Course. What is the Cinema? What is a City? What are Media? Love Match Day 2: The Unintended City Students will have to come to class on the 18th of June with a 500-word written reflection on either ‘The Unintended City’ or ‘Video Nights in Kathmandu’. Day 4: Workshop on Institutional Collaborations II. Networks Day 1: What is a Community? Day 2: 25th June: Networked Communities Day 1: City and Culture: Techno Narratives of Globalisation Day 2: City and the Cinema Students are to submit a 1500-word assignment on either (1) Concepts used in the course or (2) some Reading that has been used in the course. Day 3: Field Visit to Infosys Day 4: Field Visit Day 5: 2 to 6 p.m.: Students are to make a 20-minute presentation culled out from their assignments. |
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