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Seminars/Conferences/Workshops

 

2012-13

  • International_Conference_on_“Studying_Social_Sciences_in_the_Era_of_Globalization”,_CSSS,_JNU,_New_Delhi,_30th_March_2012_-_3rd_April_2012.
  • Symposium_on_Visions_of_Modernity_:_Some_Indian_Perspectives_in_the_International_conference_to_celebrate_CSSS_40th_Year_on_“Sociology_Matters:_Challenges_and_Possibilities_of_Social_Science_Knowledge_in_Contemporary_India,_19th_December_2012.
  • International_conference_to_celebrate_CSSS_40th_Year_on_“Sociology_Matters:_Challenges_and_Possibilities_of_Social_Science_Knowledge_in_Contemporary_India,_18th_-20th_December_2012
  • Symposium_on_‘Disability_in_Academia’_at_International_Conference_on_“Sociology_Matters:_Challenges_and_Possibilities_of_Social_Science_Knowledge_in_Contemporary_India”,_19th_December,_2012
  • Panel_discussion_on_the_book_‘My_Father_Balaiah_A_Dalit_(_Auto)_Biography’,_22nd_March_2013
  • Dr._Ambedkar_Memorial_Lecture,_‘Ambedkar_as_a_Sociologist:_Beyond_Reductionism’_by_Prof._P.G._Jogdand,_Professor_and_Head_Department_of_Sociology,_University_of_Mumbai,_22nd_March_2013
  • Lecture_by_Dr._(Des)_Christos_Varvantakis,_Freie_University,_Berlin,_Germany_on_Visual_Anthropology:_Ethics_and_Aesthetics_of_the_Anthropological_Image,_22nd_January,_2013.
  • Workshop_on_Exploring_Digital_Media_Worlds_in_New_Delhi_and_Beyond,_at_JNU,_New_Delhi,_24th_January_2013.
  • Workshop_on_Understanding_and_Doing_Digital_Media_Research,_New_Delhi_at_JNU,_25th_January_2013.
 

2013-14

  • “Terrains_of_Change:_City,_Citizenship_and_Inequalities_in_Emerging_India”,_JNU,_New_Delhi,_18th_October,_2013.
  • Seminar_on_“Teaching_Sociology,_pedagogical_Practices_and_Curriculum”_at_CSSS/SSS/JNU_by_CAS/CSSS,_14th_March,_2014.
  • Workshop_on_“Social_Concerns_in_Dalit_literature:_Engagements_of_English_Literary_Critics”_22nd_April,_2013.
  • Symposium_on_“Constitution_and_Nation_Building”_organized_by_Ambedkar_Chair,_CSSS/SSS,_JNU,_25th_November,_2013.
  • National_Seminar_on_“Dalit_Studies:_Continuities_and_Change”_under_the_auspices_Dr._Ambedkar_Chair_in_Sociology,_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems,_School_of_Social_Sciences,_Jawaharlal_Nehru_University,_New_Delhi,_20th_to_21st_March,_2014.
  • The_11th_Dr._Ambedkar_Memorial_Lecture_on_‘’Machinery_of_Democracy:_Constitution,_Representation,_Literature”_by_Prof._Susie_Tharu,_former_Prof._EFLU,_21st_March,_2014.
  • Felicitation_seminar_in_honour_of_Professor_Dipankar_Gupta_on_Terrains_of_Change:_City,_Citizenship_and_Emerging_Inequalities_in_Contemporary_India,_18th_October_2013.
 

