Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, has penned a piece titled The Commodious Melancholy of László Krasznahorkai’s Fiction in the The Wire. He sheds light on how Krasznahorkai challenges conventional fiction by demanding silence, attention and existential engagement from the reader. Read more
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Dr Suryodaya Sharma presents at 53rd Annual conference on South Asia at University of Wisconsin
Dr Suryodaya Sharma, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS is presenting his paper titled “Caste Prejudice and Persisting Inequality in India: Role of Social Identity and Belief Systems” at the 53rd Annual conference on South Asia at University of Wisconsin, Madison. The paper is part of a panel ‘Critical Perspectives on Structural Inequality: Explorations in Psychology of …
Vikas Kumar Choudhary presents at the ‘Theorizing Justice’ Conference
Vikas Kumar Choudhary, Faculty Teaching Associate, Krea-CWP presented a paper titled “Theorising Mnemonic Injustice: Caste, Politics and Memory” at the Conference Theorizing Justice, jointly organised by Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai in association with Dr B R Ambedkar Centre for Economics and Socio-Legal Research, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University.
Dr Preeti Sampat delivers a talk at N.B.Thakur Law College
Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS delivered a talk at a panel at Gokhale Education Society’s N.B.Thakur Law College, Nashik, on ‘Landed Property and Exclusion: Gender, Caste, Environment and Liberalism’.
Dr Joya John presents at a virtual symposium by New York University & Vanderbilt University.
Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS participated in a virtual symposium titled, Minor Literature, Major Stakes: Hindi’s Political Worlds on October 10–11, 2025 organized by New York University & Vanderbilt University. Dr John’s paper was titled, ‘Hindi in Local, Global, and Planetary Frames: Environment, Climate Change, and the Affordances of Hindi’. The paper analysed …
Dr Chirag Dhara delivers an invited talk at National-Level Pre-COP 30 Workshop, IISc
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered an invited talk on 14 October 2025 at the National-Level Pre-COP 30 Workshop organised by the Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The title of the talk was ’Reconceptualization of climate responsibility and implications for climate finance’. The workshop was organised by …
Dr Sabah Siddiqui delivers a talk at Vidyashilp University
Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, delivered a talk at Vidyashilp University for the VU Lecture Series titled ‘The Unconscious Life of Ageing’.
Professor Sivakumar Srinivasan for The Hindu
Professor Sivakumar Srinivasan, Dean – Research and Professor, Physics, SIAS has penned an article in The Hindu titled 2025 physics Nobel Prize: the magic of quantum pervades all scales. Professor Srinivasan writes about how even though the laureates’ experiments were conducted in the mid-1980s, the ideas continue to spur research activities in many domains. He also sheds light on how their …
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Dr Chirag Dhara speaks at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
On October 1 2025, Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS presented a talk as part of our monthly public seminar series on “A new development classification for the 21st century” at Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. About the TalkNordic countries are frequently positioned as the leaders of …
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Dr Chirag Dhara on ‘The Boring Climate Podcast’
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS was recently on ‘The Boring Climate Podcast’. The conversations revolved around how one-size-fits-all climate solutions often fail and the need to look beyond easy solutions and embrace the complexity of our warming world. Know more