HSS Symposium: Global Modernities and Modernisms in Art, Philosophy and Literature
This symposium, following up on our 2022 symposium on ‘Global Literary Modernities and Modernisms’ arrives in the wake of the…
‘What is Political Theology? Secularism, Modernity, and the Question of Religion’
Title: ‘What is Political Theology? Secularism, Modernity, and the Question of Religion’ Abstract: What is Political Theology? In broad brush…
The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942 to 2000
The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic, and cultural processes that shaped the development of…
Talk on Poverty, Vulnerability, & Climate Change: Competing Narratives of Suffering and the Excuses of the Powerful
The climate crisis is at the intersection of two sets of injustices. The first is the obvious one, concerning the…
Lecture on “Viewing Ceramic Thin-sections: Methods and Prospects”
In hybrid mode, the Archaeological Sciences Centre at IITGN is hosting the 35th lecture in the Webinar series on 'Recent Advances in South Asia's History and…
HSS Initiatives
Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities web page aspires to be as a resource hub for Digital Humanities scholars of South Asia, specifically India.
Medical Humanities Colloquy
Narrative Medicine, Clinical Linguistics, Performing Identities in the Clinical Space, Narratives of Resilience, and so on.
Camp CogSci 2022 (online)
How did humans become the most advanced species in the world? What happens to our brain when we daydream?
IIT Gandhinagar Campus
Academic programs
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…
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…
PhD Program
The program develops around the existing broad areas of research: Linguistic Anthropology, Conservation and Human-Animal rapport, Digital Humanities…