2014-15

  • International_Conference_on_“Disability_Studies_in_India:_Reflections_on_Future”_on_6th_-7th_Feb_2015.
  • Two-day_National_Seminar_(Dr._Ambedkar_Chair_at_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems,_School_of_Social_Sciences,_Jawaharlal_Nehru    _University_in_collaboration_with_Prof._Anand_Kumar)_on_India_between_Caste_and_Casteless-ness_in_the_Era_of_Liberalisation,_Privatisation_and_Globalisation_(LPG)_on_25-27_July_2014.
  • Two-day_National_Seminar_on_‘Indian_Society_from_the_Margins’_(Dr._Ambedkar_Chair,_at_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems_in_association_with_the_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems,_School_of_Social_Sciences_in_honor_of_Prof._Nandu_Ram_on_18-19_March_2015.
  • Symposium_on_‘Social_Concerns_in_Dalit_Literature’_(Dr._Ambedkar_Chair_at_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems,_School_of_Social_Sciences,_Jawaharlal_Nehru_University),_13th_February_2015.
  • The_12th_Dr._Ambedkar_Memorial_Lecture_on_the_topic_‘Storytelling_in_the_time_of_Hate:_Deciphering_Law(s)_through_Literature’_delivered_by_Professor_Kalpana_Kannabiran,_Director,_Council_for_Social_Development,_Hyderabad_on_31st_March_2015.
  • Lecture_by_Prof._Michael_Herzfeld,_Harvard_University,_in_honour_of_Prof._Jain._March,_2015_(SSS-I_Auditorium,_JNU).
 

2015-16

  • Conference_on_“Quantum_Physics_and_Madhyamika_Philosophy”,_JNU_November_12&_13,_2015_Convention_Centre.
  • International_Conference_on_Scientification_and_Scientism_in_the_Humanities,_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems,_Jawaharlal_Nehru_University,_along_with_the_Free_University_Berlin,_University_of_Heidelberg_and_Manipal_University,_at_the_JNU_convention_Centre,_New_Delhi,_India,_25-26_November. 
  • Seminar_on_“Patterns_of_Mobilizations,_Dynamics_of_Power:_Bihar_Elections_2015”,_Centre_for_the_Study_of_Social_Systems,_JNU,_13_November_2015,_(Partially_funded_by_ICSSR_Northern_Region)
  • One-Day_National_Seminar_on_“Tribals_and_Constitutional_Safeguards:_The_Question_of_Land-Rights_in_India”_on_the_31st_March_2016.

 

2016-17

  • International_conference_on_Global_Capital_and_Social_Difference:_Global_Studies_and_Local_Frames,_Global_Studies_Programme,_at_Jawaharlal_Nehru_University,_October_6-7,_2016
  • National_conference_on_Indian_Cinema_in_the_Global_Village:_Challenges_and_Possibilities",_School_of_Social_Systems,_JNU._August_16-18,_2016
  • Workshop_titled_“Hamari_Zubaan:_The_experiences_of_Students_with_Disabilities_in_Higher_Educational_institutions”_organized_on_20th_March_2017.
  • Workshop_on_‘Research_Methodology’ _organized_on_30-31st_March_2017
Visiting_Fellows_at_CSSS

 

2016-17

Visiting_fellows_

  1. Dr._Claudia_Lang,_Institute_of_Social_and_Cultural_Anthropology,_Ludwig-Maximiliaus-University,_Munich,_Germany_from_August_1-10,_2016
  2. Dr._P._Sanal_Mohan,_Mahatma_Gandhi_University,_Malloosoery,_Kottayam_from_November_6-12,_2016
  3. Dr._Rabindra_Ray,_University_of_Delhi,_from_March_15-26,_2017
  4. Dr._Tor_Halfdan_Aase_,_University_of_Bergen,_Norway,_from_March_15-23,_2017

 

Lectures_by_visiting_fellows

  1. Dr._Claudia_Lang,_Ludwig-Maximilians_University,_Munich,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“The_Making_of_an_Epidemic_:_Depression_Multiple_and_Global_Mental_Health_in_Kerala”_on_August_4,_2016
  2. Dr._Tor_Halfdan_Aase,_University_of_Bergen,_Norway,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“_Climate_Change_and_the_Future_of_Himalayan_Farming”_on_16.03.2017.
  3. Dr._Rabindra_Ray,_Darjeeling,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“_The_Unity_of_Cultures_and_the_Plurity_of_Civilisations:_A_Philosophical_Anthropology_perspective”_on_24.03.2017.

