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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Singh, Mahima and Akshaya Kumar. (2025) ‘The Telecommunication Engine of India’s Streaming Market: Reliance Jio’s Vertical Integration and Ascent,’ Journal of Digital Media & Policy, 16 (1). Details
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

K. K., Muhsina and Akshaya Kumar. (2023) ‘Mediatization via Mourning and Vice Versa: Television, Mass Grief and Liveness in Kerala,’ Postmodern Culture, 34 (1). Details
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

K. K., Muhsina and Akshaya Kumar. (2023) ‘Mourning and the Occasions of Excess: Melodramatic Transgressions in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema,’ Jump Cut 62. Details
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Singh, Mahima and Akshaya Kumar. (2023) ‘A Critical Political Economy Perspective on Indian Television: STAR, Hotstar and Live Sports Streaming in India,’ tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 21 (1): 18-32. Details
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Shiwani Kaushal attended a workshop, “Navigating the Research Labyrinth: Methods for Literary and Cultural Studies,” organized by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, VIT-AP University, Amravati, India, from November 26-30, 2024.
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Shiwani Kaushal presented a paper titled ‘Colonial Criminalisation to Contemporary Marginalisation: Examining the Hijra Community in the Criminal Tribes Act and Transgender Person (Protection of People) Act, 2019, at the National Conference on Trans Lives: Celebrating Identity and Empowerment organized by Transgender Resource Center, Madurai and Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College, Madurai on Decem
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Ritu Chauhan presented a paper titled “Rituals of Reverence: Understanding The Sacred Forests of Uttarakhand” at the 49th All India Sociological Conference 2024 on Sociology, Development, and Democracy held at BML Munjal University on 23 December 2024.
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Mahima Singh presented a paper titled “From Balaji Telefilms to ALTBalaji: The Role of Original Web Series in Pushing Broadcast Television’s Boundaries” at the 27th European Conference for South Asian Studies, held at the University of Turin, Italy, from July 26-29th, 2023 Details
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Parth Tanna completed a short-term course on Film Studies: Pedagogy and Research Methods, organized by the Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, from 6th to 11th November 2023 (virtual).
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Muhsina K.K. completed a short-term course on Film Studies: Pedagogy and Research Methods, organized by the Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, from 6th to 11th November 2023 (virtual).
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Film Media and Cultural Studies Lab Research Highlights

Muhsina K.K. attended a workshop on Contemporary Indian Cinema, Heterogeneities, and Possibilities at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, on 28-29 February 2020.

