Events

Forthcoming events

• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] How the tiger became Indian (and why). Ecology, Society and Culture in India, 1972 to 2022 (M. Rangarajan) on October 10, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] The afterlife of land-based resettlement in the times of truncated agrarian transitions: A study of Adivasi conservation refugees in central India (A. Kabra) on November 7, 2022 5:00 am

Past events

• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #151 Hybrid] Informal Work and Urban Exclusion (S. Roy Chowdhury) on September 27, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH-ICSSR-ESRC-ANR-RCN #Conference] Challenging Inequalities (14-16 September 2022) on September 14, 2022 2:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] Divorce and Democracy. A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India (S. Saxena) on September 12, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #150 ONLINE] The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and The Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (S. Routray) on August 30, 2022 9:30 am
• [CSH-CPR-CSDS Panel Discussion #Hybrid]
  Indian Democracy Today (K C SURI, H. AHMED & N. SIRCAR) on August 29, 2022 4:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #149 ONLINE] Educational Practices and the Urban Orders at the Margins of the State (J. Dalal & C. Anand) on July 26, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] The sky and the stratosphere: concentrated wealth in India during the lost decade (R. KUMAR) on July 11, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop] New laws, new ARTs of doing. Observing the impact of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Surrogacy regulation acts (2022) (C. Guenzi) on July 4, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #148 ONLINE] Testing the Waters: Young Women’s Work and Mobile Aspirations in India’s Small Cities (M. Naik) on June 28, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] The long-lasting impact of a failed movement? Sindhi nationalist politics in Pakistan and its cultural work (J. Levesque) on June 27, 2022 5:30 pm
• [CRESPPA – CSH Conférence] ‘Subaltern Studies’ and the Social Sciences in India (S. Deshpande) on June 27, 2022 2:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Vernacular Urbanism. Memory and Social Segregation in a Deccan City (T B Hansen) on June 13, 2022 9:00 am
• [CSH Workshop] Mobility privilege and COVID-19: Determinants of a spatially differentiated experience in the lockdown-ed Delhi region (S. Benkimoun) on June 6, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #147 ONLINE] Examining ‘energy transitions’ in urbanising localities of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (B. GIRARD) on May 31, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Mind the Gap: Analysing Inequality in Higher Education in India (P. Choudhury) on May 16, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop-ONLINE] Friendship in a society where kins are kings: sociality, urban transformations and gender inequalities in a small Indian city (H. Ribadeau Dumas) on May 2, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #146 ONLINE]
  How the content of demands shapes government responsiveness: theory and evidence from Mumbai (T. Kumar) on April 26, 2022 6:30 pm
• [CSH-AJEI-22nd International Workshop] – Engaging with categories in South Asia: processes, challenges, and implications (21-23 April 2022) on April 21, 2022 1:30 pm
• [CSH Workshop-ONLINE] Inequality of earning opportunity in Indian society (T. Kundu) on April 18, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series-ONLINE] Participatory democracy in India: incarnations, transformations, institutionalization? (S. Tawa Lama) on April 4, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #145 ONLINE]
  ‘Unsafe’ bodies, hostile city: Governing the houseless in India during Covid-19 induced lockdown (P. Banerjee, R. Kundu & M. Paul) on March 29, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop – ONLINE] 28 March 2022 Bangles and Christmas balls, from Firozabad to the globalized glass networks (A. Kaba) on March 28, 2022 5:00 pm
• [Screening & Debate]
  BARIZ (Paris) Street Camp Days on March 22, 2022 6:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop – ONLINE] National heritage for the new nation: a post-independence history of the Archaeological Survey of India’s conservation policies (L. Glattli) on March 21, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series-ONLINE] Covid-19 in India. Figuring out how many died (C. Guilmoto) on February 28, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #144 ONLINE]