 

2015-16

Visiting_Fellows:_

  1. Dr._Vijaylakshmi_Brara,_Centre_for_Manipur_Studies,_Manipur_University,_Imphal_from_1st_to_15th_September_2015
  2. Prof._Ganesh_Devy,_Chair,_People’s_Linguistic_Survey_of_India,_Baroda, _as_Visiting_Fellow_from_13th_to_25th_September_2015 
  3. Prof._Manas_Ray,_Centre_for_Studies_in_Social_Sciences,_Indian_Council_of_Social_Sciences_Research,_Kolkata,_from_4th_to_18th_October_2015.
  4. Dr._Karin_Polit,_University_of_Heidelberg,_Heidelberg,_Germany_from_30th_October_to_8th_November_2015.
  5. Dr._Aparna_Devare,_Department_of_Sociology,_University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad_as_Visiting_Fellows_from_2nd_to_6th_November_2015
  6. Dr._Rakhee_Kalita,_Cotton_College,_Gauwhati,_from_3rd_to_15th_February_2016.
  7. Dr._Felix_Padel,_Consultant_Adviser,_Gujarat_Ecological_Society,_Senior_Research_Associate,_Centre_for_World_Environment_History,_Sussex_University,_UK,_from_10th_to_25th_February_2016.
  8. Dr._Ramesh_Bairy,_Department_of_Social_Sciences_and_Humanities,_IIT_Mumbai_from_27th_February_to_March_12,_2016.
  9. Dr._Sukanya_Sarbadhikary,_Presidency_University,_Department_of_Sociology,_Kolkata_from_8th_to_14th_March_2016.  
  10. Dr._Uddhab_Pd._Pyakurel,_Assistant_Professor,_School of Arts,_Kathmandu_University,_Nepal_from_22-31_March_2016.

 

Lectures_Delivered_By_Visiting_Fellows

  1. Dr._Vijaylakshmi_Brara,_Centre_for_Manipur_Studies,_Manipur_University_delivered_a_lecture_on _“Reading_Women_Reading_Indigenous”_on_September_3,_2015
  2. Prof._Manas_Ray,_Centre_for_Studies_in_Social_Sciences,_Calcutta_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Gandhi:_Antiliberal_or_a_Departure_within_Liberalism?”_on_October_8,_2015.
  3. Aparna_Devare,_University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad_delivered_a_lecture_on _“Exploring_Modern_Temporality,_History_and_Beyond: _A_Comparative_Analysis_of_Giambattista_Vico_and_Jyotiba_Phule”_on  _November_2nd_2015
  4. Dr._Karin_Polit,_South_Asia_Institute,_University_of_Heidelberg,_Germany_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Reproductive_Technology,_Gender_and_Bereavement_in_Germany”_on_November_5,_2015
  5. Prof._Felix_Padel,_Consultant_Adviser,_Gujarat_Ecological_Society,_Senior_Research_Associate,_Centre_for_World_Environment_History,_Sussex_University,_UK,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Liberating_Female-centric_Forms_of_Knowledge_and_Action_to_Transform_Society”_on_February_18,_2016.
  6. Dr._Ramesh_Bairy,_Department_of_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences,_IIT_Bombay,_Mumbai_delivered_a_lecture_on_“The_Impure_Worlds_of_Caste_Today:_Thinking_with_AoC”_on_March_3,_2016.
  7. Dr._Sukanya_Sarbadhikary,_Presidency_University,_Kolkata,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“The_Body-Mind_Challenge:_Indian_Religious_thought_and_Problems_of_Translation”_on_March_10,_2016.

 

Distinguished_Lectures_Series:

  1. Prof._Ganesh_Devy,_Chair,_People's_Linguistic_Survey_of_India,_Bhasha_Research_&_Publication_Centre,_Vadodara_delivered_the_UGC_-CAS_Distinguished_Lecture_on_29_September_2015_on_“Aphasia,_The_Future_of_Memory?” 

