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.
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 Transgender Persons, and also conducted a Science Writing workshop on 19 February 2026 introducing participants to communicating scientific findings to non-specialist audiences.
Dr Anannya led a workshop titled ‘The Long and Short of it: Writing Haiku’ on 20 February 2026 introducing participants to the rules of Haiku writing and how it invites play in its imagistic word formations.
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.
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 philosophy in India historically.
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).
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 and the writing of geological histories in the Deccan in the 19th century.
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 Sciences.
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; and the report Celt Manufacturing Sites in Tamil Nadu: Case Studies from Vartanapalli and Kappalavadi, documenting rare evidence of prehistoric polished stone celts—both published by the Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu.
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.
Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS was part of a book discussion held in Pune on her book, A People’s History of the Farmers’ Movement, 2020-2021. The event was organised by Shankar Brahme Samajvidnyan Granthalay and the Pune Collective. Professor Prashant Bhansode (Ghokhale Institute of Politics and Economics) was the discussant, in addition to the book editors Dr Shamsher Singh and Dr Siddiqui.