  Changing cooling energy demand patterns in urban households in India (A. Agarwal & D. Chatterjee) on February 22, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series-ONLINE] Among the Ancients: Iqbal and the Problem of Islam’s Inheritance (F. Devji) on February 14, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series-ONLINE] Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory (S. Dasgupta) on January 31, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #143 ONLINE] The Delhi Master Plan of 1962: A Prehistory in Three Chapters (S. Kumar) on January 25, 2022 3:45 pm
• [Call For Paper: CSH-AJEI Workshop] Engaging with categories in South Asia: processes, challenges and implications on January 20, 2022
• [CSH Seminar Series-ONLINE] The creation of Hum Do Hamare Do (A. Sarcar) on January 17, 2022 5:00 pm
• [Screening & Discussion]
  The people of waste. Living Plastic on December 6, 2021 5:30 pm
• [CSH Online Workshop] ‘This is all waste’: emptying, cleaning, and clearing land for renewable energy dispossession in borderland India (D. Singh) on December 6, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #142 ONLINE] Off-frame, A geography of contemporary art spaces and workers in Mumbai (C. Ithurbide) on November 30, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series- ONLINE] Beyond Access: Digital governance and implications for accountability in post-Pandemic India (A. Khan) on November 15, 2021 5:00 pm
• [Screening & Discussion]
  The People of Waste on October 29, 2021 5:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #141 ONLINE]
  Urban Planning Conundrum or Its Epitaph? (D. Mahadevia) on October 26, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series ]
  Digital capitalism in India, the State and the people: the Aadhaar battle (2009 – 2021)N. Belorgey on October 18, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CEIAS-CESSMA Online Workshop]
  The Digitalization of Urban Governance in India: Techniques, Ideas, Practices on October 11, 2021 1:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #140 ONLINE]
  Set Adrift: Informal labour and contestations in Mumbai (G.Nair) on September 28, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH-CEIAS-EHESS-CNRS Conference]
  (un)Making the Nation: Religious (un)orthodoxies, Secular (un)certainties and Minorities on September 9, 2021 12:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #139 ONLINE]
  Outcaste Bombay and the translation of Marxism (J. Shaikh) on August 31, 2021 6:30 pm
• [CSH – IIITD Symposium]
  The broken mirror: Making sense of Indian politics on social media on August 30, 2021 1:00 pm
• [CSH-Global Dream Conversation]
  On Inequality of Opportunities in Education and Literacy (Prof. N.Gravel with Dr. Sunita Gandhi & Mr. Mashhood Bhat) on August 16, 2021 6:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #138 ONLINE]
  Rent, Regulation and the Career of an Urban Village (S. Pati) on July 27, 2021 3:45 am
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #137 ONLINE]
  Daggamaar Transport: Everyday Mobilities in Dehradun and Shillong (G. Mittal) on June 29, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #15 – ONLINE] Revolutions in Learning and Education from India: Pathways towards the Pluriverse (C. Neusiedl) on June 28, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #14 – ONLINE] Special Treatment Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (A. Ruddock) on June 14, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #13 – ONLINE] From the Globe back to India: What Next for Return Migrants? (S. Irudaya Rajan) on May 31, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #136 ONLINE]
  Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity (N Parveen) on May 25, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #12 – ONLINE] The social space of Muslim leadership in India: profiles, trajectories, and networks of office-bearers in Muslim organizations (N. Belorgey, L. Gautier and J. Levesque) on May 17, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #11 – ONLINE] Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India (A. Ingole) on May 3, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #135 ONLINE]
  Citizenship in Limbo: an analysis of rehabilitation housing (K Haritas) on April 27, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #10 – ONLINE] Rural microfinance and maternal health (D. Ahmad) on April 12, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #134 ONLINE]
