Apr-24
In a public talk organized by the Zentrum für Kulturwissenschäftliche Forschung, University of Konstanz, Sahana Udupa spoke about the limits of technological solutions and the latest controversies surrounding AI in extreme speech ecosystems.
Mar-24
In a keynote address at the Leverhulme Project Conference on Emerging Directions in News Use Research, Sahana Udupa discussed the unique features of digitally organized disinformation networks and how this could be understood as “shadow politics”. The conference was organized by Ranjana Das, Thomas Roberts and Emily Shetty and Maria-Nerina Boursinou from University of Surrey
FEB-24
In the speaker series, “Behid the Scenes: Convesrations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”, hosted by João Magalhães, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen and Christian Katzenbach and Paloma Viejo Otero, University of Bremen, Sahana Udupa spoke about challenges in platform governance research, and what we might still accomplish even when corporates don’t cooperate.
DEC-23
At the South Asia colloquium hosted by Kama McClean, Heidelberg University, Sahana Udupa spoke about artificial intelligence assisted content moderation systems, presenting a decolonial critique of AI. The talk was based on the article, “Ethical scaling: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence” co-authored with Antonis Maronikolakis and Axel Wisiorek, and published in Big Data and Society.
NOV-23
In an international conference on disinformation and elections organized by Marcelo Alves dos Santos Junior, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Jose Mari Lanuza and Caroline Pecoraro at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Sahana Udupa was a speaker at the plenary session with Afonso de Albuquerque and Ethan Zuckerman.
NOV-23
In an invited talk, Sahana Udupa spoke about sexist templates that digital influencers create and circulate to serve their political clients. The talk was hosted by “Deep Lab” led by ERC grant awardee Rosana Pinheiro-Machado and coordinated by Marina Frid, postdoctoral researcher at the Lab.
OCT-23
In the Colloquium Series hosted by the University of Vienna, Sahana Udupa explored new social dynamics of hateful cultures emerging at the intersection of gender, religion and platform affordance. This argument will be elaborated in a forthcoming chapter co-authored with Oeendrila Gerold in a Routledge volume on social processes of hate edited by Joseph B. Walther and Ronald Rice.
AUG-23
University of Oxford hosted a book talk on “Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media” co-authored by Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, and published by New York University Press (2023). In the talk, Udupa focused on the chapters “Capture” and “Extreme”.
AUG-23
In the Colloquium Series hosted by the South Asia Institute and Moody School of Communication at UT Austin, Sahana Udupa delivered a lecture on social media and nationalism, approaching the Internet as an arena of multiple interfaces. The talk drew on the recently published article in American Ethnologist co-authored with Max Kramer.
AUG-23
University of São Paulo hosted Sahana Udupa’s talk on artificial intelligence and content moderation as part of their special international guests series. The talk highlighted the difficulties of detecting culturally coded exclusionary expressions using automated systems and the need for greater transparency in message level interventions of platform governance.
JUN-23
At the United Nations Peace Operations International Symposium on “Harnessing technology for digital transformation”, Sahana Udupa delivered a keynote address to UN delegates outlining the challenges of online disinformation and misogyny. Senior UN leadership, delegates from the member states, and Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, the host country, were among the dignitaries present at the symposium. During the symposium, Udupa was also a panelist at the plenary discussion with Ms Barbara Nieuwenhuys (Director, Digital Enablement Team, UN Peace Operations), Col. Muthusi Kimwele (Kenya) and Col. Jagdish Khadka (Nepal) on the need for adopting technologies in peace operations.
MAY-23
Herman Wasserman (Stellenbosch University), Kayo Mimizuka (University of Texas at Austin), Fernando Oliveira Paulino (University of Brasilia) and Sahana Udupa participated in a panel discussion on global perspectives on the geopolitics of authenticity at the International Communication Association annual conference in Toronto. The hybrid event was held at the conference hotel and live-streamed for ICA members.
