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Medical Humanities Colloquy

August 02, 2021

Medical Humanities Colloquy

Narrative Medicine, Clinical Linguistics, Performing Identities in the Clinical Space, Narratives of Resilience, and so on.

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Social Justice Seminar Series

February 25, 2021

Social Justice Seminar Series

Social Justice Seminar Series at IITGN is an attempt to initiate discussions on the themes of marginalization, exclusion, inequality and discrimination against…

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Graduate Seminar Series

February 25, 2021

Graduate Seminar Series

HSS-Graduate Seminar Series is a student initiative to serve as a platform for students to share their latest work and receive constructive feedback from their peers.

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Dialogues

February 25, 2021

Dialogues

An initiative of HSS@IITGN, ‘Dialogues’ celebrates IIT Gandhinagar’s ethos of cross- disciplinary interactions and exchange of ideas, thoughts and research…

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IIT Gandhinagar Campus

Academic programs

MA in Society & Culture

December 17, 2015

MA in Society & Culture

The Masters in Society and Culture, a unique program conceptualized and implemented by the faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar…

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Minor in HSS

August 05, 2015

Minor in HSS

The Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) group at IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN) currently offers training in critical inquiry and understanding of the social world…

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PhD Program

August 05, 2015

PhD Program

The program develops around the existing broad areas of research: Linguistic Anthropology, Conservation and Human-Animal rapport, Digital Humanities…

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News & Updates

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IIT Gandhinagar MA in Society and Culture and MSC

IIT Gandhinagar MA in Society and Culture and MSC in Cognitive Science 2022 admission portal is open now!

Application Deadline: January 20, 2022
Online Admission Test: February 27, 2022
Online Interviews: February 28-March 1, 2022

Please follow the link to apply online:
https://admissions.iitgn.ac.in/pgadmission/

For more information on the MA programme, visit: https://hss.iitgn.ac.in/masc/

For more information on the MSC programme,
https://cogs.iitgn.ac.in/programs/

HSS faculty member Prof. Alok Kumar Kanungo has a

HSS faculty member Prof. Alok Kumar Kanungo has a new paper titled, “Glass bangles in India: antiquity, functional use and traditional production” in South Asian Studies vol. 37, no. 1, Nov. 2021. More information available in the link below:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2021.2001250

The Archaeological Sciences Centre at IITGN is hos

The Archaeological Sciences Centre at IITGN is hosting the 14th lecture in the Webinar series on 'Recent Advances in South Asia's History and Archaeology'. The lecture will be delivered by Prof V Selvakumar, an Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Maritime History and Marine Archaeology and Coordinator, Centre for Indian Ocean Studies, Tamil University, Thanjavur. Please find the details of the talk given below:

Title of the lecture: Megalithic Cultures of South India
Date and time: 4.00 PM IST on 27.11.2021 (Saturday)
Zoom link:

https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/s/95768603857
Passcode: 158408

You are cordially invited to join us in exploring our past and knowing the recent researches. The flyer is attached for more information.

We are glad to share an exciting opportunity for i

We are glad to share an exciting opportunity for international students to be a part of one of the finest institutions in India as IITGN invites applications for admission to its postgraduate programmes in Engineering, Science, and Humanities & Social Sciences for Semester 2, 2021-22. Apart from the unmatched academic and research experience, the institution will offer several financial aids, including fully paid PhD fellowships, international student scholarships, international student waivers, and international travel awards.

We are looking forward to welcoming bright international postgraduate students to our award-winning campus at the banks of the Sabarmati river this winter!

Eligible candidates are requested to kindly apply online on or before December 10, 2021.
In case of any queries, please reach out to us at international.students@iitgn.ac.in
More details are available here. https://bit.ly/30T49Py

#IITGNAdmissions #InternationalStudents #PGProgrammesAtIITGN #StudyInIndia #StudyInIITGN

Sudhir K Jain, IIT Gandhinagar Student Life, Alumni Relations, IIT Gandhinagar, Neeldhara Misra, Amit Prashant, Kabeer Jasuja, Shanmuganathan Raman, Krishna P. Miyapuram, Jaison Manjaly, Dhiraj Bhatia, Pratik Mutha, Arka Or-Ko, Leslee Lazar, Madhumita Sengupta, Indranath Sengupta, Sharmita Lahiri, Sudipta Sarkar, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar, Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar

Dialogues invites you to a talk on Wednesday, Nove

Dialogues invites you to a talk on Wednesday, November 24, at 5:00 pm.