  Female Labour Migration in India (S K Kurup) on March 30, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH-AF Conversation]
  In Research (Prof. N.Gravel with Ms. A. Ghosh) on March 17, 2021 6:00 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #9 – ONLINE] South Asian Migrations in Global History (N. Bose) on March 15, 2021 11:00 am
• [CSH Lecture Series #8 – ONLINE] Reading Tamil Catholic literature in the Eighteenth Century (M. Trento) on March 1, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #133 – ONLINE]
  Cleaning it Up (S. Laha) on February 23, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar – ONLINE] Theory and evidence for a large-scale agroecological transition in India (B. Dorin) on February 15, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar – ONLINE] Guru Ki Baat: Representation as connect in Modi’s Maan Ki Baats (J.T. Martelli) on February 1, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #132 – ONLINE]
  Flies without borders (M. Das Gupta) on January 19, 2021 5:30 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #7 – ONLINE] Caste, class and social mobility. A longitudinal study in a North Indian village 1958-2015 (F. Bolazzi) on January 18, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #131 – ONLINE]
  Data, Disease and Delivery (A. Kane, J. Patel & V. K. Shakya) on December 29, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar – ONLINE] Long-term disagreement before consensus (M. Faure) on December 7, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #130 – ONLINE]
  Understanding the state from below (M. Huchzermeyer) on November 24, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #6 – ONLINE]
  Language as Privilege: English and its Others in Contemporary India (S. Deshpande) on November 2, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #129 – ONLINE]
  Peopling New Delhi: Conjugality and Urban History in the City (A. Sarcar) on October 27, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar – ONLINE]
  The Results Of Aadhaar: A Survey Of Literature (N. Belorgey) on October 19, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar – ONLINE]
  Equalization of opportunities across caste groups in India (T. Kundu) on October 5, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar – ONLINE]
  Filming the Modern Family in the City (A. Sarcar) on September 21, 2020 4:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #127 – ONLINE]
  Urbanism at Water’s Edge: The Fluid Histories of Property in Calcutta (D. Bhattacharyya) on August 25, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #125 – ONLINE]
  Homogenised Mindscapes, Heterogeneous Landscapes (J. Akallah, P. Guma) on June 30, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #124 – ONLINE]
  Confining the margins, marginalising the confined (R. de Bercegol, A.Goreau-Ponceaud) on May 26, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #123 – ONLINE]
  COVID-19 pandemic and social sciences: theorising, observing and simulating emerging diseases at urban scale (O.Telle) on April 28, 2020 3:45 pm
• [POSTPONED – CSH Occasional Seminar Series]
  Access to educational opportunity in the twenty-first century on March 23, 2020 5:00 pm
• [Screening & Discussion]
  Princes and Vagabonds by Fabienne Le Houérou on March 11, 2020 6:30 pm
• [CSH Occasional Seminar Series]
  “What is History” in the 2020s? (Romila Thapar) on March 2, 2020 7:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #121]
  Assessing Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable and Healthy Cities on February 25, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH Occasional Seminar Series]
  When Diseases Reinvent Urban Space on February 24, 2020 5:30 am
• [Screening & Discussion]
  The People of Waste on February 20, 2020 6:30 am
• [CSH Lecture Series #5]
  The Value of Daughters on February 17, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH-IFI Social Science Conference]
  Social Scientists in the Civic Space on January 30, 2020 6:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #120]
  Internal migration in India on January 28, 2020 3:45 am
• [CSH Lecture Series #4]
  Future Seekers in Aspirational India on January 20, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH Occasional Seminar Series]
  Communal conflict and the class division of plunder on January 13, 2020 5:00 pm
• [ISI-CSH] 15th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development on December 18, 2019 9:00 am
• [CSH Lecture Series #3]
  The Accused Accursed: Farmers And The Evolution Of Indian Agriculture on December 16, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH Occasional Seminar Series]