MAY-23
At the international workshop on “Social Processes of Online Hate” organized by Joe Walther, Bertelsen Presidential Chair in Technology and Society, and Ronald E. Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, University of Santa Barbara, California, Sahana Udupa presented the paper, “Porn, Sex and Political Hate”, co-authored with Oeendrila L. Gerold.
APR-23
Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan spoke about their latest book, “Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media” (New York University Press) at the DigiLabor Event organised by Rafael Grohman. The video is available in the link below.
APR-23
In an invited talk at the Södertörn University, Sweden, Sahana Udupa spoke about WhatsApp as a social infrastructure for deep extreme speech.
MAR-23
“Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media” (New York University Press) co-authored by Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan was launched at a public event in Stellenbosch University. Herman Wasserman, Chair of Journalism, and Anthony Leysens, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University, hosted the event. In their respondent remarks, Tanja Bosch, President of the South African Communication Association, and Erkan Saka, political blogger and Professor of Journalism Media Studies at the Istambul Belgi University welcomed the book as an important contribution to critical digital studies and digital theory.
MAR-23
In an invited expert discussion on big data and democracy organised by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge University, Sahana Udupa presented her views on digital democracy alongside colleagues from Cambridge University, Indian parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi and journalists from the Time magazine.
FEB-23
In an invited talk at the University of Michigan, Sahana Udupa will delve into the narratives and strategies of a new class of political consultants and the divergent practices of election influencers in India, to propose “shadow politics” as a digitally mediated structure of election campaigning.
FEB-23
At the alumni talk series organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Sahana Udupa shared her research career experiences and talked about the challenges facing international academics in Germany.
DEC-22
Berlin-based Democracy Reporting International organized one-day international conference to bring together experts from research, policy, think tanks, regulatory institutions, civil society and technology companies to discuss current challenges in countering disinformation. Sahana Udupa was an invited panelist together with Lena-Maria Boeswald, Claes de Vreese and Alexandra Ebert.
DEC-22
Silas Meyer, director of the Munich based project “Migration.macht.digtale.Medien”, was a guest speaker at the For Digital Dignity program. In his presentation, Meyer spoke about his project’s focus on civic engagement to secure a needs-based approach to migration and refugee welfare in Munich.
NOV-22
Anthropologist Shriram Venkatraman from University of Southern Denmark gave a guest lecture at the For Digital Dignity program. He assessed the merits and challenges of qualitative and quantitative research methods for digital social research, focusing on how data sharing by research participants plays a key role in evolving methodologies using smart phones.
OCT-22
Together with Stellenbosch University, South Africa, For Digital Dignity program will be hosting a two-day international workshop, “Hate and Disinformation on WhatsApp: Global Perspectives” in Cape Town on 30, 31st March, 2023. Researchers are invited to send extended abstracts (1200 words) to whatsappworkshop@ethnologie.lmu.de before 30 November 2022.
OCT-22
At Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Sahana Udupa spoke about commercial political consultancy and the gray zones of influence operations, highlighting the distinctive practices and campaign structures surrounding what she defines as “shadow politics”. She was an invited speaker at the “Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century” talk series organised by the Carr Center.
AUG-22
In a panel discussion on “conduct vs content moderation” hosted by Google, Evelyn Douek, Sahana Udupa and Jilian C York discussed the ways to approach and moderate online conduct as opposed to conventional focus on content. The discussion was moderated by Dan Hays.
AUG-22
At the Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute organised by the Program for Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University, Sahana Udupa gave a lecture on artificial intelligence and the challenges of online content moderation. She discussed the concept of “ethical scaling” and findings from the AI4Dignity project.
MAY-22
For Digital Dignity is hosting two events with anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo at LMU Munich this summer. Baciagalupo is professor of anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and a NIAS-KNAW fellow in the Netherlands. Bacigalupo will speak on “The Subversive Politics of Sentient Landscapes: Collective Ethics and Environmental Justice in Northern Peru” at the oberseminar series, and offer a guest lecture on ethnography, the pandemic and social media in the digital anthropology seminar.
