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In this episode, Ravi Sundaram speaks to Susan Schuppli about the themes raised by her recent book Material Witness, (MIT Press, 2020) on how media technologies have transformed the aesthetic and political questions around witnessing and testimony from being uniquely human to non-human entities and matter.

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Ashok Vajpeyi delivered a lecture on ‘Shabd aur Samay’ on 22 November 2021. It was held in Seminar Room and on Zoom. The lecture was chaired by Ravikant. It was organized by the Indian Languages programme of CSDS.

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A book discussion on ‘Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South’ by Prathama Banerjee was held on 29 October 2021 via Zoom. It was chaired by Thomas Blom Hansen. The discussants included Ravi Vasudevan, Simona Sawhney and 

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Kanhaiya Lal Pandey delivered a lecture on ‘Cinema Me Thumri: Ek Yatra’ on 14 October 2021. It was held in Seminar Room and on Zoom. The lecture was chaired by Ravikant. It was organised by the Indian Languages programme of CSDS.

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Projit Bihari Mukharji delivered a lecture on ‘A Taste for Race: Sense, Science and Caste in Mid-Twentieth Century India’ on 12 October 2021 via Zoom. It was chaired by Priyadarshini Vijaisri. The lecture described the mid- twentieth century transformation of colonial raciology into “biometric nationalism”