[Reader-list] [Announcements] Applications Invited for 'Researching the Contemporary' at CSDS

[The Sarai Programme]

*'Researching the Contemporary'

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The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) invites 
applications for its two-month Course on 'Researching the Contemporary'. 
This cross-disciplinary course will critically examine the formation of 
the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologies, forms and affects.

The three courses offered will enable participants to familiarize 
themselves with concepts, theories and methods that help analyse the 
contemporary. These include:

/_Reassembling Contemporary Social Thought

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The course attempts to approach contemporary social thought in its 
broadest sense - without the baggage of what is generally understood as 
'theory'. The purpose is to open new lines of inquiry by including 
within the fold of theory - experiences, reflections, conceptualisations 
from different intellectual traditions.

/_Research Methods and Identities: Issues and Debates in Postcolonial India

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This course revisits the concept of identity from the vantage point of 
research methods. Focusing on the ways in which identities are 
transformed into 'researchable objects' in contemporary social science 
analysis, the Course explores issues such as the 'choice of method'; the 
travel of identities from public/political discourses to academic study 
and vice versa; and the effects of a researcher's identity on research 
design.

/_Media and Materiality

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This course addresses media as a constitutive part of our contemporary 
experience. We draw from media theory, anthropology, history and 
philosophy with material from cinema, the digital, print, and music. 
Themes include the public, the media event, infrastructure, affect and 
sensation, circulation, property .

This is an intensive Course with compulsory readings and class 
discussions. Course materials will be made available. Participants are 
expected to write research papers which they will share during the 
Course. A participation certificate will be awarded upon successful 
completion.

The course will be conducted over 8 weeks between July 1-August 31, 
2012. Classes will be held at CSDS on week-day afternoons, Tuesday to 
Thursday, from 3-6 pm.

Applications are invited from M.Phil/Ph.D students as well as 
independent researchers.

As part of your application please submit your C.V. and a 1000-word 
description of your research question/topic.

Out of station participants shall be provided with roundtrip travel 
expenses (3-tier AC) and a stipend of Rs.20,000/.

_Deadline_: April 30, 2012.

Applications may be sent to: teaching at csds.in

For further details check: www.csds.in

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