  Christian Missions in South India:
  Hotspots of Knowledge (17th-18th centuries) on December 9, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH-DiSAA Workshop]
  Digital Empire(s)
  Perspectives from Asia and Africa on December 4, 2019 9:00 am
• [CSH – ICAS:MP Workshop]
  Youth Politics and Projects of Self-Making in the Global South on November 29, 2019
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #117]
  Claiming Entitlements in Neo-Liberal India on November 26, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Occasional Seminar Series]
  Water-Related Issues In India
  Seen Through The Indira Gandhi Canal (Rajasthan) on November 25, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH-ICAS:MP-CNRS80-IFI Exhibition] Memories of Change on November 6, 2019
• [CSH-CPR-IFI Urban Conversation]
  The City of Flows (with Olivier Mongin) on October 22, 2019 4:00 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #2]
  Can Women’s Group Farms Outperform Individual Family Farms? on October 14, 2019 5:30 pm
• [Screening & Discussion]
  Sangharsh. Times of Strife (Nicolas Jaoul) on October 9, 2019 8:00 pm
• [CSH-IFI Panel Discussion]
  The contemporary legacy of the thought and actions of Mahatma Gandhi on October 9, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH-JNU Workshop]
  From Caste Patriotism to Caste Activism on October 3, 2019
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #116]
  Re-art Cities on September 24, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Lecture Series #1]
  Lal Beg Nama: Dalit Religion before the Hindu Majority on September 16, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop] Delhi without Borders on August 27, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CPR-CSH Urban Workshop] How Women Mobilise Women into Politics on July 30, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CPR-CSH Urban Workshop] Whims of a Digital Boss on June 25, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Making sense of premarital sexuality on June 3, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CPR-CSH Urban Workshop] Pollution in India in the Context of Urbanisation and Climate Change on May 28, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Law, Public order, and the Sikh-Muslim Confrontation in Punjab in the 1930s on May 20, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CPR-CSH Urban Workshop] Ethnic wage-welfare complex: Migrants, trade unions and the labour market in the city of Kochi on April 30, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Gandhi, Truth and Death on April 29, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH-IIIT Workshop] Mediated Campaigns and Unmediated Politics in Millennial India on April 27, 2019 9:00 am
• [Book launch] Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India on April 26, 2019 6:00 pm
• [CSH-AJEI Workshop] Of mediation and power : Intermediaries in the South Asian societies on April 23, 2019
• [CSH Seminar] Dynamics of Muslim Representation: Preliminary results of a prosopographical study of Muslim elites in India by Julien Levesque & Md Irfan on April 15, 2019 5:00 pm
• [International school] Geospatial data and Research : the Delhi R school on April 9, 2019
• [CSH-CPR Panel discussion] Spatial Analysis of City Regions: Perspectives from France and India on April 8, 2019 2:30 pm
• [CSH-IFI Workshop] Certification and quality labels as policy tools to promote sustainability on March 29, 2019
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop] A Post-Apartheid Urban Praxis on March 26, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] What’s the beef with beef? The persistent health effects of cattle slaughter bans in India by Aparajita Dasgupta on March 25, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] The Sikh diaspora politics of recognition in Europe by Christine Moliner on March 18, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] India’s Missing Politicians: The underrepresentation of women in India’s state assemblies by Gilles Verniers on March 4, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CPR-CSH] The Geography of Jobs: Explaining Employment Growth in India (2005-2013) on February 26, 2019 3:45 pm
• [Workshop – Call For Paper]: A multi-disciplinary workshop on youth and new media turn in politics and policy on February 18, 2019
