Events

Forthcoming events

• [CSH Workshop] Toward a free economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (A. Balasubramanian) on December 11, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] The Untouchables in Markets: Discrimination in Labour employment, farming and enterprises/business as source of their high poverty (S. Thorat) on December 18, 2023 5:00 pm

Past events

• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #165] Barriers to Employment (A. Mitra) on November 28, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop] Delhi: towards a slum-free city? From the Kathputli Colony redevelopment project to the dream of a global city (V. Dupont & M.M.S. Gowda) on November 27, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] In Search of Early Modernity in South Asian History (P. Nath & M. Bhargava) on November 20, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #164] The Urban Greenfield: Spatial-Temporal Trajectories, Governance, and Methodological Directions (L. Kennedy & A. Sood) on October 31, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Is caste a relevant comparative concept? (R. Lardinois) on October 23, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop] Everyday legality: an empirical analysis of legal consciousness in India (A. Dinkar) on October 9, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #163] Doing the ‘Dirty’ Work: Changing Caste and Value Relations in Delhi’s Waste Economies (A. Agarwal) on September 26, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop] The Reluctant Forest: Resource Extraction, Dispossession, Resistance, and Ontological Conflicts in Central India (S. Singh) on September 12, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Eco-Swaraj: Pluriversal Pathways out of Global Crises (A. Kothari) on September 4, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #162] Urban Planning, Informality and the Law: Unpacking the Planning Law Regime of the Indian City (M. Idiculla) on August 29, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #161] A survey of India’s heat action plans, and how they should improve (A. V. Pillai) on July 25, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #160] City as Territory: Spatializing Majoritarianism in Twentieth-century Calcutta (R. Bandyopadhyay) on June 27, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Mapping Wealth and the Wealthy in India: The Challenges and Possibilities (S. S. Jodhka & V. Vakulabharanam) on June 5, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop] Interrogating The Social Dynamics of Dance Practices – The Case of Odissi (B. Čurda) on May 30, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Online Workshop #159] Capacity Building of Urban Local Bodies: What early experiences from Panchayats can teach us (K. Misra) on May 30, 2023 3:15 pm
• [Cancelled – CSH Seminar] What Does My IITian Tag Actually Mean? The Relationship between Academic Titles and Job Positions (O. Henry) on May 15, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Workshop #Hybrid] Sensuous City: A Neighbourhood Approach (D. N. Pathak) on April 25, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop] Priest, Soldier, Spy: British colonial archive and the many lives of Gabriel de Vogt. (J. Varghese Koshy) on April 17, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] Child Marriage in an International Frame: A Feminist Review from India (Mary E. John) on April 3, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-AXA International Conference] Socio-Economic Inequality in India on March 30, 2023 10:00 am
• [CSH-CPR Workshop #Hybrid] Qasbah to Municipality: Contesting Social Hierarchy at Local Boards in the United Provinces (1916-1946) (S. Niazi) on March 28, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop #Hybrid] Ignorant Student-The Pedagogic and Operational Logic of the Contract in the Colony (B. Chakrabarti) on March 20, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar & Book Launch] Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India 1605–1627 (C. Lefèvre) on March 6, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Workshop #Hybrid] Germs, Particles and the Climate: Reflections on Urban atmospheres (A. Sharan) on February 28, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop #Hybrid] Development through Democratization: Interpreting the Dravidian Model (Kalaiyarasan A.) on February 27, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] Endogamy and Christianity in Kerala : Analyzing the Knanaya Debate (N. Donald) on February 13, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop] Deconstructing citizenship in the classroom: a case-study of Muslims in Delhi (K. Bhatty) on February 6, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Workshop #Online] Ambiguities around the policy language of affordable housing in India (M. Khaire) on January 31, 2023 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India (N. Menon) on January 23, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Workshop #Hybrid] Aligning risk assessment tools with Sustainable Development Goals in river deltas (E. Crémin & S. B. Murshed) on