 

2014-15

Distinguished_Lecture_Series

  1. Prof._Vivek_Chibber,_New_York_University,_“The_Antinomies_of_Postcolonial_Theory”,_24_July_2014.

 

Lectures_Delivered_by_Visiting_Fellows:

  1. Prof._John_Harris,_(Simon_Fraser_University,_Vancouver),_on_What's_Happened_to_the_Rich_Farmers?_Political_Economy_of_Indian_Agriculture_Revisited”_on_March_26,_2015.
  2. Prof._Carol_Upadhya,_(National_Institute_of_Advanced_Studies,_Bangalore),_“_Speculating_on_Development:Transnational_Circuits_of_Accumulation_in_Coastal_Andhra”_on_March_17,_2015
  3. Dr._Sonam_Wangchuk,_(Founder,_SECMOL_(Students_Educational_and_Cultural_Movement_of_Ladakh),_on_“Making_Sense_of_Education_in_High_Himalayas..._ and_the_World”, _on_March_13,_2015.
  4. Prof._Chandan_Kumar_Sharma_,Tezpur_University,_Tezpur,_“_Dams,_Development _and_Environment:_Experiences_from_Northeast_India”_on_March_12,_2015.
  5. Dr._Alito_Siqueira,_University_of_Goa,_“Learning_is_Recovering:_Towards_a_Pedagogy_for_Inclusion”_on_March_5,_2015.
  6. Prof._Roger_Jeffery,_(South_Asia,_University_of_Edinburgh),_“Clinical_Trials_in_South_Asia:_Building_a_Knowledge_Society”_on_February_26,_2015.
  7. Prof._Avatthi_Ramaiah,_Tata_Institute_of_Social_Sciences,_Mumbai,_Some_Missing_Interpretations_of_Caste, _on_January_27,_2015
  8. Dr._Murphy_Halliburton,_Dept._of_Anthropology,_Queens_College_and_the_Graduate_Center,_CUNY,_Family,_Work_and_Sneham:_Explaining_Recovery_from_Schizophrenia_in_Kerala,_on_August_7,_2014
  9. Dr._Pushpesh_Kumar_,University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad),_Religion,_Modernity_and_Erotic_Sensibilities,_on_August_21,_2014.
  10. Dr._Mahuya_Bandyopadhyay,_Tata_Institute_of_Social_Sciences,_Mumbai,_Deviation_and_Limitations_of_(Prison)_Ethnography:_Reflections_on_Fieldwork_in_an_Indian_Prison,_on_August_28,_2014.
  11. Dr._Geeti_Sen,_Art_Historian_and_Writer,_Author_of_"Feminine_Fables,_Imaging_the_Indian_Woman_in_Painting,_Photography_and_Cinema"),_Reclaiming_the_Body:_Women's_Narratives_in_Contemporary_Art,_on_November_5,_2014._Wednesday),
 

2013-14

Visiting_Fellows:_

  1. Prof._Vinod_Jairath,_Department_of_Sociology,_University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad,_24-28_March_2014.  
  2. Dr._Anindita_Chakrabarti,_Department_of_Humanities_and_Social_Science,_Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kanpur,_Kanpur,_22-29_March_2014.
  3. Dr._Michele_Friedner,_National_Science_Foundation_Postdoctoral_Fellow_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_Anthropology_Department,_USA,_17-21_March_2014.
  4. Prof._Sujata_Patel,_Department_of_Sociology,_University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad,_11-14_March_2014.
  5. Dr._Shubha_Ranganathan,_Department_of_Liberal_Arts,_Indian_Institute_of_Technology,_Hyderabad_,_2-7_March_2014.
  6. Prof._Frederic_Vandenberghe,_Institute_of_Social_and_Political_Studies,_Rio_de_Janeiro,_6-10_February_2014.
  7. Prof._Vineetha_Menon,_Department_of_Anthropology,_Kannur_University,_Thalassery,_Kerala,_28_January-6_February_2014
    8. Prof._Kushal_Deb,_Department_of_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences,_Indian_Institute_of_Technology,_Mumbai,_12-27_January_2014. Prof._Sanjay_K._Roy,_University_of_North_Bengal,_Darjeeling,_27_January_to_11_February_2014. Dr_James_Staples,_Anthropology,_Brunel_University,_Uxbridge,_Middlesex,_25-30_July_2013. Professor_Sheena_Jain,_Department_of_Sociology,_Jamia_Milia_Islamia,_New_Delhi,_18-28_November_2013 Professor_Anthony_Heath,_Professor_of_Sociology,_University_of_Oxford,_UK,_16-21_November_2013.  Prof._D.N_Dhanagare,_National_Fellow,_Indian_Institute_of_Advanced_Studies,_Shima,_20-30_October_2013.  

