For Digital Dignity

DECOLONIALITY AND THE DIGITAL TURN IN MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media Anthropology Network and Project ONLINERPOL co-organized a one-day international workshop at LMU Munich to critically explore
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INNOVATION AND SHIRKING IN INDIA’S DISINFORMATION COMPLEX

At the two-day international workshop, “Disinformation and Elections in Asia: Digital Futures and Fragile Democracies” at the Columbia University, Sahana Udupa participated in the plenary panel with Cherian George and Camille Francois on histories and architectures of political disinformation. She spoke about innovations in India’s disinformation complex, highlighting how digital war has become the new
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INVITED TALK ON SITUATED SPEECH AND ONLINE AGGRESSION

20 June 2018
In an invited talk at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Muenster, Sahana Udupa presented a comaprative anthropological perspective on online aggression and its political implications.
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PUBLIC TALK: GIOVANNI DA COL ON “STRANGER-DENSITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALITY IN TIBETAN BORDERLANDS”

December 7, 2017
Imagine what anthropology might look like today if Marcel Mauss had chosen hospitality rather than the gift as the subject of his famous essay, in which he identified the three obligations to give, receive and return as constitutive of the gift relationship.
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ENTERPRISE HINDUTVA: FIVE PROTOTYPES IN URBAN INDIA

November 29, 2017
Morgenstierne Lecture at the University of Oslo by Sahana Udupa December 1 2017 The expansion of social media in India has marked a distinct debate culture among the middle classes, shaping a new milieu of ideological affiliations.
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DEMOCRACY AS RUMOUR: TALK BY IRFAN AHMAD

November 14, 2017
Rumor cannot be understood as a plebeian form of resistance because mainstream media work like rumor machines and serve the power elite, argued anthropologist Dr Irfan Ahmad, who is currently researching media and rumor in the Indian parliamentary elections of 2014. At the Oberseminar lecture hosted by For Digital Dignity Project ONILNERPOL at LMU this
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‘EVERYTHING HAS BECOME POLITICS’

June 20, 2017
In a talk on June 12 at an oberseminar at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, Sahana Udupa presented ‘”Everything has become politics”: New media, millennial politics and the middle class in urban India’. As one of the fastest growing digital economies in the world, India is witnessing
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DEBATING SOCIAL MEDIA AND MIDDLE CLASS POLITICS IN INDIA AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY QATAR

June 5, 2017
Sahana Udupa spoke at Georgetown University Qatar on “Debating the Nation: Social Media and Middle Class Politics in India” on April 17. From Facebook to Twitter and myriad other platforms, the expanding social media have led to a vibrant debate culture among the middle class in India, sparking hopes of
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UDUPA GIVES SEVERAL PRESENTATIONS ON INDIAN NATIONALISM AND ONLINE DEBATE CULTURES IN MARCH

June 5, 2017
In March, Sahana Udupa gave several talks about online debate cultures in India. On 21 March, Udupa gave an invited talk entitled ‘Imagining the Nation on Social Media: Facts, Play and Politics’ at the Annual Anthropology Research Seminar, University of Bern, Switzerland. Examining the rise of online debate cultures in
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