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Anger, Exhaustion and a Neverending News Cycle
Read more: Anger, Exhaustion and a Neverending News Cycle—Sharanya Kannan Recently, I’ve been avoiding the news. I haven’t opened the newspaper in over a month. I’ve muted all the political Instagram accounts I follow. When my parents switch on the TV at night, it takes just one “BREAKING NEWS” flashing across the screen in a violently obnoxious shade of red to send me…
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Profile | Stan Swamy
Read more: Profile | Stan Swamy— Juanita Rose Thomas Stan Swamy was widely known as a Human Rights Activist. So, it was surprising for the country when he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). “Human rights” and “terrorism“ are not words you often see together in a sentence or are they? In a…
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Placement Review
Read more: Placement Review— Aishwarya VS Another academic year has come to an end, and so has all the fretting, yearning and exhilaration of the placements. Despite the numerous unimaginable challenges imposed by the pandemic, the placement team has successfully pulled off their mission. Congratulations are in order for they have strived to bring the best opportunities for…
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Conference 2021 | Panel 5 | Queer Spaces in Public Life
Read more: Conference 2021 | Panel 5 | Queer Spaces in Public Life— Amina Mehboob Panel 5 was moderated by Professor Avishek Parui. The panelists were Aman Sinha from Ambedkar University, Gargi Tilak from English and Foreign languages university and Uddipta Roy from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Aman Sinha’s paper was titled Queering the city: Textualizing Sexual Alterity within Modernist Fragmentations. It explored the intricate…
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Conference 2021 | Valedictory Ceremony
Read more: Conference 2021 | Valedictory Ceremony— Sharanya Kannan The three day long conference finally came to an end with the valedictory ceremony. This also happens to mark the end of a decade since the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences started its Annual Academic Conference series. These conferences have given numerous research scholars the opportunity to present their works in…
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Conference 2021 | Panel 6 | Beyond the Anthropocene
Read more: Conference 2021 | Panel 6 | Beyond the Anthropocene— Sharanya Kannan The sixth panel of this year’s department conference took place on 11th April, Sunday, on the topic “Beyond the Anthropocene”. The session was moderated by Prof. Santhosh Abraham. The first panelist, Susan Harris from IIT Delhi, presented a paper titled “Multispecies Configurations: Tracing the Umwelt in the City“. Her paper focussed on…
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Conference 2021 | Keynote Lecture | Convival Spaces: Negotiating divisive spatialities and Regional Identities in Walled City of Ahmedabad | Aparajita De
Read more: Conference 2021 | Keynote Lecture | Convival Spaces: Negotiating divisive spatialities and Regional Identities in Walled City of Ahmedabad | Aparajita De— Samyukta Mahesh The speaker begins her address by pointing out two examples of clashing religious identities in public forums: the Tanishq Ekatva campaign and the Rasputin challenge by medical students in Kerala. In both these cases, there is a visible intersection among the fault lines of religious groups. The concept of ‘transgression of boundaries’…
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Conference 2021 | Keynote Lecture | ‘Accounting for the Village’- NG Ranga and the Spatial Imaginaries of Indian Developmentalism | Karthik Rao Cavale
Read more: Conference 2021 | Keynote Lecture | ‘Accounting for the Village’- NG Ranga and the Spatial Imaginaries of Indian Developmentalism | Karthik Rao Cavale— R Madhumitha Introduction Karthik Rao Cavale is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Sciences in Ahmedabad University. He delivered the keynote lecture called ‘Accounting for the Village’.‘Accounting’ in this talk refers to a form of knowledge production, and broadly as how do you make sense of the village? Cavale examines the work…
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Conference 2021 | Keynote Lecture | #Strongnotskinny: Gender, Body and Community on Instagram | Kaamya Sharma
Read more: Conference 2021 | Keynote Lecture | #Strongnotskinny: Gender, Body and Community on Instagram | Kaamya Sharma— Vibhu Krishna The first Keynote Lecture of the conference was delivered by Dr Kaamya Sharma, Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Jodhpur and an alumna of this department. The lecture focused on strength training communities on social media and the sense of accomplishment that is usually associated with…
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Conference 2021 | Panel 3 | Street Life, Commerce and Mobility
Read more: Conference 2021 | Panel 3 | Street Life, Commerce and Mobility— Lakshmi Priya The third panel of the 2021 HSS Conference was held on 10th April 2021 and began at 3 pm and went on about an hour. The panel was on the topic Street Life, Commerce and Mobility and was moderated by Prof. Mathangi Krishnamurthy. The panellists were Anisa Bhutia from Tata Institute of…
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