Multimedia Project with Ankur
Ursulao Rao (SFB 1199 & MPI Halle) & Kavi Dasgupta (Ankur)
Abstract
The weekly colloquium of the Collaborative Research Centre provides a forum for presentations by external guests as well as by members of the SFB 1199 within a tailored thematic framework. The format helps to create a common ground for discussion between guests, the Collaborative Research Centre, as well as the wider academic public.
In this week’s session, Ursula Rao and Kavi Dasgupta will present first content of a web-based multi-media journal. It has been produced in collaboration with Delhi-based research practitioners that live in poor neighbourhoods and have been trained by the NGO Ankur in the skill of ethnographic writing. During Covid, the writers contributed to the output of project A05, which will now be made publicly available in this web-based multi-media journal. The journal uses ethnographic texts, photographs, videos, soundscapes, podcasts and interviews to provide an immersive experience, making palpable to the audience how marginalized people in Delhi experience their locality, saw it transform during Covid, and negotiate livelihood.
The session will be held in presence, but it is also possible to access it online. To join, please click the button below.
Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao (SFB 1199 & Leipzig University)
Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. Her research explores questions of politics and governance in India, with a specific focus on urban dynamics. Currently, she is involved in several research projects about the social consequences of biometric technology and e-governance. How do the new tools and techniques of governing impact human relations and state-citizens interactions? Other fields of interests include question of urban citizenship and social justice, as well as journalistic practices, ritual theory and urban Hinduism.
Before joining the University of Leipzig Ursula Rao held academic positions at the University of Heidelberg (1999-2002), the University of Halle (2002-2006) and the University of New South Wales, Sydney (2007-2012).