Speaker: Prof. Upal Chakrabarti (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Presidency University); Moderator: Manas Patra (Doctoral Student, History, IIT Gandhinagar)

Title: On Scale, Political Economy and the Local, ID and Password:

https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/96490437312

Meeting ID: 964 9043 7312

Passcode: 973473

All are welcome to attend. To follow our activities, click on

https://sites.iitgn.ac.in/dialogues/

We are pleased to invite you to a discussion sessi

We are pleased to invite you to a discussion session on Prof. Ambika Aiyadurai's book 'Tigers are our brothers', recently published by Oxford University Press. This book is based on her long-term fieldwork in Arunachal Pradesh. Her book critically engages in the debates of wildlife conservation and its impact on the lives of indigenous people living along the Sino-India borderlands.

Date: 23rd Nov, 2021 (Tue)
Time: 6:30 to 7:30
Venue: AB1/101

IIT Gandhinagar HSS faculty giving a talk in Unive

IIT Gandhinagar HSS faculty giving a talk in University of Delhi!

Dear all, Please join us for a talk by Dr Nazimud

Dear all,

Please join us for a talk by Dr Nazimuddin Siddique on the 17th of November.

Please see below for further details.
Title of the Talk: 'Eviction as a Weapon in Assam'.
Speaker: Dr Nazimuddin Siddique (PhD | Sociology, Gauhati University, and a researcher based in Assam)

Date: Wednesday, November 17; Time: 5:00-6:30 pm.

Zoom:
ID: 93468274712
Passcode: DHo8bzV3
https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/93468274712?

Lakku the Daku from Bombay, Usha from Gandhinagar,

Lakku the Daku from Bombay, Usha from Gandhinagar, Ashok from South Bombay along with their partners are all set to roll you laughing this weekend; Saturday the 13th of November 2021.

Abhinaya, the Dramatics Club of IIT Gandhinagar, and Kirdar, a student-run theatre group of IIT Gandhinagar in collaboration brings a play - Hum Chor Chor Hain!

This is an adaptation of Italian playwright Dario Fo's play The Virtuous Burglar. Set in the late 90s, the play will take you back in time!

You might as well dress up to your best impression of the 90s to get a feeling of time travel this Saturday.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon in Jasubhai Memorial Auditorium (600 auditorium) at 6:00 pm on 13th November! Seating will begin at 05:30 pm! All members of the IIT Gandhinagar family are invited! Please find our trailer attached!

Limited seating will be available. Seating shall end by 5:50 pm. All social distancing norms shall be duly followed.

Lakku the Daku from Bombay, Usha from Gandhinagar,

Lakku the Daku from Bombay, Usha from Gandhinagar, Ashok from South Bombay along with their partners are all set to roll you laughing this weekend; Saturday the 13th of November 2021.

Abhinaya, the Dramatics Club of IIT Gandhinagar, and Kirdar, a student-run theatre group of IIT Gandhinagar in collaboration brings a play - Hum Chor Chor Hain!

This is an adaptation of Italian playwright Dario Fo's play The Virtuous Burglar. Set in the late 90s, the play will take you back in time!

You might as well dress up to your best impression of the 90s to get a feeling of time travel this Saturday.

[All social distancing norms shall be duly followed]

We are pleased to announce the signing of an Agree

We are pleased to announce the signing of an Agreement of Cultural, Educational and Scientific Cooperation between the Durham University, UK and IIT Gandhinagar. The Department of Archaeology of both the institutions have come together to jointly present an online seminar on the theme 'Understanding the challenges of world heritage sites and the role of Archaeology in the global context'. Prof Sharada V C and Prof V N Prabhakar from the Archaeological Sciences Centre, IIT Gandhinagar and Prof Sarah Semple and UNESCO Prof Robin Coningham from the Department of Archaeology, Durham University are the speakers of the webinar.

Date: November 17
Time: 12:30 pm IST / 8 am UK
Click here to join in. https://tiny.cc/IITGN-Durham

HSS faculty member Prof. Alok Kanungo is giving a

HSS faculty member Prof. Alok Kanungo is giving a talk

HSS doctoral candidate Swati Joshi has a book revi

HSS doctoral candidate Swati Joshi has a book review in the latest issue of the Edinbugh University Press journal, 'Victoriographies'. To read it, log on:

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/vic.2021.0437

Please join us for a talk by Dr Srinivas Venugopal

Please join us for a talk by Dr Srinivas Venugopal, tomorrow at 5 pm.
Please see below for further details.