MAY-22
In an invited talk at the IstKon 2022 Conference organised by students in Germany and Turkey, Sahana Udupa spoke about the affordances of social media for political activism and the challenges of online extreme speech.
MAY-22
In a public panel discussion organized by LMU Munich, Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist Marlene Weiss moderated a discussion with LMU professors, Jelena Spanjol Deganus, Susanna Hofmann, Kiran Klaus Patel, Helmut Rainer and Sahana Udupa, about values of excellence and diversity in research, teaching and public scholarship.
MAY-22
For Digital Dignity is hosting two events with anthropologist Carol Upadhya at LMU Munich this summer. Upadhya will offer a guest lecture: “Ethnography and Ethnographic Method in Anthropology: Colonial Ethnology, Decolonization and Critique”. She will also give a public talk titled “Forging New Urban Futures: Revaluing Land and Reimagining Development in Contemporary India”. This event is co-organized with the Rachel Carson Centre.
MAR-22
At the KU Leuven University, Sahana Udupa delivered the inaugural lecture on “The Digital Condition”, and two lectures on “Digital Hate” and “Decolonial Lens on the Online Worlds and Extreme Speech”, as part of the lecture series following the Francqui Chair award she received in 2021 in Belgium.
MAR-22
At the international conference, “Excessive Language in Public Discourse”, organized by the University of Helsinki, Sahana Udupa will deliver a keynote address to throw light on the conceptual and practical problems around adopting AI based technologies in extreme speech regulation.
MAR-22
At the international conference, “True Costs of Misinformation” organized by TASC, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Sahana Udupa presented a paper on AI and corporate evasions in content moderation. Joan Donovan, Nathaniel Raymond and Olivia Mooney were other speakers at the plenary panel. Sushma Raman chaired the session. Jonathan Corpus Ong hosted the event.
JAN-22
At a public webinar attended bv members of the UN secretariat, representatives of the UN peacekeeping missions and civil society representatives, project Pl Sahana Udupa presented key recommendations from the UN commissioned paper, “Digital Technologv and Extreme Speech: Approaches to Counter Online Hate“. Naomi Miyashita, UN Department of Peace Operations, and Renato Mariani, UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Attars, chaired the session. Jessica Lucker, Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa Misinformation Policy Team, Meta, Preslav Nakov, Principal Scientist Qatar Computing Research Institute and Christophe Boulierac, United Nations Organization Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented in the panel.
JAN-22
Together with Boom, one of India’s largest factchecking organizations, AI4Dignity is organizing a half day summit on digital disiformation, extreme speech and artificial intelligence.
NOV-21
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania has organized a public roundtable on freedom of expression and extreme speech. The roundtable features Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson and media anthropologist Sahana Udupa, who studies digital hate, in conversation with media scholar Cherian George.
NOV-21
At the International Network Against Cyberhate Annual Conference, Gijs van Beek and Sahana Udupa will be in conversation with Wendy Via about the difficulties of cultural contextualization in annotating extreme speech and the challenges facing AI assisted content moderation.
SEP-21
At KONVENS 2021 Antonis Maronikolakis will be introducing AI4Dignity, from terminology and motivation to data re-annotation and model development.
AUG-21
At the two-day conference “The broken mirror: Making sense of Indian politics on Twitter, an Intermedium Perspective” hosted by the Centre de Sciences Humaines and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Jayana Jain will present her paper on long distance Hindu nationalism of Indian Diaspora supporters for CAA in Germany.
AUG-21
At the two-day symposium “Crisis of Truth? The Digital Era and the Future of Knowledge” hosted by the Academic Writing Lab (AWL) and Department of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), IIIT-Delhi, Jayana Jain will present her paper on the digital networks of support and dissent of the Indian diasporas.
JUL-21
In this presentation, Antonis Maronikolakis will give an overview of extreme speech detection work, motivation and challenges from the perspective of NLP.
JUL-21
Team AI4Dignity is organizing a two-day collaborative coding event with fact checkers, AI developers and academic researchers to improve machine learning models to flag and label online extreme speech. The event will also feature public plenary and panels on, “AI, Extreme Speech and Disinformation: Global Challenges and the Way Ahead”.
