Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
This lecture will offer a genealogy of political modernity: the nation-state and the colonial state were constructed at the same…
Kautilyanomics For Modern Times
This talk will engage with Kautilya’s Arthashastra and reflect on the relevance of the former to present day economic development and…
Monster Soup and Floating Bubbles: Cartoonists’ response to health crises from the time of Miasma to the COVID
Can we use cartoons and comics based on an emergency like an epidemic or pandemic to analyse paradigm shifts 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…