• [Book Launch] “How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics” by Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern. on February 15, 2019 2:30 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Is a neighbor’s meat another neighbor’s poison? A household and contextual analysis of meat consumption in Uttar Pradesh by Mathieu Ferry on February 11, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CPR-CSH] Urban Mobility and Dengue in Delhi and Bangkok: What Can We Learn from Online Data? on January 29, 2019 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Meritocracy in the Face of Group Inequality by Dr. Rohini Somanathan on January 28, 2019 5:00 pm
• [Workshop] The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MG-NREGS): Understanding the Constraints to Implementation on January 23, 2019 10:00 am
• [CSH Seminar] Can Women’s Group Farms Outperform Individual Family Farms? on January 7, 2019 5:30 pm
• [Lecture] Can Economic Multilateralism Survive? by Jean Pisani-Ferry on January 7, 2019 3:00 pm
• [Conference] 14th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development – ISI, New Delhi – 19th to 21st December on December 26, 2018 11:30 am
• [Conference] Call for Panel Proposals: 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference on July 5, 2016 3:00 pm
• [Conference] Convivialist Manifesto on February 8, 2016 3:00 pm
• [Workshop] India in the Modern: Visions, Imaginings, Practices on October 6, 2015 3:00 pm
• [Workshop] Water Regimes Questioned from the “Global South”: Agents, Practices and Knowledge on August 24, 2015 3:30 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop on ““We are visioning it”: Availing the Futures of the Delhi Metro”, by Rashmi Sadana on July 3, 2015 3:30 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop on “Fear and the City: Negotiating Everyday Life as a Young Baloch Man in Karachi”, by Nida Kirmani on July 3, 2015 3:30 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop on “Pipe Politics: Contested Infrastructures of Millenial Mumbai”, by Lisa Bjorkman on July 3, 2015 3:00 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop “You Can Call it a Muffasil Town, but Nothing Less: New Narratives of Urbanization and Urbanism from Census Towns in West Bengal”, by Srilata Sircar on July 3, 2015 3:00 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop on “Public interest litigation as a slum demolition machine”, by Anuj Bhuwania on July 3, 2015 12:30 pm
• The Non-Utilitarian Foundations of General Social Theory – International Symposium of Cerisy, May 2015 on May 16, 2015 3:00 pm
• [Book launch] “The Globalization of Inequality”, by Prof François Bourguignon on April 23, 2015 3:00 pm
• AJEI, Scholar Workshop : Labour, mobility and mobilization on February 11, 2015 1:30 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop on “Power to the People? A study of Bangalore’s Urban Taskforces” by Neha Sami of Indian Institute for Human Settlements on January 27, 2015 3:45 pm
• [Lecture] Caste in Contemporary India, by Prof Surinder S Jodhka on December 16, 2014 5:00 pm
• [Internal seminar] Dengue as a complex system: case studies in Delhi, Bangkok and “artifical cities” on December 11, 2014 3:00 pm
• [Internal seminar] mHealth in the global south : the use of mobile phones in health projects, by Marine Al Dahdah on November 14, 2014 3:00 pm
• [Lecture] State Spatial Rescaling in India: Subnational States and the Politics of Economic Restructuring, by Loraine Kennedy on November 12, 2014 5:00 pm
• [internal seminar] Consumption of Animal Products in Delhi : a socio-anthropological perspective, by Estelle Fourat on November 12, 2014 3:00 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR urban workshop, Improvement, Redevelopment and Resettlement: Governance of Poverty Alleviation Policies in Contemporary Kolkata by Sarani Khatua on October 28, 2014 3:45 pm
• All of us have closed ourselves into a Cocoon: Self-Segregation and Representations of Poverty by Upper Class Neighborhoods residents in New Delhi By Dr Jules Naudet on October 27, 2014 2:30 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR Highway Urbanization and Public-Private Cities: Evidence from Highways in the Pune region by Sai Balakrishanan of Rutgers University on August 18, 2014 3:30 pm
• [Workshop] CSH-CPR on “City-size Distribution in a Quasi-open Economy: The Indian Evidence” by Om Prakash Mathur on April 29, 2014 3:45 pm
• [Lecture] Chinese Universalism, by Prof Anne Cheng on March 14, 2014 10:30 am
• [Round Table] India and Afghanistan Post 2014 on February 13, 2014 3:00 pm
• Rethinking Urban Land Use Planning in India (Vaidehi Tandel, University of Mumbai) on January 28, 2014 3:45 pm
• CSH Lecture Series, with Dr Surya Deva on January 3, 2014 3:30 pm