Dr Venugopal Maddipati delivers a lecture at The Papanek Symposium 2026
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS, delivered a lecture on the recent history of Social Design in India in The Papanek Symposium 2026, a collaboration between the Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, the National Institute of Design (NID) and Quicksand Design, on 9 October 2026.
Dr Venugopal Maddipati delivers a lecture to students of Delhi University
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS gave a lecture titled, “Gandhi’s Death and Architectural History” for Historiologus – Knowledge in Narratives, to a collective of undergraduate history students of Delhi University, on 23 September 2026. Know more
Translating Devotion
Dr Dipanjali Deka, Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi and Dr Manasvin Rajagopalan, SIAS Faculty
Digital History Workshop by Munirmahedi Pavivala
Munirmahedi Pavivala,PhD candidate, Department of History at Boston College
Dr Rebecca Darley publishes a book chapter
Dr Rebecca Darley, Associate Professor, History, SIAS, has published a book chapter based on her plenary address, presented this week in Vienna at the 25th International Byzantine Studies Congress. The chapter, Byzantium, South Asia and Revenant Romanitas: Rejecting the Post-Roman Worldview, explores the prominence given to so-called ‘ancient Rome’, as opposed to the later Roman […]
Book co-edited by Dr Preeti Sampat available for pre-order
A co-edited volume by Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS titled Unsettling Land: Relational Practice for Contemporary Politics is available for pre-order with the publisher, University of Colorado Press. Unsettling Land brings together anthropologists and geographers examining land relations across South Asia, the Americas, Northeast Africa, Eastern Europe, and Oceania to […]
Book review and lecture by Dr Preeti Sampat
A book review by Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS, of Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalizing Delhi by Sushmita Pati was published in South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). Dr Sampat also delivered a lecture titled ‘Land-Rent-Urbanization’ for the inaugural Summer School programme of the Institute for […]
Book Discussion: ‘We, the People of India: Decoding a nation’s symbols’
TM Krishna, Author and Musician
A Talk on ‘Telugu Village and the Chenchu Frontier’
Professor Christophr, Chekuri
Professor, History,
San Francisco State University