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Nishant Shah

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email: nishant@cis-india.org          Facebook: en-gb.facebook.com/nishant.shah

Phone: +91 (0) 9740074884

Publications: (To read/download the publications, please click here)

  • ‘Cyber/Spaces’ in the Council of Architecture’s (Mumbai) magazine Times, People, Places. August 2004.
  • ‘Cinema: Reloaded’ published with S.V. Srinivas’ work on Hong Kong cinema at http://www.cscsban.org March 2003.

Conferences/Workshops/Presentations

  • Conducted a Training for librarians and archivists at a workshop on "Access and Archives" at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. 2009
  • Presented at the National Workshop on "Re-imagining Higher Education: Issues of Partnership and Employability" at the Pune University. 2009.
  • Participated in a workshop on "Unspeakably More: Naming, Deframing a lexicon for contemporary curatorship (Art After Space)" organised by N.E.W.S., 2009
  • Public Talk on "Digital Avatars: The post-human question" at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, as a part of the Culture Cafe series at the Centre for Media, Communication and Culture. 2009.
  • Presented a paper titled " Of Pranksters, Jesters and Clowns : Digital Natives and Political Engagement in Asia"  the Asian Digital Cultures Conference at the Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, 2009.
  • Presented a paper titled "Beyond language: Hinglish on the Internet" at the first international conference on Hinglish. 2009.
  • Participated in the "Knowledge Society Debates" in association with the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKERI), in  collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Steps Centre,  at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), 2009.
  • Participated in the Workshop on "The Future of Celluloid" at the New Media Lab at Jadavpur University, Kolkotta, 2008.
  • Presented a paper titled "Some knowledge in search of an author: Wikipedia and the authority of knowledge" at the Asia Pacific "Writing the Future" conference at IIT Delhi 2008.
  • Attended the conference for Asia Scholarship Foundation Scholars of Cohort 8; Orientation workshop for Cohort 10, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2008.
  • Presented a paper titled ‘Governance by Selection: The Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project and the politics of technologised relocation’ at the International Conference on ‘Technology, Governance, Citizenship’, at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Dec. 2007.
  • Proposed and moderated a panel titled ‘The Database, Network and Archive (DNA) syndrome: The body, the city and the nation’ at the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Conference on Conditions of Knowledge and Culture, at Shanghai, June 2007.
  • Lecture titled ‘Not Game to Gaming: Cybercultures and the Indian State’ via videoconferencing at the University of Tampere, University of Art and Design Helsinki and Media Centre Lume, Sampoand, Finland as a part of their Games and Story Telling lecture presentations, March, 2007.
  • Paper titled ‘Kuso: the aesthetic of new digital cinema in Asia’ at the conference on Asian Cinema: Towards a Research and Teaching Agenda, hosted by CSCS, February 2007.
  • Paper titled ‘Subject to technology: Internet pornography, Cyber-terrorism and the Indian State’, at the Department of English, National Central University, Taiwan, Jan.07.
  • Presented a paper titled 'On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog: The mysteries of C2C networks' at a seminar on 'The expanded field of video' organised by the Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan (Bangalore), Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, and IFA, Bangalore, Jun.06.
  • Made a presentation on 'community art and cyberspace' at a workshop titled 'Public/community/intervention/art' at Khoj Studios, Delhi, Apr.06.
  • Presented a paper titled 'The body in cyberspace' at the CSSSC International Workshop on Cultures of the Body at Goa, Jan. 06.
  • Panelist at the World Information City, Bangalore, talking on ‘Cyborgs and Cyborg Cities’, Nov. 05.
  • Chaired a session on ‘Urban Legends’ at the Inter Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Students’ pre-conference in Feb. 03 at CSCS, Bangalore.
  • Presented a paper titled ‘Cyberspace and the structures of governance’ at a conference on Globalising Media, conducted by Mudra Institute of Communication and Arts (MICA) at Delhi. Nov. 04.

 

 Work Experience:

Academic:

  • Guest Faculty at the Centre for Media, Communication and Culture in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Mudra Institute of communications, Ahmedabad; Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, Pune University, and  Christ University, Bangalore, 2009.
  • Designed and coordinated a course for postgraduate students at Mudra Institute of Communication and Arts (MICA), on ‘Metaphors and Narratives’ of Internet Technologies, 2008, 2009.
  •  Designed and taught a module on “Building of the IT City” for undergraduate students from New School, New York, at CSCS, Bangalore. May 08.
  • Two day workshop in ‘Technology and Gender’ at the Women’s Studies Centre, Pune University, Oct. 07.
  • Designed and taught a course in ‘Rethinking Media Laws’ at Christ College, Bangalore, July 07 -Sept.07.
  • Designed and taught two modules in ‘IT City: Bangalore’ for undergraduate students from New School, New York, at CSCS, Bangalore. Aug.07.
  • Visiting Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan Sept.06 – Feb. 07
  • Three day workshop on Cyberculture for undergraduate students at the Department of Media Studies, Christ College, Bangalore. Apr.06.
  • Two day workshop on Discourse Analysis and Feminist Critical Theory at the Women's Studies Centre, Pune University, Pune, Feb.06.
  • ‘Understanding Cultural Productions’ at Christ College, Bangalore. Jul.04 – Nov.04.
  • ‘Culture and Ethnic Identity in Music’ for undergraduate students from Washington University Seattle, at CSCS Bangalore. Jan. 04
  • Workshop for undergraduate students in ‘Understanding spaces’ at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore. Aug. 04.

IT Experience:

  • Research and Development, Information Architect on e-governance projects for different State governments in India, at Comat, Bangalore July 07 – June 08.
  • Architected and designed the National Central University’s archive of animated films, for the Department of English, NCU, Taiwan, Dec. 2006.
  • Information Architect for Khoj Studios Mar. 06 – Feb.07
  • Information Architect for Centre for the Study of Culture and Society 2004 – 2005.
  • Cultural consultant for Partecs: Participatory Technologies, Aug 05 –Oct 2005.
  • Cultural consultant for the Communities Team at Yahoo India. Dec.04 – May 05.

 

Editorial/Research Experience:

  • Edited and composed David Barton’s Anthology of essays A Pornography of the Emotions, and the novel Teaching Inghelish in Taiwan,  National Central University Press, Taiwan Dec.06 – Feb.07.
  • Worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. Vidhyut Bhagwat, Head of Department, Women’s Studies Centre, Pune University, Pune, India.
  • Compiled and translated material for IPPR Heritage’s project ‘Historic Bhuj.’ 2003
  • Worked as a translator and editor for SEWA Ahmedabad in Apr.02.
  • Joined Gujaratworld.com, an information based website as a content developer and an editor Mar. 2000 – Sept.01
  • Joined Education Times, The Times of India, Ahmedabad as a beat reporter Mar.01
  • Worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. Shuchi Kothari, Head of Department Media Studies, University of Auckland, NewZealand, on her documentary on ‘Paan’. 1998
  • Joined Times of India as a sub-editor, 1999
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