2024 | Humanities & Social Sciences

2024

Tuesday Seminar
Sep
10
2024
Speaker: Dr. Priya Mirza

Abstract:
Patent Act extended to colonial India in 1859 introduced to Indians the right to file a patent for an invention. The article locates India as a site for invention and innovation, not by looking at the legal evolution of the law or... more

Tuesday Seminar
Aug
27
2024
Speaker: Dr. Ajay Skaria

Abstract

This talk will revisit the work of the Subaltern Studies [SS] group by attending to the "subaltern intimation of freedom." Retrospectively, we can see that the emergence of Subaltern Studies is itself part of the... more

Tuesday Seminar
Aug
20
2024
Speaker: Prof. Awadhendra Sharan

Abstract:

In this talk I suggest that initial thinking on Indian atmospheres in modern times was framed within a climate discourse and was concerned largely with issues of heat and humidity. Towards the middle of the 19thc, black smoke... more

Tuesday Seminar
Aug
20
2024
Speaker:
HSS Occasional Seminar
Jul
30
2024
Speaker: Aishwary Kumar

Abstract: This lecture explores the structure of what WEB Du Bois calls the "color line," examining its moral logic along two vectors: an infrapolitical form that uses juridical and civic norms to make inequality hurt; and an... more

HSS Occasional Seminar
Apr
16
2024
Speaker: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav

Abstract

Being Hindu, Being Indian undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly... more

Tuesday Seminar
Apr
02
2024
Speaker: Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Abstract:

Grammar as unlocking our pasts
Two cases will be taken up to show that our present is highly fractured:
(i) The puzzle of a Dravidian-Tibeto-Burman axis in terms of grammatical
structures with the exclusion of... more

Tuesday Seminar
Mar
19
2024
Speaker: Dr. Anna Beatriz Pestana Gomes

Brazil and India: cultural, artistic and theatrical dialogues and exchanges​
Speaker: Ana Beatriz Gomez Pestana​

Abstract:

This conversation aims to be a collective space for exchanges, dialogues and reflections about Indian... more

Course
Mar
15
2024
Speaker: Faculty members of MA Culture, Society, Thought

Register for an Open House for MA Culture, Society, Thought to be held on 15-16 March 2024.

The In Person Open House will be held on 15 March 2024. Details of venue etc. will be sent to all registered participants.
The Online Open... more

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