Category: HSS Conference
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13th Annual DoHSS Conference Report
The 13th Annual HSS Department Conference, held over the 6th and 7th of April 2024, was a noteworthy success. Presenters and scholars from various universities across the country came together at the Central Lecture Theatre, IIT Madras to discuss and present the numerous innovative ideas they put forward in their papers. Having covered a diverse… Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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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’ Read More
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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 Read More
5 minutes
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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 Read More
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Conference 2021 | Panel 2 | Belonging and the Built Environment
— Sharanya Kannan The second panel of the Annual Academic Conference series hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences was titled ‘Belonging and the Built Environment’. This panel consisted of 3 research scholars presenting their work on the creation and destruction of spaces during times of development and transition. It dealt with the Read More
6 minutes
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Conference 2021 | Panel 1 | Space and the Personal in Literary Texts
— Sharanya Kannan The first panel of the annual department conference, themed “Spatiality” this year, was on the topic “Space and the Personal in Literary Texts.” It took place on 10th April, Saturday. The session, moderated by Prof. Divya A, featured two panelists who presented interesting and thought-provoking papers. The third panelist was unable to Read More
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