JNU Global Symposium on "Disaster Resilient Smart Cities" | 4-6 December, New Delhi

Online Registration & Concept Note

CSH Workshop on Digital Empire(s): Perspectives from Asia and Africa | 4 December, New Delhi

Workshop on Digital Empire(s): Perspectives from Asia and Africa

Date: Wednesday, 4th December 2019

Venue: CSH Conference Room, New Delhi

Schedule

9.00 : Welcome note by Nicolas Gravel (CSH) & Mathieu Quet (CEPED- IRD)

9.15 to 13.15 : Session 1 on Digital Empire(s)

- On technological empire as an analytical tool (Mathieu Quet, CEPED-IRD).

- Skeletal and elephantine bureaucracies in Africa and India : comparing histories of registration and their effects on digital infrastructures. (Keith Breckenridge, Wiser)

- From Ghana to India, saving the global south's mothers with a digital empire (Marine Al Dahdah, Cems-CNRS).

- Digital and Visual Populism: Personalised Politics and Online Publics in the PostColony (Krishanu Bhargav Neog, CPS-JNU)

- Feedback Loops and (In)Significant Voices: Social Interactions with ID Systems of Digital Empires in South Asia and East Africa- (Rajiv Mishra, CSSP-JNU)

- Netflix, Amazon Video and Jio Cinema : Reflection on the notion of digital empires through the prism of audiovisual platforms (Christine Ithurbide, LabSIC-Paris13)

- Colonializing the nation through digital technology (Ursula Rao, Leipzig University)

14.00 to 18.30 : Session 2 on Digital Empire(s)

- The invention of the electoral biometrics market in Africa (Marielle Debos, Univ. Paris Nanterre)

- Tracing digital governance and the history of ICTD developments in India. (Khetrimayum Monish Singh, CIS).

- Marketizing water in Kenya: From "dependency syndrome" towards a radiant future? (Christiane Tristl, Goethe Universitat)

- Calibrating digital payments in India (Javed Alam, JNU-Univ. of Paris)

- Digital Empire as Biometric Labor Division. Notes for a regressive anthropology of technology from the Senegalese electoral administration (Cecilia Passanti, University of Paris)

- The Rise of the Invisible Publics: Reality TV as Visibility Infrastructures in Northeast India (Sagorika Singha,SAA-JNU)

- Digitalization of social security in Nepal (Sohan Sha, Martin Chautari)

- The digital in communicating peace and conflict in the Sahel (Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University)

Registration: 

RSVP mentioning your full name to: neeru.gohar[@]csh-delhi.com. Due to security protocols, we request you to please pre-register over email and kindly carry an ID proof to be granted access to the venue.

CSIR- NISTADS Invited Talk "Measuring andCharacterizing Indian Scientific Research: New Dimensions" by Dr Vivek Singh, BHU | on 11th November

CSIR- NISTADS Invited Talk

 

A Talk by Dr Vivek Singh, Professor of Computer Science and Director, Computer Centre at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

 

Title:  Measuring and Characterizing Indian Scientific Research: New Dimensions

Date and Time:   11^th November, 2019; 4.00 PM

Venue: NISTADS Conference Hall

 

Abstract: The talk will attempt to address quantitative pursuits in Indian Science, addressing several traditional issues like India's research output, global share and rank, disciplinary distribution of research output and international collaboration patterns. The main emphasis will be on quantitative methods and how they can be used to draw inferences useful for science policy. The talk will include discussion on issues of gender and research publishing as well as open access levels and patterns in Indian research. The University-Industry-Government collaboration in research would also be looked into. The talk will also discuss on a very important and emerging issue of social media attention of Indian research output, including characterizing the type of research output that gets significant attention in different social media and news platforms.

 

About the Speaker: Dr Vivek Singh is Professor of Computer Science and Director, Computer Centre at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His primary research interests are in Information Systems, Text Analytics and Scientometrics. He has rich volume of scholarly work. He has worked on several research projects, including those involving international collaboration with Germany, Mexico and Brazil. He is on the review board of many top-tier SCIE indexed journals, including Scientometrics, Information Processing and Management and several IEEE Transactions. He is one of the Editors of The Journal of Scientometric Research, a Life member of ISSI and Computer Society of India and Senior Member of IEEE & ACM.

ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED

New Book | India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development

India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development
Edited by Navroz K. Dubash, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, ISBN: 9780199098392
 
About the Book
As science is increasingly making clear, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge for humanity. For India, this challenge is compounded by immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development, and complicated by its relatively limited role thus far in causing the problem. India in a Warming World explores this complex context for India's engagement with climate change. But, in addition, it argues that India, like other countries, can no longer ignore the problem, because a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer available. Bringing together leading researchers, activists, and policymakers, this volume lays out the emergent debate on climate change in India. Collectively, the chapters deepen clarity on why India should engage with climate change and how it can best do so.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to India's Evolving Climate Change Debate: From Diplomatic Insulation to Policy Integration | Navroz K. Dubash

SECTION I CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS

2. Impact of Climate Change on India | J. Srinivasan
3. Changing Climate and Weather: Evidence from Attribution Science | Krishna AchutaRao and Friederike Otto
4. Impacts of Global Warming in India: Narratives from Below | Nagraj Adve

SECTION II INTERNATIONAL DEBATES AND NEGOTIATIONS

5. Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism | Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain
6. Equity in Long-Term Mitigation | Tejal Kanitkar and T. Jayaraman
7. India's Engagement in Global Climate Negotiations from Rio to Paris | Sandeep Sengupta
8. Present at the Creation: Th e Making of the Framework Convention on Climate Change | Chandrashekhar Dasgupta
9. One Long Day in Copenhagen | Shyam Saran
10. Reaching Agreement in Paris: A Negotiator's Perspective | Ashok Lavasa
11. India in International Climate Negotiations: Chequered Trajectory | D. Raghunandan
12. Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement | Lavanya Rajamani
13. India and Paris: A Pragmatic Way Forward | Ajay Mathur
14. Making Sense on Its Own Terms: India in the HFC and Aviation Negotiations | Arunabha Ghosh

SECTION III POLITICS

15. Climate Change, Civil Society, and Social Movement in India | Pradip Swarnakar
16. Business Action on Climate Change: A Perspective from the Private Sector | Shankar Venkateswaran and Mukund Rajan
17. Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour | Ashim Roy , Benny Kuruvilla , and Ankit Bhardwaj
18. Looking Out, Looking In: Th e Shifting Discourse on Climate Change in the Indian Print Media | Anu Jogesh

SECTION IV POLICY

19. National Climate Policies and Institutions | Navroz K. Dubash and Shibani Ghosh
20. From Margins to Mainstream?: State Climate Change Planning in India | Navroz K. Dubash and Anu Jogesh
21. State Climate Change Planning: Has It Reached the Mainstream? | Elizabeth Gogoi
22. Climate Finance | Koyel Kumar Mandal
23. Managing the Climate Technology Transition | Ambuj Sagar

SECTION V CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT

24. Aligning Energy, Development, and Mitigation | Ashok Sreenivas and Ashwin Gambhir
25. Urban India and Climate Change | Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj
26. Climate Change and India's Forests | Sharachchandra Lele and Jagdish Krishnaswamy
27. Climate Adaptation in the Water Sector in India | Veena Srinivasan
28. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture | K.S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda Viswanathan
29. Shoring Up: Climate Change and the Indian Coasts and Islands | Rohan Arthur

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CfPs: ICA2020 Pre-Conference on "Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Infrastructures, Informatization"

ICA2020 Pre-Conference on "Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Infrastructures, Informatization"

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020

Location: Gold Coast, Australia

Organizers: Radhika Parameswaran (rparames[@]indiana.edu, Indiana University), Sangeet Kumar (kumars[@]denison.edu, Denison University), Kalyani Chadha (kchadha[@]umd.edu, University of Maryland), Adrian Athique (a.athique[@]uq.edu.au, University of Queensland) and Pradip Thomas (pradip.thomas[@]uq.edu.au, University of Queensland). 