Title of the Talk: Engaged Scholarship in Subsistence Marketplaces
Speaker: Dr Srnivas Vengugopal (Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Vermont).
The talk will be moderated by Dr Deepak Singhania (HSS | IITGN).

Date: Wednesday, November 10; Time: 5:00-6:30 pm.

Zoom:
ID: 98880000268
Passcode: H7Mtup6A
https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/98880000268

Speaker Bio

Srini Venugopal (PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Vermont. Srini’s research program examines the intertwined nature of consumption and entrepreneurship in subsistence marketplaces, where more than a billion poverty-stricken entrepreneurs run micro-enterprises to meet basic consumption needs. His research has been published in reputed academic journals such as Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing and Industrial Marketing Management. These papers are based on field data gathered from diverse contexts of poverty across five continents. Srini is an executive editor for the Subsistence Marketplaces Journal, and he also serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Macromarketing and Journal of Consumer Affairs. Recently, he served as a guest editor for Journal of Consumer Affair’s special issue on Subsistence Marketplaces. Srini’s research on subsistence marketplaces has received several discipline wide awards such as the “AMA Entrepreneurial Marketing/Kauffman Doctoral Dissertation Award (2016)” and the “ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Grants in the area of Public Purpose Consumer Research (2015)”. Srini was awarded the prestigious professor of the year award by the SI-MBA program, which has been ranked the No. 1 green MBA in North America by the Princeton Review for two consecutive years.

We are pleased to invite you to a talk by Prof. Am

We are pleased to invite you to a talk by Prof. Amita Baviskar, on Tuesday, November 2, at 5:00 pm.

Prof. Amita Baviskar is a Sociologist and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology & Anthropology at Ashoka University, India. She will be speaking on her recently published book, "Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi (Sage 2020)". All are welcome to join.

Zoom ID: 99757569808
Passcode: MK23j1Ev

https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/99757569808?

To follow activities at Dialogues@HSS-IITGN, click on
https://sites.iitgn.ac.in/dialogues/

HSS faculty member Prof. Alok Kanungo is giving a

HSS faculty member Prof. Alok Kanungo is giving a lecture on Maritime Routes and Cultural Landscapes for Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts.

The Archaeological Sciences Centre at IITGN is hos

The Archaeological Sciences Centre at IITGN is hosting the thirteenth lecture in the Webinar series on 'Recent Advances in South Asia's History and Archaeology'. The lecture will be delivered by Prof Abhijit Dandekar, an Associate Professor in Epigraphy, Palaeography and Numismatics at the Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. Please find the details of the talk given below:

Title: A peek into ancient polity and economy through coins

Date and time: 4.00 PM IST on 30.10.2021 (Saturday)

Zoom link: https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/94958497189?pwd=M0NnNjNKSW92M0NwUDZwYzh0T3F2QT09

Passcode: 193856

You are cordially invited to join us in exploring our past and knowing the recent researches.

HSS doctoral candidate Ms. Shivani Sharma and facu

HSS doctoral candidate Ms. Shivani Sharma and faculty member Prof. Arnapurna Rath have a paper titled “Ecopoetics and Aranya in the graphic novel Aranyaka: book of the forest” in Chitrolekha: Journal of Art and Design, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-9, Oct. 2021.

To read it log on:

http://chitrolekha.com/v5n103/

HSS faculty member Prof. Madhumita Sengupta has a

HSS faculty member Prof. Madhumita Sengupta has a paper, co-written with the HSS doctoral alumnus, Dr. Jahnu Bharadwaj, titled, 'Empire remembered: the intimate economy of tea in Assam and the making of ‘Chameli Memsaab’' in the T and F journal 'Postcolonial Studies.'

The Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Bhilai is pl

The Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Bhilai is pleased to invite you to a lecture titled Posthuman Ecologies and the Unconscious being organised on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 from 4 pm under the aegis of Intersections, our monthly lecture series. The lecture will be delivered by Dr Arka Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar. It will delve into the relation between ecological thought and posthumanism by discussing the existing theoretical work in the field of climate change.

Kindly refer to the following credentials to join:

URL: https://iitbhilai.webex.com/iitbhilai/j.php?MTID=ma5ba3d602a75b06c07cf255c8ef337f2
Meeting number: 2514 745 8387
Password: eJq2dXmPZ83

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