Category :(Roundtable)

A Roundtable on ‘Populism and Minorities: New Directions in the Humanities and Social Sciences’ was held on 12-13 April 2021. It was chaired by Ananya Vajpeyi. The speakers included Prasanta Chakravarty, Hilal Ahmed, E. Sridharan, Mujibur Rehman, Christophe Jaffrelot, Ajay Gudavarthy, Peter R. deSouza, Volker Kaul.

Category :(Book Discussion)

A book discussion on ‘Modernity, its Pathologies and Reenchantments’, edited by Shail Mayaram was held on 9 April 2021 via Zoom. The video is available on YouTube. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. The panelists included Dipesh Chakrabarty and Shankar Ramaswami. This book is

Category :(Discussion)

[POSTPONED]: A panel discussion on ‘Aesthetics and Politics: A Dialogue across Continents’ scheduled on 5 April 2021 via Zoom has been postponed due to Coronavirus infection of the panelists. Inconvenience Regretted.

Category :(Lecture)

Venugopal Maddipati will deliver a lecture on ‘Gandhi and Architecture as Weak Thought’ on 26 March 2021 via Zoom. The video is available on YouTube. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. When one embraces weak thinking, particularly in the field of textual analysis, one moves endlessly

Category :(Lecture)

B. Venkat Mani delivered a lecture on ‘World Literature as a Pact with Books: From Orientalist to Postcolonial “Bibliomigrancy”’ on 12 March 2021 via Zoom. The video is available on YouTube. It was chaired by Baidik Bhattacharya. Drawing on his multiple award winning book Recoding World Literature