Article 19

Category: HSS Conference

  • Conference 2019 | Panel 1 – Dialects and Doctrines

    The first panel of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Academic Conference 2019 was titled Dialectics and Doctrines. Moderated by Dr Rajesh Kumar, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the department, the panel saw papers on the intersection of language, religion and politics. Utilization of the English Language by the Muslim Community of Hyderabad Read More

    3–4 minutes

  • Conference 2019 | Inaugural Ceremony

    The inaugural ceremony of the 8th Academic Conference organized by the Department, was held on the 31st of January, 2019. The event commenced with the welcome address delivered by Prof. Umakant Dash who welcomed the audience which comprised the faculty, students and participants from various institutes across the country. He took note of the topical Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • Theme Release | Annual Academic Conference 2019 | September 26, 2018

    The first pre-conference event, the Theme Release Event, kicked off a series of events that will culminate in the 8th edition of the Annual Academic Conference of the DoHSS, from 31 January to 2nd February, 2019. The Theme Release event, which entailed a Panel Discussion, was to begin at 6 pm, on the 27th of Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India | John Mathew

    The last keynote lecture of the DoHSS Conference, on “Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India” was delivered by Dr John Mathew of IISER, Pune. Perfectly combining his expertise in both zoology and history of science, he began with an excerpt from Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. The British Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 7 | Indigenous Identities: History, Narrative and Knowledge Production

    The seventh and final panel of the DoHSS Academic Conference, on the topic of indigenous identities, was moderated by Prof Santhosh Raghavan. It featured three panelists presenting their papers on various forms of subjugated traditional knowledge systems, followed by discussions and questions. The first paper by Panchali Bhattacharya was titled “Revival of Indigenous Naga Knowledge Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 6 | Making and Knowing the Body

    The second day of the Department of Humanities and Social Science annual academic conference housed the panel ‘Making and knowing the body’. It was the 6th panel of the conference, and was chaired by the conference convener Dr. Mathangi Krishnamurthy. The session began with Dr. Krishnamurthy outlining the direction of the panel and the question Read More

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  • Conference 2018 | Panel 5 | Medical Discourses and their (Dis)contents

    The fifth panel began after a touching address by keynote speaker Dr. Carlo Caduff. Moderator Prof. V. R. Muraleedharan introduced the panel by once again bringing to the table the problem of disclosure in medical practice. The first paper titled “(New) Old Wives Tales of Ossathis and Eattummas: Gender, Caste, Religion and Medicine” was presented Read More

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  • Conference 2018 | Panel 4 | Boundaries and Belonging: The Geographies of Space, Place and Culture

    Panel 4 ‘Boundaries and Belonging: The Geographies of Space, Place and Culture’ was moderated by Prof. Merin Simi Raj. Namrapali Narzary was the first presenter. Her paper titled ‘Boundaries and Belonging: An Analysis of Spatial Governmentality in Assam’ dealt with the ethnic conflicts currently taking place in BTAD – Bodoland Territorial Area Districts. The BTAD has Read More

    5–8 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 3 | (Un)Covering and (Un)Knowing: The Poetics and Politics of Knowledge Production

    The first of the post-prandial panels for the day was chaired by the genial Prof. Sudarsan Padmanabhan. Being titled  ‘(Un)Covering and (Un)Knowing: The Poetics and Politics of Knowledge Production’, the panel featured three papers presented in a clear, well-thought out and surprisingly accessible fashion. The first presenter was Saee Abhyankar with her paper titled ‘Epistemologies Read More

    5–7 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 2 | The Aesthetics and Politics of Artistic Praxis

      The second panel explored questions surrounding what constitutes subjugated knowledges in art, craft and performance. All the papers looked at the hierarchies implicit in production, at the production of bodies and subjectivities and point towards meanings that cannot quite be contained. A brief introduction by the moderator Dr. Kaamya Sharma was followed by three Read More

    4–7 minutes