A book discussion on ‘Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time: Rethinking Ways of Doing a Social History of Time’ was held on 12 November 2025 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It will be chaired by Awadhendra Sharan. Discussant: Pratha...
Akshya Saxena delivered a lecture on ‘Multilingualism Beyond Countability or, How Languages Live’ on 29 October 2025 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. What is lost when a language is lost? How might we re...
Krishnendu Ray delivered a lecture on ‘Aftertaste of Empire: Cultural Imperialism and Asian Culinary Nationalisms’ on 25 August 2025 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was chaired by Awadhendra Sharan. There is a rich and varied litera...
Tanushree Kaushal delivered a lecture on ‘Alchemy of Capital: The Creation of Financial Value from Social, Political and Moral Lives’ on 22 August 2025 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was chaired by Prathama Banerjee. This talk expl...
Vivek Kumar delivered a lecture on ‘Perspective from Below: A Philosophical and Theoretical Rationale’ on 16 July 2025 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was chaired by Aditya Nigam. The production of knowledge is grounded in ontologie...
Claudia Lang delivered a lecture on ‘Dreaming Big with Little Therapy Devices: Automated Therapy from India’ on 29 August 2024 via Zoom. It was chaired by Prathama Banerjee. This talk examined the aspirations, imaginaries and uto...
Isabel Hofmeyr delivered the 24th B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture on ‘Books in the Biosphere: Print Culture in the Anthropocene’ on 5 December 2023 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Like disciplines across...
A workshop on ‘Social, Political and Moral Thought of Ashoka’ by Patrick Olivelle and Rajeev Bhargava was held on 25 October 2023 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was organized by Institute of Indian Thought programme of CSDS.
Bhavani Raman delivered a lecture on ‘In Search of Preventive Detention’s Early Colonial History’ on 9 August 2023 at Seminar Room and Zoom. It was chaired by Prathama Banerjee. This talk concerns the early history of a
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