Student's Corner

  • Hariom Arora received the Second Best Award for his paper presentation at an international conference, organized by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade from 12-13 December 2024. Image
  • Vandana Govindani presented a paper titled "Digital Diaspora: Navigating Sindhi Cultural Preservation in the Age of New Media" at the SHSS Research Symposium IIT Indore.
  • Guru Dayal Kumar presented a paper at SHSS Research Symposium 2024, Indian Institute of Technology, 29th-30th April, 2024.
  • Meghna presented a paper “Mapping the Global Landscape: Trends, Determinants and Regional Dynamics of Female Labor Force Participation”, SHSS Research Symposium 2024, IIT, Indore Image
  • Meghna presented paper at the 64th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, University of Hyderabad, 30th March 2024.
  • Vijay Kumar presented a paper at the 64th The Indian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference organized by the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, 29-31st March 2024 Image
  • Vijay Kumar presented a paper at the XXVIII IIPS National Seminar 2024 organized by Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University during 12-13th February Image
  • Sumit Kumar presented a paper at the 58th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) organized by Tripura Central University during February 22-24th, 2024. Image
  • Sumit kumar participated in the two-day workshop on “Building Evidence-Based Policies: Economic Evaluation and Systematic Review” organized by HTAIn Resource Centre at IIT Delhi. Image
  • Pawan Singh presented a paper at National seminar on "Development Paradigm in India: A Study of Poverty, Inequality and Discrimination" from 22nd – 23rd March, 2024, held at BHU
  • Harish Sahu presented a paper at "International WASH conference- 8th Edition- Kolkata by the Ministry of Water Resources on 19th September 2024.
  • Harish Sahu presented a paper at IAH2024 World Groundwater Congress, Davos, Switzerland held from 8th sept to 13th September, 2024.
  • Dibya Prakash Pandab, has been awarded the prestigious PROF. VENNELAKANTI PRAKASAM Award-2024 for the best research paper on Systematic Functional Linguistics. Image
  • Jyothi J. won the IIT Indore Best Research Paper Award in SHSS 2024 for “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre”.
  • Sonal Pandey attended the Comics Conclave 2.0 on March 16-17, 2024, hosted by Art@IITGN and the Curiosity Lab of IIT Gandhinagar.
  • Vandana Govindani got an opportunity to work as a main researcher for the Sindhi Partition Gallery (Museum), the Lost Homeland of Sindh with CAMP.
  • Kaviarasu P. won the best paper title for his presentation on "A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends on Translation Studies in India" at the SHSS Research Symposium 2024.
  • Jyothi Justin presented paper "Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre"at UNED-LINHD i Conference as part of CLS INFRA Fellowship.
  • Mr. Hariom Arora visited the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and presented his doctoral work at the International Schumpeter Society Conference (ISS) 2024.
  • Jitamitra Behera has been awarded the Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degree/Cotutelle 2024/25 research grant by the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service.
  • Mr. Manivendra Kumar, a Ph.D. student has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Scholarship. He will be working on ‘Changing Paradigms of Reform (1950 to 1990)
  • Ms Monika got selected for Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations organizing by Harvard University from 9-11 February 2024 with partially funded scholarship. Acceptance Letter
  • Ms Monika attended 21st Harvard India Conference theme "India's Rising" jointly organized by Harvard Business School & Kennedy School of Harvard University on 17-18 Feb 2024. Image
  • Ms Monika delivered a lecture on 17 November 2023, titled "The Story of Indian Civilization" to undergraduate students during her research visit to Boston University USA. Lecture Image
  • Vandana Govindani received the 'Sahitya Akademi Travel Grant', she visited various Sindhi writers and scholars across the state of Gujarat.
  • Nihal Singh Khangar presented a paper at the 8th Asian Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ACESD) in Sapporo, Japan from November 3 to 5, 2023.
  • Ms. Sadaf Khan received the Best Paper Presentation Award in the Research Scholars Category for presenting our paper on Impact of Medium of Instruction on Professional Trajectories
  • Bittu Mandal presented a paper on "Migration & Health" at the Population Association of Singapore 2023 Annual Meeting held at the National University of Singapore.
  • Mahima Singh presented a paper at the 27th European Conference for South Asian Studies, held at the University of Turin, Italy.
  • Tinto D. attended an International Summer School (fully-funded), organised by Greek Studies on Site in Athens, Greece from June 26 to July 25, 2022. Image
  • Jyothi Justin attended "Summer School for Literary Studies & Digital Humanities" by Leiden University and KU Leuven held from 20-23 June 2022 (online).
  • Kavitha K. presented a paper at the RC14 International conference entitled “Gender and Media: Representations, discourses and Practices”, in Melbourne, Australia, (Online).
  • Kavitha K. presented the paper titled, “First-generation Indian Digital Humanities Scholar and Minimal Computing” at the DHSI Conference, University of Victoria, Canada,(online).
  • Ms. Monika got the "Supervisor Service Fellowship" and appointed as a Visiting PhD Student at Dept of Sociology, Boston University USA for One year from 1 Oct 2023-30 Sept 2024.
  • Ms. Jyothi Justin received Computational Literary Studies (CLS) INFRA Transnational Access Fellowship (TNA) FELLOWSHIP funded by EU at UNED, Madrid, Spain for 9 weeks.
  • Mr. Manivendra Kumar, Ms. Meghna Gangadharan and Mr. Shyam Sunder Pal attended the webinar titled 'Mapping Digital Humanities' Read More
  • Ms. Kavitha K attended the Webinar on "The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" held on May 07, 2020. Read More
  • Mr. Kaviarasu P and Ms.Justy Joseph were the Participant for the event at Winter Institute of digital Humanities - An International School. Read More
  • Ms. Muhsina K K was Participant in the workshop on 'Contemporary Indian Cinemas during 28-29 February 2020. Read More

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