Category: Lectures
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Dr. Foong Ha Yap R&D Lecture
On the 23rd of August 2023, The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, IIT Madras, organised an R&D Lecture titled “Voices for Climate Change: Analysis of Creative Public Service Advertising on Environmental Issues.” Foong Ha Yap, Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,… Read More
5–7 minutes
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Lecture by Siddharth Sareen | Governing multi-scalar low-carbon transitions across sectors.
On the 11th of August 2023, the HSS Department was fortunate to be able to conduct a lecture by Professor Siddharth Sareen, a student of the first Integrated MA batch (2006-11). Sareen, who serves as a Professor in Energy and Environment at the University of Stavanger, and a Professor II at the Centre for Climate… Read More
3–5 minutes
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Lecture by Sujata Patel | How to Think Cities and Urbanization in Today’s India
August 7th, 4:15 PM, marked the day of the lecture by Sujata Patel. HSB 356 was filled with refreshed students and scholars after a cup of coffee and snacks. The event began with a welcome address by Professor Santhosh R, who introduced Sujata Patel, one of the leading sociologists in the world with specialization in Read More
4–6 minutes
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Aesthetic Vision and Carnival Experience | R&D Lecture | Professor Lakshmi Bandlamudi
Feb 11, 4:30 pm. It was time for the second R&D lecture of the semester. After savouring some evening snacks and tea, the audience settled themselves in HSB 356 and Prof. Jyotirmaya Tripathi welcomed the speaker, Prof. Lakshmi Bandlamudi, the Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. The topic of Read More
4–6 minutes
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Lecture by Carl Malamud | Universal Access to Human Knowledge
A lecture on “Universal Access to Human Knowledge” by public domain advocate Carl Malamud was organised on October 15th at the department. Malamud is the founder of Public.Resource.org, a non-profit that digitizes public domain documents in order to make them accessible. An author of eight books, Malamud is also founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, Read More
2–3 minutes
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Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine | R & D Lecture | November 8th, 2018
It’s a Thursday evening and many of us gathered in HSB 356 for an ‘appetising’ R & D lecture titled, ‘Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine: Food, Foodscapes and Nostalgia’. The speaker was Dr. Anindya Raychaudhuri, a lecturer and academic from St. Andrews university, UK. With ‘diasporic identities and cultures’ as one among Read More
4–6 minutes
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Perspectives on the Future | R&D Lecture | August 21, 2018
One of the biggest disillusionments of the age we live in stems from our inability to understand the future – it hovers over us, looming ever closer, and yet remains formless and unpredictable. Dr Nayanika Mookherjee, Professor of Political Anthropology at Durham University, and Dr Mark Lacy, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, Philosophy Read More
7–11 minutes
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Peter deSouza | Book Launch and R&D Lecture
On the 5th of March, 2018, the Department of Humanities organised a session on Prof Peter deSouza’s recent book In the Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Indian Democracy. This was followed by a R & D Lecture on Scientific Temper. The session began with Prof Sudhir Chella Rajan offering his comments on the book. Prof Read More
3–5 minutes
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R&D Lecture | Emily Holleman
It is early evening, late February, and I am sitting in a room at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. About twenty people are here with me, waiting for the Research and Development lecture to begin. IIT Madras. Humanities and Social Sciences. Research and Development. Sounds very un-fun, not very much unlike Read More
5–8 minutes
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R&D Lecture | Through the Prism of ‘Standpoint’ – Revisiting the Indian Debate on Theory and Experience: A Lecture | Sasheej Hegde
Note from the editors: Our correspondent was asked to write a report on the lecture, but somewhere along the line, this becomes a commentary. The views expressed in this article are the author’s. INTRODUCTION AND SOME CONTEXT As students of the humanities and social sciences, epistemology is of special relevance to us. Understanding what constitutes Read More
9–13 minutes
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