Category: Department Events
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Department Fresher’s Meet | Batch of 2023
Read more: Department Fresher’s Meet | Batch of 2023The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences saw a Department-organised freshers’ meet for the first batch of the MA students constituted by HS23. The meet was facilitated and organised by the PhD scholars of the department in a departure from the tradition of freshie nights so far (though I do wonder whether this was a…
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Report: Interactive session on Mental Health
Read more: Report: Interactive session on Mental Health— Samyukta Mahesh At a time when online education has become the common practice, students have begun to experience burnout, emotional fatigue and helplessness with regard to the ongoing pandemic. The mental health session was conducted to address the general and specific concerns in this regard. A survey was sent out in the morning of…
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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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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