Conference Coordinator: Roshni Susana Verghese, roshnisusana[@]gmail.com 

Pre-Conference Description
Characterized by a mobile phone led connectivity boom and the cheapest data prices in the world (McCarthy 2019), South Asia has emerged as a region with the greatest potential for the future growth of Internet users. Indeed, as such, the area is not only central to any attempts at imagining the future of digital media globally, but it also constitutes a fertile territorial and cultural space for scholarly inquiry into the various dimensions of expanding digital life in the region. Consequently, this pre-conference focuses on exploring digital developments and their political, economic, social and cultural implications in the context of postcolonial South Asia and its global diaspora. The pre-conference draws inspiration from scholars who have sought to dewesternize digital media studies through their granular and interdisciplinary accounts of varied aspects of digital life in non-western countries. It is also grounded in the notion that the historical, political and social specificities of postcolonial South Asia necessitate the production of knowledge on digital culture— both conceptual and empirical— that explores the heterogeneities and complexities of the diverse nations that constitute the region. We envisage this pre-conference to be a forum for illuminating the varied dialectical forces that are at play in South Asia in shaping digital culture in ways that are similar to but also quite different from other parts of the world.
In pursuit of these objectives, we invite submissions that cover a broad range of topics set in South Asia, including, but not limited to scholarly areas such as:

• Issues of digital access, connectivity and inequality (social asymmetries of caste, gender, sexuality, religion, language, and class)
• Online mobilization by activist communities to protest inequities and advocate for social change
• Nature and implications for sovereignty of governance and infrastructure regimes emerging across the region, particularly as they relate to data collection and commodification, security and privacy
• The political economy of digital media and the impact of digital technologies on the mainstream media landscape in entertainment and news media
• Rise of new genres of informational and artistic representation— including parody, satire, and humor—in online spaces such as YouTube
• Role of digital and social media in the transformation of contemporary politics, including campaigns and elections
• Transformations in the business and content of journalism, the rise of fake news, misinformation as well as hate and extreme speech
• Vernacular community formation in local, national and transnational/diasporic South Asian digital spaces
• New transnational digital circuits of cultural production and consumption—fueled by affinities of caste, gender, class and sexuality—within and beyond South Asia

The pre-conference aims to bring together ICA participants as well as scholars from around the world who are interested in digital culture in the Global South, with a particular focus on South Asia. Presentations and conversations at the pre-conference will be geared to achieve the following broad goals: build theory sensitive to the nuances of the region, strengthen analytical frameworks, foster interdisciplinarity, encourage critical thinking, and address empirical gaps in research. Keynote speakers to be determined and announced in Spring 2020.

Submission and participation details

• Extended abstract due: Monday, January 20th, 2020
• Final decisions on acceptance: Friday, February 14th, 2020

At this time we invite authors to submit extended abstracts (700 to 1,000 words) that describe the main thesis and arguments, research goals, theoretical influences/frameworks, and to the extent possible, the methodological background and findings of their papers. The pre-conference organizers welcome diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and varied modes of analyses.
Please make sure you include a title for your abstract. We request you to anonymize your document by removing all identifying information from it. Very poorly written abstracts as well as those that do not relate to South Asia will be automatically rejected. Abstract submissions will be reviewed and final decisions communicated by February 14th, 2020.  Please submit your extended abstracts to conference coordinator Dr. Roshni Susana Verghese at roshnisusana[@]gmail.com. Based on the volume and the quality of submissions, we intend to explore a potential thematic publication of pre-conference materials as a special issue in a journal or as an edited volume.
Registration fees: With financial support from institutional sponsors and ICA Divisions, the registration fees for the pre-conference will be under $20. The registration fees will cover refreshments for two breaks and lunch. This is a flat fee for anyone who wishes to present at or simply attend the pre-conference (without a presentation), including all ICA student and faculty members. There are no prerequisites for submitting abstracts, registering for and participating in the pre-conference. All attendees will need to create an ICA profile to register.
Finally, we expect all presenters will attend the pre-conference event for the full day. If you are traveling from overseas, we advise you to arrive on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, and make appropriate accommodation arrangements for that night.

Further Details

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