Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered an invited talk titled ‘Physical limits to the circular economy’ at the XIth Biennial Climate Conference at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai on 20 February 2026. The conference is titled, ‘Climate action, sustainability, and equity in a VUCA World: Development Pathways for …
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Dr Avinash Ediga authors a book chapter in ‘Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts’
A chapter authored by Dr Avinash Ediga,Teaching Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS titled, Becoming ‘Serious Men’:Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town, has been published in an edited volume titled Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts. Know more
Krea-CWP faculty facilitate sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP facilitated multiple sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival, organised by Alliance University, Bengaluru, on 19 and 20 February 2026. Sayantan Datta moderated a conversation with Kalki Subramaniam, transgender-rights activist, writer, and member of the National Council for …
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Dr Rakesh Sengupta preprints a paper in Research Square
Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has published a new preprint on Research Square titled The Topology of Truth: Structural Asymmetries in the Spread of Fact and Falsehood. Know more
Dr Vivek Radhakrishnan presents at International Seminar on Celebrating 300 Years of Immanuel Kant at JNU
Dr Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS presented his paper ‘Kant in India’ at International Seminar on Celebrating 300 Years of Immanuel Kant organised by the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) on 14 February 2026. In the presentation, he traced the reception of Kant’s …
Dr Arindam Chatterjee’s paper in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Dr Arindam Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences, SIAS has co-authored a paper titled Northeast india: genetic inconsistency across ethnicity and geography, published in Molecular Genetics and Genomics (SpringerNature). Know more
Dr Venugopal Maddipati delivers keynote address at a conference in IIT Kanpur
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS delivered the keynote address for a conference titled ‘Bridging Horizons: The Confluence of Technology and Humanities: A Tribute to Prof Mahajan & Prof Dhanagare’ in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Kanpur. In his talk he spoke about the value of witnessing and evidentiary claims …
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Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar delivers an online talk at IIIT Hyderabad
Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered an online talk titled ‘Graph-Based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries’ at IIIT Hyderabad as part of their Cognitive Science Seminar series on 4 February 2026. The talk included the work of few students from the School of Interwoven Arts and …
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Dr Shanti Pappu’s recent publications
Dr Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archaeology and History, SIAS, contributed to multiple initiatives, including the release of the book, The Story of a Handaxe (2026), published by the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education; the publication of A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Bifaces (Parikulam, Tamil Nadu), a comprehensive record of prehistoric stone tools generated from 3D models; …
SIAS PhD Scholar Presents Paper at IASH Conference, University of Edinburgh
Aravind R, an SIAS PhD scholar in Sociology, presented a paper titled ‘Digital Queer Intimacies in the City: Pleasure, Labour and Ghettoisation’ at the international conference ‘Digitality, Marginality and Plural Subjectivities,’ hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.