2024 | Humanities & Social Sciences

2024

Lecture
Dec
19
2024
Speaker: Dr Brian O’Shea (University of Nottingham)

Abstract: "Tybur et al., (2016) suggested that the relationship between pathogens and politics reflects intragroup rather than intergroup motivations. This contrast was based on their report from a survey of 11,501 participants across 30... more

Workshop
Nov
18
2024
Speaker:

18 & 19 NOVEMBER 2024
How does narrativity shape and is shaped by different media (visual, verbal, plastic, digital, ludic) and different modes (fictional, poetic, autobiographical, anthropological)?

The workshop brings... more

HSS Occasional Seminar
Nov
13
2024
Speaker: Rohan D’Souza, Professor, Kyoto University

Abstract: Red Rivers against Hard Concrete: Have historians trumped engineers on the large dam debate in India (1948-2000)?

As a mode for understanding and acting upon the world, is engineering different from the discipline of history? And... more

Tuesday Seminar
Nov
12
2024
Speaker: George van Driem

Abstract:
The global distribution and chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups ap-pears correlated with the spread of language families. This Father Tongue correla¬tion is ubiqui¬tous globally, but the pattern is neither perfect... more

Lecture
Oct
22
2024
Speaker: Prof. Upinder Singh

On the occasion of the rolling out of the new MA Culture, Society, Thought programme, with its very first batch admitted in July 2024, we are launching the MA-CST Annual Public Lecture Series. The first annual lecture will be delivered by Prof.... more

HSS Occasional Seminar
Oct
15
2024
Speaker: Shahar Ayal, School of Psychology, Reichman University

Abstract:

Recent studies in behavioral ethics reveal that the conflict between the desire to maintain a positive moral self-image and the desire to benefit from cheating behavior creates psychological tension, known as ethical dissonance.... more

HSS Occasional Seminar
Oct
14
2024
Speaker: Nikhil Mahant

Abstract:
A default assumption within moral philosophy is that for an entity (E) to be morally responsible for an action/outcome (x), it is necessary that E is a moral agent. Call this the ‘Agential’ view of moral responsibility. The... more

Tuesday Seminar
Oct
01
2024
Speaker: Ishan Anand, Department of HUSS, IIT Delhi and Saket Moon, EPW

Abstract:
The literature on caste in Indian economic thought is sparse. This paper attempts to locate the economics of caste in Indian economic thought by focusing on the works of Dr B R Ambedkar. We look at the writings of Ambedkar to... more

HSS Occasional Seminar
Sep
24
2024
Speaker: Prakash Kumar, Department of South Asian history at Pennsylvania State University

Abstract:
How can we tell the history of the green revolution which is not a narrative of a mere Cold War era outreach for agrarian modernization among postcolonial nations or an isolated history of colonial and postcolonial development on... more

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

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