January 19, 2023 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Caste, Collective Action and Local Government: Learnings from Bihar (M. R. SHARAN) on December 12, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop] THE CITY WITHOUT THE CITY (S. Benkimoun & H. Ribadeau Dumas) on November 29, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH Workshop #Hybrid] Caste, puja and shamanism in India: status struggle or rotating hierarchy? (R. Simenel) on November 21, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar #Hybrid] The afterlife of land-based resettlement in the times of truncated agrarian transitions (A. Kabra) on November 7, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Lecture #Hybrid] The Unequal Conditions for Ideas to Migrate (G. Sapiro) on October 20, 2022 1:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Workshop] Lawless order? Regulations, illegalism, and security guardsmanship in Delhi (Damien Carrière) on October 18, 2022 3:45 pm
• [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-CPR Urban Workshop #HYBRID] Informal Work and Urban Exclusion (S. R. Chowdhury) on September 27, 2022 3:45 pm
• [CSH-ICSSR-ESRC-ANR-RCN #Conference] Challenging Inequalities (14-16 September 2022) on September 14, 2022 10:00 am
• [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 #Online] The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and The Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (S. Routray) on August 30, 2022 9:00 am
• [CSH-CPR-CSDS Panel Discussion] Indian Democracy Today (K.C. SURI, H. AHMED & N. SIRCAR) on August 29, 2022 4:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #149] 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] 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] The long-lasting impact of a failed movement? Sindhi nationalist politics in Pakistan and its cultural work (J. Levesque) on June 27, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar] Vernacular Urbanism. Memory and Social Segregation in a Deccan City (T B Hansen) on June 13, 2022 9:00 am
• [CSH-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 #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 #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 #ONLINE] Among the Ancients: Iqbal and the Problem of Islam’s Inheritance (F. Devji) on February 14, 2022 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar #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 #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 Workshop #Online] ‘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 #ONLINE] Beyond Access: Digital governance and implications for accountability in post-Pandemic India (A. Khan) on November 15, 2021 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #141 ONLINE] Urban Planning Conundrum or Its Epitaph? (D. Mahadevia) on October 26, 2021 3:45 pm
• [CSH Seminar] 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-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 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 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] Equalization of opportunities across caste groups in India (T. Kundu) on October 5, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH-CPR Digital Workshop #128 – ONLINE] How to challenge eviction orders from the highest court? (G. Bhan) on September 29, 2020 3:45 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
• [Screening & Discussion] Princes and Vagabonds (F. Le Houérou) on March 11, 2020 6:30 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series] “What is History” in the 2020s?) (R. Thapar) on March 2, 2020 7:30 pm
• [CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #121] Assessing Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable and Healthy Cities (M. Jain) on February 25, 2020 3:45 pm
• [CSH Occasional Seminar Series] When Diseases Reinvent Urban Space (S. Benkimoun) on February 24, 2020 5:30 am
• [Screening & Discussion] The People of Waste (R. de Bercegol, G. Davis & S. Gowda) on February 20, 2020 6:30 am
• [CSH Lecture Series #5] The Value of Daughters(R. Kaur) 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 Lecture Series #4]Future Seekers in Aspirational India on January 20, 2020 5:00 pm
• [CSH Seminar Series] Communal conflict and the class division of plunder (I. Dasgupta) 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 – 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 Seminar] Water-Related Issues In India Seen Through The Indira Gandhi Canal (Rajasthan) on November 25, 2019 5:00 pm
• [CPR-CSH Urban Workshop] Whims of a Digital Boss on June 25, 2019 3:45 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
• [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
• [Book Launch] How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics (Himanshu, P. Lanjouw and N. 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? J. Pisani-Ferry on January 7, 2019 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 “Pipe Politics: Contested Infrastructures of Millenial Mumbai”, by Lisa Bjorkman on July 3, 2015 3:00 pm
• AJEI, Scholar Workshop : Labour, mobility and mobilization on February 11, 2015 1:30 pm