Events Calendar 2023

DateTitle
Monday, 16 JanuaryCSH Closed workshop with Alpa Shah and Naïké Desquenes 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Thursday, 19 JanuaryCSH Workshop on “Aligning the Global Delta Risk Index with two Global frameworks to assess risk to socio-ecological systems in river deltas” by Emilie Crémin (University of Glasgow) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Monday, 23 JanuaryCSH Seminar on “Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India” by Nikhil Menon (University of Notre Dame), followed by a discussion with Baishakh Chakrabarti (CSH) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 31 JanuaryCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Ambiguities around the policy language of affordable housing in India” by Manav Khaire (PhD candidate in Public Policy at Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay) from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday,  6 FebruaryCSH Workshop on “Deconstructing citizenship in the classroom: a case-study of Muslims in Delhi” by Kiran Bhatty (PhD Scholar, EHESS and CSH) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Friday, 10 FebruaryCSH General Assembly from 10 am to 12 pm
Monday, 13 FebruaryCSH Seminar on“Endogamy and Christianity in Kerala : Analyzing the Knanaya Debate” by Nidhin Donald (IIT Mumbai), followed by a discussion with Ratheesh Kumar (JNU) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Monday, 27 FebruaryCSH Workshop on “Development through Democratization: Interpreting the Dravidian Model” by A. Kalaiyarasan (Asst. Prof. Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday,28 FebruaryCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Germs, Particles and the Climate: Reflections on Urban atmospheres” by Awadhendra Sharan (Director and Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday, 6 MarchCSH Seminar on “Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India 1605–1627” by Corinne Lefèvre (CEIAS), followed by a discussion with Anubhuti Maurya (Shiv Nadar University) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Monday, 20 MarchCSH Workshop on “Ignorant Student- The Pedagogic and Operational Logic of the Contract in the Colony” by Baishakh Chakrabarti (CSH) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 28 MarchCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Qasbah to Municipality: Contesting Social Hierarchy at Local Boards in the United Provinces (1916-1946)” by Soheb Niazi (Post-doctoral Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden, Netherlands) from 3:45pm IST onwards
Thus-Friday
30-31 March
CSH-AXA International Conference on “Socio-Economic Inequality in India” organising by Tista Kundu (CSH), Nicolas Gravel (AMU-CSH), Odile Henry (Univ. Paris 8-CSH), Himanshu(JNU-CSH) and Kiran Bhatty (CSH) from 10 am onwards on 30 – 31 March 2023
Monday, 3 AprilCSH Seminar on “Child Marriage in an International Frame: A Feminist Review from Indiaby Mary E. John (Formerly CWDS), followed by a discussion with Tanika Sarkar (JNU, Ashoka) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 17 AprilCSH Workshop on “Priest, Soldier, Spy: British colonial archive and the many lives of Gabriel de Vogt” by Jonathan Koshy Varghese (Visiting doctoral fellow-CSH) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 25 AprilCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Sensuous City: A Neighbourhood Approach” by Dr. Dev Nath Pathak (Founding faculty of sociology at South Asian University) from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday, 15 MayCSH Seminar on “What Does My IITian Tag Actually Mean? The Relationship between Academic Titles and Job Positions” by Odile Henry (Paris 8 University and Director of the CSH), followed by a discussion with Satish Deshpande (Delhi University) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 30 MayCSH Workshop on “Interrogating The Social Dynamics of Dance Practices – The Case of Odissi” by Barbara Čurda (Anthropologist and Marie Curie Fellow) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 30 MayCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Capacity Building of Urban Local Bodies: What early experiences from Panchayats can teach us” by Kajri Misra (Dean, School of Human Settlement of XIM University, Bhubaneshwar) from 3:15pm IST onwards
Monday, 5 JuneCSH Seminar on“Mapping Wealth and the Wealthy in India: The Challenges and Possibilities” by Surinder S. Jodhka (CSSS-JNU and CSH) and Vamsi Vakulabharanam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), followed by a discussion with Discussion with Divya Vaid (CSSS-JNU) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 27 JuneCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “City as Territory: Spatializing Majoritarianism in Twentieth-century Calcutta” by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (Assistant Prof. in History & Political Economy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali) from 3:15pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 25 JulyCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “A survey of India’s heat action plans, and how they should improve” by Aditya Valiathan Pillai (fellow with the Initiative for Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at the Centre for Policy Research) from 3:45pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 29 AugustCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Urban Planning, Informality and the Law: Unpacking the Planning Law Regime of the Indian City” by Mathew Idiculla (Legal Consultant and Visiting Faculty, Azim Premji University, Bangalore) from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday, 4 SeptemberCSH Seminar on “Eco-Swaraj: “Pluriversal Pathways out of Global Crises”” by Ashish Kothari,(Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam, and Global Tapestry of Alternatives) followed by a discussion with Rajeshwari S. Raina (SNU) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 12 SeptemberCSH Workshop on “The Reluctant Forest: Resource Extraction, Dispossession, Resistance, and Ontological Conflicts in Central India” by Sahib Singh (PhD Scholar: Anthropology at University College London-UCL) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 26 SeptemberCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Doing the ‘Dirty’ Work: Changing Caste and Value Relations in Delhi’s Waste Economies” by Aparna Agarwal (Assistant Professor, School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University) at the Centre for Policy Research New Delhi from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday, 9 OctoberCSH Workshop on “Everyday legality: an empirical analysis of legal consciousness in India” by Anwita Dinkar (PhD student at Sciences Po, Paris) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Monday, 23 OctoberCSH Seminar on “Is caste a relevant comparative concept?” by Roland Lardinois, (CNRS) followed by a discussion with Satish Deshpande (Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bengaluru) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 31 OctoberCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “The Urban Greenfield: Spatial-Temporal Trajectories, Governance, and Methodological Directions” by Loraine Kennedy (CNRS, CESAH, EHESS-Paris) and Ashima Sood
(Centre for Urbanism and Cultural Economics, Anant National University, Ahmedabad) at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday, 20 NovemberCSH Seminar on “In Search of Early Modernity in South Asian History” by Pratyay Nath (Ashoka University) and Meena Bhargava (Indraprastha College, D.U.), followed by a discussion with Tanika Sarkar (JNU) and Harbans Mukhia (JNU) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Monday, 27 NovemberCSH Workshop on “Delhi: towards a slum-free city? From the Kathputli Colony redevelopment project to the dream of a global city” by Véronique Dupont (Research Institute for Sustainable Development – IRD) and M.M. Shankare Gowda (Independent Social Science Researcher) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 28 NovemberCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Barriers to Employment” by Arup Mitra (Professor, South Aisan University, Delhi) at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi from 3:45pm IST onwards
Monday, 11 DecemberCSH Workshop on “Toward a free economy” by Aditya Balasubrahmaniam (Australian National University) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Monday, 18 DecemberCSH Seminar on “The Untouchables in Markets :  Discrimination in Labour employment , Farming and Enterprises/Business as source of their high poverty” by Sukhdeo Thorat, (JNU) followed by a discussion with Surinder S. Jodhka (JNU-CSH) from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 19 DecemberCSH-CPR Urban Workshop on “Institutional reforms for scaling up bus-based public transport in India” by Ravi Gadepalli at the CPR, New Delhi from 3:45pm IST onwards