JUN-21
At the UNESCO Regional Dialogue on Hate Speech in South Asia, Sahana Udupa will moderate a panel discussion on deconstructing hateful narratives and shaping new narratives. UNESCO event registration link here.
MAY-21
At the MPC Spring Seminar 2021 organized by Sean Phelan, University of Antwerp, Sahana Udupa will speak about intimate forms of distributing partisan content online, and how they might be approached as deep extreme speech. More details about the seminar series are here.
MAY-21
At the EU-India People’s Summit, Sahana Udupa will participate in a panel discussion on disinformation research with Ritumbra Manuvie, Kiran Garimella and Saikat Chatterjee. She will speak about ethnographic and collaborative approaches to researching disinformation and AI assisted systems for content moderation.
MAR-21
In an invited presentation for the University College London (UCL) Anthropology Seminar Series, Sahana Udupa will speak about the home/field conundrum and data relations.
FEB-21
In an invited presentation at the 7th annual South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference organized by Florida State University, Sahana Udupa will speak about digital connectivities in the South Asian region and the diaspora, highlighting the flows of online extreme speech that reiterate and rearticulate national boundaries.
JAN-21
Project ONLINERPOL has invited Prof Meera Baindur, Manipal University, Jaipur, India, for a guest lecture on decolonial thinking and doing research with lived categories and diverse epistemological traditions.
DEC-20
For the invited colloquium lecture at Lucerne University, Switzerland, Sahana Udupa and Max Kramer will present their research on online religious politics in India.
DEC-20
In a guest lecture hosted by Project ONLINERPOL, Antony Pattathu of Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen will speak about Decolonizing Anthropology – Perspectives and Potentials for Transformational Change.
NOV-20
Project AI4Dignity has organized the first international meeting with fact checkers at LMU Munich to assess the needs and challenges facing online extreme speech moderation.
At the international conference, “Digital Truth-Making: Ethnographic Perspectives on Practices, Infrastructures and Affordances of Truth-Making in Digital Societies”, organised by Christoph Bariether at Humboldt University, Sahana Udupa will give the keynote talk on decolonial approaches to online incivility and extreme speech.
SEP-20
In the special live panel Radicalization by Design, presented by IMPAKT at the Ars Electronica festival will be addressed questions around the impact of trolls, conspiracy theories, memes and fringe platforms on today’s politics as well as if social media is tearing us apart.
JUL – 20
At the European Association for Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference 2020, Sahana Udupa was the discussant for the panel “Global Anthropology in a Digital Age”.
With Philipp Budka (University of Vienna), Sahana Udupa has convened the media anthropology network panel on “Engaged Media Anthropology”, at the European Association for Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference 2020, Lisbon, Portugal.
JUN – 20
At a special interaction hosted by Project ONLINERPOL for the seminar, “Politics of Artificial Intelligence” at LMU Munich, AI and NLP (natural language processing) experts Andreas Jäck and Hadi Roohani shared their insight into the future possibilities, perils and political implications of Artificial Intelligence.
The Media Anthropology Network at the European Association for Social Anthropologists is hosting the paper, “Decoloniality and Extreme Speech” authored by Sahana Udupa at its 65th E-Seminar with Sindre Bangstad (Research Professor, KIFO, Norway) and Gabriel Dattatreyan (Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London) as discussants.
At the International Communication Association Annual Conference 2020, Sahana Udupa has organized the panel “Aggressive Emotion, Precarious Labour and Colonial Continuities: Theoretical Debates on Disinformation and Extreme Speech Online”.
MAY-20
In the one-day preconference “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Infrastructures, Informationalization” organised by Radhika Parameswarnan, Indiana University, Kalyani Chadha, University of Maryand and Sangeet Kumar, Denison University, at the International Communication Association Annual Conference in Gold Coast, Australia, Sahana Udupa will deliver the keynote talk on digital politics in India and South Asia.