 

Lectures_Delivered_by_Visiting_Fellows:

  1. Dr._Anindita_Chakrabarti,_(Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kanpur).,_delivered_a_lecture_on”_Religion_as_an_Object_of_Sociological_Research:_Exploring_the_Conceptual_and_Methodological_Terrain’_on_28th_March_2014.
  2. Dr._Michele_Friedner,(National_Science_Foundation_Postdoctoral_Fellow,_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_Anthropology_Department,_USA)_delivered_a_lecture_on_New_Disability_Mobilities_and_Accessibilities_in_Urban_India”_on_21st_March_2014.
  3. Prof._Sujata_Patel,_Department_of_Sociology,_University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Modernity:_Critical_reflections_from_the_History_of_Indian_Sociology”,_13th_March_2014.
  4. Dr._Shubha_Ranganathan,_Department_of_Liberal_Arts,_Indian_Institute_of_Technology,_Hyderabad_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Credibility_Discourses_in_Temple_Healing:_Some_Questions_from_Mahanubhav_Shrines_in_Maharashtra,_India”,_6th_March_2014.
  5. Prof._Frederic_Vandenberghe,_Institute_of_Social_and_Political_Studies,_Rio_de_Janeiro,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“What's_Critical_about_Critical_Realism?”,_February_7th_2014_(Friday),_3_p.m.
  6. Prof._Sanjay_K._Roy,_University_of_North_Bengal,_Darjeeling_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Identity_Movement_of_the_Adivasis_in_Dooars_and_Terai_Regions_of_North_Bengal:_he_SAGA_of_Alienation_of_Alienation,_Autonomy_and_Integration’,_February_6,_2014.
  7. Prof._Vineetha_Menon,_Kannur_University,_Kerala_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Changing_Practice_of_Anthropology:_Quest_for_Relevance,_Closer_to_Policy,_and_Epistemologically_Challenged”,_February_4,_2014.
  8. Prof._Kushal_Deb,_Indian_Institute_of_Technology,_Mumbai)_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Post-colonial_Urban_Theories:_A_Critical_Review”,_January_28th,_2014.
  9. Prof._Sheena_Jain,_Department_of_Sociology,_Jamia_Millia_Islamia_,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“From_Words_to_the_World:_Reading_Bourdieu_Today”,_November_21st,_2013
  10. .Prof._D.N._Dhanagare_,_(National_Fellow,_Indian_Institute_of_Advanced_Studies,_Shimla_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Debates_and_Discourses_in_Indian_Sociology:_The_Lacking_Tradition’,_October_24th,_2013
  11. Prof._R._Indira,_Department_of_Studies_in_Sociology,_University_of_Mysore,_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Eco-tourism_in_Western_Ghats:_Who_Gains_and_Who_Loses?,_October_4,_2013
  12. Dr_James_Staples,_Anthropology,_Brunel_University,_Uxbridge_delivered_a_lecture_on,_Philanthropy_and_disability_in_South_India:_Nuancing_the_‘charity_model’,_25th_July_2013.
 

Distinguished_Lecture_Series

  1. Prof._John_Hariss,_Simon_Fraser_University_delivered_a_lecture_on_“State_of_Injustice:_The_Indian_State_and_Poverty”,_February_5,_2014
  2. Prof._Anthony_F._Heath,_Professor_Emeritus_Nuffield_College,_Oxford_University_delivered_a_lecture_on_“Social_Stratification_in_the_Indian_Diaspora”,_19th_November_2013
  3. Prof._Vinod_Jairath,_Department_of_Sociology,_University_of_Hyderabad,_Hyderabad_delivered_a_lecture_on”_A_Case_for_De-sacralizing_the_Study_of_Muslim_Societies”’_on_27th_March_2014.
 

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