MAY-20
Sahana Udupa is giving the keynote address “Disinformation, Misinformation or None? Images and Videos in a Nationalist WhatsApp Group” at the international conference on politics of social media in South Asia, organized by David Gellner, Ralph Shroeder and Amogh Sharma.
In an invited talk at the University of Mainz, Sahana Udupa examined the assemblage of infrastructures, practices and actors of digital disinformation in contemporary India, and how this assemblage has especially benefited right-wing nationalism.
Project ONLINERPOL hosted Prof. Dr. Usha Raman from the University of Hyderabad, to share her insights about how the digital has mediated feminist politics in India within the past decade.
At the Annual Conference on South Asia, Max Kramer examines the online communication of the reformist Islamic organization Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and argues that their online-ethics.
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media Anthropology Network and Project ONLINERPOL have co-organized a one-day international workshop at LMU Munich to critically explore “the digital turn” in the anthropological study of media. What does the “digital turn” entail in terms of how anthropologists engage research participants? How do we use these new pathways to critique the “colonial matrix of power” that is riding on the very infrastructure of contemporary digital media?
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.
At the Conference of the German Anthropological Association (GAA), University of Constance, Max Kramer will discuss the media-ethics of online communication of the Indian reformist Islamic organization Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
Salma Siddique organised a conference panel exploring the minoritarian coalescing across multiple contexts in the digital sphere, in conversation with Max Kramer, LMU; Sriram Mohan, University of Michigan and Lia Wolock, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 48th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison.
SEP-19
Salma Siddique presented her ongoing research at the 5th European Geographies of Sexualities conference in Prague.
Under the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership Program, ONLINERPOL researchers and members of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Center will meet in Cambridge to discuss research methods and ethical questions concerning digital media research.
In an international workshop, “Digital media, politics and elections in India”, jointly organized by the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Sahana Udupa will deliver the keynote address, and also participate in a public panel discussion on the topic in Singapore.
In an invited presentation, Sahana Udupa will speak about decolonial perspectives on online extreme speech at the two-day international workshop.
At the multidisciplinary workshop on youth and new media turn in politics and policy organized by the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in New Delhi, Sahana Udupa was invited to give special concluding remarks.
In an invited lecture at Freie University, Berlin, Sahana Udupa will speak about the complex tangle of precarious labor, political manipulation, and fun that lies behind right-wing populist cultures online.
The Centre for Internet & Society and Project ONLINERPOL are jointly organizing an International symposium on internet speech and regulation at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
MAR-19
Salma Siddique presented her research on hijabi social influencers at the day-long symposium organized by the photographic research group at Arts University Bournemouth.
At the international Conference on Social Media and Indian Democracy organized by the Kofi Annan Commission and Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Sahana Udupa will give a talk on digital labor and electoral politics.
Salma Siddique will present a research paper “Archiving a Contagion” at the 60th annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) at Seattle, Washington.
Edward Anderson and Sahana Udupa present their joint paper “Shaping Migrant and Mobile Worlds” at the international workshop organized by the National University of Singapore.
JAN-19
Max Kramer will participate at the Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA 2019), “Revitalization and Representation,” in Siem Reap, Cambodia with the topic of “Online Discourse and Reformist Islam in India”.
At the Research Cluster on Visual Anthropology, Heidelberg University, Sahana Udupa gave a lecture on the theoretical and methodological contributions of digital anthropology in examining right-wing movements.
Nadja-Christina Schneider from Humboldt Universität Berlin will give a talk on Indian women’s struggle to gain access to public spaces and the interrelationship and mutual constitution of urban public space and emerging publics in contemporary India, at the Oberseminar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich.
International Workshop “Global Perspectives on Extreme Speech Online” papers are invited for a two-day funded workshop on online extreme speech (10-11 December 2018) organized by ONLINERPOL at the House of Artists in Munich.
In a special discussion hosted by Project ONLINERPOL, for the LMU Oberseminar series, Uday Chandra, Georgetown University, Qatar, and Chandan Gowda, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, will speak about the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India.
At the international symposium, “Politics of Participation”, organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, Sahana Udupa joined the panel with Asif Agha, University of Pennsylvania and Andrew Graan, University of Helsinki, and presented a paper on the participatory logics of online right wing movements.
Sahana Udupa presents her paper about the participatory logics of right-wing politics at the international symposium on “Politics of Participation” organized by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Salma Siddique will present her work in “Rethinking World War II”, Full day symposium convened by Isabel Huaceja at 47th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison.
Salma Siddique has been invited to present a research paper at Turning Points, Two-day Symposium convened by Aswin Punathambekar at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
SEP-18
At “ToGetThere: Conference on Social Issues of our Time” organized by Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Sahana Udupa gave a public talk on political implications of social media speech, where she joined the panel with Lukhas Pohland (cybermobbing expert), Edeltraud Leibrock (Senior Partner, The Huehn Initiative), Paul Huf and the artist collective “You have to be as cool as Alain Delon”.
AUG-18
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna), Elisabetta Costa (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen), and Sahana Udupa convene the panel on the “Digital Turn” at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference.
AUG-18
Sahana Udupa joined the panel on “Social media, conflict and extreme speech”, with Nicole Stremlau, Head, The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, University of Oxford.
JUN-18
In an invited talk at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Muenster, Sahana Udupa presented a comaprative anthropological perspective on online aggression and its political implications
JUN-18
The international workshop “Global Digital Media Cultures and Extreme Speech” convened by Sahana Udupa, LMU Munich and Matti Pohjonen, Africa Voices Foundation takes place at LMU Munich.
MAY-18
Sahana Udupa will be presenting her work on digital media and politics in India at the annual ICA conference to be held in Prague.
MAY-18
Sahana Udupa will be presenting her paper “Home/field revisited: Securing ethnographic home in the digital age” at the Helsinki Social and Cultural Anthropology Seminars by the University of Helsinki’s Department of Anthropology.
MAR-18
Scholars and digital media activists will gather at the International Symposium in New Delhi to discuss the political ramifications of the phenomenal expansion of Internet enabled media in India, convened by Sahana Udupa, LMU Munich, Shriram Venkatraman, IIIT Delhi, and Aasim Khan.
FEB-18
The international workshop “Global Digital Media Cultures and Extreme Speech” convened by Sahana Udupa, LMU Munich and Matti Pohjonen, Africa Voices Foundation takes place at LMU Munich.
FEB-18
In an invited talk, Sahana Udupa will discuss enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India at the Center of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.
Sahana Udupa will present ideas on polymedia ruptures in Asia at the international workshop on Shaping Asia/s: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations, jointly hosted by the University of Beilefeld and University of Heidelberg.
Edward Anderson, University of Cambridge, will give a talk on the Indian diaspora in the UK and transnational Hindutva, at the Oberseminar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich.
JAN-18
Come visit the Indian Sex Headquarters and spread some rumours with us with Episode 4 of Online Gods. This month we speak with Irfan Ahmad about rumour and Paromita Vohra about the Agents of Ishq.
Giovanni Da Col (SOAS), Editor in Chief of HAU – Journal of Ethnographic Theory gives a public talk on “Stranger-Density and the Construction of Hospitality in Tibetan Borderlands” convened by Sahana Udupa and Martin Saxer.
Sahana Udupa will speak on “Enterprise Hindutva: Five Prototypes in Urban India” in the Morgenstierne Lecture at the University of Oslo.
Nishant Shah, dean of Research at the ArtEZ Univesity, the Netherlands, spoke at the LMU Oberseminar lecture hosted by For Digital Dignity Project ONLINERPOL about rethinking outdated concepts of the self in the face of a new era of the divisible data subject.
Dr Irfan Ahmad spoke about media and rumor at the Oberseminar lecture hosted by For Digital Dignity Project ONILNERPOL at LMU.
In a talk 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’.
Sahana Udupa spoke at Georgetown University Qatar on “Debating the Nation: Social Media and Middle Class Politics in India”.
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.